"Making empanadas in the air fryer is great because it's ideal to cook them at a high temperature for a short period of time," she says. "In the countryside, empanadas are cooked in brick or clay ovens at high heat which can produce darker blisters like on the crust of delicious pizzas from Naples, Italy. Because of this, you need to watch them carefully and take them out before they over cook."
Air fryers function like a powerful convection oven, blasting food from all sides with hot air much more efficiently than your typical home oven. As its name implies, air fryers are famous for instilling the crispy crunch associated with deep frying.
Lorena Cantarovici compares a hot air fryer to a fiery Italian pizza oven, creating charred bubbles that you'd see in Neapolitan pizzas. The same can be said for calzones, which are essentially giant empanadas.
Empanadas use a different type of dough with butter that creates more of a flakey, delicate texture when cooked, enhancing the overall eating experience whether made from scratch or using store-bought pastry.
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