How to Cook Air Fryer Potatoes
The ultimate guide on how to cook air fryer potatoes! How to make baked potatoes, homemade French fries, and potato chips in your air fryer, using both white potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Now that you’ve Marie Kondo’d out your kitchen, it’s time you fill that emptiness with your new favorite appliance, the air fryer! This countertop appliance cooks just about everything, making your food crispy and “fried” feeling (without having to use loads of oil). So today we’re talking all things air fried potatoes, using both sweet potatoes and white potatoes! Click the links below to jump around the post:
I used a Philips Air Fryer (affiliate link) to make all of these air fryer potato recipes and absolutely love it, though any air fryer should do the job!
How to Make Air Fryer Baked Potatoes
Air fryer baked potato has such a wonderful texture: a bit crispy on the outside and perfectly tender and delicious on the inside. Here’s how to bake both white and sweet potatoes in an air fryer. Use virtually any potato (sweet potatoes, Russet, baby, red, take your pick!)
Step 1: Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees F (200 C). Rub potatoes in a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt.
Step 2: Set potatoes in the air fryer in a single layer. Cook for 30 to 45 minutes, or until fork-tender, turning them over once during baking to evenly cook.
How to Make Air Fryer French Fries
If I’m being honest, French fries are the food most familiar to my air fryer. It’s just so easy for when you’re craving “fast food”! You can easily throw frozen French fries in an air fryer, but today we’re making them homemade. Here’s how to make air fryer sweet potato fries and French fries! Use sweet potatoes or large white potatoes, like Russets.
Step 1: Cut potatoes into matchsticks using either a knife or a mandoline slicer (here’s a handy guide to cutting French fries).
Step 2: Soak sliced potatoes in a bowl of cold water for 1 to 2 hours. This removes starch to give them that perfectly crispy texture!
Step 3: Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees F (200 C). Drain and pat dry potatoes. Add to a bowl, then drizzle with vegetable oil (about 1 teaspoon per potato) and a pinch of salt.
Step 4: Add fries to your air fryer, spread out in as single of a layer as possible. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, shaking the basket a few times during cooking to evenly cook.
How to Make Air Fryer Potato Chips
Air fryer sweet potato chips (and any vegetable chip for that matter) are so fun to make! Where traditional oven baking is difficult for perfectly crunchy chips, the air fryer makes your chips ultra-crispy and light. Here’s how to make potato chips in an air fryer! Use virtually any potato or root vegetable.
Step 1: Cut potatoes into thin rounds using either a knife or a mandoline slicer.
Step 2: Soak sliced potatoes in a bowl of cold water for 1 to 2 hours. Just like with the air fryer potato fries, this removes starch to make them perfectly crispy.
Step 3: Preheat air fryer to 300 degrees F (150 C). Drain and pat dry potatoes. Add to a bowl, then drizzle with vegetable oil (about 1 teaspoon per potato) and a pinch of salt.
Step 4: Add potatoes to your air fryer, spread out in as single of a layer as possible. Cook for 20 to 30 minutes, shaking the basket a few times during cooking to evenly cook. (If you hear your chips flying around in the air fryer, you can cover them with your air fryer grill plate to keep them relatively in place).
I used a Philips Air Fryer (affiliate link) to make all of these air fryer potato recipes and absolutely love it! You can get a bunch of handy accessories like a baking pan or grill skewers (though I just used the basics to make these potato recipes). Enjoy!
How to Cook Air Fryer Potatoes
INGREDIENTS
Air Fryer Baked Potatoes – Use virtually any potato (sweet potatoes, Russet, baby, red, take your pick!)
Air Fryer French Fries – Use sweet potatoes or large white potatoes, like Russets
Air Fryer Potato Chips – Use virtually any potato or root vegetable
INSTRUCTIONS
Air Fryer Baked Potatoes
- Prep: Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees F (200 C). Rub potatoes in a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Cook: Set potatoes in the air fryer in a single layer. Cook for 30 to 45 minutes, or until fork-tender, turning them over once during baking to evenly cook.
Air Fryer French Fries
- Soak: Cut potatoes into matchsticks using either a knife or a mandoline slicer. Soak sliced potatoes in a bowl of cold water for 1 to 2 hours. This removes starch to give them that perfectly crispy texture!
- Prep: Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees F (200 C). Drain and pat dry potatoes. Add to a bowl, then drizzle with vegetable oil (about 1 teaspoon per potato) and a pinch of salt.
- Cook: Add fries to your air fryer, spread out in as single of a layer as possible. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, shaking the basket a few times during cooking to evenly cook.
Air Fryer Potato Chips
- Soak: Cut potatoes into thin rounds using either a knife or a mandoline slicer. Soak sliced potatoes in a bowl of cold water for 1 to 2 hours. Just like with the air fryer potato fries, this removes starch to make them perfectly crispy.
- Prep: Preheat air fryer to 300 degrees F (150 C). Drain and pat dry potatoes. Add to a bowl, then drizzle with vegetable oil (about 1 teaspoon per potato) and a pinch of salt.
- Cook: Add potatoes to your air fryer, spread out in as single of a layer as possible. Cook for 20 to 30 minutes, shaking the basket a few times during cooking to evenly cook. (If you hear your chips flying around in the air fryer, you can cover them with your air fryer grill plate to keep them relatively in place).
More Air Fryer Recipes
Here are a few more air fryer recipes you'll love (find all of our vegetarian air fryer recipes here).
Buttermilk Fried Mushrooms
With air fried oyster mushrooms and a crunchy coating, this tastes just like fried chicken!
Air Fryer Pizza
Perfectly crispy, easy to make, personal pan pizzas that are about to revolutionize pizza night.
How to Cook Air Fryer Potatoes
How to make baked potatoes, homemade French fries, and potato chips in your air fryer, using both white potatoes and sweet potatoes.
How to Air Fry Any Vegetable
How to air fry virtually any vegetable into perfectly cooked, healthy deliciousness.
Which air fryer is best?
Not sure which air fryer is best? Here are a few of our favorites (complete list of best air fryers here).
