Gas air fryer

In combination, an outdoor cooking appliance and an air frying apparatus, the air frying apparatus comprising:

• a frying burner, a blower, a heat exchanger, and a cooking chamber;
• the frying burner adapted to combust fuel to create heat and other products of combustion;
• the blower adapted to circulate a cooking airstream;
• the heat exchanger adapted to allow passage of the heat from the combusted fuel while preventing passage of the other products of combustion into the cooking air stream;
• the blower further adapted to supply the heated cooking airstream through the heat exchanger to the cooking chamber to cook foodstuff disposed therein;
• whereby the other products of combustion are not supplied to the cooking chamber;
• wherein the apparatus further comprises a housing and a drawer;
• wherein the housing comprises the burner, blower and heat exchanger and
• has a frontal opening for receiving the drawer;
• wherein the drawer comprises the cooking chamber and a cover;
• and
• wherein the drawer is adapted to close the frontal opening during air frying and to be pulled completely from the housing while its cover remains stationary within the housing, so that the cooking chamber is covered during air-frying within the housing and is uncovered when the drawer is pulled from the housing to allow access to the cooking chamber.