Rant: why do air fryer recipes skip the preheat step?

My air fryer manual says preheat for 3 minutes but half the recipes online just say toss it in cold. I tested it twice with the same breaded shrimp batch and the cold start left them soggy on one side. Anyone else notice this or am I overthinking a $50 appliance?

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robin_wright24d ago

$50 appliance or not, did you flip the shrimp halfway through the cold batch?

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