Air fryer for fried fish

following this thread

I haven't found a way to make the batter stick. However, it is fantastic for chicken wings.

Never had any luck frying anything that had to be battered. But man is it great for reheating fried anything! IMHO it comes out better after reheating in an airfryer. Can get most of the grease out and crisp it good.

I use bread crumbs. It is easy to dry it out. Doesnt reheat well.

The closest I’ve gotten to good was rubbing mustard on the fish then Panko instead of fish fry.

Reheated cracklings in it though is great.

Im still a rookie air frying, but I have figured out a few tips.

It should be obvious, but it wont melt pin bones (I have little kids that love fish) so I have to be extra careful cleaning. If cleaning is suspect, I just break out the fry daddy.

A binder layer like mustard or egg really comes through in air fryer, so be sure your crowd likes that flavor. You have to have SOME kind of binder and Im still working on that. I think the binder is most difficult thing about air fryer. Wet batter will never work so Yankees/beer batter wont be satisfied.

Panko does very well, so I usually mix 1/2 panko and 1/2 LA fish fry. My kids and wife like mustard so I use yellow mustard very lighlty, then the panko/LA fish fry dredge, then into preheated air fryer @ 380 deg usually 3 mins and flip for another 3 mins for total of 6 mins.

To be honest though, its almost as easy to break out the Fry Daddy. It will have much better flavor.

I want my fish fried with corn meal.

I haven't tried the mixes made specifically for the air fryer, but I used my regular batter and it came out dry, and like the batter wasn't cooked. I've heard of people spraying food with cooking spray or oil in a spray bottle before frying in the air fryer to make it crispier, but I haven't tried that either. Wings are awesome and it's the best way to reheat pizza.

I am postive of those measurements. Remember its all mixed into 12lbs of cornmeal. Try it. You will never buy the packaged mixes again.

I have air fried fish, it works. Don't even think about trying shrimp. I've bolded the very important points.

For the fish, pat dry your fish, lightly dip in egg, drip off all excess, just enough to stick your fish fry. Coat well, but not excessively.

Make sure your basket is sprayed, and make sure you spray the fish with oil as well. That's the key. Don't over do it, but you need that oil to fry. The whole purpose of an air fryer isn't to not use oil, but to use less of it.

This all being said, I'll still choose to fry it over deep fry any day.