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Do any of you own a Tefal Actifry? My husband and I have been lusting after one for months, and I was lucky enough to be sent one before Christmas, much to our delight! (…is ‘much to our delight’ something that someone in their mid-twenties should be saying? Not sure.)
If you don’t know what an Actifry does, it basically fries things in only one tablespoon of oil. I don’t know how it does it, but it makes the best chips ever.
Just in case you didn’t quite hear me, I’ll repeat: the best chips ever, with only one tablespoon of oil to make the whole batch! It’s a dream come true!
When we first got the Actifry, we had chips (that’s fries to some of you) for dinner four days in a row… then I think we went back to them after…
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