Hi Joe, yeah I don’t think you compare oil-cooked potatoes to oil-free potatoes. The oil sends a signal to the brain that the food is more calorie dense and it sets off more of our pleasure receptors.

I will say that I didn’t design this recipe for the air fryer and if you use the same cooking times as recommended for the oven they will be too dry. But thanks for giving it a try and sharing your thoughts!

I made these last night on my air fryer. Just one large potato cut up in to steak fry size for my wife and I. I rolled each piece in nutritional yeast as per this recipe. I do want to add that it was rather bland. My wife did not care for them at all. They were dry and no flavor. The way I normally make fries is to coat them lightly with avocado oil and season lightly with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Hands down much tastier than the nutritional yeast. I realize that salt is not a mainstay on the eat to live way of living but for the sake of comparing this recipe to the way I make them- there is no comparison taste wise. Needless to say I most likely will not re-use this recipe for my french fry recipe. What I probably will do, however is to add the nutritional yeast on top of my recipe for added nutrition.

Hi Rosemary,

I’m SO happy to hear you enjoyed this recipe and thank you so very much for taking the time to review and leave such a lovely comment! I’m excited you’re going to try this with savory potatoes–although I’m sure it would work just as well with sweets!

xo, Kristen

Kristen, you are the BEST! Love the well thought out comments and details that you include. I am more of a sweet potato girl(…really, I yam!), tho’ I def wanna try this recipe with white potatoes 🙂