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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson , Phil Harrison, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: an air fryer show that is actually worth your time

Prof Hannah Fry with an air fryer.
Recipe for success … Prof Hannah Fry dissects the air fryer. Photograph: Marco Cervi/BBC

Air Fryer: The Secret Genius of Modern Life

8pm, BBC Two
Yet another show about the air fryer – but it’s OK, because this time it’s to kick off the brilliant Prof Hannah Fry’s third tech series, in which she examines seemingly ordinary objects in “obscene detail”. And this isn’t about just recipes. Fry – a self-confessed convert – traces the origins of the kitchen phenomenon back to the “accidental creation of a ‘wonder wire’” in the 1900s and one first world war pilot’s need for a hot dinner. Hollie Richardson

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