- Does pizza taste better cooked
in an oven or an air fryer? - Let's talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Morning. - We are no stranger to the air fryer, we've compared it to actual frying, and we found that it may
be a healthier option, but for the most part, it
is not a tastier option. - We also compared using
the oven to the microwave, and found out that hot
wings and bagel bites were well worth that extra oven time. - But what we have not done, that many of you have suggested we do is compare items made in the air fryer with those in the oven. - Because if an oven is
better than a microwave, and a deep fryer is
better than an air fryer, than is an air fryer better than an oven? - Oh no, I don't have
my graphing calculator, I left it in high school. - It's time for, Worth the Wait, Oven vs Air Fryer Edition. - Okay, we're gonna taste something that's been cooked in an air fryer and then something that's
been cooked in an oven and guess which one we think
was cooked in the oven. We'll decide if it was worth the wait to be cooked in the oven, and then the loser, who gets more wrong, will get burned by Chase. - As you can see, we can't. - [Stevie] Okay, guys,
we're gonna kick things off with some classic Foster
Farms crispy chicken tenders. The classic oven version
takes 15 minutes to cook at 400 degrees, while the
air fryer cooks in 12 minutes at 390. The time's pretty close on this round, but you're gonna have to tell me which plate holds the oven tendies. - Dang, that's a dry tender. Imma hold this into my right hand, and then Imma go... 'course, they're the same tender. - But not the same tender, because you're eating different
tenders on each plate. - It's the same brand, the tender's just cooked
in different ways. - Correct. - One of them is an oven,
one of them's an air fryer, I was listening. - There is a distinct difference. And I'm not gonna give it away, I mean we'll talk about
the differences after, I mean I think I'm ready to guess. - So when you vote for the oven, are you voting for the one that you think doesn't taste as good? 'Cause you think the
air fryer tastes better? - I'm not gonna discuss
that until after this guess. - I mean, you own an air fryer, right? You have a distinct advantage. - No, we got it like two weeks ago. - One of 'em is definitely
a whole lot better tasting. I just don't know what it means that one of them tastes so much better. - [Stevie] Okay, you're
gonna put your hand over the oven tendies, three, two, one. The oven tendies are on Rhett's side. - Yeah, this is way better over here. - [Link] Oh, no, I thought
these were way better. - Those tasted like trash! I think it might've just
been the tender I got, like literally... - Look at how thick that tender is. This is like a nugget of a nugget. - Flavor's better. And that's coming from
the owner of an air fryer. But I haven't done tendies in it. - I think it's negligible. So I don't think it's worth the wait. - Something happened with the breading. - It's only three minutes difference. - This tastes so much
better and I don't know why. I don't understand what happened. That tastes like something
got contaminated. - I don't taste it. - Well, for me it's worth
the wait, for Link it's not. Figure that out in the graphics. - [Stevie] Okay, in front
of you we have DiGiorno's traditional crust
pepperoni personal pizzas, one on each side. These personal pizzas took
18 minutes in the oven at 425 degrees, and eight minutes in the air fryer at 350, so some significant time difference. - [Rhett] Stevie.
- [Stevie] Yes? - Do you know the science
behind the air fryer and why it can get away
with an eight minute cook? - [Stevie] I don't, do you and you're gonna tell me right now? - He does that a lot, doesn't he? He'll ask a question, and you know he just wants to tell you. - This is one of the rare cases where I don't actually know the answer. And that was sarcasm,
go ahead and comment. I told my wife when she said "Hey, we're getting an air fryer," I said "Yeah, but we
already have an oven." But she got it anyway. - This is difficult. Neither one of them are as crispy as I would hope they would be. - This is very difficult. Okay, I have a guess. - [Stevie] 'Kay, you're
gonna put your hand over the oven pizza, three, two, one. - I'm just blindly guessing. - [Stevie] Yeah, it's on Link's side. - There's a slight crispiness in the crust I did not get on this. - And the time difference is 10 minutes? So... - But look, you can see, see how the cheese got
kinda burned and crisp? And even some of the peppys? That's what I call pepperoni. 'Cause I like things to be
fast, like the air fryer. - For me, the taste is almost the same. It comes down to 10 minutes, and that, the oven is definitely not worth
waiting another 10 minutes. - I agree with that, I think
they're slightly crispier but not enough to make a difference, so we're in agreement, not worth the wait. If you didn't know, you should know, that they brought back Fancy Fast Food over on the Mythical Kitchen channel, Josh is making fast food very very fancy and very very expensive. But you can watch it for free, think about that for a second. - Pay nothing. Zero dollars. - What do we got here, Stevie? - [Stevie] Okay, I have an
answer to your question. Conventional ovens work
by producing heat from, ooh, Link, I wouldn't touch that. Well I guess we didn't give
you silverware, though. They're salmon filets. Oh, we did give you silverware, reach to your other side for silverware. - I do have a fork. I thought he had touched the fork. - [Stevie] So conventional
ovens work by producing heat from an element, the
heat is slowly dispersed through the oven over time, in the case of a convection oven it's sped up by the use of the fan, but air fryers use rapid air technology to create heat instead of an element, and it helps heat them
up much more quickly, and they're smaller, so that's the answer to the question that you asked. - I got a new question. How
do I get this on my fork? - [Stevie] Well, you're managing to get a lot of it off the plate. Okay, so these are frozen sockeye salmon, oh my gosh, you are gonna
stab him in the hand. - I gotta use my hand, man, don't stab me. - [Stevie] They're salmon
filets from Target, which we thawed before cooking. The classic oven version
takes 16 minutes at 350, and the air fryer takes
nine minutes at 400. - Wow, so about half. Okay, so now we understand the technology, so I can go back and tell my wife, that maybe she was
justified, or justifried. (both laugh) - Baby, you're justifried. (indistinct) - So you're going handsies? - Yeah. I just can't feel with the fork. I'm glad I've gotten
used to eating salmon, 'cause I usually would be like "Ew, I don't even like salmon," and Rhett would be like "Ew,
he doesn't even like salmon," but now I'm like "Oh, I
think I kinda like salmon." - Wow, nine minutes and 16 minutes. - One of these is
dramatically tastier to me. I'm finally tasting the difference, y'all! I feel like I'm back! - To me it's not so much
the taste, it's the texture. Okay, I got a guess. - [Stevie] 'Kay, over the
oven salmon, three, two, one. - Over here is better
to me, are you with me? - I said oven was over here on my side. - [Stevie] The oven
salmon is on Rhett's side. - Well this one, I mean,
they kinda look the same. - [Rhett] To me, it came down to- - [Link] I think I was just
eating the skin off of that one. - If you just go skin versus flesh... - Is that what was happening? - That'll be a problem. So, I'll tell you, the
difference I noticed is there was a slight
increase in succulence in the one in the oven. And see, Nicole, she's nodding at me. It's juicier. And there's something about the air fryer that takes out some of
the beauty of the salmon, I want the salmon beauty. - So you're saying this one's juicier? - This one's juicier. - I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. - Well, you know what, maybe you're in the
market for an air fryer. I think we found the target market. - [Stevie] Are you saying
that, what are you saying? - I'm saying this one tasted better. - This one tastes better, and it tastes so much better that it's worth the wait for me, but again, we're not on
the same team this game. - I'm going with the air fryer. - [Stevie] It's French fry time! Before you are Ore-Ida golden fries. The classic oven version
takes 23 minutes at 425, and the air fryer takes 10 minutes at 400. Oh, gosh. - First of all, they
both should just be done in a deep fryer. Let's get real about this. This is a mistake on both sides, regardless of how the outcome is. - We do fries in the oven sometimes, and the key is, you gotta
really let 'em have it. - Let 'em have what? - The heat, you gotta make 'em crunchy. - Is this the same type of
French fry on both sides? - [Stevie] Yeah. I mean they're frozen fries, so I mean... - This one tastes like
it was marinated in soap. Is that something you can do? - [Stevie] We did not
marinate anything in soap. - [Link] Gosh, you're right! - [Rhett] You taste the soap? - Yes, it tastes horrible! These over here, I don't taste soap. - No, I taste soap on your side. - What? Are you serious? - Yes. - Are you freaking serious? The soap is over here! - The soap is on your side. - No it's not! No it's not! - I put a thought in your head, and then made you think
it about this side. Well now I'm confused, man. - These are horrible,
they taste like soap. These are good. And I don't even know what I'm supposed to vote
for in light of that. I'm so confused. - [Stevie] Wait, to
clarify, you both think the other's plate tastes like soap, still. - That's soap over there. - [Stevie] Okay, all right, here we go, over the oven in three, two, one. - Over the oven and through the woods. I'm voting, I don't know anything! - I think they got soap on it, the air fryer's got soap in it. - [Stevie] Okay, the oven
fries are on Link's side. - Oh, you got it, bro! You got one right! - My mind is so screwed up right now. - Those taste real bad to me. - The fries themselves are horrible. What brand name fries are these? - [Stevie] Ore-ida. - Let's drag them. - [Stevie] Okay, wait, so
what's the conclusion here? Link is confused, and
this is the first thing that Rhett likes from the air fryer. That's the conclusion. - These are the air fryer? It's not worth the wait,
because the air fryer's good. In my opinion. But I think Link disagrees. - Tell me what I believe. - There's soap on yours,
but they're from the oven. - These taste like soap to me. - Right, and this is the air fryer. - So the oven... - But to me they don't taste like soap, and that's why I like 'em. - So these that taste better to me, that you don't like, I
would be waiting 13 minutes. - For soap. - According to you. - For me. - So... - Figure it out in the graphics. - [Stevie] Okay, guys,
these look really good, you have turkey legs in front of you, and the classic, two legs on each side. The classic oven version takes
1.5 hours at 400 degrees, while the air fryer takes
40 minutes at 400 degrees. - [Rhett] Oh. That's a tasty leg. - That's pretty good. - And I'm not, usually I don't get the
turkey leg at the state fair. - They look great, but then
you get it and you're like, oh, no, that's mine. - [Rhett] Whoa, whoa, whoa,
I got a honker over here. - Honker. Honk! - This is twice as big, does
the oven make it bigger too? (both humming delightedly) - One of 'em's greasier. - There's a huge difference here. - And one of 'em's a little dryer. They both tasted good, though. - The one in the oven was cooked. - They got a lot of salt
on them, that helps. - The one in the oven was
cooked an hour and a half versus 40 minutes, so
did it dry out over time? - I have to think so. - [Rhett] Is that the plate? - [Stevie] Yeah, you got it. - Okay. - Let's hurry up and guess
before I get confused. - [Stevie] Okay, are you
using your drumsticks as your? - You want a drum roll? - [Stevie] Put your
hand and your drumstick over the oven cooked turkey leg, three, two, one. - Did we agree? - [Stevie] You disagree. - We disagree? So you
think? This one's drier! - Yeah, so the one that's more
succulent is from the oven if we're going with the salmon rule. - No, the longer it's in the- - [Stevie] Somehow this
got more complicated. - It's in the oven longer, which means it's probably gonna get dryer. - The salmon took longer in the oven but it was more succulent. - [Stevie] The oven
legs are on Link's side. - Yeah, so the rule stayed true. - So I was wrong. (guffaws) - So, yeah. So this is crazy. Now
both of 'em tasted good. - Oh, so you feel crazy too?
That makes me feel better. - I would enjoy both of 'em, but the thing I don't understand, the science I don't understand, this cooked for an hour and a half, and it's way more juicy
than the air fryer, that cooked for 40
minutes and dried it out! - Lower temperature? - Lower temperature, that's the science. For me... - Can we ask the graphics team? - For me, I just think
these are worth the wait, again, but you like these better, 'cause you like the dry turkey? - I just don't like turkey, I'm a ham man. - A ham man. All right, so make sure you
put "Ham man" in the graphics. - Good, there it is. - So, okay, that means I win, I got four out of five correct, that means Link, you get burned, man. - I know. - You're the reason we haven't
gotten an Emmy nomination. - Whoa, that was... man, that was... It seems like he really believed that. Okay, as Link lets that
marinate a little bit, the frozen food items that
were worth the wait are gonna be figured out in the graphics. - Thanks for subscribing
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Mythicality is gonna land. - [Josh] This looks almost
like a curly fry, right? - It does! (Josh speaks indistinctly) It's too hot, you just flick
it right out of the fryer. - It's not hot. - Owie! - Hot is a mindset. - It's not, though.
I love the editors comments in this video, and the start of GMMore was amazing, what a good start to my day
That glue talk. 😄 And GMMore 101 at the start of GMMore.
Justice for the air fryer! Use it. Respect it. Treat it with love! I promise it is a worthy opponent in the kitchen!
The Editors were on point this episode.
Anyone have an air fryer? Is it worth it? Because the way rhett and link act makes it seem like an oven and deep fryer are way better. (Deep fryer is obvious, i don't even own a deep fryer, but I do own a convection oven and it seems like it does everything that an air fryer does.)
What a great episode. I've had a terrible day, but the start of gmmore in particular really made me laugh, which was much needed. Thanks, R&L.
...damn Chase...
“So I was wrong” - Link
LOL just like Rhett did