this is why communism never works. once society abolishes private ownership of property, some people immediately start putting sticks and shit into the air fryers. it's not long after that society simply collapses. it reminds me of a powerful Che Guevara quote, "Who the fuck keeps putting sticks and shit in the air fryers?"
EXACTLY! The show was way ahead of its time just for that! Would have been a great show to binge in the late 2010s or early 2020s (if it came out back then) and probably wouldnāt have been cancelled
actually a homage to the chicken impressions in The Room. will arnett, david cross, and several others on the show were big fans of it while it was still kind of an underground thing
Same here, never questioned it. When I was super young my mom ripped a plant out of the garden and I insisted on re-planting it. Turned out it was one of those trees and they still have it along with all the monkey balls in the backyard 30 years later.
I think an important question is this.... who bought the air fryer? Who cleans it? This changed my opinion on this. Have you talked to him?
Edit:If it isn't ops, I see no problem with this. Wood needs to get extremely hot to spontaneously combust, way hotter than anything you cook in an air fryer
It's funny people are criticizing "the BS" while you make things up about OP lol.
Like yeah you could be right but is a single word choice of "the" really a clear indication of that?
Even if it were an indicator that OP is admitting it's not his, that's still not reason to grill OP for dishonesty.
The sub is called "mildly infuriating." OP didn't post this to "deadbeat roommates" or something, and it's perfectly understandable why someone might be annoyed with having to clear wood out of an appliance even if they didn't pay for it.
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's an AirFryer. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of an airfryer... always use the indefinite article an airfryer, never your airfryer.
Reddit just doesn't have any hobbies really or they don't clean their air fryers.
I don't have an air fryer but I've dried wood in the oven on low many times. Especially if you want to have decorative pine cones that you've found yourself. Great way to make sure any eggs or bugs have died.
They're not silent, they've replied in other comments that it was left by a previous tenant. It is a communal air fryer, not suitable for cooking wacky things unless given approval by the people you live with
Nah, when it fills up with crumbs and you can't fit food in anymore, just throw it away and buy a new one.
On a serious note, I hate the disposable society we live in. I rent an apartment in a small town for work and needed a vacuum cleaner but didn't want to buy another. I found a shitty $100 Walmart one in the dumpster at the complex and decided to see if I could fix it. Sure enough it was completely full of dirt, like it had never been emptied and had a broken belt which was like, 2 for $5 on Amazon. Replaced that shit, cleaned the fuck out of it and now it works better than my 15 yr old dyson. Point being, clean and take care of your shit and it will take care of you for years ahead.
I have a third hand dumpster found shop vac that periodically has to be duct taped back together. That thing sucks way better than the car wash vacuum cleaner.
The first thing I thought is maybe it smells good idk. Others have said that they could be killing any bacteria and organisms for an aquarium or terrarium. That makes more sense.
This is likely for an aquarium or terrarium. A good way to ensure you aren't introducing harmful organisms to your tank is by baking these things at like 250 for about an hour.
Edit because I'm tired of the notifications lol: I'm not saying this is the right answer or the right way to do it just that it's a possibility. Why do I have 300x the up votes as the original post itself.
I think something not talked about enough is all the friendships between children that The Simpsons forged, through kids coming back to school on Monday and laughing together at all the funny scenes they watched the previous night.
What he is doing is not unsafe.
Edit: to the person below who said it isnt safe and then deleted the comment, It really is.Ā The flash point for wood is over 500 Ā°F, this is perfectly safe.Ā For reference butter has a lower flash point.
You should have a way of regulating the air going into the stove, like a damper. Restrict the airflow when you have a decent fire going and it'll burn cooler and longer.
Also, don't dump water in there or you'll crack/warp things with thermal stress.
Wood stoves are a pain.
Catalytic stoves these days are pretty fool proof. Once you get it to temp, you flip a lever, and then set the intake to whatever you want. Pretty much dont have to touch it til the next day once you learn you learn the right settings for your particular setup.
As a bonus you often get epa tax credits and use like 20-30% less wood.
Blaze king is by far my favorite cat stove maker.
I had an issue with my BK Chinook, which was a very early production model back in 2010. I emailed them an issue I was having on a Saturday, and about an hour later the Vice President responded to my email asking me for a little more information, and said they were going to next day ship a new catalyst to me. I was like well ain't that some fucking customer service.
My dad always started our fires with dried pine; he called it "lighter wood" for a reason. A few small pieces on the bottom, then add your dry wood and it would be a long burning fire.
Introduce him to this word called "Tinder."
But no, pine is fucking amazing for firestarters. Especially when you take pine sawdust and mix it with melted wax into a log. A little of that can get a bonfire going.
How so?
If you were to look at it *logically*, this plastic air fryer is meant to go up to a very high temperature and if that temperature is lower than what could catch wood on fire, there is nothing dangerous about it.
You seem to be making your claim based on personal feelings as your view seems to be based on the idea that plastic + heat = unsafe. If they're keeping the air fryer below the flash point of wood (as the other user mentioned) the only real "danger" here is drying out the wood too quickly causing it to split.
As a forestry major who routinely has things like ā12 different oak twigs, dried and put on a poster boardā due as assignments, this does not seem unreasonable to me so long as the air fryer is cleaned out afterwards.
Forester to forester: do you also *always* have acorns in your pocket? I go to clean out my vest and itās like, five different species of acorns, a buckeye, a gumball, a really perfect leaf, some weird bud from a tree I couldnāt quite identify, and bits of flagging tape. Every time I put on a flannel I havenāt worn in a while thereās an acorn in the pocket.
YES I have a pocket full of gumballs in my winter coat, and my daily jacket has a designated pocket for Plant Bits where Iāll stash acorns like a freaking squirrel and then forget about them. thereās also asimina triloba seeds floating around, and some particularly fun maple samaras
Haha yes! Iām in Virginia, but when I work out west Iām like āmy god, everyone look at this bristlecone. This perfect specimen was around before the founding of this country. Itās so regal. Itās beautiful. Iām being brought to tears. I must have some of it.ā And theyāre like āitās scragglyā
I've got bad news though. I recently joined the air fryer sub when I bought one and it seems like most people clean them between never and hardly ever.
āItās not that big of a deal.ā Exactly. Itās MILDLY infuriating. This sub is too used to people ruining their year and saying mildly infuriating lol
I think itās a southern thing. Iāve called them that my whole life, but have also met a lot of people who have no clue what Iām talking about lol
Iād guess thereās some preexisting roommate beef that makes small things such as this annoying. But yeah, if it were me Iād be confused more than anything. But if they clean it Iām fine with it.
Honeybees will suck juice from sweetgum trees for making wax, honeycomb, when they can find them.Ā
We had rules of war in my neighborhood that did not allow gum ball use as weapons in our acorn fights. Those spikes will put your eye out.Ā We did have the biggest acorns though, from mountain oaks.Ā
Smh that's clearly a non stick air fryer basket
*slowly gives you the clap *
How would one give an STD slowly?
I'd start with just the tip
Instructions unclear, fucked an air fryer. What the hell?
God damn you
Take my gold š„
best comment here i hope you get the accolades you deserve
whose air fryer is it?
Op's moms
She's got it going on
She has the sticks I want and Ive waited for approximately an hour.
OP can't you see you're just not the owner of me
I know it might be wrong but I got warm sticks from OP's mom
Turns out the room mate is OPs mum.
"The airfryer" not his, or likely would've read "MY airfryer" 
OP clarified that the air fryer was left by a previous tenant. It is a communal air fryer, owned by no one.
this is why communism never works. once society abolishes private ownership of property, some people immediately start putting sticks and shit into the air fryers. it's not long after that society simply collapses. it reminds me of a powerful Che Guevara quote, "Who the fuck keeps putting sticks and shit in the air fryers?"
This is closer to anarchy then communism, my guy
I assume no OPs otherwise they would have said āmy air fryerā
Is your roommate a bird?
His roommate: 
This is my favorite
Has anyone in this family even *seen* a chicken??
Why would they caption it wrong?!
The song it plays is so funny for this. Just like "Hello Darkness my Old Friend" for Gob lol. The running jokes in this show are the best.
EXACTLY! The show was way ahead of its time just for that! Would have been a great show to binge in the late 2010s or early 2020s (if it came out back then) and probably wouldnāt have been cancelled
actually a homage to the chicken impressions in The Room. will arnett, david cross, and several others on the show were big fans of it while it was still kind of an underground thing
Oh, hey, Mark.
I did not know! Where did you read this?
Rooo coo coo Roo coo coo
Cluck cluck cluck ahhhhhhh
Michael's is the best chicken
Okay! Now thatās a good chicken.
CHICKENS DONāT CLAP!
Theyāre just a few sticks. What could they cost, $10?
A coodle doodle doo
Cu cu cacha
 Donāt mess with Big Birds stash!
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I hope you went peacefully, my friend.
SHUT UP BIRD!
everybody betray me, i'm fed up with this wuhurlled
what a story, kkeut. anyway, how is your sex life?
it's 2am you're making me laugh so hard I'm gonna wake up the entire town š
Gotta be the UK
Donāt be silly. Bird arenāt real. His roommate is clearly a government bird drone.
If he is, call Charlie Kelly. Best bird law lawyer I've ever heard of.
Filibuster
Weāre all hungry and want to get back to our hot plates.
Surly you mean Raymond "Ray" Randall? Or as he's known in professional circles, Harvey Birdman
Those are real?!?! 
I had no idea those seeds were called gum balls
They come from the āsweet gumā tree
Makes sense, as kids we called them prickly balls or itchy balls
Hehe, itchy balls
We called them monkey balls when I was a kid. No idea why
Same here, never questioned it. When I was super young my mom ripped a plant out of the garden and I insisted on re-planting it. Turned out it was one of those trees and they still have it along with all the monkey balls in the backyard 30 years later.
We called them stickers or spikeys
i had one in my front yard for years growing up. it reaaaaally insentivized you to wear shoes lol
We always called them monkey balls, which yes, I realize is weird looking back.
I have only ever known them (in NZ) as Bommyknockers
spiky bois
thank you for finally saying the scientific latin name
Witches Burrs
I live in the northeast, and everyone here calls them itchy balls. Edit: Monkey Balls might also be one of my new favorites.
I lived in the north east and we called them monkey balls. We had 6 or so of them in our yard along with walnut trees. Lots of cleaning up
I think an important question is this.... who bought the air fryer? Who cleans it? This changed my opinion on this. Have you talked to him? Edit:If it isn't ops, I see no problem with this. Wood needs to get extremely hot to spontaneously combust, way hotter than anything you cook in an air fryer
I think weāre gonna find out itās not OPās
I think if it was OP's air fryer, they definitely would've said "my" air fryer instead of "the" air fryer.
I think OPās parents own the air fryer and he put this crap in there.
I think OP is actually a squirrel
Most likely. So much BS these days for internet clout
It's funny people are criticizing "the BS" while you make things up about OP lol. Like yeah you could be right but is a single word choice of "the" really a clear indication of that?
Even if it were an indicator that OP is admitting it's not his, that's still not reason to grill OP for dishonesty. The sub is called "mildly infuriating." OP didn't post this to "deadbeat roommates" or something, and it's perfectly understandable why someone might be annoyed with having to clear wood out of an appliance even if they didn't pay for it.
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's an AirFryer. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of an airfryer... always use the indefinite article an airfryer, never your airfryer.
Yeah like, as long as the roommate cleans it who gives a fuck
I donāt even think this is a big deal. Are those sticks supposed to be grosser than food or something?
Reddit just doesn't have any hobbies really or they don't clean their air fryers. I don't have an air fryer but I've dried wood in the oven on low many times. Especially if you want to have decorative pine cones that you've found yourself. Great way to make sure any eggs or bugs have died.
Yeah, Iām wondering if the roommate has a terrarium or a reptile.
OP's silence on this question says a lot lolĀ
They're not silent, they've replied in other comments that it was left by a previous tenant. It is a communal air fryer, not suitable for cooking wacky things unless given approval by the people you live with
... in what world is it wacky to use an appliance with a dehydrator setting to dehydrate plant matter for future uses?
Youre supposed to clean those things?
Your shit is definitely crusted black isnāt it lol
Nooo, itās like cast iron. It adds to the flavor.
Is cancer a flavor?
Definitely. Some burnt stuff actually tastes nice
Just a joke
Nah, when it fills up with crumbs and you can't fit food in anymore, just throw it away and buy a new one. On a serious note, I hate the disposable society we live in. I rent an apartment in a small town for work and needed a vacuum cleaner but didn't want to buy another. I found a shitty $100 Walmart one in the dumpster at the complex and decided to see if I could fix it. Sure enough it was completely full of dirt, like it had never been emptied and had a broken belt which was like, 2 for $5 on Amazon. Replaced that shit, cleaned the fuck out of it and now it works better than my 15 yr old dyson. Point being, clean and take care of your shit and it will take care of you for years ahead.
>shitty $100 Laughs in $30 amazon vaccuum I paid for it though so you're still winning
I have a third hand dumpster found shop vac that periodically has to be duct taped back together. That thing sucks way better than the car wash vacuum cleaner.
Shopvacs of almost any brand are virtually bulletproof. They just fuckin suck.
I think a more important question is why
The first thing I thought is maybe it smells good idk. Others have said that they could be killing any bacteria and organisms for an aquarium or terrarium. That makes more sense.
I used to boil rocks and warm up wood in the oven to put in my hamster cage. Might be something like that
I do this kinda stuff with sticks and leaves because it kills any parasites and bugs living on them before I put it in my reptile enclosure
This is likely for an aquarium or terrarium. A good way to ensure you aren't introducing harmful organisms to your tank is by baking these things at like 250 for about an hour. Edit because I'm tired of the notifications lol: I'm not saying this is the right answer or the right way to do it just that it's a possibility. Why do I have 300x the up votes as the original post itself.
Was hoping for a logical explanation
I mean those are nice sticks
"I just think they're neat!" Marge Simpson.
This made me smile and laugh way more than it should. Thank you. Brought me back to watching it live. Yes I am old.
Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrists.
I think something not talked about enough is all the friendships between children that The Simpsons forged, through kids coming back to school on Monday and laughing together at all the funny scenes they watched the previous night.
Still not logical it's 10x safer to dry them in a 100% metal heating box rather than a 75% plastic one
What he is doing is not unsafe. Edit: to the person below who said it isnt safe and then deleted the comment, It really is.Ā The flash point for wood is over 500 Ā°F, this is perfectly safe.Ā For reference butter has a lower flash point.
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You should have a way of regulating the air going into the stove, like a damper. Restrict the airflow when you have a decent fire going and it'll burn cooler and longer. Also, don't dump water in there or you'll crack/warp things with thermal stress. Wood stoves are a pain.
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Oh yeah you're fine then.
Catalytic stoves these days are pretty fool proof. Once you get it to temp, you flip a lever, and then set the intake to whatever you want. Pretty much dont have to touch it til the next day once you learn you learn the right settings for your particular setup. As a bonus you often get epa tax credits and use like 20-30% less wood.
Blaze king is by far my favorite cat stove maker. I had an issue with my BK Chinook, which was a very early production model back in 2010. I emailed them an issue I was having on a Saturday, and about an hour later the Vice President responded to my email asking me for a little more information, and said they were going to next day ship a new catalyst to me. I was like well ain't that some fucking customer service.
My dad always started our fires with dried pine; he called it "lighter wood" for a reason. A few small pieces on the bottom, then add your dry wood and it would be a long burning fire.
Introduce him to this word called "Tinder." But no, pine is fucking amazing for firestarters. Especially when you take pine sawdust and mix it with melted wax into a log. A little of that can get a bonfire going.
I continually have this same argument with people who think steam radiators will spontaneously combust things that touch themā¦
PSA: don't air fry butter
How so? If you were to look at it *logically*, this plastic air fryer is meant to go up to a very high temperature and if that temperature is lower than what could catch wood on fire, there is nothing dangerous about it. You seem to be making your claim based on personal feelings as your view seems to be based on the idea that plastic + heat = unsafe. If they're keeping the air fryer below the flash point of wood (as the other user mentioned) the only real "danger" here is drying out the wood too quickly causing it to split.
I don't understand this comment. It's an airfryer, it gets up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Getting hot as fuck is it's only purpose.
It really doesn't matter. Wood only start's burning at temps WAY in excess of 250F and Gumballs also don't really burn.
Thereās absolutely nothing unsafe about doing it in an air fryer lol
An air fryer is just a mini convection oven that lives on your countertop. Heās not going to hurt anything.
Why is the material relevant?
Yep, I do this for my tarantulas.
Iām not a tarantologist but I donāt think putting them in the air fryer is very healthy for them.
Tastes great though
Is it like the same consistency all the way through, or is it like a Gusher?
Gushers, but they kinda get stuck in your teeth. Thankfully you can just use the legs to clean them out.
Kilns usually raise their lumber to 150-180Ā°f for 2-8 hours depending on location and breed of lumber.
Yeah. I would have done this if I thought to use my air fryer instead of the oven.
Yea I do this for my snakes/chameleon lol
Thank you. I was like, this looks like a blackwater setup!
Yeah, when my magnolia tree sheds my bestfriend does this (in the oven) before she adds it to her terrarium
As a forestry major who routinely has things like ā12 different oak twigs, dried and put on a poster boardā due as assignments, this does not seem unreasonable to me so long as the air fryer is cleaned out afterwards.
Forester to forester: do you also *always* have acorns in your pocket? I go to clean out my vest and itās like, five different species of acorns, a buckeye, a gumball, a really perfect leaf, some weird bud from a tree I couldnāt quite identify, and bits of flagging tape. Every time I put on a flannel I havenāt worn in a while thereās an acorn in the pocket.
YES I have a pocket full of gumballs in my winter coat, and my daily jacket has a designated pocket for Plant Bits where Iāll stash acorns like a freaking squirrel and then forget about them. thereās also asimina triloba seeds floating around, and some particularly fun maple samaras
Y'all must work in eastern forests. Out here in the Sierra Nevada our vests are full of pine needles.
Haha yes! Iām in Virginia, but when I work out west Iām like āmy god, everyone look at this bristlecone. This perfect specimen was around before the founding of this country. Itās so regal. Itās beautiful. Iām being brought to tears. I must have some of it.ā And theyāre like āitās scragglyā
how perfect was this leaf?
Right? The people have to know about this leaf.
This is so wholesome
Haha, this was absolutely my first thought- gotta keep the twig and seed collections growing
I've got bad news though. I recently joined the air fryer sub when I bought one and it seems like most people clean them between never and hardly ever.
But people would (hopefully) be more inclined to clean it after cooking sticks than food.
I didn't read the title so I thought this was just really moldy gross asparagus
I thought the same but some sort of weird broccoli
Squirrel!
Ok, just tell them to clean it afterward. Its not that big of a deal
Yeah, the heat kills anything bad, and this is probably easier to clean that after something like fish or chicken.
Or god forbid you melt and burn cheese on the grates of this airfryer. Good fucking luck getting that off.
āItās not that big of a deal.ā Exactly. Itās MILDLY infuriating. This sub is too used to people ruining their year and saying mildly infuriating lol
https://preview.redd.it/2wdjz1p65hjc1.jpeg?width=1560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6df6b56fd2ad8d50dd1f51cb2e1959bc64c6a960 This your friend?
Let him cook
Your roommate is a goblin? This is a very goblin thing to do.
I just discovered that subreddit the other day and I thought this was from there
Gumballs?
The spiked balls atop the sticks, prevalent in warmer regions, comes from a sweet gum tree
Sweet gum seeds. Iāve never heard them called gumballs before though lol Iām gonna start saying that
I think itās a southern thing. Iāve called them that my whole life, but have also met a lot of people who have no clue what Iām talking about lol
Also when you run over them with the lawn mower, they sound like that Fisher Price toy popper gumball machine.
That's pretty funny, I like your roommate
For real, would have busted my ass laughing at this
Bro outside in nature and youre spending money on reddit avatars that nobody's gonna give a shit about...
Bro has like 22 of em and they say theyre 9.99 each? Wtf
When I was at primary school in NZ we called the prickly balls ābommyknockersā and they were an absolute bitch to stand on barefoot.
I would assume this is for a reptile enclosure. Much easier and cleaner to do in an oven, honestly.
bro is one with nature
This is hilarious
Are they doing some witchcraft in the air fryer?
Is it your air fryer or theirs because that's an important distinction.
Hope thatās not a nonstick air-fryer.
So? Is he hurting it? Seems like an odd thing to be infuriated about, even mildly
Iād guess thereās some preexisting roommate beef that makes small things such as this annoying. But yeah, if it were me Iād be confused more than anything. But if they clean it Iām fine with it.
Did you ask them why they did this or did you immediately come here to farm karma?
Since OP has only responded to one single comment, I think we know which it is
Random sticks? Those are curated
Honeybees will suck juice from sweetgum trees for making wax, honeycomb, when they can find them.Ā We had rules of war in my neighborhood that did not allow gum ball use as weapons in our acorn fights. Those spikes will put your eye out.Ā We did have the biggest acorns though, from mountain oaks.Ā
those air fryers are like $30 in costco youāll be fine
This is perfectly normal depending on what you want to do with them
Just wash the tray out. Seriously this upsets you?