In Grublin, the air fryer is an extra you add to your kitchen kit alongside your heat source. When it's set, every recipe request tells Grub the cook has an air fryer and to use it where it genuinely helps or saves time, without forcing the whole dish into it. Combined with no oven, it becomes one of the only ways to cook and the recipe is built around it. Grublin is a free recipe app for iPhone and Android.
Air fryer content is the same twenty things
Chips, wings, salmon, roast potatoes, halloumi, cookies. Every air fryer recipe site and group circles the same hits, because they start from the appliance and ask "what's good in it?".
Grublin starts from your fridge and asks "how do we cook this?". Half a cauliflower, four chicken thighs and some tired peppers become an air fryer dinner because that's the best way to cook those things tonight, not because someone made a list. The variety comes from your shelf, which changes every week.
How Grublin uses an air fryer
As a helper, with an oven and hob. The request tells Grub you also have an air fryer and to use it where it genuinely helps or saves time, but not to cram everything into one basket. So the roast veg and the crispy element go in the air fryer, the sauce stays on the hob, and a two-pan dinner becomes one pan and a basket.
As the main event, with no oven. Set your heat source to none, add air fryer and microwave, and the request changes: the cook can only cook with these appliances, and the whole recipe must be made with them plus no-cook prep. That is the student halls and bedsit setup, and it produces real dinners.
Honest limit. Grublin tells the model what you own and how to treat it. It does not maintain a table of air fryer temperatures and timings itself; those come from the model's knowledge, which is good for common foods. Check the first batch of anything new and adjust as you would with any recipe.
Air fryer plus your dietary rules
This is the part the air fryer groups can't give you. Set your allergens and diet once and every air fryer recipe fits them.
- Gluten-free air fryer: coatings made from cornflour, polenta or gluten-free crumbs, never panko.
- Vegan air fryer: crispy tofu, roasted chickpeas, cauliflower wings with a plant-based dip.
- Dairy-free air fryer: no butter-basting; oil and spice instead.
- Nut-free air fryer: seed crumbs rather than almond coatings.
What you'll actually cook
There is no fixed list, because Grub writes from what you have, but air fryer plus a normal shelf tends to produce: roasted vegetable trays with a grain or salad, chicken thighs with crispy skin and a hob-made sauce, salmon or white fish with roasted new potatoes, halloumi or tofu with a dressing, reheated-and-crisped leftovers turned into something new, baked eggs in peppers, and the inevitable but better chips. Ask for "something a bit special" and the air fryer does the crispy part of a plate you'd be happy to serve.
Pair it with a slow cooker and Grub will sometimes use both: the braise in one, the crunch in the other.
Yes. Add air fryer to your kit in Preferences and Grub uses it where it helps, from whatever is in your fridge and within your dietary rules. No. With an oven and hob present, the air fryer is a helper and Grub is told not to force the whole dish into it. With no oven and no hob, it becomes one of the only ways to cook and the recipe is built around it. They come from the model's general knowledge, which is reliable for common foods. Grublin itself keeps no timing table. Check the first batch of anything unfamiliar. Yes. Your kit and your dietary rules are both set once and apply to every recipe together. Yes. Photograph your shelf or a dish you fancy and the air fryer version Grub writes follows your kit and your rules. See photo to recipe.Questions people ask
Does Grublin write air fryer recipes?
Will every recipe be an air fryer recipe once I add it?
Does it know air fryer temperatures and timings?
Can I combine the air fryer with allergies and diets?
Does it work from a photo?