Air Fryer Converter — Oven to Air Fryer Settings

Air fryer recipes rarely start from scratch — most of the time you have an oven recipe and want to know what to set the air fryer to, or you found an air fryer time and need to bake it in a regular oven instead. This converter applies the rule of thumb that most air fryer guides agree on: air fryer temperature runs about 25°F (15°C) lower than a conventional oven for the same food, and it cooks in roughly 75-80% of the oven time, because the fan-forced hot air reaches the food faster and from every side.

Pick a direction — oven to air fryer, or air fryer to oven — enter the source temperature (°F or °C) and time in minutes, and the calculator applies the adjustment. The time comes back as a range rather than one falsely precise number, because the 20-25% reduction is itself an approximation: a thin batch of fries in a single layer cooks faster relative to the oven than a dense, packed dish never designed for an air fryer basket in the first place.

Underneath the converter sits a second, independent tool: a lookup table of direct air fryer settings for five common foods — frozen french fries, chicken wings, chicken breast, salmon fillets and roasted vegetables. These are not run through the conversion formula; they are realistic, commonly published starting points for that specific food, picked from a dropdown with no math involved.

Treat every number here as a starting point, not a guarantee: air fryer models differ enormously in basket size, wattage and fan strength, and food density changes how fast heat actually penetrates. Check the food a few minutes before the estimated time on your first attempt with any new recipe or machine, and adjust from there. If you also need to convert a recipe's cups and grams, this site's cooking measurement converter handles that with real ingredient densities, and the temperature converter handles plain °F/°C math beyond cooking.