Air fryer times for chicken
Chicken is the one category where the timer is advice and the thermometer is the answer. Every cut of poultry — breast, thigh, wing, ground — is safe at the same 165 °F, and no cook time on this page or anywhere else changes that. Air fryers also brown chicken skin faster than the inside cooks, so colour is a particularly bad doneness test here.
Every chicken cook time
Other categories
Frozen foods
Cook times and temperatures for frozen food in an air fryer, from fries to mozzarella sticks. Sourced from manufacturer charts, with shake times.
Meat
Air fryer times for steak, burgers, bacon and sausages, with the USDA safe temperatures for whole cuts and minced meat, which are not the same number.
Fish and seafood
How long to air fry salmon, white fish and shrimp. Short cooks with narrow windows, plus the USDA visual test for shellfish where no temperature applies.
Vegetables
Air fryer times for broccoli, brussels sprouts and carrots. Higher temperatures than you expect, because browning is the point and there is no safety floor.
Baking
Air fryer times for cookies, cupcakes, biscuits and cinnamon rolls. Far cooler than an oven recipe says, and here is the reason the fan makes it necessary.
Potatoes
How long to air fry roast potatoes and jacket potatoes, with Ninja’s own figures and why a whole potato takes four times longer than cut ones.