Ninja Foodi 4qt 5-in-1 Indoor Grill and Air Fryer – AG301
THE ORIGINAL NINJA FOODI GRILL: The grill that sears, sizzles, and air fry crisps. Indoor grill and air fryer.
CYCLONIC GRILLING TECHNOLOGY: Uses 500°F cyclonic air to perfectly cook or char grill your food to your desired doneness on the grill grate for delicious, char-grilled marks and flavors.
OUTDOOR GRILLING POWER ON YOUR COUNTERTOP: With the BTU cooking power of an outdoor grill, it brings outdoor grill flavors conveniently to your countertop any day of the year.
FORGET ABOUT DEFROSTING: Transform foods from frozen to perfectly char grilled in under 25 minutes.
UP TO 75% LESS FAT: Air fry crisp with up to 75% less fat than deep frying (tested against hand-cut, deep-fried French fries), using the included 4-qt crisper basket.
EASY TO CLEAN: PTFE/PFOA-free, nonstick ceramic-coated grill grate, crisper basket, and cooking pot are dishwasher safe.
WHAT’S INCLUDED: Ninja Foodi Grill, 10" x 10" Grill Grate, 4-qt. Crisper Basket, 6-qt. Cooking Pot, Chef-Created 15-Recipe Book & Cleaning brush. Unplug the unit from the wall outlet before cleaning. Keep the hood open after removing your food so the unit will cool down more quickly
$169.99Original price was: $169.99.$149.99Current price is: $149.99.
Mi esposa y yo buscábamos la mejor opción para una air fryer, realmente es la primera que compramos, pero todo lo que dice en la descripción viene con el producto, realmente recomendamos esta marca y sobre todo este modelo, como dicen algunos comentarios hay que adecuarse a los tiempos y como te gusten los alimentos, pero en general para empezar tiene 4 funciones que solo hemos utilizado 3 por lo pronto, pero las 3 nos gustaron mucho, esperamos seguir comprando los accesorios para poder deshidratar pronto
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Dewline1 (verified owner)–
Best airfryer on the market
We love this so much that we have 2 of them! The lift lid design is far superior to the baskets with the front handles. Those are very dangerous and difficult to lift out especially with heavy, hot items. This thing cooks anything in 10 minutes. Best invention ever!
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Ninja Foodi 5-in-1 Indoor Grill (verified owner)–
Understand what you're getting, and adjust accordingly.
tl;dr: Good device. Worth getting in place of a normal air fryer due to its greater flexibility. It is, however, still a convection device. Keep in mind when cooking things.
This is a first impression so far only using it to cook a few things so far, but my experience has been great – if with a few caveats. For full disclosure, I bought this with my own money and while it was about $30 off. I received what appeared by all accounts to be a brand new unit with that new appliance smell, complete with burning off excess plastics on first use.
First things first: this is a fancy convection oven. It's a convection oven that gets to very high temperatures and has very strong air circulation, but it is – ultimately – a convection oven. Unlike a proper grill, this has a fan that is constantly circulating air which means it will cook things faster. Keep this in mind when using it and make adjustments to prevent overcooking your food. As a general rule, the recommended times that come with the device are to make something Well Done. For this purpose, they're accurate, but you probably will want to cut a few minutes off of those times for anything less than that.
The device itself is straight forward to use. It has fairly standard oven/air fryer controls, but arranged a little differently. There are different functions that effectively change whether the air circulates in the unit or not, and there are macro temperature controls (low, med, high, max) that can be fine tuned from there. Time is only in intervals of whole minutes, which is slightly inconvenient, but Fine.
When initially starting up and preheating, this thing is fairly loud. It doesn't stay loud for long, but can probably wake up a light sleeper in a small apartment. Probably not a huge issue, but one to be mindful of when using for the first time.
I've cooked london broil and salmon with this using the Grill option (regular circulation) with the recommended temperature settings (High and Max accordingly.) As I mentioned before, be mindful of how much you want to cook something. The recommended settings always err toward Well Done. As an example: in the case of salmon, I cooked it for eight minutes the first time and it was just a touch more cooked than preferred. At seven minutes, it was perfect.
As for the steak, don't make the same mistake I did the first time and keep opening the grill if you have a standard meat thermometer. All of that hot air is just going to escape and it'll take some time to get back up to temperature again. In my case, I was too paranoid about the doneness of the steak that I ended up slightly overcooking it (medium-well instead of medium-rare) due to having to bring the unit back to temperature in order for it to cook the center properly. In short: get a quick read thermometer, or just follow the guide line of shaving a minute or two off of recommended cook time based on desired doneness.
As for the results, they still tasted great. The grill surface does get hot enough to make a nice sear into the meat. Like any convection oven, the circulating air keeps the food from drying out and the cuts of meat were left very juicy and tasty.
Cleaning is easy for as long as the ceramic coating lasts. This is the same caveat as literally anything with a Teflon (or similar) coating. If you're especially paranoid, let everything soak in soap+water before cleaning it off. The brush it comes with does the job, but any sort of dish scrubbing brush (NOT WIRE PADS) should be just as good.
Overall, my first impressions of this appliance are great. It is far easier, quicker, tastier, and more convenient than frying off or sticking something in the oven to broil. My wife and I have replaced the air fryer in our kitchen with this since it serves both purposes. If anything changes, I'll update this review.
Update: We’ve cooked a larger variety of things including turkey legs, hamburgers, smaller wings and so on. Everything remains great. It’s been very easy to clean as well with no signs of chipping on the finish. I will say I do hand clean everything, but it shouldn’t make much difference in the dishwasher.
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★★★★★
Amazon Customer (verified owner)–
I Use This Foodi Every Single Day!!!
I was on the fence about getting this for several months–I just wasn't sure if I wanted yet one more thing on my counter. But, I happened to get it at some flash sale price, so I bit the bullet and bought it. It actually took me a couple of days to start using it (I get intimidated with new kitchen things sometimes), but once I started, WOW! I watched tons of YT videos of people cooking with this, so I had a decent idea of what worked and of course after using it since May, I have just figured out what works best. To be honest, I use air crisp for almost everything except for steaks. I air crisp burgers (much faster that way), pork rind breaded pork chops, fish balls, pork rind breaded fish, chicken wings and bacon. We don't eat cakes or cookies, so I can't say that I've used the bake function. The grill plate takes much much longer to heat up, but we really like our steaks on the grill plate and grill function as opposed to air crisp. The Ninja is fairly easy to clean, at least the bottom bin and the air fryer basket are. The grill is fairly easy too if you soak it. The screen at the top can be a pain and trying to clean around the top can be tricky and I have cut my knuckles doing that. I do wish they had put the ceramic coating on the lid or at least used metal that wasn't so sharp. That is my main complaint. If they had only put the ceramic coating on the lid, cleaning would be really easy. With the screen, about once a month, I put it in boiling water with vinegar and a few drops of dawn to try and clean it. That works fairly well. I do have issues with my smoke detectors going off though, but my sister in law has one of these and just puts it on her counter near her stove and turns on her exhaust fan and that keeps her detectors from going off. I don't have a functioning exhaust fan, otherwise I would do the same thing. So I put my kitchen detector in a drawer while I'm using the Ninja and that works. Seriously though, it has made cooking much more fun and since you can actually cook frozen food, like frozen burgers (we get awesome specialty burgers from our farmers market), but it has just made eating so much easier for my husband and I. In one minute, we can pull some burgers out of the freezer, heat up the Ninja and cook them and they're done in about 15-16 minutes (our burgers are very large)! Pretty much anything we make takes less than 17 minutes to cook (except for the chicken wings). Yes, we eat mostly carnivore, so as long as we have some kind of meat in the fridge or freezer, it's really easy for us and we literally have used this just about every single day since we got it!
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Amazon Customer (verified owner)–
Great buy!
Bought this , it works great , cooks fast, very happy with this! Lots of cooking options
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Nick/Trilkin (verified owner)–
Convenient
I ordered this one used from Amazon. it was pretty much brand new in all of the original packaging even had the user guides and manuals.
If you buy this product, you will never want to turn on your stove ever again. and I enjoy cooking, but the ease and convenience of this product in your kitchen cannot be overstated. I grill corn I bake chicken, You forgot to take the steak out of the freezer? no problem just stick it in the air fryer. It’ll be done in under 15 minutes. I brought this for my mom because I can’t cook without it it has spoiled me.
it does require counterspace, but this is not the waffle iron you bought that you use twice a year you will be using this machine every night.
The air fryer is great but in my opinion, it does not replace a pot of oil on the stove. You won’t get the crispy Golden fried chicken in the air fryer. I still use it for other things mostly if I get frozen food that will cook in about three minutes very quickly and very crispy and delicious but frying from scratch, I still rely on my good old fashion cast iron and peanut oil. but I didn’t try hard to make it work. I also don’t bake sweets in here. I tried to make cookies once they came out kind of greasy very soft it didn’t crisp up. but again i didn’t try very hard i’m sure there’s a recipe out there for good air fryer cookies
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Susan R. (verified owner)–
First impression is very good
I have only habit for a week or so but I used it to grill a pork loin. Easy to use and clean up and the best, most moist pork loin ever.
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Trish (verified owner)–
Great Buy!
Easy to clean and operate. Cooks quickly and food comes out delicious. Would buy again if needed but it’s so well made I’m sure it will be a while before I need to. My mother has had hers for more than 3 years with no problems
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Jordi A. (verified owner)–
DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM>
Absolute rip off. Would never buy another Ninja product. Disgraceful. DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM. Tried all the convertors but blew electrics. Now have to pay the postage to return this awful product. Just disgusted with the product. Queried it with the sellers when I received it but just does not work properly in the UK even with convertors and just blew all the electrics. The convertor recommended does not work and is not the right one despite ensuring I ordered the right one. Wasted two weeks now for nothing. Never buying a Ninja product again because of this. Utter disgrace.
Carole T. (verified owner) –
Ampliamente recomendableSĂ te gustan las carnes asadas, este aparato electrodomĂ©stico es obligatorio. Muy Ăştil, prácticamente sin humo, facilĂsimo de limpiar, muy bajo consumo de electricidad y muy sencillo de operar.
Willie (verified owner) –
Excelente producto, nos gustó muchoMi esposa y yo buscábamos la mejor opción para una air fryer, realmente es la primera que compramos, pero todo lo que dice en la descripción viene con el producto, realmente recomendamos esta marca y sobre todo este modelo, como dicen algunos comentarios hay que adecuarse a los tiempos y como te gusten los alimentos, pero en general para empezar tiene 4 funciones que solo hemos utilizado 3 por lo pronto, pero las 3 nos gustaron mucho, esperamos seguir comprando los accesorios para poder deshidratar pronto
Dewline1 (verified owner) –
Best airfryer on the marketWe love this so much that we have 2 of them! The lift lid design is far superior to the baskets with the front handles. Those are very dangerous and difficult to lift out especially with heavy, hot items. This thing cooks anything in 10 minutes. Best invention ever!
Ninja Foodi 5-in-1 Indoor Grill (verified owner) –
Understand what you're getting, and adjust accordingly.tl;dr: Good device. Worth getting in place of a normal air fryer due to its greater flexibility. It is, however, still a convection device. Keep in mind when cooking things.
This is a first impression so far only using it to cook a few things so far, but my experience has been great – if with a few caveats. For full disclosure, I bought this with my own money and while it was about $30 off. I received what appeared by all accounts to be a brand new unit with that new appliance smell, complete with burning off excess plastics on first use.
First things first: this is a fancy convection oven. It's a convection oven that gets to very high temperatures and has very strong air circulation, but it is – ultimately – a convection oven. Unlike a proper grill, this has a fan that is constantly circulating air which means it will cook things faster. Keep this in mind when using it and make adjustments to prevent overcooking your food. As a general rule, the recommended times that come with the device are to make something Well Done. For this purpose, they're accurate, but you probably will want to cut a few minutes off of those times for anything less than that.
The device itself is straight forward to use. It has fairly standard oven/air fryer controls, but arranged a little differently. There are different functions that effectively change whether the air circulates in the unit or not, and there are macro temperature controls (low, med, high, max) that can be fine tuned from there. Time is only in intervals of whole minutes, which is slightly inconvenient, but Fine.
When initially starting up and preheating, this thing is fairly loud. It doesn't stay loud for long, but can probably wake up a light sleeper in a small apartment. Probably not a huge issue, but one to be mindful of when using for the first time.
I've cooked london broil and salmon with this using the Grill option (regular circulation) with the recommended temperature settings (High and Max accordingly.) As I mentioned before, be mindful of how much you want to cook something. The recommended settings always err toward Well Done. As an example: in the case of salmon, I cooked it for eight minutes the first time and it was just a touch more cooked than preferred. At seven minutes, it was perfect.
As for the steak, don't make the same mistake I did the first time and keep opening the grill if you have a standard meat thermometer. All of that hot air is just going to escape and it'll take some time to get back up to temperature again. In my case, I was too paranoid about the doneness of the steak that I ended up slightly overcooking it (medium-well instead of medium-rare) due to having to bring the unit back to temperature in order for it to cook the center properly. In short: get a quick read thermometer, or just follow the guide line of shaving a minute or two off of recommended cook time based on desired doneness.
As for the results, they still tasted great. The grill surface does get hot enough to make a nice sear into the meat. Like any convection oven, the circulating air keeps the food from drying out and the cuts of meat were left very juicy and tasty.
Cleaning is easy for as long as the ceramic coating lasts. This is the same caveat as literally anything with a Teflon (or similar) coating. If you're especially paranoid, let everything soak in soap+water before cleaning it off. The brush it comes with does the job, but any sort of dish scrubbing brush (NOT WIRE PADS) should be just as good.
Overall, my first impressions of this appliance are great. It is far easier, quicker, tastier, and more convenient than frying off or sticking something in the oven to broil. My wife and I have replaced the air fryer in our kitchen with this since it serves both purposes. If anything changes, I'll update this review.
Update: We’ve cooked a larger variety of things including turkey legs, hamburgers, smaller wings and so on. Everything remains great. It’s been very easy to clean as well with no signs of chipping on the finish. I will say I do hand clean everything, but it shouldn’t make much difference in the dishwasher.
Amazon Customer (verified owner) –
I Use This Foodi Every Single Day!!!I was on the fence about getting this for several months–I just wasn't sure if I wanted yet one more thing on my counter. But, I happened to get it at some flash sale price, so I bit the bullet and bought it. It actually took me a couple of days to start using it (I get intimidated with new kitchen things sometimes), but once I started, WOW! I watched tons of YT videos of people cooking with this, so I had a decent idea of what worked and of course after using it since May, I have just figured out what works best. To be honest, I use air crisp for almost everything except for steaks. I air crisp burgers (much faster that way), pork rind breaded pork chops, fish balls, pork rind breaded fish, chicken wings and bacon. We don't eat cakes or cookies, so I can't say that I've used the bake function. The grill plate takes much much longer to heat up, but we really like our steaks on the grill plate and grill function as opposed to air crisp. The Ninja is fairly easy to clean, at least the bottom bin and the air fryer basket are. The grill is fairly easy too if you soak it. The screen at the top can be a pain and trying to clean around the top can be tricky and I have cut my knuckles doing that. I do wish they had put the ceramic coating on the lid or at least used metal that wasn't so sharp. That is my main complaint. If they had only put the ceramic coating on the lid, cleaning would be really easy. With the screen, about once a month, I put it in boiling water with vinegar and a few drops of dawn to try and clean it. That works fairly well. I do have issues with my smoke detectors going off though, but my sister in law has one of these and just puts it on her counter near her stove and turns on her exhaust fan and that keeps her detectors from going off. I don't have a functioning exhaust fan, otherwise I would do the same thing. So I put my kitchen detector in a drawer while I'm using the Ninja and that works. Seriously though, it has made cooking much more fun and since you can actually cook frozen food, like frozen burgers (we get awesome specialty burgers from our farmers market), but it has just made eating so much easier for my husband and I. In one minute, we can pull some burgers out of the freezer, heat up the Ninja and cook them and they're done in about 15-16 minutes (our burgers are very large)! Pretty much anything we make takes less than 17 minutes to cook (except for the chicken wings). Yes, we eat mostly carnivore, so as long as we have some kind of meat in the fridge or freezer, it's really easy for us and we literally have used this just about every single day since we got it!
Amazon Customer (verified owner) –
Great buy!Bought this , it works great , cooks fast, very happy with this! Lots of cooking options
Nick/Trilkin (verified owner) –
ConvenientI ordered this one used from Amazon. it was pretty much brand new in all of the original packaging even had the user guides and manuals.
If you buy this product, you will never want to turn on your stove ever again. and I enjoy cooking, but the ease and convenience of this product in your kitchen cannot be overstated. I grill corn I bake chicken, You forgot to take the steak out of the freezer? no problem just stick it in the air fryer. It’ll be done in under 15 minutes. I brought this for my mom because I can’t cook without it it has spoiled me.
it does require counterspace, but this is not the waffle iron you bought that you use twice a year you will be using this machine every night.
The air fryer is great but in my opinion, it does not replace a pot of oil on the stove. You won’t get the crispy Golden fried chicken in the air fryer. I still use it for other things mostly if I get frozen food that will cook in about three minutes very quickly and very crispy and delicious but frying from scratch, I still rely on my good old fashion cast iron and peanut oil. but I didn’t try hard to make it work. I also don’t bake sweets in here. I tried to make cookies once they came out kind of greasy very soft it didn’t crisp up. but again i didn’t try very hard i’m sure there’s a recipe out there for good air fryer cookies
Susan R. (verified owner) –
First impression is very goodI have only habit for a week or so but I used it to grill a pork loin. Easy to use and clean up and the best, most moist pork loin ever.
Trish (verified owner) –
Great Buy!Easy to clean and operate. Cooks quickly and food comes out delicious. Would buy again if needed but it’s so well made I’m sure it will be a while before I need to. My mother has had hers for more than 3 years with no problems
Jordi A. (verified owner) –
DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM>Absolute rip off. Would never buy another Ninja product. Disgraceful. DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM. Tried all the convertors but blew electrics. Now have to pay the postage to return this awful product. Just disgusted with the product. Queried it with the sellers when I received it but just does not work properly in the UK even with convertors and just blew all the electrics. The convertor recommended does not work and is not the right one despite ensuring I ordered the right one. Wasted two weeks now for nothing. Never buying a Ninja product again because of this. Utter disgrace.