What it does

Pick a mode — Oven or Deep fryer — then paste your recipe text or type the temperature and minutes directly. Air Fry Fix pulls the numbers out of your text, converts them, and prints the result with a flip-or-shake reminder and a doneness check. Celsius is converted before the math runs. An optional food menu — wings, fries, chicken breast, fish, bacon, reheating pizza, baked goods, roasts, steaks, ground meat, vegetables, frozen appetizers — refines the answer whenever that food has a better-known conversion than the arithmetic alone.

How the math works

For oven recipes, Air Fry Fix applies the standard conversion printed in manufacturer manuals and conversion charts: drop the temperature by 25 °F and cook for roughly 80% of the time. The reason is simple physics with a good PR problem — an air fryer is a small, powerful convection oven, so heat moves faster and the long-and-hot oven number would just burn things. For deep-fryer recipes the rule changes: keep the same temperature as the oil and cut frying time to about 75%, since circulating hot air replaces the oil bath. Choose a food from the menu and the library overrides the base rule wherever the food has a better answer.

Where the numbers come from

The temperature and time ranges come from manufacturer conversion charts — the Cuisinart oven-to-air-fryer chart is the backbone — plus standard air-fryer practice. The safe-internal-temperature guidance comes from the USDA: 165 °F for poultry, 145 °F with a three-minute rest for whole-muscle beef and pork, 160 °F for ground meats, and 145 °F for fish. That USDA guidance is exactly why every meat result prints a doneness check instead of asking you to trust the timer.

When it says no

Honest limits are part of the tool. A broiler step does not map to air frying, so a broil-only recipe gets a plain "cannot convert" instead of a made-up number, and a broil clause inside a bigger recipe is flagged to keep as written. A recipe that is already for an air fryer is flagged as needing no conversion. And because air fryers top out around 450 °F, a hotter oven setting is capped with a warning rather than a fantasy.

The honest framing

The base rules are folk-standard — widely published, reliably close — not lab calibrations of your particular machine, and every air fryer, basket load, and cut size shifts the result a little. Treat the output as a strong starting point, then finish with your own senses and a thermometer. The doneness check has the final word. This is cooking guidance, not medical or nutrition advice.

Who made it

Air Fry Fix is made by Grizzly at Kodiak Foundry LLC, a one-person studio in Florida that builds free web tools for the questions nobody hands you a manual for — you can find the rest of them, and the story behind the foundry, at kodiakfoundry.com.

Say hello

Tool requests, bug reports, or a story about your wings: [email protected]. A real person reads every message.