I think you meant an "Easy Bake Oven" instead of a Betty Crocker oven.
The simple answer is no. An air fryer has a much higher heat capacity than the child's toy and can cook more kinds of food. Easy Bake ovens have modified recipes that allow for the pre-packaged recipes to bake at lower temperatures and therefore cannot use regular cake or cookie recipes with proper results. So no, they are not the same.
Air fryers use high heat and a fan to circulate air throughout the oven to cook faster and create a crispy exterior
Well of course the food won't have to be modified if you have adults handling it and you're not using a light bulb as the heat source but bottom line... it's just a tiny oven, right? What can you do in it that you can't do in an oven?
What can you do in it that you can't do in an oven?
It has forced air convection and the heater much closer to the food so you can cook and brown foods much faster than a conventional oven. Depending on the type of air fryer, you can also use it as an indoor grill for meats which will definitely come out better than a regular oven could do. It also consumes about half the power of a full size electric oven so you're not increasing your electric bill as much too.
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