My 8-quart InstantPot with Air Fryer worked so well on crisping up raw potatoes that I wanted to try them on Walmart's Great Value brand perogies. Here are the results at the default 400 degrees Farenheit setting on the Air Fryer. I used the air fryer bin, used straight-from-the-freezer frozen perogies, did not add any oil.
- 5 minutes (slide 1)
- Did not appear sufficiently cooked.
- add 5 minutes (slide 2)
- From the same batch as slide 1, I closed the lid and added another 5 minutes of air fryer time. Since the lid was opened for inspection, there was a lot of heat loss, so this is not exactly the same as an uninterrupted 10 minute fry.
- The skin was still slightly undercooked but palatable.
- Steaming the perogies first and then air frying for 10 minutes produced similar results.
- 15 minutes (slide 3)
- This was a new batch, cooked from frozen with 15 minutes on the air fryer timer.
- Still too long. The skin was crisp on the outside but still had a chew to it. The filling that came out was not burnt. Looks terrible.
- 30 minutes (slide 4)
- This was also a new batch, cooked from frozen with 30 minutes on the air fryer timer.
- Way too long. Skin crisped into a cracker which was fun to eat, but the filling that exploded out was burnt. The insides were fine though.
Conclusion - Don't do it? Do not InstantPot air fry your frozen perogies?
HOWEVER
If you let the perogies thaw first, then cut them in half, then air fry for 15 minutes, they do turn out reasonably! -- see slide 5!
They are crunchy on the outside and kind of fun to eat. Though strangely they feel less filling.
On the left side, we slided the perogy lengthwise; on the right side, we sliced it in half.
That large ball of mashed potato on the upper left piece turned out to actually be hollow. O
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