{"id":60365,"date":"2025-11-06T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=60365"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:09:18","slug":"a-short-history-of-the-air-fryer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=60365","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of the Air Fryer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The WLBOTT<\/strong> Museum of H<\/strong>istory, A<\/strong>nthropology and T<\/strong>echnology (WHAT?<\/strong>) is currently hosting A Short History of the Air Fryer<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big shout-out to our enthusiastic, unpaid interns!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Fryer – The Nuts and Bolts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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An air fryer is a small countertop convection oven that is said to simulate deep frying without submerging the food in oil. A fan circulates hot air at a high speed, producing a crisp layer via browning reactions such as the Maillard reaction<\/strong>. Some product reviewers find that regular convection ovens or convection toaster ovens produce better results; others say that air frying is essentially the same as convection baking, while still others praise the devices for cooking faster, being easier to clean, and making it easier to produce crispy results than full size convection ovens.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Pre-History: A Living Diorama<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A very popular exhibit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egyptology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our “research” indicates that Air Fryer was a subject of worship in ancient Egytp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modern Appeal and Other Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Easter Island<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Stonehenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Middle Ages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Heat Death of the Universe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our comprehensive exhibit takes us to the ends of time – the heat death of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heat death of the universe<\/strong> (also known as the Big Chill<\/strong> or Big Freeze<\/strong>) is a scientific hypothesis regarding the ultimate fate of the universe which posits the universe will evolve to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and, having reached maximum entropy, will therefore be unable to sustain any further thermodynamic processes. The hypothesized heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only requires that temperature differences or other processes may no longer be exploited to perform work. In the language of physics, this is when the universe reaches thermodynamic equilibrium.[…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this, another Big Bang could possibly create a new universe similar to the current one by quantum fluctuations<\/a> and quantum tunnelling<\/a> in roughly <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Minor Kerfuffle at the Hands-On Exhibit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Intern George’s (he’s single, ladies!<\/em>) Contribution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our unpaid marketing intern George <\/strong>(he’s single, ladies!<\/em>) wanted to get involved in the Museum project, specifically the Cave Man Diorama, but our WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice<\/strong> had to shut it down when he hired the ladies from The Yellow Rose<\/em> to be the live performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we let George <\/strong>(he’s single, ladies!<\/em>) focus his artistic energies on a new series of romance novels set during the French Revolution, with Air Fryers forming a key plot element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet Them Eat Air-Fried Cake\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Paris trembles on the edge of revolution. Rumors swirl through the salons and markets alike: the Queen possesses a forbidden machine \u2014 a strange, magical contraption that uses only hot air to cook food so impossibly crisp, so impossibly delicious\u2026 that it could change the fate of France itself.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Antoinette never asked to be the keeper of the Air Fryer of Versailles. But when she pulls open its gleaming drawer and witnesses golden cakes turning impossibly light inside, she feels something she has not felt since arriving in France: hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the city, \u00c9tienne Moreau \u2014 a rebellious, breathtakingly handsome bread courier with smuggler\u2019s instincts and a poet\u2019s heart \u2014 learns of the Queen\u2019s secret device. His mission: infiltrate Versailles, expose her treasonous technology\u2026 and end the suffering of his people.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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But when their eyes meet in the Hall of Mirrors, desire ignites faster than superheated air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Marie and \u00c9tienne must choose between the rising flames of revolution\u2026 and a forbidden love that could rewrite history \u2014 one perfectly crisp bite at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Let Them Eat Air-Fried Cake<\/strong>
because even in the darkest days, love can still rise.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Guillotine of Perfect Crispiness\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Paris is gripped by terror. Heads roll daily under the blade in the Place de la R\u00e9volution. But in the smoke and panic, a rumor spreads \u2014 of a forbidden culinary machine capable of creating food so perfectly crisp\u2026 it could unravel the very purpose of the Guillotine itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabine Duval, fearless journalist and sworn defender of the people, is determined to uncover the truth. When she steals a mysterious black device from the kitchens of a royal safehouse, she discovers it is unlike anything the Revolution has ever known \u2014 an Air Fryer capable of turning potatoes into clouds of crunchy transcendence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But Sabine <\/strong>is not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacques Bellamy<\/strong> – former pastry courier to the nobility, secret romantic, and man with hands that still smell like brioche \u2014 has been tasked with destroying the device before it destabilizes France forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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When Sabine and Jacques collide in a narrow alley behind a shuttered bakery, sparks fly harder than superheated 360\u00b0 airflow. Now they must choose: trust each other\u2026 or stay loyal to the factions that would see the other dead.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the city screams for justice, a single truth emerges:
A love this crisp cannot be executed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The WLBOTT Museum of History, Anthropology and Technology (WHAT?) is currently hosting A Short History of the Air Fryer. Big shout-out to our enthusiastic, unpaid interns! Air Fryer – The Nuts and Bolts An air fryer is a small countertop convection oven that is said to simulate deep frying without submerging the food in oil. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,19,53,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-food","category-france","category-mildly-interesting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60453,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60365\/revisions\/60453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}