Can we talk about preheating your air fryer with nothing in it?

I keep seeing recipes say to preheat for 5 minutes but nobody mentions that an empty basket at 400F for that long warped the tray in my Ninja after 2 weeks, so now I just run it 2 minutes max and my food comes out the same, anybody else run into this or am I doing something wrong?

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charles64018d ago

That line about the tray warping after only 2 weeks is what gets me. What brand of tray was it, the one that came with the Ninja or a third party one you bought separate? I ask because the stock trays on those things are pretty thin metal, and 400 for 5 minutes with nothing to soak up the heat means all that energy is just bouncing around hitting bare metal. Mine never warped but the coating on the bottom started flaking after a few months, which I figured was from the same thing. Did yours bend in the middle or along the edges?

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