Meet the Ninja Foodi Indoor Grill. The grill that sears, sizzles, and air fry crisps. With unique Cyclonic Grilling Technology, 500F rapid cyclonic air circulates around food for amazing Surround Searing, while the 500F high-density grill grate gives you delicious char-grilled marks and flavor virtually smoke-free. It’s also an air fry crisper, allowing you to enjoy guilt-free fried food.
Electric Grills
Ninja AG301 Foodi 5-in-1 Indoor Electric Grill with Air Fry, Roast, Bake & Dehydrate – Programmable, Black/Silver
$4.60
| Asin | B07S76WBGF |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 14.9"D x 14.9"W x 11.02"H |
| Weight | 20 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | SharkNinja |
DiJeff –
I’ve been wanting an air fryer for a while now, but space is limited in our small casita. When I saw this combo of an indoor grill/air fryer, and that the brand was Ninja, I jumped right in. LOVE this appliance! I do not find it so big that it takes up major real estate on my kitchen counter at all. The grill is easy to work and cooks fabulously! The air fryer not only cooks but reheats left overs to perfection. Even the hubby likes to use it which says a lot! It is so easy to clean and use. Most importantly, the food really tastes GOOD! It also takes less time for me to put together a quick dinner/lunch. Ninja quality is worth every penny. If you are thinking about purchasing this, just do it; you won’t be sorry at all.
Gina –
I love this! I use it several times a week. I cook meals for a family of 7 plus every night. I like the size and that I can cook things quickly. I can bake, roast, air fry and grill quickly, less mess and delicious! Great quality, compact and a great value!
Shelly –
This is a multi-use kitchen appliance that makes cooking easy. It works great and keeps the kitchen cool on hot summer days. I love it!
Jayemzs –
It works great. Easy to use, easy to clean, easy to learn. Only problem is I have to leave the door outside, or a window open when I use it because my smoke alarms do not like it.
Nick/Trilkin –
tl;dr: Good device. Worth getting in place of a normal air fryer due to its greater flexibility. It is, however, still a convection device. Keep in mind when cooking things.
This is a first impression so far only using it to cook a few things so far, but my experience has been great – if with a few caveats. For full disclosure, I bought this with my own money and while it was about $30 off. I received what appeared by all accounts to be a brand new unit with that new appliance smell, complete with burning off excess plastics on first use.
First things first: this is a fancy convection oven. It’s a convection oven that gets to very high temperatures and has very strong air circulation, but it is – ultimately – a convection oven. Unlike a proper grill, this has a fan that is constantly circulating air which means it will cook things faster. Keep this in mind when using it and make adjustments to prevent overcooking your food. As a general rule, the recommended times that come with the device are to make something Well Done. For this purpose, they’re accurate, but you probably will want to cut a few minutes off of those times for anything less than that.
The device itself is straight forward to use. It has fairly standard oven/air fryer controls, but arranged a little differently. There are different functions that effectively change whether the air circulates in the unit or not, and there are macro temperature controls (low, med, high, max) that can be fine tuned from there. Time is only in intervals of whole minutes, which is slightly inconvenient, but Fine.
When initially starting up and preheating, this thing is fairly loud. It doesn’t stay loud for long, but can probably wake up a light sleeper in a small apartment. Probably not a huge issue, but one to be mindful of when using for the first time.
I’ve cooked london broil and salmon with this using the Grill option (regular circulation) with the recommended temperature settings (High and Max accordingly.) As I mentioned before, be mindful of how much you want to cook something. The recommended settings always err toward Well Done. As an example: in the case of salmon, I cooked it for eight minutes the first time and it was just a touch more cooked than preferred. At seven minutes, it was perfect.
As for the steak, don’t make the same mistake I did the first time and keep opening the grill if you have a standard meat thermometer. All of that hot air is just going to escape and it’ll take some time to get back up to temperature again. In my case, I was too paranoid about the doneness of the steak that I ended up slightly overcooking it (medium-well instead of medium-rare) due to having to bring the unit back to temperature in order for it to cook the center properly. In short: get a quick read thermometer, or just follow the guide line of shaving a minute or two off of recommended cook time based on desired doneness.
As for the results, they still tasted great. The grill surface does get hot enough to make a nice sear into the meat. Like any convection oven, the circulating air keeps the food from drying out and the cuts of meat were left very juicy and tasty.
Cleaning is easy for as long as the ceramic coating lasts. This is the same caveat as literally anything with a Teflon (or similar) coating. If you’re especially paranoid, let everything soak in soap+water before cleaning it off. The brush it comes with does the job, but any sort of dish scrubbing brush (NOT WIRE PADS) should be just as good.
Overall, my first impressions of this appliance are great. It is far easier, quicker, tastier, and more convenient than frying off or sticking something in the oven to broil. My wife and I have replaced the air fryer in our kitchen with this since it serves both purposes. If anything changes, I’ll update this review.
Update: We’ve cooked a larger variety of things including turkey legs, hamburgers, smaller wings and so on. Everything remains great. It’s been very easy to clean as well with no signs of chipping on the finish. I will say I do hand clean everything, but it shouldn’t make much difference in the dishwasher.
Amazon Customer –
This 5-in-1 Ninja is the first device of a kind I got. I love it. It takes some time to learn about use, cooking times, etc. No heat in the kitchen, no smoke. I’ve never used an outdoor grill. Now, I can grill!
StephenN. –
This is actually my second one of these, the first finally kicking the bucket after 4 years of almost daily use. For what we paid for it, I would say that was a pretty solid life time with no issues. This second Ninja is a slightly different design. It is actually easier to clean.
D. Short –
I love this Ninja Foodi Grill with Air Fryer. It does not take up much space and clean up is very easy. The best part is everything I have cooked tastes very good and is not greasy. It was a great way to grill when temperatures were excessively high. So glad I decided to order this.
Susan R. –
I was on the fence about getting this for several months–I just wasn’t sure if I wanted yet one more thing on my counter. But, I happened to get it at some flash sale price, so I bit the bullet and bought it. It actually took me a couple of days to start using it (I get intimidated with new kitchen things sometimes), but once I started, WOW! I watched tons of YT videos of people cooking with this, so I had a decent idea of what worked and of course after using it since May, I have just figured out what works best. To be honest, I use air crisp for almost everything except for steaks. I air crisp burgers (much faster that way), pork rind breaded pork chops, fish balls, pork rind breaded fish, chicken wings and bacon. We don’t eat cakes or cookies, so I can’t say that I’ve used the bake function. The grill plate takes much much longer to heat up, but we really like our steaks on the grill plate and grill function as opposed to air crisp. The Ninja is fairly easy to clean, at least the bottom bin and the air fryer basket are. The grill is fairly easy too if you soak it. The screen at the top can be a pain and trying to clean around the top can be tricky and I have cut my knuckles doing that. I do wish they had put the ceramic coating on the lid or at least used metal that wasn’t so sharp. That is my main complaint. If they had only put the ceramic coating on the lid, cleaning would be really easy. With the screen, about once a month, I put it in boiling water with vinegar and a few drops of dawn to try and clean it. That works fairly well. I do have issues with my smoke detectors going off though, but my sister in law has one of these and just puts it on her counter near her stove and turns on her exhaust fan and that keeps her detectors from going off. I don’t have a functioning exhaust fan, otherwise I would do the same thing. So I put my kitchen detector in a drawer while I’m using the Ninja and that works. Seriously though, it has made cooking much more fun and since you can actually cook frozen food, like frozen burgers (we get awesome specialty burgers from our farmers market), but it has just made eating so much easier for my husband and I. In one minute, we can pull some burgers out of the freezer, heat up the Ninja and cook them and they’re done in about 15-16 minutes (our burgers are very large)! Pretty much anything we make takes less than 17 minutes to cook (except for the chicken wings). Yes, we eat mostly carnivore, so as long as we have some kind of meat in the fridge or freezer, it’s really easy for us and we literally have used this just about every single day since we got it!
Miko –
My grill gave up the ghost so I went looking for something to take it’s place. I already had an air fryer so I want looking for that in my replacement. This ninja is amazing! It does a better job of air frying than my separate air fryer, it grills veggies and not just sandwiches perfectly, it bakes biscuits, and clean up is easy compared to cleaning my old grill and air fryer. I love it!