My air fryer beeps.

That’s bound to boost the SEO.

Yep, I haven’t written anything for this blog in months, but I’m returning with a vengeance to tell you that, well, my air fryer beeps.

You see, in the past few years, I’ve fallen into the air fryer cult. I NEVER talk about cooking, but now, I’m just as annoying as anyone else. The machine works exactly as advertised, and everyone who says that it can do amazing things in the kitchen is absolutely correct.

The thing also beeps at me – randomly.

Of course, my air fryer gives all of the expected beeps. It will beep to give feedback that buttons on its flat surface have been pressed. It will beep when a cooking session is done. It will even beep when the frying basket has been left open for too long. These beeps make sense.

But my model also beeps at times that have no significance at all.

Thirty seconds after a cooking session is done, apropos of nothing, it will beep. Every time. This beep is unrelated to anything with the cooking cycle. It’s not a beep to indicate anything in particular about the machine or the food. It isn’t, say, a warning that food has been left in the basket, or the machine’s been left on, or anything else pertaining to something I could’ve done. It’s just. . . a stray beep. As if all of the other ones weren’t sufficient. I thought for a moment that it may be indicating that the hot basket is now cool to the touch, but that isn’t true, either (I checked the temperature after a recent beeping session, and it was still just as hot).

Apparently, the air fryer simply needs to communicate that I finished cooking something 30 seconds earlier. There’s nothing needing to be done, no action to take. It’s just more knowledge for me, for some reason. I’m sitting at the table or the couch, comfortably enjoying the meal I just made, and the air fryer just wants to remind me that it still exists. There is absolutely no discernible reason why this beep is programmed into the device.

Look, I’m not gonna summon the energy to be mad about this one. But it IS annoying to be locked in to Celebrity Jeopardy!, eyes glazed, and suddenly be startled into thinking there’s some kind of kitchen emergency. It may not be as serious as leaping out of bed to turn off a forgotten burner or close a freezer door left ajar, but for one nanosecond, that beep makes me think that all hell has broken loose. ✍︎