Ninja - Foodi Dual Zone FlexBasket 7QT MegaZone

Given all the research you’ve already done, you’ve probably seen that giant comparison database of air fryers floating around Reddit [here, I bookmarked it](https://www.reddit.com/u/MaterialisticOcelot/s/AuYboNaNB6). It’s super handy if you want to line up the details down to the very last spec. I personally have the Ninja Foodi and really like it, but I wouldn’t really consider it a “budget” pick since it runs close to $200. That said, I do think you get what you pay for with these. I’d be careful about going under $50 on an appliance you expect to last.

I have had mine over a year now and the stainless color on the handles is fine. Editing to say I have not put mine in the dishwasher though and I am assuming that may be the cause.

Dude I’ve been a skeptic for years and I finally got one the other day, ninja duel basket and it’s absolutely awesome being able to choose 2 different modes or times and temperatures even if just cooking for 1

I have had a ninja duel for 2 1/2 years and still working great

I have a ninja dual and I love it

I’d recommend the Ninja Dual Foodie, it has two drawers so you can only use one drawer for a small amount, or both for larger or different things.

Foodi pressure cooks just fine Depends. Any device with "air fry" mode is going to be a compromise compared to a real air fryer. Personally I find the Foodi's two lid system to be clunky and annoying to deal with. I pretty much just use my convection oven instead of the foodi. I use a stovetop pressure cooker myself. But I definitely wouldn't recommend the foodi for mainly pressure cooking because the air fryer lid is permanently attached. So that would be pretty much always in the way.

I’ve had mine for years can’t beat them

I just got this one a few weeks ago and I love it. You can cook one big item or two smaller items. You can also time them to finish cooking at the same time. Ninja DZ071 Foodi 6-in-1 FlexBasket Air Fryer with 7-QT MegaZone & Basket Divider https://www.ninjakitchen.com/products/ninja-foodi-flexbasket-air-fryer-with-7qt-megazone-zidDZ071

You don’t have to figure out timing with this one you can set one side for the temperature and the time and set the other side for a different temperature and time. Then you hit the start button and the oven pauses cooking for the one with a shorter cook time so they both finish at the same time. This is an awesome upgrade from the last one I had when I had to try to figure out the timing.

But you don’t have to do anything except set your oven. Set one side 350 for 60 minutes. Set the other side 375 for 40 minutes. Hit the button that says smart match. Then hit the button that says start One side of the oven is paused for 20 minutes, which makes them finish at the correct temperature and time. In other words, one of them cooks for 60 minutes at 350 and the other one cooks at 40 minutes for 375.

It doesn’t take just as long if one takes 10 minutes at 350 and the other one takes 5 minutes at 350. You hit start and one side doesn’t start until five minutes later than the other one. If you have one that is 350 for 10 minutes and the other one is 375 for five minutes. One starts cooking at 350 for five minutes and then the other one starts cooking at 375. Both of them end up being finished at the same time. I have heard people talking about voltage and I don’t get it. I am in the US and my oven says the voltage on my oven is a little under 1700 W. Not sure I understand what that means if you’re setting your oven for 350°.

I have the one that has the option to use one side or the other or take out the divider and cook a big item so I’m not sure if it operates the same way as mine. That being said……. I said you set the temperature on one side for what the box or recipe cause for. Then you set the time and temperature for the other side for what the box or the recipe calls for. Then you hit start. If one recipe calls for 15 minutes less than the other, it gets paused for five minutes.

Mine is the flex basket. The one in that photo is not. Mine has separate eating elements and it’s awesome. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ninja+DZ071&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fpisces.bbystatic.com%2Fimage2%2FBestBuy_US%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2F6551%2F6551536cv17d.jpg

Mine is 1690 W in the US. This is mine and you can program two different products and two different drawers with two different cook times and temps to finish at the same time. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ninja+DZ071&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fpisces.bbystatic.com%2Fimage2%2FBestBuy_US%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2F6551%2F6551536cv17d.jpg

This oven does it automatically. You set one side for time and temperature and the other side for another time and temperature and you hit the start button. The one with the lower cook time is paused and starts automatically to make them finish cooking at the same time.

I just got this air fryer a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it. So glad that another brand that I ordered first was defective and I had to return it. The first one was an air fryer oven, which is what I had before it died. So happy I went with a regular air fryer that was not also a convection oven. EDIT: I just noticed this has two drawers and mine doesn’t it has one drawer with two sections that you can cook two different foods at different times and they come out finished at the same time. You can also remove the divider and cook one big item. Mine is a Ninja with what they call a Megazone.

Any dual compartment Ninjia. Ninja until I die. Amazing bang for your buck