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I'm being bad and enjoying occasional cinnamon toast.

I cut some butter up to spread over a couple of bread slices, topped it with cinnamon and sugar, and placed them in a cooking drawer of the ol' air fryer to heat up.

Well, I'd been preheating the drawer while I prepared the bread. At a minute and a half of cooking time after that, it would be toasted excellent.

But, why not skip the preheating to save a little energy? If I cooked it from room temp for 2 minutes, surely that would be nearly the same.

Being a genius in the kitchen, I tried it.

At 2 minutes, the air fryer went into COOL mode. A fan kicked in with a mighty whoosh.

When it finished, I opened the drawer to find one slice had flipped in the air, landing face down on the other. That routine got all 9's, except for the Russian judge, who gave it a 6. It was slightly off-center, and a bit of buttery goodness had dripped.

To summarize, do not let an air fryer enter COOL mode when air frying cinnamon toast. This concludes my TED talk.