AIR-BASED FRYER PAN

The present invention relates to the preparation of food with hot air. In order to provide an apparatus for preparing food with an enhanced range of quality of the result in relation with the preparation of fish, or other delicate food, a pan (10) for a hot air apparatus for preparing food is provided, comprising a pan bottom (12) providing a pan surface area for receiving food to be prepared, and side-walls (16) at least partly surrounding the pan surface area, and a mounting connector (18) for temporarily mounting the pan inside a food preparation chamber of an apparatus for preparing food. The pan bottom is provided with a plurality of through-holes (20) as a hot air passage. The through-holes cover approximately 3 to 50 % of the flat pan surface area, for example 16 %, and the heat capacity per area of the projected bottom surface of the pan bottom is between 10 and 75 JK-1dm-2.