When it comes to baking, not all air fryers do the same job. While your standard basket air fryers can handle most baking jobs, you'll run into problems if you have a rotary model.

These models continuously move the food while cooking, which will work wonders for a rotisserie chicken but will ruin your batters and doughs.

The main issue comes down to simple physics: Cake batters need a consistent environment, and even bread dough requires a kind of stability during baking.

Beyond the problem that they move around, these models are also generally smaller with more awkward shapes, so what you can bake in them will be limited.