Air Fryer Tostones

I’ve eaten deep fried tostones all my life, but found that your air fried tostones to be simply delicious and easy to make. I did not have to deal with any leftover oil or grease nor with the splatter associated with deep frying. I thank you for this method of making an all time favorite comfort food of mine. The only exception to your recipe was that I added ground garlic to the salted water. Heck, I add garlic to almost anything. ;-)

I usually make tostones like my mom used to. She would peel the plantains and scrape them with her knife and soak them in salt water after slicing them. To help get the rest of the sticky sap off. Cutting them and then peeling seems like a lot of work when you can just peel the whole thing before cutting. That's my critique. Air fried is good but nothing beats the oil frying. Sprinkle with adobo before eating. Yum

We did the recipe as recommended, but it seems the soaking in water was a mistake for us. We may have done something wrong. We have made them before without soaking in water and they turned out perfect. So will go back to using that method.

I like it bc it's healthier, however nothing beats the original--deep fried in oil. But like other reviewers pointed out--there is no need to soak in water.

Everything was going fine UNTIL I put them in water! They mostly fell apart. :(

They still tasted good though!

I think I didn't need this step.

The banana I used was not very green, I don't know how much that would affect the taste. It didn't have a strong flavor, a little salty and a little crunchy.

Putting plátanos in the microwave for 15 seconds also helps peels them.

Peel THEN slice! why spend time peeling individual slices?!!
(Oh, are we rating the recipe or the video/instructions? ;) )

I actually hate doing all the preliminaries so I cut to the chase and bought frozen tostones. I tried air frying them as is but they turned out awful, so I tried again. This time I soaked them in salted water for about 10 minutes, dried them well with a paper towel then sprayed both sides with canola oil. I then air fried them at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. The result: Much, much better!