I tried several ways and this one fits the most with the least overlap. I thought having the smaller edges against the sides would fit more but that doesn't work out as well.
I usually do two layers and have the second layer rotated by 22.5 degrees (half of 45) as that makes them sit between the ones on the bottom layers, the thickest parts of each are in the middle so if I lay them on top at the same rotation they tend to tip to one side and then the edge that sticks up gets burned before they are fully cooked.

Yes, I eat a lot of these ^^ they're 60 pieces for ~$5 (45 SEK) at the big Asian grocery store in my city. The filling is a nice mix of vegetables with soy beans as protein and spiced with curry and mint, very nice with both soy sauce and sweet chili sauce!

Mmm samosas.

Mmm air fryer.

That sounds like a great snack for when you're pulling an all-nighter or having a long gaming session! And it seems reasonably healthy too, since it's not deep-fried like samosas often are.

a real life math problem. excellent job.

Oooh yeah! Though it can get messy, I like the wrapping very crispy so they sometimes break when you bite into them and you get that stuffing on your fingers, they're not small enough to eat in one bite (well, it can be done but it's a bit too much of a mouthful).
And the healthy part is exactly why I don't deep-fry them! Brushed with a light coating of a high smoke point oil is enough, tried without oil but the wrapping just turns into basically dried pasta which isn't nice.

Mmm, agreed!

Two things popped up in my mind as I read your comment:

Definitely! And TY! One of those things that some find very fun to put time into while others think it's weird that some find it fun and see it as wasted time, fuck those people. ;)

It hurts my brain that you somehow end up with a heptagon. The triangles, the rectangle in the center, it all feels like you should get a hexagon...

God damn it... Look at the bottom, that's where it falls apart. I thought the overlap was because they're all a bit different (since it's real life and not a perfect geometry puzzle) but I'm now pretty sure it wouldn't work out even if they were all perfect. Gonna test it with CAD tomorrow afternoon, just went to bed and have a busy day so can't do it before that.

Here's the part in question:

Kinda disappointed in myself that I didn't see it until you pointed it out, it's usually so easy to notice when something off about nice geometry even when it's just a feeling at first.

Woah, that's like $16 of food here in LA. I'm gonna need to learn to make these.

Heptagonal. I like it.

I think it's because they're isosceles

Now imagine they were square shaped, and there were 17 of them

T E S S E L A T E

fuck, well now I'm binging Weebl's stuff

Did you know they sell air fryers that can fit a 12" pizza?

Where did you start?

With the first one!

An air fryer is just a small convection oven so that makes sense. Of course I think we are missing the point because the title says MY air fryer.

wait. WAIT. frozen samosas? we just got a new indian grocer in town. awwww hell yiss this is an idea.

thank you for the tips. i was am going to try this.

my go-to method for keeping my fingers clean is chopsticks, but i'm not sure i can manage a samosa with those. i'd be delighted to make a mess trying though.

I don't like it.

I think you might have found the gastronomical solution to the Poincaré conjecture