Robert

19 de julio de 2026

Great for almost everything

Great device, device. I have tried multiple times to get a really good sear on a steak. Only to get something well done with a poor sear. The closest I’ve gotten is I cut my steaks one and a quarter inch and air fry it on Maxx.All the other things are great. It cooks chicken really well. It does roasts really well. The combination steam functions are really good. It air fries really well. It sous-vides properly. Steams great. It’s gentle on my truck’s inverter. Doesn’t blow fuses. The sear function Would be OK if it went up to 500°. I know there are other options that do, and I tried one of them, and it didn’t work. I’m going to keep experimenting. I’m also keeping this. I consider air fryers to be disposable when the new one comes out, and it gets too dirty inside. Speaking of cleaning, the stainless interior cleans up really easily. My last air fryer was gross after a month, Cuisinart. I wish they sold a splatter guard for the top element; I had a smoky incident. I thought I was in Canada for a second. I noticed that they have them on Ninja grills.Ver más

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Sarah Evanson Isaac

3 de julio de 2024

Best small appliance since my InstantPot! LOVE IT!

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!Ver más

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MammaMia aka Blue Berry 🥴

My Favorite Kitchen Appliance Right Now!

I use this thing like every day. I’m after 2 years, it’s still doing its thing. Although, it might be need a little longer to cook than it once did. I am really bad about cleaning it out. So if I clean it it might be better. It really does cut down time for cooking. Because I am so accustomed to cooking with it quickly, I would probably just buy another one as soon as possible. It my favorite appliance right now. I barely use my ninja pressure cooker, likely because I don’t yet know how to use it. This Ninja Combi is super easy to use! It comes with a recipe book that I strongly recommend keeping hold of. Inside, it tells you all single item foods that are not a part or a recipe-how long to cook, at what temp, how much water to add and on what setting. That is a lifesaver, because google is not guaranteed to have those details. Because I eat everything made in this thing, I’d say that the quality is great! And it’s lasted me 2 years with every day use and cleaned with a degreasing product and sponge that you’d use on a stove top like every 6 months. Terrible, right?! It’s time consuming to clean, not easy. I just love cooking with it!Ver más

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Nick

9 de julio de 2026

The best kitchen appliance that I've ever gotten!!

The best kitchen appliance that I've ever gotten!! Very helpful and easy to use. Meals can be done within 15 mins. Just love it and definitely would recommend it to anyone!

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Katiejones

Mostly good, but has a few flaws

I purchased a like-new unit of this from Amazon. If I had paid full price, I think I would have been disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the Ninja Combi is a great unit for me so far. It does have a couple flaws which might impact your cooking experience:PROS:- For the Combi, there is no need to "season" it, you can literally cook a meal right away after setting it up.- It does technically deliver on the promise of cooking two things at once (such as making pasta in the casserole dish and air frying veggies on top). However, it does take some practice and you really have to watch your food since the air fryer tray is really close to the top where it's hottest.- So far I've used bake, air fryer, steam, pasta, combi meal, and toast options. Combi performed decently at all of these modes I mentioned, which did help me eliminate 2 appliances (toaster, steamer) from my kitchen. Although the Comb has a massive footprint, it does a lot of work and ultimately helped me save counterspace in my tiny apartment kitchen. I'm excited to try other modes like proof, sous vide, and broil in the future (will update when I do).CONS:- You have to babysit your food. When I steam my frozen veggies only, the Combi was able to sense how long they needed to be steamed. They came out perfectly cooked. However, on Combi Meal mode, it defaults to a 15 minute timer regardless of what's inside. So you have to pay attention -- stir or rotate your food, check for doneness, and generally make sure things don't get burned or overcooked.- If you're using the air fryer tray only, you can fit it into 1 of 2 slots. But if you're using Combi Meal mode, you're in a fixed configuration in which the casserole dish has to be on the bottom and the tray on top. In my opinion, the tray is too close to the burner on top when in this configuration, I wish there was at least 1/2" or more for clearance. I find that my food gets cooked/toasted way too quickly when it's like that.- Cleaning! If you plan to use any of the modes that require filling the casserole dish with water (such as steam, proof, sous vide), you'll need to clean after each use. Ideally, you don't want to leave moisture hanging around, otherwise bacteria will build up and the unit will start to stink.- Also as a part of cleaning: There is a drip tray for water, but it's fixed in place and not detachable. The only way to get rid of the drip tray water is by soaking a dry towel or paper towels in it.Other potential downsides:- Its massive size- Power sucker. Like many air fryers, you literally can't use anything else while this is plugged in and in-use.- I encountered an "ADD POT" error, which required the button on the air fryer to be pressed during cooking. I used an oven-safe creme brulee dish, which seemed to fix the problem.- At the time of this writing, there were no available replacement accessories on Amazon and they were sold out on the Ninja website.Compatible accessory that I bought, found that it fit this air fryer perfectly (it's the silver basket and tray in one of my photos):GCQ Air Fryer Basket Tray for Cuisinart TOA-60 TOA-65 TOA-70 Toaster Air Fryer Convection Oven, 12.4 * 11'' Mesh Air Fryer Steel Basket Wire Rack Accessories Parts, Dishwasher Safe https://a.co/d/eDVhxLm

Mike Vande Ven Jr.

31 de diciembre de 2023

A great tool for my kitchen to save electricity and time

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.Ver más

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