Oven to air fryer, in one tap
Type in what the recipe says and get the air fryer setting back - tweaked for your kind of oven and what's actually going in the basket. Most charts give you one blanket rule; this does a bit better.
Cooking Times Chart →
Recommended temps & times for 50+ foods.
Conversion Chart →
Common oven temps, converted.
Air Fryer vs Oven →
Speed, cost & results compared.
How to convert oven temperature to air fryer
If you just want the quick version: knock 25°F (about 15°C) off the temperature and take roughly 20% off the time. That works because an air fryer is basically a small convection oven - it whips hot air around the food, so it cooks faster and crisps harder than a regular oven set to the same number.
The thing is, that flat rule isn't quite right for everyone, which is why the calculator above nudges it. If you've already got a fan or convection oven, it's doing some of that air-moving job itself, so it needs less of a drop. And cakes and anything delicate want a softer touch than a dense chunk of meat. Set your oven type and food, and the numbers sort themselves out.
Popular conversions
- Air Fryer Chicken Breast 375°F · 15 min
- Air Fryer Chicken Wings 400°F · 20 min
- Air Fryer Chicken Thighs (Boneless) 380°F · 14 min
- Air Fryer Chicken Tenders 375°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Frozen Chicken Breast 350°F · 25 min
- Air Fryer Frozen French Fries 400°F · 18 min
- Air Fryer Frozen Chicken Nuggets 400°F · 10 min
- Air Fryer Frozen Tater Tots 400°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Frozen Pizza 360°F · 8 min
- Air Fryer Frozen Mozzarella Sticks 380°F · 7 min
- Air Fryer Salmon Fillet 380°F · 10 min
- Air Fryer Shrimp 400°F · 6 min
- Air Fryer Scallops 400°F · 5 min
- Air Fryer Steak 400°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Beef Burgers 375°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Meatloaf 350°F · 25 min
- Air Fryer Pork Chops 380°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Bacon 350°F · 10 min
- Air Fryer Sausage Patties 375°F · 8 min
- Air Fryer Baked Potato 400°F · 40 min
- Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts 375°F · 12 min
- Air Fryer Broccoli 375°F · 8 min
- Air Fryer Asparagus 375°F · 7 min
- Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries 375°F · 15 min
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Air fryer guides
All guides →- How Does an Air Fryer Work? An air fryer is not frying anything. Once you understand what it really is - a small, fierce convection oven - how it works and why the conversion maths lands where it does stops being a mystery.
- How Long to Preheat an Air Fryer? Two to three minutes, and no - you do not have to do it every time. Here is how long yours actually needs, the two separate things a hot basket changes about your food, and the cooks where a cold start is genuinely the better call.
- How to Choose an Air Fryer Most air fryer "best of" lists are affiliate filler. Here is the honest version - what size you actually need, and the handful of decisions that change how happy you will be.
- Air Fryer Temperatures Explained Why does one recipe say 360°F and another 200°C for the same fries? Here is the full °F-to-°C chart, what each band of the dial does, common food temperatures, and how to pick a setting with confidence.
- How to Get Crispy Results Crispiness is not luck. It comes down to moisture, airflow and a thin coat of oil - get those three right and almost anything crisps up. Here is the playbook that works.
- 11 Common Air Fryer Mistakes to Avoid Almost every "my air fryer is useless" complaint comes down to one of these. None of them are your fault - the manuals barely explain any of it. Whether it is your first time or your hundredth, here is what is going wrong and how to fix it.
- How to Clean an Air Fryer Most cleaning advice stops at the basket. But the basket is not the part that smokes, and it is not the part that makes last week's fish turn up in tonight's cookies. Here is the whole machine, in the order that actually matters.
- Why Is My Air Fryer Smoking? Smoke from an air fryer is nearly always fat, and nearly always fixable in about a minute. But one kind of smoke is not fat, and that one means unplug it now. Start by working out which you have.
- Air Fryer Not Heating Up The fan spins, the display lights up, and twenty minutes later the food is cold. Nine times out of ten this is a safety switch doing its job, not a fault - and it costs nothing to check.
- Air Fryer Smells Like Plastic On a machine out of the box this is expected and harmless. On a machine you have used for a year it is a warning. The difference is entirely about how old it is.
- Are Air Fryers Safe? Yes. The interesting part is why, because the three things people worry about - radiation, non-stick coatings and acrylamide - have three completely different answers, and one of them is a genuine point in the air fryer's favour.
- Do Air Fryers Use a Lot of Electricity? No - and the reason is not the one everyone gives. An air fryer draws roughly the same power as an oven element. It wins on the other two terms in the equation.