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Pork chop with some BBQ sauce, cooked on the Ninja Foodi Grill. Served with steamed cauliflower with butter and store-bought coleslaw.

No. They were bare tenders and then I coated them, shake n bake style. Panko, paprika, granulated garlic and onion, salt, pepper and some sugar. Sprayed with olive oil just before going in. I didn’t flip them.

Panko chicken tenders and frozen fries, both cooked together in the Ninja Foodi Grill on Air Crisp mode. Both came out great.

Panko chicken tenders and more fries. Both were cooked together for 14 minutes at 350F using Air Crisp and came out great. Juicy chicken and the fries were crispy but not over-cooked.

These are the same size.

What is you idea of them? Even smaller/thinner?

Last night I did Safeway brand shoestring frozen fries. The package said for an oven to use 425F for 20 minutes, the Ninja instructions called for 350F for 20-24 minutes, but that was for a full pound. I only did 4 ozs, so I cut it back to 16 minutes and that was a little too long. The fries were very crispy, actually a bit overdone, but very edible.

Yes. Look back in the thread. It was one of the first things I did.

Finally got a chance to play with the air fryer mode (which they call Air Crisp). Did a few sweet potato tots. The tots' directions for the oven called for 425F for 20-24 minutes, while the manual called for 360F for 20-22 minutes (actually just tots, not sweet potato). So I went for 425 for 18 minutes and at 9 minutes when I shook them I knew it would be too much. So I lowered the temp to 360 and cut the total time to 11 minutes. Next time I will try what's in the manual. The tots came out very nice, much crispier than I recall in the BSOA. The Ninja heated up very quickly. Impressed so far. Tomorrow I plan to try some regular frozen shoestrings.

Some of the frozen foods are now starting to have air fryer instructions.

Egg salad sandwich on toasted rye, served with assorted veggies.

Sirloin steak, cooked on the Ninja Foodi Grill, served with corn on the cob, MW'd in the husk.

My last grill test for this thread. Steak, cooked with the probe to Rare 2 (110F) with a 5 minute rest, in which it rose to 132F. It came out OK, certainly edible and not overcooked, but I prefer SV and then a sear, so that's the way I will likely continue to make my steaks.

Actually there is a video I watched yesterday that compares the Cosori, Instant Pot and Ninja Grills.

Back when I was really learning to cook, the first recipe I made for my daughter was a Thai basil chicken from Sunset magazine. It came out great but when I went to make it again, I discovered that it called for chicken stock in the list of ingredients, but was nowhere in the instructions. I emailed them about it and they had no answer. I must have added it at the right time by accident.

You are probably right. I have one more grill test to do tonight (steak) and then on to some air fryer mode tests.

Thick boneless pork chop, cooked with the pork preset and probe to Med. Rare (130F), flipped when it told me, and rested as it also told me (for 5 minutes). Also marinated some squash in peanut oil, balsamic and soy sauce while the grill was pre-heating, so not that long. Put them on along with the chop and rotated when I rotated the chop. Both came out very well - the chop was nice and juicy and not over-cooked. Ditto the squash.

Thick pork chop, no seasoning before cooking - just salt and pepper after - served with squash briefly marinated in oil, balsamic and soy sauce.

Burgers, served with steamed broccolini with butter.

Burgers on the Ninja Foodi Grill. These were the 1/3 lb Angus chuck frozen patties from Costco. Cooked from frozen on Medium for 8 minutes, flipped half-way through. (Cooked to medium rare.) Came out very good.

Salmon cooked on the new Ninja Foodi Grill. Just plain - only salt and pepper after cooking and it was very tasty. Served with steamed Brussels sprouts in butter.

Salmon - just plain, no seasoning or oil before putting on the grill. Grill set to Max, no probe. Set it for 8 minutes but after flipping at 4 minutes it appeared that if I let it go another 4 it would be overcooked. So I let it go another two and took a temperature measurement - love the new Thermapen with the 1 second read! It was 132F so I pulled it. We both liked it a lot! Flaky but not dried out. Burgers tonight!

Chicken thighs, cooked on my latest toy, a Ninja Foodi Grill, served with steamed peas in butter.

So mixed success. I decided to use a simple spice dusting with some peanut oil on some fresh, bone-in chicken thighs, and use the thermometer probe. But when the probe said they were done, they were still uncooked in the middle. That could be my probe placement or the fact they they were pretty thin or both. But after another 5 minutes on Hi (no probe, but checked with the latest ThermoWorks ThermaPen instant read thermometer), they were perfectly cooked with crispy skin and maybe just a little too charred. No discernable smoke and clean-up was relatively easy. Tonight I will try some salmon and will report back.

I agree and it's pretty heavy too. The biggest disappointment for me re: real estate is the air fryer basket and grill can't be stored in the unit together. Seems like with a little more engineering effort that could have happened.