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    Home » Recipes » Air Fryer Recipes » Air Fryer Smoking? See How Air Fryer Sucks Food Up!

    Air Fryer Smoking? See How Air Fryer Sucks Food Up!

    Published: Oct 7, 2021 by Jenna Passaro · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Wondering exactly why is my air fryer smoking? See how air fryers sucks food up, along with parchment paper, when it’s lightweight.

    Air Fryer Smoking graphic with text overlay.

    You may be here because your air fryer is smoking when you cook, and you don’t know why. My first question to you: did you air fry lightweight food lately? Because believe it or not, sometimes lightweight food is all of a sudden flying around in the air fryer because of the high speed of hot air.

    This has happened to me, too, so here I’m talking about what to do when your food goes missing in the air fryer.

    I’ll share with you how I fixed this. But first, here’s a video on what happened…

    Table of Contents

    • How my food got lost in the air fryer
    • So why did my air fryer food disappear?
    • How to get food stuck to air fryer coil
    • Parchment paper blows around the air fryer, too
    • Final thoughts on this issue with the air fryer
    • What you need to air fry food
    • Easy air fryer recipes
    • Are you a foodie, too?

    How my food got lost in the air fryer

    One day, I was air frying chicken patties that were leftover for my toddler, and the air fryer sucked up food to top of air fryer.

    I had put the chicken patty in with air fryer mac and cheese balls, and then closed the air fryer basket on my Phillips XL Air Fryer machine.

    What happened next, was that I went to check on the food to flip the mac and cheese bites, and I couldn’t find the top of my chicken patty bun.

    Where did it go??

    Arrows on photo demonstrating where air fryer coil sucks food up causing air fryer to smoke

    So why did my air fryer food disappear?

    You see, I put the sandwich in the basket with the top of the bun, because I’ve toasted buns in the air fryer before, which never had a problem.

    What appears to have happened is that the air fryer fan sucked up the top of the lightweight food (the bun) and whisked it around. I literately couldn’t find it – I looked all over, then finally pulled out the entire air fryer basket and looked up in the coil.

    basket of air fryer smoking from lightweight food

    How to get food stuck to air fryer coil

    My only option was to get the top of the bun before my air fryer began smoking. I didn’t want food to burn in the air fryer and make a mess and set off the smoke alarm.

    I retrieved the top bun by using really long metal tongs to carefully reach in and grab it.

    Fortunately, no mac and cheese bites were harmed in the process.

    Food stuck to coil causes Air Fryer Smoking issue

    Parchment paper blows around the air fryer, too

    If you make something like my air fryer chocolate chip cookies, they are heavy enough to hold down the parchment paper.

    But if you’re cooking something super light, the parchment paper might get lost in the air fryer machine and end up in the coil — which doesn’t sound like a great, safe scenario in my opinion!

    Parchment Paper Smoking In Air Fryer

    Final thoughts on this issue with the air fryer

    And now it makes so much sense why sometimes the cheese falls off my air fryer frozen burritos. I think it’s getting sucked up to the air fryer coil, too! Or, I don’t know where.

    Well, if you lost food in the air fryer, I hope you now know how to find your missing food. Now go on and try some tasty new air fryer recipes…

    What you need to air fry food

    • Air Fryer Machine: In Sip Bite Go recipe tutorials, you’ll see the higher end model, the Philips Airfryer XXL Digital. Other popular air fryers include the Ninja Foodi, NuWave, and Black & Decker.
    • Air Fryer Accessories: Save time with reusable air fryer basket liners and this bundle of air fryer accessories.

    Easy air fryer recipes

    • Air fryer chicken wings
    • Air fryer hot dogs
    • Air fryer chocolate chip cookies
    • Air fryer filet mignon
    • Air fryer broccoli
    • Air fryer onions
    • Air fryer sweet potato tots
    • Air fryer acorn squash
    • Air fryer chicken patties

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    Until I fell in love with a chef. He would come over and cook me delicious meals right in my own kitchen. My mind was blown.

    Since then, I’ve been on a mission to figure out easy ways to make restaurant style food at home and share it here on Sip Bite Go.

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