Customer Ratings & Reviews

The best machine ever!!! The best machine ever!!!

Absolutely love it, I make everything in it! Best gift ever

This is a great air fryer! I made steak within the first few weeks of using it. My only gripe with it is the cleanup. Maybe it’s me but I need to do a better job at cleaning or at least wish it was easier to clean up.

Easy to use and easy to clean. Cooks good too. Grilling meets my standards.

Love how fast I can cook steak and other meats and still taste good.

Love this item. Easy to use . Easy to cleanm fadt cleaning

Best product, fast delivery and reasonable price..

Awesome if we could we would buy more, this works beautifully and better than a gas oven. We have used this more than a air fryer

Does a great job with any air fried foods. Nice and crispy

This is the best ninja foodie! I actually purchased this item twice since it was such a good buy when on sale ! Very satisfied, will definitely recommend !

Overall nice product, does the job and food comes out nicely. My only down side is , its hard to place the parchment paper so i end up using bake safe plates

New the product, good customer experience in helping me to acquire the product. Nicely priced.

Wow best purchase last year I really enjoy this Ninja product. It make the best steak and salmón, Very powerful and easy to clean.

Love the product. It was suggested by a family member. Everything it was said to be. Good price.

Excellent, i loved cooking in my ninja grill, the flavor the my meats is amazing

Just so you know Ninja has updated the DG551 with a lesser air fry basket from the deep black ceramic to a stainless steel basket that does not real fit. Best buy and Ninja website does not show any changes to the basket or any new pictures of the new basket. It's not even in the replacement part that you can order. I'm just surprised there is not updated pictures with the stainless steel air fry basket. If I had known that my purchase of the product might have changed. But any way just want people to know your not getting what is pictured on both best buy and Ninja website.

I loved it, just what I was looking for, easy to use

Ninja - Foodi Smart XL 6-in-1 Countertop Indoor Grill with Smart Cook System, 4-quart Air Fryer The Smart XL Grill manages to take the core feature of every Air Fryer, super-heated moving air, and create a multi-purpose cooking tool. It can grill food with all the markings for a large group, roast/broil/bake a significant sized multi-serving of any protein, and, of course, Air Fry. And it does it all with repeat accuracy because of its built in thermometer. Although Ninja’s Air Fryers are usually really easy decisions for our family, this newest Smart Grill requires more thought. Some features we loved. Some were a challenge. OPERATION: If you already own any of Ninja’s Foodi countertop air fryers you know how little effort is involved getting underway cooking. For first time owners, grab the Quick Start Guide. Starting with the most unique feature, pull out the thermometer from its storage area. If you want to take advantage of the programmed cooking, first select a COOK FUNCTION (Grill, Air Crisp, Roast, Bake, Broil. Dehydrate) and press the THERMOMETER/PRESET BUTTON. Now use the RIGHT ARROWS to select your protein and the LEFT ARROWS to choose doneness. PRE-HEAT should be underway. Stick your thermometer into the protein. Wait until ADD FOOD appears on the screen. The screen now read out progress towards doneness. It also provides real time readings of the temperature once you’re underway. FLIPPING appears during ROAST and GRILL and you probably follow that instruction. When done, GET FOOD appears and you’re ready to let food rest for a few minutes. During cooking I measured the sound level with my uncalibrated Sound Meter App. It confirmed what my ears told me. 72dB. A bit loud, and far louder than Ninja’s other, more traditional Air Fryers. RESULTS: A premium piece of BEEF TENDERLOIN, cooked to my special request of MEDIUM, came out text-book medium. Sometimes these settings (RARE, MEDIUM, etc) will have multiple levels. I should have stopped at the first choice. However, I got exactly what I asked for. It was minimal effort to get my “order.” After the initial setup, I was free to prepare other side dishes without further interaction with my steak. It becomes apparent that the now very hot grill will very quickly cook any veggies you toss in. You can cut out another pan. Next up is a piece of PORK TENDERLOIN, which we know should only be cooked to just barely medium to keep moist. After about a 7 minute preheat the total cook time was under 10 minutes. Sadly, I didn’t trust it could be cooked and tried to figure out how to restart. Dumb. After a few minutes of trying to convince the Ninja to let me add some minutes, I relented and stuck my own instant thermometer into the pork. Yikes. I was already well past medium. The Ninja is shockingly fast. Trust it. But verify with your own thermometer if you are unsure. RECOMMENDATION: Ninja Air Fryers offer a broad array of useful and effective features. This Smart XL 6-N-1 is no different. It simplifies cooking by taking over the timing, the temperature setting, the schedule of flips and final rest period. It gets it all accomplished correctly by measuring the cooking progress. It gets it right with few exceptions. The flexibility is also well done. This new design and layout expands the quantity and size of foods that can be cooked successfully. The cooking chamber is huge. The space under the cover allows for maximum serving sizes and quantities. What are my quibbles? This is Ninja’s noisiest Air Fryer. It will interrupt the party. I also question the efficiency of this Ninja as food size or quantity gets smaller. The lengthy pre-heat time for this larger device makes the decision to use this for a pair of hamburgers or small steaks questionable. If I were to make a suggestion, I’d like to see more “doneness” or target temperature increments. For these smaller items it makes sense to allow a more nuanced doneness choice. On the other hand, pork loin, chicken breast or cut up whole chicken, a roast all become a treat to cook on this really smart countertop grill. It seems to contribute both hands and eyes to meal preparation. With such heat and speed availability, completing a vegetable dish after the protein is completed is a realistic expectation. You can immerse yourself in other activities knowing Ninja has the protein portion well covered. I like it, because what it does, it does really well.

I always want to purchase it since last year. Its a great purchase I made this year. I like it. Specially to grill my fish.

Ninja - Foodi Smart XL 6-in-1 Countertop Indoor Grill with Smart Cook System, 4-quart Air Fryer I will just come out and say it, I am not a chef. Going a bit farther I can barely make my way around cooking. And because of that I keep my cooking to a select few essentials and seldom deviate from that. It was always my dream to have a simple cooking system so even I can make a real tasty meal without messing it up. I cooked a grilled chicken with the Foodi for my first test that was better than I ever had before. It was with no stress and it cooked correctly, quickly and boy was it juicy. I followed that up with fish, pork and I will be trying a steak next. For many people that's an everyday event, not for me. For me to be comfortable cooking and getting the results I did was amazing. The included cookbook is great and I will tackle some of those recipes later but for now I am impressed. It’s nice to have a temperature probe to assure me all along the way that I was doing ok. And having the Foodi know what temps my food should be and when to flip until completed is great. I have always wanted a grill like this. I have been using an infrared grill and I was mostly satisfied with it but now I know what I was missing. I made the switch and I am glad I did. There are just so many options now with the Foodi for me to try and expect to get a great meal. Another great feature is there are tons of videos available that can help anyone to get the same great results I have gotten. I also feel better about using more electricity and less gas to cook each day. The grill looks perfect in my mostly stainless kitchen and so far it looks to be quite easy to keep clean. I also love how simple the controls are to use. Once you use them a few times they are very easy to understand. When you use the thermometer it shows you the cooking temperature in realtime, very nice. I have found the temperature reported seems about 5 degrees higher than the food measures with my handheld thermometer. But that's easy to compensate for as you use it more. I also like that you can just cook by time and temp and check your progress with the thermometer at any time. And for me the pre-set cooking settings are perfect. Cooking with the Foodi is just cool. The front grill buttons are almost flush so that helps in the cleaning. And most everything is dishwater safe. The Foodi does take up a bit more counter space than I expected. And I have to have it close to the edge of the counter for cooking so I get better circulation around or need the lid open. I was also surprised at how loud it seemed when I first used it. Now after a few times I hardly even notice. I am really looking forward to cooking a lot with the Foodi and having more fun with it.