Airfryer-curious dork looking for advice

Advice/Tips

So, I’m a middle-aged bachelor living in a basement apartment who has gotten by for a long time with a microwave and a small minifridge, but I’m coming into $200 thus weekend that I was thinking about spending on an air fryer - after doing some research, I’m contemplating picking up a 5.5-quart Ninja AF161 Max XL air fryer this weekend to keep on my (large) work desk since half the stuff I keep cooking in my microwave (pizza rolls, frozen burritos, etc) keep crowing on the packaging about how much better they’d be in an air fryer.

That said, I’m just asking you lovely folks about anything I should keep in mind when thinking about picking one of these up, using it at a work table rather than in a kitchen, how much food (pizza rolls? Frozen bone-in chicken wings? Chicken nugs?) I can cook up in a single batch while still making the most of an air fryer’s crisping ability.

I’m also morbidly curious to see if I can bake Pillsbury cinammon rolls in such a think since that model of Ninja has a “bake” setting, or trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich as mentioned on today’s front page of this subreddit.

Thanks in advance for any tips or advice!

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

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