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Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven Review: Fresh Fries, The Easy Way

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Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven Review: Fresh Fries, The Easy Way

Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven

"The Ninja Foodie Digital Air Fry Oven is a winner and offers great functionality at a reasonable price."

Great value for money

Several functions in addition to air roasting

Cooks very evenly

Preheat almost immediately

Easy to store

Can't cook meals for a large family

Large objects do not fit

Though they can add unwanted inches to our waistline, fried foods are so damn tasty they're hard to resist. Fortunately, there is a kitchen device that can be used to make fried foods at least a little healthier: air fryers that have become increasingly popular in recent years.

Ninja recently launched an air fryer that also serves as a convection oven on the countertop, as a toaster, and as a dehydrator. It's called Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven and I tested the device to see how well it works (and to fix junk food).

When I first opened the Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven, I noticed that it wasn't too big. It's only about 20 x 15 x 7.5 inches in size and fits nicely in a corner of my countertop. It is supplied with a coated metal pan and an air frying pan. It also folds up on your back so that it can be kept unobtrusively.

The Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven has an air = roasting function, but also air roasting, air roasting, baking, dehydrating, keeping warm, toasting (up to nine slices at the same time) and bagel functions. You can also control the time and temperature settings within these functions. In addition, the oven is immediately ready for use, so that I could cook immediately (Hello, French fries).

French fries, wings and leftover pizza

The first thing I cooked in the foodi oven was a lot of frozen fries. I preheated the oven and the device was ready to use before I could even put the frozen fries on the tray. I coated the fries with a tiny piece of olive oil spray and after about 20 minutes I had crispy fries. They were better than baked french fries, but not quite as good as fried (like the ones you get at McDonalds).

I went one step further (hey, why not give it my all and destroy my diet?) And decided to add cheese and bacon to my crispy pile of french fries. I put the chips covered with cheese and bacon back in the foodi oven, pressed air roast and after 3 minutes I had a delicious looking plate of bacon and cheese fries.

A few days later, I had leftovers from the pizza and wings I ordered the day before and decided to reheat my leftovers in the Foodi oven. Well, this was a gluten-free pizza that usually warms terribly. When I put it in the microwave, I get a moist triangular mess that hardly resembles pizza.

However, when I heated the pizza in the Foodi oven with the toast function, it came out amazingly. The cheese was sticky and the crust was crispy. I warmed up the wings with the Air Fry function and they came out surprisingly well. "It is not a delivery, it is warmed up in the Foodi," I thought to myself.

Something healthier?

Now I wasn't exactly thrilled about preparing a healthy meal in the digital oven. But hey, what the hell? The Foodi contains a recipe guide and other operating instructions. The instructions deal with the preparation of "sheet pan meals". To prepare a tin meal, pick a protein, vegetable and / or starch, season, throw the ingredients around and cook.

I tried to make a chicken broccoli tin. I cut chicken breast into cubes, put frozen broccoli florets on the pan, seasoned them with garlic and lemon, and cooked the creation on air roast at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. It came out tasty, but my only complaint is that the tin pan only contains enough food for three people or maybe four people who eat very small meals. I have a family of four (and two of my family members are teenagers).

What is there for dessert?

You can prepare dessert dishes such as muffins, cookies and even cakes in the Foodi oven. I made a lot of chocolate chip cookies, and the process was similar to making oven-baked cookies. However, they cooked a little faster, even though I had used a slightly lower temperature. I was also only able to make nine cookies in each batch because the oven doesn't last much at once.

Crumbs? No problem

The Foodi worktop air fryer and oven has some really cool features. Aside from the fact that it folds up and gets out of the way when not in use, it also has a handle on the side (rather than the top). This makes opening and closing easier.

Another well-designed feature is the crumb release function at the bottom of the oven that folds down and allows you to easily clean the device.

Warranty info

The Ninja Foodie Digital Air Fry Oven comes with a one-year warranty.

Our opinion

The Digital Air Fry Oven by Ninja Foodie is an absolute winner and offers a lot of functionality at a reasonable price. With a retail price of $ 230, it's an ideal cooking solution for a dorm, small apartment, or even as a secondary cooking device or toaster.

Is there a better alternative?

You can find other toaster ovens on the market, but the Foodi is unique because it is easy to store, has a digital display, and can be bought at a reasonable price. The Cuisinart Digital Air Fry OvenThe company, which sells for around $ 270, offers many of the same features and has an output of 1800 watts. Although the Cuisinart oven is a solid device, it is not as easy to store as the Foodi.

Breville also makes countertop stoves. The Breville Convection and Air Fry Smart Oven costs around $ 400 and offers a lot more space for indoor cooking. The Breville oven somewhat outperforms the Foodi oven, but is expensive. The Foodi is a better alternative for those who don't want to spend as much or want more work space. You can find cheap air frying ovens for under $ 100, but you probably won't get as many user-friendly features as with the Foodi oven, and cheaper ovens may not cook as smoothly, either.

As for Amazon's 4-in-1 Alexa smart oven, let's just say it has problems. It can technically do more than its competitors because it is a microwave, an oven, and an air fryer at the same time, but it doesn't do any of these tasks well.

How long it will take?

The Foodi Air Fry Oven has an outside made of stainless steel, a removable crumb tray and an easily accessible back wall. This makes cleaning and long-term maintenance of the furnace easier. With proper care and maintenance, the oven should last for years.

Should you buy it

Yes, the Foodi oven is an excellent device. If you are a hobby cook, do not have a lot of space in the kitchen or just want an air fryer or a toaster with additional functions, you are more than satisfied with the Foodi Air Fry Oven.

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February 13th, 2019

A topic that I have been putting off and have but so reluctant to share with the world and even myself. Is my diet and how negatively it has taken over my life. I was always the healthy one out of the friend group and all the credit is owed to my mom for that. In a matter of fact I used to be so embarrassed that my mom wouldn’t pack the same sugary trendy snacks that all my classmates had and I would often times try to hide my bag of raisins from the other kids. Fast forward to middle school and high school, where I really did stop caring about what other people ate or thought about what I ate. At some moments I still fell like I knew myself way better at that time of my life than I do now. I would wake up and make myself oatmeal with flax and poppy seeds, have sandwiches with alfalfa spouts and eat almonds an apples during class. On the average day I did not eat packages sugary foods, it was only when I went over to my friend’s houses or made runs to get Starbucks frappachinos, something that I haven’t had since high school. 

So what happened, why is the “healthy” friend sitting here about to explain how her current diet negatively effects her life. Something that I feel a lot of people would agree to, is that food and health relationships are often times linked to control. Back when I was in middle and high school there was not a lot of things I could control or that were even up to me. I would wake up because I had to, go to school, do homework, hang out with my family all because that is just required of you at this age. Not too many decisions require your personal input so I was not overwhelmed and embrace the idea of making the decision of what went into my body, under my control. Today everything is based on my decisions, even if it sometimes does not feel like it, it is. This can be the most overwhelming thing to inter counter everyday. I did not even realize how bad I pushed off making food decisions everyday because it was too overwhelming to make another decision. At 22 you have to make so many decisions because you are the only one accountable for you now. So when it came to food it was just too much and I would often just act on impulse for when it came down to what I wanted to eat. Never what had a long-term benefit, just whatever felt right in the moment. This mindset and decision making strategy, more times than not, leads to regret and just overall poor decisions. 

I also used food as a way to cope with negative feeling. By using the physical feeling of “full” to make me feel complete because I was lacking in some many other areas in my life. The summer after I graduated high school is what really started my binge eating. I was holding some much inside emotionally and as dumb or as embarrassing as it sounds, I started to eat my feelings. I distinctly remember coming home at three am, lost and scared because I did not know where my life was going. I was drinking forty minutes away from home almost every night in stranger’s homes even though I claimed they were my friends and everything was “chill and fine”. The truth was, none of it was chill or fine, I was being taken advantage of because I was young and dumb and thought the things we were doing was making me “more adventurous” and “adult”. Little did I know, or what to admit that I was ruining my life and sense of self, something I would still struggle with today, almost four years after. When I would get home from those nights I would quietly stuff my face with my family’s left-overs, a slice of cheese, pizza with toppings I “didn’t” eat, whatever just to mask the feelings I was going through. It was so unlike me, but so was everything else I was doing so it really didn’t matter. I thought I was being carefree and a free spirit but what everyone besides me could see, it was really irresponsible and careless. 

This unhealthy relationship would follow me through college and I won’t bore you with all the sad stories of hiding food from others, stealing roommates food when I was upset because I needed a quick fix and did not care where it came from or what it was. This is when I knew my relationship with food was so unhealthy and an addiction. When you do things you won’t normally do just to get a fix or something and don’t really feel bad about it because you know you’d do it again in a heartbeat. I was not always finically stable in college and still not always today. So something I would over spend my budge and be left with just tuna and salsa mixtures, or boxes of oatmeal. So I would go to bed hungry until I would get my direct deposit and go to the store and get boxes of cheese its, candy, pre made sandwiches and smash them in one setting. My diet was and still is a roller coaster and I never felt this unhealthy and unhappy about my diet ever in my life. 

Every dark or low point my life has been accompanied with bad eating habits. When I stayed just with my sister is a small apartment that I knew she didn’t want me there, and I had a retail job that didn’t pay me anything. I was back home from my college town scared I would run into people from my pre college past. I was so unhappy with the way things were and I felt like I had no control over any aspect in my life.  I remember hiding in my small cold room and sneaking and eating two or three bagels in one setting and scared my sister would find out because also wanting to fix the feeling or hungry and my anxiety with the bagels. I was also embarrassing and ashamed of myself and or other people finding out about my toxic relationship with food. 

Fast forward to today where I still eat large amounts of sugar, most things from packages, hide what I eat from people, when I don’t have any food I don’t think twice about taking from others, and spend all my money on big meals that I eat all at once. I feel embarrassed telling people what I eat and just don’t feel like my normal “healthy friend” self anymore, because it reality I have not been her for four years now. My skin keeps breaking out now, my stomach and weight is not where I want it to be. My relationship with my self is super negative and a huge reason is due to what I put into my body.  I feel like I lost a big part of my identity and would like to have a healthy control on what goes into my body again. It is about being solely accountable and growing up, which is exactly what scares me.  Another driving factor for why I want to gain control over my diet is yes of course my health, skin, energy levels, but I also just want to get rid of this shame for what I eat. In a couple months I am going to be moving in to an apartment with my boyfriend and a big part of living with someone is openness and honesty and I don’t want to feel like I have this secrete food life that I have to hide from him or feel embarrassed about what I eat. I just want to be more myself again and care about my health and the foods that go into my body because it was something that made me unique and I was confident and okay with not doing or eating what others did. I just know that living with a boyfriend there is going to be more, “boy” junk food because their bodies work different and can handle it and for me should be a weekend and just a treat. Not what seems like my everyday “fix”. 

I know my body and I know the types of foods in runs better on and what it needs to be healthy, I just have ignored it for so long and now I crave foods from boxes and sugars. So I am well aware that it is not going to be an easy change but I am more aware of how unhealthy I am right now. My anxiety, acne, bloated and gassy, sleep, craving, shame and over spending is all due to my unhealthy relationship with food. 

My plan is to make food fun again and embrace this positive change in my life, not just focus on elimination and taking things out of my diet but replacing it with foods I can get excited for and have a positive and healthy relationships with. I also want to remember that it is okay not to eat certain foods and be picky because you know that you are way more open to other foods than most people anyways. I want to make grocery lists and plan out what I should be eating and have control and practice before I do move in with my boyfriend and it doesn’t seem overwhelming or embarrassing to grocery shop with him.