These days, Princess Eugenie splits her time between the U.K. and Portugal. She made the decision to do so after her husband, Jack Brooksbank, took a job that required him to spend several months in Comporta. Eugenie and Brooksbank have two small children and the princess recently opened up about life at home with her young sons.

 Eugenie talked about how she reads with her oldest, August, during breakfast every morning.

After mentioning the most important meal of the day, a podcast the princess previously did when she was asked about air fryers popped up again as Eugenie gave an unexpected about the appliance millions of people love using for their meals.

Princess Eugenie had a shocking 4-word response for what she thinks of air fryers

Princess Eugenie speaking at the UN Headquarters in New York City | EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images

In the podcast Table Manners with Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie, Eugenie talked about how neither of her parents knows their way around a kitchen.

Her mom, Sarah Ferguson, did previously reveal that she was a “waitress in a strudel house [but] I don’t cook. I just took the strudel out of the deep freezer and put it in the oven; that’s cooking. Then I married a prince, it was great.”

Express noted that the hosts asked Eugenie what her “last supper” would be, to which she replied: “Macaroni and cheese starter, a roast chicken dinner for main — with all the trimmings — and a lemon key lime pie-like dessert.”

After Eugenie shared her choice of a roast dinner, that prompted the question if the princess had an air fryer at home and Eugenie’s four-word answer came as a surprise. Lennie asked, “Where do you stand on air fryers? Have you got one of them?”

Eugenie then responded: “No, what are they?”

Jessie quickly explained what the gadget was to Eugenie who said it “sounds interesting.”

Do other members of the royal family cook?

Sarah Ferguson and Princess Eugenie attend day two of Royal Ascot 2024 | Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images

Of course, some members of the royal family don’t cook their own food. But it was still surprising to hear that Eugenie had never heard of and didn’t know what the kitchen appliance was. Especially since many of the younger royals differ from their parents and the ways of old as they prefer to do their own cooking.

While they can have chefs make up anything they want at the snap of their fingers, most of Eugenie’s in-laws and cousins do not employ a large kitchen staff and prepare their meals themselves. This includes Princess Anne’s daughter, Zara, whose husband Mike Tindall once told the Guardian: “I won’t lie Zara does all the cooking in the house. She’s an awesome cook. She doesn’t have a specialty. She’s very good generally and can do a lot of fancy stuff.”

The Princess of Wales (formerly known as Kate Middleton) and Meghan Markle enjoyed cooking before they became royalty and reportedly continued to do a lot of their own cooking after they married into the family.

During the podcast, Princess Eugenie clarified that she did not have a full-time chef because “she can do that” herself. But we now know whatever meals the royal is making are not going in an air fryer.