10 Minute Air Fryer Dinners for Seniors Living Alone (Nothing to Scrub)

My husband Larry brought an air fryer home last spring and I told him I didn't need it. I'd spent 35 years working beside a flat-top griddle and a deep fryer on Main Street in West Plains, Missouri. Two weeks later I realized it was the closest thing to a short-order cook's griddle I'd ever had at home. Here are 10 old diner suppers, each about 10 minutes in the basket, each sized for one person, and nothing to scrub when you're done: patty melt, chicken-fried steak, Friday fish fry, the Reuben, chicken fingers, salmon patties, a quick blue plate meatloaf, sausage and biscuits, home fries with a baked egg, and fried apple pies. Exact temperatures and times for every one, plus the three rules our cook Earl ran the line by. Pull up a stool. The coffee's hot. 📖 Every diner supper and every trick Earl taught me, with the real amounts, is in my little book "Nancy's Diner Secrets": 👉 https://nancysdiner.com ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — Why the air fryer won me over 2:28 — Earl's 3 rules + the nothing-to-scrub trick 4:28 — #1 Patty melt 6:04 — #2 Chicken-fried steak 7:30 — #3 Friday fish fry 8:40 — #4 The Reuben 9:53 — #5 Chicken fingers 11:12 — What it will and won't do 12:24 — #6 Salmon patties 13:30 — #7 Blue plate meatloaf 14:36 — #8 Sausage & biscuits 15:56 — #9 Home fries & a baked egg 17:05 — #10 Fried apple pie 18:09 — What to carry away If you've got an air fryer, what's the one thing you make in it that surprised you? And if yours is still in the box, what's stopping you? Tell me in the comments, and tell me where you're writing from. I read every one with my afternoon coffee. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Old diner cooking for the way we live now: simple suppers for one or two, exact times and amounts, and the tricks a short-order cook taught me in 35 years behind the counter.