Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone Air Fryer AF400UK Review: Perfect for large families

Super-sizing final year’south Dual Zone model, the Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone Air Fryer AF400UK provides a huge 9.five litres of cooking space, split between two drawers. Each compartment tin can be controlled individually, or you tin can but double-up to cook a larger quantity of one item. Provided you have infinite to shop this beast of a fryer, information technology’southward a brilliant pick.

Introduction

The problem with near air fryers is that once you lot come to dearest what they do and become used to them, you lot then have to work out how to cook dissimilar items at the same time. Concluding year’southward Ninja Dual Zone Air Fryer AF300UK solved that issue past including two individually controlled drawers. This year, nosotros have the larger model the Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone Air Fryer AF400UK, presenting even more cooking room.

Effectively, this model delivers all the dandy features of last year’s model, only with a 9.5-litre total capacity. For larger families, or simply for cooking bigger items, this is a great fryer – provided y’all have the room to store information technology.

Design and Features

• A huge air fryer with large-capacity drawers
• Clever cooking controls
• Lots of modes

There’s no getting around the fact that the Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone Air Fryer AF400UK is a animal of a model. Measuring 325 10 415 x 270mm and weighing 8.8kg, y’all’re going to need a off-white corporeality of infinite to shop it.

Of course, the do good of its size is capacity. In full, this air fryer offers 9.5 litres of space, split evenly between its ii four.75-litre drawers. That’south almost a litre of extra space per drawer than the smaller AF300UK model.

According to Ninja, that’southward enough infinite for 1.4kg of chips per side or even a 2kg chicken. The drawers are fairly narrow, then the overall size of your craven, rather than pure weight, volition determine if it will fit in.

Every bit with the older model, the AF400UK excels for cooking options. Each drawer can be controlled individually, with a pick of Max Crisp (240ºC estrus for crisping up chips, for example), Air Fry, Roast, Bake, Dehydrate (perfect for saving herbs) and Reheat. You lot can control the temperature for each mode and select a cooking time.

If y’all want to use the 2 drawers together, you have a choice of ii modes: Lucifer and Sync. Match applies the aforementioned settings to both drawers, letting yous double-upwardly portions. Sync allows individual settings, only the AF400UK ensures that both drawers complete cooking at the same fourth dimension.

Food cooks all-time in air fryers if yous give it a shake mid-cooking, resulting in an fifty-fifty finish. With many models, you’ll need to dig out a pair of oven gloves to do this. The AF400UK makes this simple by including handles on the outside of its drawers. Pull 1 out and the air fryer stops (both drawers stop in Sync or Match modes), so you tin shake away and reinsert.

Ninja provides a handy cookbook in the box, which provides rough cooking times for raw and frozen ingredients, plus a few recipes with which to get started. Equally a rough guide, I commonly reduce oven cooking times listed on items past around twenty%.

Everything hither tin be cleaned in the dishwasher once you’re done, significant there’south very little clearing up to deal with.

Operation

• Cooks thoroughly
• Drawer space means items are crispy
• Max Crisp helps boost frozen food

I started by cooking some chips in the air fryer, using the 200ºC setting. Although I had to shake the contents of the drawer two or three times during cooking, it’due south all the interaction the AF400UK required.

At the end of cooking time, my chips were perfectly cooked – evenly well-baked throughout, without whatsoever sign of being burnt or overcooked.

To back-trail the chips, I cooked some sausages. Using spray oil to requite them a light coating fat, I placed them in the AF400UK at 180ºC with the timer reduced past 20% compared to the cooking instructions. After the time had elapsed, the sausages were perfectly cooked: well-baked and browned evenly all over.

To give the Max Well-baked function a become, I used it to cook frozen hash browns – which all too often come out of a regular oven slightly soggy. Although they’re supposed to be cooked in the oven for around 20 minutes, I prepare the cooking fourth dimension to eleven minutes because of the high 240ºC temperature.

At the finish of the cooking time, the hash browns were super-crispy on the exterior, still evenly cooked and nonetheless fluffy on the inside. This is a vast comeback over cooking them in the oven.

Reheating food items in the air fryer works brilliantly, besides, particularly for pizza. Rather than a soggy mess, you can maintain the crisp base.

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