Today I am writing to share my LOVE of two kitchen products. As you know, I am a mama of five and it will soon be 6! That makes us an 8 person family. Even if I wasn’t cooking for that many people I still have tiny people that need more attention from me than whatever I have on the stove.

Enter the pressure cooker and air fryer!

I am not kidding when I say that I use one or the other every night IF NOT both. They have infinitely made dinner time easier for me. The biggest reason is being able to walk away from them. I can’t do that with food on the stove. I have to keep an eye on it. Now this doesn’t mean I go outside or upstairs and leave my kids while I have things cooking. They are still hot and dangerous so I must be near. But I can entertain the kids in the living room while I have meat cooking in the instant pot. THAT is HUGE.

I love this one. I honestly bought it on a whim and wasn’t sure how our family would use it. As I said above I love making some sort of delicious tender meat in it. But also I love to make rice in it. We eat a fair bit of it as it is something that all the kids like. We can load up on veggies that way also. Soups are also huge because it is one pot for everything. I mean can you get easier than that?

Even though I can’t always cook a whole meal in it, I can always do something that would have been time consuming for me to do another way.

It was a bit daunting to start using. There is so much to learn on it. But once I got the hang of it and found recipes for it – I was golden.

And now the air fryer! This is the one we got. Also purchased this on a whim just recently. I really, really didn’t know if we would use it much other than fries or something like that. Man. Was I wrong!! We use it for chicken, hot dogs, fries, fajitas meat and veggies, brussel sprouts and the list goes on! I mean I don’t think we have found something that we can’t do in it.

Again the set it and forget it factor is the biggest bonus! But the perfect crispness we get with it keeps us coming back. It is so good with no oil and better than my convection oven. No joke.

It was pretty easy to pick up how to do it and there are a ton of presets. But you can still adjust them all which is really nice.

You definitely want the models I have or bigger if you have a large family. Now that I know we would use the air fryer this much, I wish we would have gotten a bigger model.

My one and only complaint for these two magical appliances is their size. I need them big but they are hard to store. I had to make some special room to be able to actually put them in our cupboards when you are tired of looking at them. But honestly they are out nearly every night.

I am always on the lookout for quicker, easier ways to make delicious meals at home.

Do you have any tools that help you out in the kitchen? Do you have recipes you love for either of these tools?