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The Complete Air Fryer Cooking Guide by Sam Milner & Dom Milner Review: A Sunday Times Bestselling Quick-Reference Flip Chart
Sam and Dom Milner's The Complete Air Fryer Cooking Guide is a compact, laminated flip-chart reference published by White Lion Publishing, designed to give air fryer users instant access to cooking times and temperatures for more than 275 ingredients — from poultry and fish to vegetables and frozen foods. A Sunday Times bestseller, it is built for the kitchen wall or fridge door rather than the bookshelf, and comes with both a hook and a magnetic adhesive strip to keep it within reach during cooking. This review assesses the guide's content, design, and reception from published sources, not from a kitchen test.
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Best for
Committed air fryer users — from daily cooks to those just past the beginner stage — who want a durable, kitchen-mounted quick-reference chart for accurate times and temperatures across 275+ ingredients, without leafing through a full cookbook mid-cook.
Worth it if
You already understand air fryer basics and need a reliable, at-a-glance resource that lives beside the machine itself — especially if you cook a wide variety of ingredients and want tested, dual-temperature data from authors with a decade of documented expertise.
Skip if
You're new to air fryer cooking and hoping for recipes, technique guidance, or explanatory context — this 16-page chart contains none of that, and the Milners' separate Complete Air Fryer Cookbook would be a better starting point.
What readers & critics say
Retailer and bookseller listings confirm the guide carries the Sunday Times bestseller designation, per tgjonesonline.co.uk. Across multiple bookselling platforms — including abebooks.com and booktopia.com.au — the guide is consistently described as a fully tested, at-a-glance flip-chart reference covering key ingredients and their correct cooking times and temperatures, from poultry and fish to vegetables and frozen foods.
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- Is it worth reading?
- For committed air fryer users who already understand how to cook with the appliance and simply need a reliable, at-a-glance reference, the guide is purpose-built and well-executed. The Milners' credentials — over a decade of daily air fryer use and a site drawing more than a million visitors per month — lend genuine authority to the tested times and temperatures. Its Sunday Times bestseller status reflects a strong reception in the UK market. It is not, however, the right first purchase for someone new to air fryer cooking or anyone seeking recipes and technique guidance.
- Similar books
- Readers who enjoy quick, appliance-focused kitchen references may also find value in Air Fryer Revolution: 100 Crispy, Healthy, Fast by Urvashi Pitre, which offers a recipe-forward approach to the same appliance. For those interested in expanding to other countertop cookers, Dinner in an Instant: 75 Modern Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker by Melissa Clark covers the pressure cooker and multicooker space with a similar practical orientation. The New Cooking School Cookbook: Fundamentals by America's Test Kitchen provides deeper technique and culinary context for readers who want to understand the reasoning behind cooking times, not just the numbers. The Ultimate Book of Grilling: Recipes, Tips by Love Food offers a comparable quick-reference ethos applied to outdoor cooking.
- Who should read this?
- The guide is ideal for regular air fryer users who have moved past the beginner stage and want a reliable, tested reference they can consult in seconds without opening a full cookbook. It suits both daily users and those who cook with an air fryer frequently enough to encounter unfamiliar ingredients. The dual Celsius and Fahrenheit values make it practical for UK, US, and international kitchens alike. Those newer to the appliance, or hoping for a single volume that teaches as well as references, would be better served starting with the Milners' The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook.
- How is the guide designed to be used?
- The guide is built around the assumption that it will live in the kitchen, not on a bookshelf. Its flip-chart layout makes every entry visible at a glance without scrolling or searching mid-cook. White Lion Publishing supplies it with a hook for hanging on the kitchen wall and a magnetic adhesive strip for attaching to a cupboard door or refrigerator. The laminated pages are designed to resist the splashes and steam that come with active cooking.
- What qualifies the Milners to write this?
- Sam and Dom Milner bought their first air fryer in 2012 and spent three years cooking with it daily before founding RecipeThis.com, described as the first food blog dedicated to kitchen gadgets — a site that now attracts over a million visitors per month. The publisher's synopsis notes that all times and temperatures in the guide have been fully tested by the authors, grounding the reference data in documented, long-term hands-on expertise. The guide carries the Sunday Times bestseller designation, reflecting its reception in the UK market.
- What doesn't this guide cover?
- At 16 pages, the guide is strictly a times-and-temperatures reference — it contains no full recipes, cooking techniques, or explanatory guidance about why particular times and temperatures are used. Readers hoping to learn how to cook with an air fryer, understand the reasoning behind the numbers, or discover new recipe ideas will not find that material here. The Milners' The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook is the appropriate choice for anyone seeking a more comprehensive, instructional volume.
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