Ninja - Foodi 6-in-1 10-qt. XL 2-Basket Air Fryer with DualZone Technology - Grey

In a world of chaos, where cooking home cooked meals after long shifts seems like an impossibility, this amazing air fryer has come into our lives to help us cook delicious air-fried meals not only delicious but incredibly convenient! It is amazing being able to conveniently and easily use both baskets separately, together, or one at a time. Many of our meals include air fried vegetables and it was always inconvenient with our old air fryer to have to go one at a time on each batch of vegetables. Now we can start two separate foods in the different air fryers at different times and temperatures as needed, which is awesome! One reason why I love this air fryer so much is that unlike many of its counterparts, both the crisper plates and the baskets are approved by Ninja to be washable in a dish washer! They do have an asterisk on the baskets that this can shorter their lifespan, but when talking about convenience it is incredibly nice to be able to just stick these in the dishwasher when done cooking. The truth is that many air fryer baskets get burnt out prematurely by old grease and food particles getting burnt and baked onto the bottom of the baskets which overtime will greatly reduce their efficiency. So, it stands as important to make sure you wash your crisper plates and air fryer baskets. A couple of features I would like to see added to future iterations of this product are auto-pause on the respective heating element if a basket is pulled out, and an auto-start or delay timer on the individual baskets so you could have them set to automatically start at a given time. Also, this is not so much of a downside but just wanting people to be aware to double check the dimensions of this air fryer against their counter-space. We put our air fryer in the pantry as it does take a lot of space up lengthwise. Surprisingly, this is no wider than our previous 4-quart single basket air fryer. Otherwise, I have minimal to no complaints at all about this Foodi air fryer! Thanks for reading and hope this helps guide your purchase!

The Ninja 10qt XL Air Fryer is simply an amazing small appliance for any household that likes to try and save some money by eating in instead of always getting carry out. I had a 4qt air fryer that opened my eyes to the possibilities of what a dedicated air fryer could do, but the small size capacity always limited what it could do for us. We loved doing chicken wings in it, but it could never hold enough to feed the entire family. We also enjoyed doing potatoes or fries but we still had to cook the protein on a cast iron or sous vide. The Ninja 10qt with 2x5qt baskets had been a total game changer for us. Not only do we more than double our wing capacity, we can also now do two different seasoned wings at the same time. Buffalo wings for my wife and I and lemon pepper chicken for our kids. And we can do probably 4 dozen wings at a time while before it was only about 20 or so max on the 4 qt. Another great feature of the Ninja 10qt is you can set the baskets for 2 different cook types, temps and times and then do a smart cook so they both finish at the same time!!! chicken on one side, veggies on the other. Or brussel sprouts on one side, root veggies on the other and add a protein from the grill and it all finishes at the same time! It also does great for processed foods like chicken nuggets or pizza bites. And maybe the best feature is it does an amazing job of recrisping fried foods like French fries and fried chicken. It’s not as good as fresh fried but it’s probably 90% as good and crispy!!! Five guys fries are great reheated especially since they give you so much. A few other notes compared to other air fryers like the countertop ovens with air fryer is that this unit has no warm-up or pre-heat time. Cooking time starts immediately. Also, it is quieter and easier to clean and also doesn't have that burning oil smell the countertop oven has. The crisper pans can be tosses into the dishwasher and the trays are easy to clean. The only minor complaint is the unit is so large. My wife complained about it but after making a few great meals this week, she hasn't complained so much. Definitely recommend this for everyone with a growing family to feed!!!

The Ninja Foodi XL 2-Basket Air Fryer will have you cooking great meals out of the box. The air fryer’s baskets are spacious and can even fit a whole chicken in a single basket. I’m someone who can manage to burn water yet I was able to cook wonderful tasting meals of steak, salmon, broccoli to name a few of the many that I’ve tried so far. The fryer comes with the two non-stick baskets and two non-stick crisper plates all of which are easy to clean. It has air fry, bake, roast, air broil, reheat, and dehydrate as selectable options. Each zone can be set to its own temperature and time. If you want to cook two different things, one in each basket, then you can use the SMART Finish option which delays starting of one side until the time on the other reaches a remaining time that is equal to the time set on the other zone. This allows both zones to finish simultaneously. You don’t have to worry about one thing cooling down too much before the other completes. This is a great feature added in by Ninja. You can also pause either side during cooking which allows you to check on the food. If all is good, you can resume again. Another feature is the Match Cook feature. This allows you to use both sides with the same setting but only have to enter the settings once. It will copy the settings to the other zone which saves a little time. The buttons are large and easy to read. The LCD screens on each side of the front are easy to read as well. The design is simple and straight forward. Both the baskets and crisper plates are very easy to clean. After cooking steaks, the cleanup of the baskets and plates was quick and easy as the non-stick coating on them is good. The crisper plates each have 4 rubber feet on them which keeps the plates elevated above the bottom of the baskets and they extend to the side corners of each plate which keeps you from accidentally scratching the sides of the baskets when putting them in and taking them out. So far I see no indication that the rubber will go bad in time, but time will tell. Ninja includes a quick start guide with it. The guide contains listings for many types of food and the suggested cooking times. This helped me to get up and running quickly otherwise I would have had to pause often to see if the food was done. Best practice would be to pause the fryer when something is getting close to done to verify all is good which I do by way of the pause feature. I really like that I can pause/resume and use the SMART Finish option. The Foodi XL makes cooking so easy. If I could give it six stars I would. I’m very happy with the air fryer and I’m glad Ninja made a product this good. I would recommend this to anyone wanting an air fryer with great features and spacious baskets.

Our family uses an air fryer 2-3 times a week. The Ninja Foodi XL 2 Basket Air Fryer has taken air frying to another level, making it so much easier to cook meals that have different fried elements to them, with different cooking times, and having them end the cooking cycle at the same time. Brilliant! An easy example for us, was cooking fries for my 10 year old son's dinner, while my wife and I wanted garlic bread to go with our spaghetti and meatballs. We love cooking garlic bread in our air fryer (we've used our 'old' Ninja Foodi XL 5.5 quart air fryer for a couple of years now), and we've found that the garlic bread comes out nice and crispy on the outside with a soft, juicy, garlicky center, far better than broiling. And fries, they are fantastic, about 14 mins at 350 and they are perfect. Really crispy on the outside and light and fluffy on the inside. We don't add any oil to them at all, and they taste fantastic. Now, the beauty of this air fryer lays with the dual zone technology, with dual baskets, which means you can cook two different types of food, two different ways, for two different times, and still have them finish at the same time! In our example, we had the garlic bread cook for 9 mins at 375, and the fries for 14 mins at 350, and they both came out perfectly. With 6 programmable functions including Air Broil, Air Fry, Roast, Reheat (which is the absolute best for revitalizing pizza - seriously, try it!), Dehydrate and Bake, you have plenty of options with this machine. Coupled with dual 5 quart baskets, you have great capacity to make a complete meal, or a huge capacity using the 'Match Cook' button for a combined 10 quart capacity (think fries or chicken wings!). The baskets are dishwasher safe, along with the non-stick crisper plates that allow the hot air to circulate under the food. This is a really easy to use system, with intuitive controls. I only had two challenges with the unit. 1. Coming from the Ninja Foodi XL 5.5 quart unit, if you pulled the basket out, the machine would pause, stop the timer, and cut the heat to the machine. This new Ninja Foodi XL 2 Basket Fryer DOES NOT pause when you pull the basket out. When you do, the counter continues to count down, and the machine does not turn off on that side. However, you CAN pause it. You have to press the pause button (press in on the silver dial) in order to pause the cooking, if you want to check on the progress. I loved the fact that my previous air fryer would automatically pause, a great safety feature, but this one is lacking in that area. 2. My previous air fryer had a round basket, and as such, it had 3 rubber feet on the crisper plate. That makes it so easy to remove from the baskets. With the new Ninja Foodi XL 2 Basket Fryer, the crisper plates are rectangular, and have 4 rubber feet on them. They are a lot more difficult to remove from the basket, and the small handle in the middle feels even smaller than before compounding the issue. Aside from these two small things, as I say, you CAN pause the machine manually yourself, so it's definitely not a deal breaker, just used to it automatically pausing, and the crisper plates being a little more difficult to remove, I am really happy with my Ninja Foodi XL 2 Basket Air Fryer. It's a great addition to the kitchen, it looks great, and performs really, really well.

So I was super excited to try this ninja 10QT dual zone air fryer. I’ll call it an air fryer because that’s my main use and I’m assuming most of y’all’s main use. My wife loves to cook for me and our 2 kids. Sometimes she doesn’t want to cook on a stove so she throws pork chops, wings, sausage and so on in the air fryer, plus it’s healthier. We have another brand and wanted the dual zone set up so we can cut down on time. And for that this appliance is great. Cooking fries In one and wings in the other is great. Or pork chops in one and scallops in the other is ideal. But unfortunately while cooking meats you can not stack meats on top of one another as it will not cook the unexposed meat. You will have to turn meat, I’m guessing because air doesn’t circulatate as much in a smaller area. Not a huge deal. But it’s different than our older one. Also the cooking time is longer than I’d like. Takes almost 50% longer than our old air fryer. So I have to be honest an deduct one star. Still recommending though. But something to keep in mind. Buttons are tactile but harder to press if you have big hands/fingers as I do. Dial works well. Just the buttons are hard to press. Ninja is a great brand. But maybe I got used to having a one larger basket design versus a dual basket design. I’m sure many others with be happy of course. If we are cooking fries,wings or chicken nuggets for the kids. We will be using this one but for large meats and sausage and such. We will use our older one. So either way we are happy. See pics below. Wings came out perfectly and so did the fries. Sausage came out ok. Well built and nice looking too. Very “ninja like design” also does not take up too much space like our older one which is super tall and can’t be placed under a cabinet. So that’s a plus for ninja as well. Good luck and happy shopping!

First let me say this read the directions in how to use both baskets at the same time. Once you do you can make meals from frozen with some adjustments made. I cooked wings and fries together and had meal ready at the same time. 1. When you smart match cooking it waits to start the food that will take less time. You cannot max out past 400 on both side when they are both running. You will need to increase your cook time . 2. Make sure you press the basket you want to cook for make your adjustments and select the next basket if using both sides. 3. No need to pre heat. Cooks super fast and gets food hot. 4. Going with number 3 make sure to flip and check food once you are getting close to done. 5. Clean up is a bit more involved but easy to do once you get the hang of it. 6. Make prep time lower and cooking dinner more enjoyable . See attached wings made completely in the airfryer

Love! Love! Love! Best investment ever! So far everything is yummy and it cuts my cooking time in more than 1/2!

Very good. The chicken has turned out juicy. Haven’t done any vegetables because is says to brush them with oil.