Ninja Combi All-in-One Multicooker Oven Air Fryer Complete Meals in 15 Mins 14-in-1 Functions Combi Cooker Air Fry

This little combi oven does a phenomenal job with steaming (hard boiled eggs, potatoes) and air fry (panko crusted fish filets, eggplant, cauliflower, frozen samosas and egg rolls, etc with or without breading). I have enjoyed mastering the "combi meal" setting that allows you to cook a meal for 8 in about 12 to 15 mins. We get great results with frozen chicken-- I mean frozen solid, rock-like chicken breasts or thighs coated in marinade or oil and seasonings-- golden brown and delicious in 15 mins. It really does it. On bake setting, it heats up very quickly and has done a great job with bread and cookies, anything we've put in there. We have cut our monthly gas bill by over 40% by using this oven instead of baking with our gas oven-range and our electricity usage has barely gone up at all. Where we live, we're saving a good $35/mo by using the Ninja every day. We don't own a microwave, btw, fwiw, and we don't need one. Between the InstantPot for cooking beans, making soup and braising meat under pressure, and the Ninja for fast multi-part meals, steaming and air frying, we don't really need our oven-range at all. Add a single induction burner for wok cooking and cooking fried eggs here and there and we would be all set. There has been a short learning curve for using the combi meals setting and heating up leftovers. White rice and pasta cook exactly as they tell you. Brown rice really needs to be par-cooked. Quinoa has been a little hit and miss with being slightly underdone. I'd suggest starting with a veggie stew of some kind, mixing the quinoa in half again more water or broth than you'd use on the stovetop, and making sure all of it is spread evenly across the pan. I have loved sautéing onions and peppers right in the pan I use to cook rice, sometimes toasting the rice to make pilaf. You could totally use this oven to make risotto. Seafood up top during combi meals cooks very quickly-- maybe 10 mins unless it's frozen. With shrimp or thin fresh fillets, consider putting the seafood on the bake tray after your rice or pasta have mostly cooked. Be careful to trim your parchment to fit the bake tray and don't put so much parchment in there that it touches the element above. Thick frozen mahi mahi fillets were beautifully done after 12 mins. I wouldn't recommend sticking this oven inside a cabinet because it kicks out a good amount of steam. It needs plenty of overhead space but it has a small footprint on our counter. The controls are intuitive and easy to read, and temp adjustments are in 5 degree F increments. I love this Ninja oven and plan on buying one for my daughter when she goes away for college! Read more

I cook a lot of things in the oven. I would rather take 30 minutes to get something that tastes good with better texture than a couple minutes in the microwave. This means that on a nearly daily basis I’m dealing with long preheat times, and a running fan after the oven is off to disperse the heat. I wanted something that could take the place of the oven for many meals, and also I wanted to dip my toes into the air fryer world. Happy to report that after using this for about a month, the Combi has done just that. I use it to bake things more often than I air fry, and I rarely use the combi bake/crisp features. But here are my thoughts on each. Baking is super nice because the preheat is around 2-3 minutes. Compare that to 10+ minutes for the oven. I do find that I need to decrease the temp about 25F from what is indicated on the recipe/box of the food. This is probably because of the small space. If I don’t do that, the food has a tendency to get a bit overdone. Also, for food capacity while baking, it’s pretty good. I am at home with myself and three kids, and I can often make all the food we need. Plus, if you ever get those Detroit style frozen pizzas, they fit perfectly in the back tray! Air frying is so fantastic! I love the crispiness. I love the taste. Best at home chicken wings I have ever made. And I love to use it for seafood, nuggets, etc. The combi bake and crisp continues to confuse me. I have used it, but I’m always guessing at temperature and time. I did make some sausages recently on the combi crisp. The insides were juicy and tender while the skin had a very slight crisp to is. So that was cool. But when I tried veggies and chicken in the combi bake, the chicken was awesome, but the veggies were soggy. The combi features are going to need a while to get used to. Overall, this is a really great purchase, and had made meal time more efficient and sometimes tastier. Read more

So far, this thing is GREAT! Used the air fry option for the first time to make egg roll wrapped pickle spears. Air fried for about 7 minutes at 400 (flipping halfway), they crisped up nicely but the ends burnt just barely so next time I will lower temp and cook a bit longer. This was a recipe fault, though, not the machine. The machine itself smelled a little of burned plastic on the first use but it went away within ten minutes. I love that it lights up when there is one minute left to your cook or preheating time! It helps grab your attention. The light and see through window is not only exciting (so you can watch your food cook in real time) but also very useful to gage if something needs to be flipped or removed sooner than recipe calls for. The unit itself vents heat very efficiently and my counter top did not get warm. Unfortunately I have to use it underneath a hanging cabinet, but I pulled it forward enough that there were no issues with overheating. I did not touch the machine to check if it gets hot anywhere on the surface, but I did stick my fingers along the bottom to ensure whatever is beneath it didn't get hot. It doesn't, so no risk to surfaces with a properly vented and situated machine. This machine heats up a lot faster than a conventional oven and does not give off nearly as much ambient heat, which will no doubt make it incredibly useful during the summer months when I want to bake without heating up my entire kitchen. I will be using the other features on this machine as time goes on and I will try to update as I do. Looking forward to using it and seeing what this machine can do with all the various recipes included in the booklet! Read more