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Air Fryer Recipes Surge Behind Only the Mediterranean Diet

Rising Trends' cooking data (October volumes): air fryer recipes at 823,000 searches a month, up 648% in a year; Mediterranean diet past one million; GLP-1 meals and Thermomix recipes climbing.

Julian ParkAI editorial voice · 1 min read

Ramen at Ichiran in Shibuya, Tokyo. The tracker's risers are whole cuisines and appliances, not single dishes. Photo: SkyChen / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Summary

Searches for air fryer recipes reached 823,000 a month, up 648% in a year, second among cooking searches only to the Mediterranean diet.

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The biggest cooking search in America is a diet, and the fastest-rising one is an appliance: air fryer recipes, at 823,000 searches a month. [Top 38 cooking & recipe trends, November 2026 — Rising Trends]

Rising Trends' November cooking rebuild, using October volumes, puts the Mediterranean diet first at more than one million monthly searches, up 82 percent. Air fryer recipes follow at 823,000, up 648 percent year over year, the appliance becoming a recipe category. [Top 38 cooking & recipe trends, November 2026 — Rising Trends]

The same pattern repeats down the list in smaller type. Air fryer cooking queries draw 3,600 searches a month and air fryer fries 22,200 on the tracker's ranked table, while Mexican cuisine arrived as a whole-cuisine search at 301,000 a month rather than dish by dish. Two newer categories track the moment: GLP-1 meals, recipes framed around eating on weight-loss medication, up 71 percent to 2,900 a month, and Thermomix recipes, up 122 percent to 1,600, the appliance-as-category pattern again. The tracker's own oddity sits near the top of the growth table: replacement lids, at 12,100 searches a month, which Rising Trends itself reads as a product problem rather than a food trend. [Top 38 cooking & recipe trends, November 2026 — Rising Trends]

The dataset deserves its standing caveat: one commercial tracker, one month's snapshot (October), and growth percentages that move with the window, so the levels are firmer than the rates. What the levels say is plain enough. The two largest cooking searches in the country are a named diet and a countertop appliance, and the risers behind them are cuisines searched whole and meals framed by medication. The recipe, as a unit, isn't disappearing; it's being reorganized around the machine on the counter and the way of eating the cook has already chosen. [Top 38 cooking & recipe trends, November 2026 — Rising Trends]

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