If you do not have a stovetop — say you are a school child in a dorm otherwise you reside in a studio with a kitchenette — I might perceive cooking French toast sticks in an air fryer. In any other case, I do not see why you’d ever make a viral TikTok recipe promising nice French toast in an air fryer.
Hear me out…simply use a pan as a substitute.
That is not say the air-fried French toast I examined out was dangerous. Quite the opposite, it was fairly tasty. However I did not see any added worth in utilizing an air fryer. If something, it created extra of a large number and a barely worse product than your commonplace pan methodology.
Regardless, here is what it’s essential to know concerning the recipe, which has racked up 7.5 million views.
Components
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Bread, Texas toast, or different thick-cut slices of bread
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2 eggs
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1/2 cup milk
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1 tbsp, plus 1 tsp of cinnamon, divided
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1 tsp vanilla
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1 tsp brown sugar
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1/2 cup sugar
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Syrup for dipping
Instructions
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Utilizing a knife, reduce the crusts off your bread, then reduce every slice into three equal sticks.
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Air fry the sticks at 385 levels Fahrenheit** for 3 minutes.
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In a mixing bowl, whisk collectively the eggs, milk, 1 tsp of cinnamon, vanilla, and brown sugar.
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In a separate mixing bowl, combine collectively 1/2 cup of sugar and 1 tbsp of cinnamon.
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As soon as the sticks have cooked for 3 minutes, dip into the egg combination and air fry for 10 minutes at 385 levels**.
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As soon as the sticks are absolutely cooked, dip them within the sugar/cinnamon combination. From there, dip within the syrup and luxuriate in.
The small print
**An essential first observe: Until you’re utilizing the world’s thickest bread I don’t assume there may be any purpose in any respect that it’s essential to cook dinner your French toast for therefore lengthy at such a excessive temperature. The recipe from @arimonika should both have a mistake, or they used extremely thick bread, or their air fryer is weak, or some mixture of all the above. I used thick-cut brioche and it was prepared in a few minutes. So please, you virtually definitely must modify your cook dinner time down and possibly decrease the warmth as effectively. As at all times with an air fryer, verify in your meals because it cooks.
In any other case the recipe is fairly self explanatory. It is your commonplace French toast process, with the added step of a post-cook, cinnamon-sugar dip. Simply, when you can, attempt to get the thickest bread doable so your French toast does not dry out. Plus a thick stick is best for dipping.
In any other case…simply comply with instructions. This is how the method regarded for @arimonika.
French toast sticks, in just some simple steps.
Credit score: Screenshots: TikTok / @arimonika
My ultimate product regarded a little bit totally different. My bread wasn’t fairly as thick and the instructions, frankly, name for approach too excessive of warmth for approach too lengthy. What piece of French toast takes 13 whole minutes to cook dinner? So here is what I received whereas taking my French toast stands out after just some minutes of cook dinner time,
Not dangerous!
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The decision? Not dangerous! The skin was crunchy with a light-weight coating of cinnamon-sugar. The inside of the French toast left one thing to be desired. It was a little bit dried out for my style, but it surely was by no means dangerous. How dangerous might or not it’s dangerous? It is French toast coated in cinnamon and sugar. However I could not assist however assume…why did I create extra of mess once I might have simply used a pan?
On the finish of the method, I needed to wash the air fryer trays, the air fryer itself, and retailer the large gadget. For those who used a pan in the meantime, you’d merely simply wash the pan. Generally issues are greatest left as is.
