Customer Ratings & Reviews

Was able to grab this on sale for Black Friday for my mom. She loved it. She is looking forward to making smoothies.

The Ninja Foodi is the swiss army knife of blenders. This is a blender, food processor, mixer, thick smoothie maker, and even has a nutrient extraction feature. To be honest, I've generally just used dedicated blenders and food processors so it's nice as while those are generally plug and play, I'll need to do some reading to use the different modes of the Foodi correctly. Proceeding to taking out the blender itself, the main blender cup is nice, large size, and plastic. Glass is a bit better where it comes to durability and ease of cleaning but the plastic looks good. I've not had any issues with plastic cups on Ninja blenders though I have had a couple break from other brands. The square-like top/cover of the main cup is normal Ninja fare. It has an interlock feature which will prevent the blender from operating if the top is not properly closed. That's a feature that I like, especially with the main cup where one sometimes will open things up to insert more food in the middle of blending. Note, I had to edit this down from a longer review I wrote to fit for Best Buy's system! I'll skip the unboxing description, you can check out what comes with the Foodi online. The blender base has the Ninja blender family look. This one looks a bit more professional or sophisticated than my last blender with a brushed aluminum like look. Controls are surprisingly simple for something that has so many features. There are three buttons (power, mode, and pulse) and a dial which also has a center button and two digit display. The dial lets you select a program (for example, smoothie, chop, or dough) in IQ mode or a speed (in percentage via the digits display) in manual mode. So in IQ mode, you'd turn the dial to select something, like smoothie, then press the start to have it automatically run through, adjusting the speed on its own and automatically stopping when done. In manual mode, you'd turn the dial to select a speed, then hit start to operate. Here, you'd need to manually hit stop when done. You can also adjust the speed while in operation as normal. Pulse is just that, press the button for an asynchronous pulse which stops when you release the button. Whatever cup you put on the base, you twist clockwise until you here a click to lock it into place. For testing this out, I pretty much did two normal things I tend to do repeatedly with blenders - make a stew, make a high protein smoothie , and one abnormal one - some chopping, shredding and grating for a salad. Blenders typically handle the first one well so the real test will be the smoothie and the salad. Blending the ingredients for the stew went well. For this I put the blender in manual mode, start at a 1 the dial it up. Having this fine grained control over the speed let me get things blended well without needing to open it up and move things around. I in fact used the cover that allows for adding additional items but ended not needing it. The cup was large enough to hold my half onion, 4 peppers, and habanero that were slightly cut and I didn't need to insert a spoon to help move things around to get blending started. Between the variable speed and higher torque, the Foodi handled this well and I didn't feel like I may be stressing the motor which is a normal concern (though to be fair, I've not noticed any performance loss) based on the sounds my previous blender makes. For my protein shake, I tried it first with the normal large blending cup using manual mode. Then the next day using the smoothie bowl. With the manual blending went well, nothing too special to report here. For the day where I used the smoothie cup, I decided to stress test it a bit. I deliberately cut down on the amount of milk I'd normally use so I could experiment with using the paddles in the smoothie maker. This also gave me an opportunity to try out the IQ mode's smoothie program. So, after loading up milk, some banana, peanut butter, and three scoops of protein powder into the smoothie maker cup, I then hit the button to switch it into IQ mode, rotated the dial to select smoothie, then hit start. The blender started - it seemed like it started a higher speed than I used when doing it manually, then it slowed down and kind of pulsed, speeding up and slowing down as it tried to churn through the ingredients in the cup. I started turning the paddles to help and found that made a difference, with the motor speed picking up. After it got to a point where it seemed to run near high speed for about 15 seconds, it then turned off. I realized that using the paddles seemed to help with another common shake issue - have some peanut butter or protein powder that's stuck on the side of the blending cup which doesn't get blended or mixed in. This is so normal, that I ignored it when blending with the large up. Testing the food processor function, first was to slice up cucumbers. These will fit through the feed hole as-is so the only prep that I did was to slice off the ends. I installed the disc blade spindle then the slicing disc with the slice facing up. What was interesting was that this sits relatively high up in the bowl, bit it makes sense since you'll essentially push veggies down through it and so you need the space below to hold the sliced product. I'm happy to say the slicing went well producing relatively thin slices. Not too thin for a salad, but kind borderline. I can imagine this is the perfect thickness if you're slicing up potatoes for chips. After emptying the cucumber into a bowl, I then flipped the disc over to the shredding function and grabbed a carrot. I initially I used the same larger opening with the pusher, it didn't really feed that well. Looking at the quick start guide, I see now why it hypes up the 2-part pusher. The middle of the pusher is removable providing for a smaller opening which fit the carrots better. And the removable part is itself a pusher. It now also makes sense why you wanted a flat cut on both ends of the veggie, it helps ensure that when you're pushing down things feed consistently against the blades. That said, my not super well prepared carrots did shred and well. It's not the same result you'd get using the handheld shredder that you swipe along the length of a carrot, it's more akin to what you'd tend to see at a restaurant (hmm, so now I can recognize when someone is likely using a food processor versus hand shredding) and maybe close to what you get with the rectangular device that has shredder, grater, etc on four faces. Anyway, I was pretty impressed. Note, for both of these, I used the blender in manual rather than any of the IQ programs. The final thing to try before switching to trying out chopping was the grate disc. I didn't really have a reason to grate some lemon peel, but I wanted to try it anyway. With what I'd learned, I used a lemon that was cut in half which I already squeezed then removed some seeds. For this, I won't completely push it through, instead just kinda press down in the center to see if I could grate enough to create a normal amount of "zest". This took some time to set up right as I wanted to make sure I could get the pressure right when pressing down. After running with grating, I'm not sure whether I'd use this with lemons/limes, maybe more with something like cheese. I've not usually grated my own cheese at home, but perhaps I'll try this out in the future. The result was a bit larger than I'd want with lemon/lime peel. I liken it to the rectangular metal shredder/grater combo where it has large and small holes/slicers so you can choose the size out that you want. Next was chopping. After removing the disc blade and adapter and rinsing the cup, I put in the main blade to first chop some apples I'd already coarse cut to fit in the cup, selected the chop program, and hit start. The Foodi pretty much just pulsed things, at least as far as I could tell. But I did get some nicely chopped apples. And I suspect if I hit it again, I'd get even more finely chopped apples. So, next I tried tomato. This is one of those that never seems to go well because the tomato tends to squish and juicify. While it wasn't as uniform as the apples, I actually did get chopped tomato without half or more of it becoming tomato juice! Nice. While I normally hand-wash everything with the blender, almost everything except the base (obviously) is dishwasher safe. So this time around I loaded them up with other dishes. To be honest, I think I prefer using the dishwasher, especially with the discs. Handling the spiral blade is ok for hand cleaning and I've got some years of experience from a previous Ninja that I've had. However, even then, I still cut myself once or twice a year. It's definitely nicer to be able to sue the dishwasher, especially when you have food bit that won't wash off with a strong blast of water. I didn't experiment with the nutrient cup during this week though I did look through the guide for the examples where it was used. It seems the main use is getting a single serving of whatever drink you're blending. I think given that you use the same blade as the smoothie cup, it means you can use it to get a finer blend for a drink and so if deciding between that and the main large cup, this may be less taxing on the blender if you're doing something like making a crushed ice mixed drink but aside from that, I'll probably tend to use either the large cup and it's associated blade or the smoothie cup for the drinks/smoothies that I tend to make at home. In review, I'm pretty pleased with the performance and features of the Foodi. The Foodi handily earns its five stars.

NOTORIOUSLY TOO LOUD. ALL THAT MONEY I SPENT THINKING I WAS PAYING FOR QUALITY. IT'S JUST A CHEAP ITEM THEY MARKED UP. DOESN'T ANYBODY ABIDE IN THE GOLDEN RULE??? CLEARLY, THEY DON'T.

IWfe loved this product along with me. Great muti fucntional blender. The smoothies are amazing

My wife has been wanting this blender setup for quite some time. She loves it and if she is happy that makes me happy.

worthy the price...can do alot with it...easy convertion to whatever you want to do in the kitchen...not noisy

like the varied processes in this product as compared to others. The two top metal pieces for food process are great and perform consistently

I’m in love with this blender. It’s so easy to use and the different functions meet just about every need I have.

Totally worth the price. We have bought several blenders, this is the perfect one that we have been looking for.

We upgraded from on old ninja to this one. This is much better. Cup is larger and shorter (same capacity) which made storage better.

Makes a perfect smoothie! Used every day since I bought it and makes a better smoothie than my old magic bullet

If your thinking about getting one i would recommend this one because you can do so much with it.

It’s very sturdy. The suctions are very well made snd secures it to wherever surface you are using. I love the dough blade!

A bit pricey but overall awesome blender/processer. I recommend getting the warranty in case of any issues

Wife has been wanting one. So I broke down and got it. Definitely worth every penny

Bought for my girlfriend she’s been dying to get one and she loves it! Probably one of the best multi blender to get!

Got it for a great deal for home kitchen setup 5 stars not bad way better then the

Excellent product would definitely recommend if you love the old ninja this one is even better

Excellent product for the price you get everything. Comes with chopper as well. We love this one.

I may have an addiction to buying ninja products and this one doesn’t disappoint. Even better getting it on sale.