Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160

One-minute review

Air toasters have been around since 2010 and their fashionability continues to grow as further and further people discover that these countertop appliances can cook, crisp and brown foods so gormandize that your roaster feels unbearably slow in comparison. Ninja is known for making some stylish blenders and Instant Pot druthers, but you can also look to this brand for some stylish air toasters.

Ninja offers two types of air toasters, its binary-zone models have two separate cuisine chambers and a larger capacity. Whereas the Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160( known as the Ninja Air Fryer Max XL in the US) has just one cuisine handbasket and is Ninja’s most ultra-expensive single-zone air range.

It’s clearly dear than other air toasters of this size available from rival brands, but it can do much further than produce delicious healthier performances of classic fried foods. It’s got six functions( seven on the US model), in addition to air frying it can be used to singe, rally and indeed dehydrate foods making it a protean appliance.

It’s a neat compact air range that still boasts a 5.2 liter/5.5- quart capacity so there’s enough space for four portions of feasts or indeed for a whole funk. It works like the utmost air toaster, by efficiently circulating veritably hot air in a small space, cooking foods 50 faster than addict ranges to produce crisp results that bear up to 75 lower fat than traditional frying.

On the test we set up it was easy to use, it was suitable to produce impressively crisp results in a short time, and is a great choice if you’re looking to switch out fried foods for a healthier volition.

Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160 price and availability

• List price: $349.9

Design

• 5.2 liter/5.5- quart capacity
• Small footmark

6 cuisine functions( 7 in the US)

We’re not suggesting the Ninja Air Fryer Max is a small appliance, but as air toasters go, this bone doesn’t take up important counter space, but it’s altitudinous. It measures 36 x 25 x 32 cm/14.8 x 11 x 14 elevation( h x w x d). And if you’d rather tuck it out of sight in a cupboard, at 5.2 kg/11.7 pounds it’s light enough for utmost people to move fluently.

The ceramic-coated cuisine handbasket comes with a removable ceramic-coated crisper plate, this raises food off the bottom of the handbasket, allowing air to circulate and redundant fat to drip down. Both are non-stick and can be gutted in the dishwasher. The handbasket is equipped with a large chunky handle to pull it out, which is also useful for giving your food a shake mid-cook.

The simple control panel features a digital display to count down the cuisine time. Each cuisine function can be named by pressing the corresponding button and there are fresh buttons to acclimate the dereliction time and temperature settings as well as a launch/ stop button and a power button. There are six cooking functions to choose from on the UK and Australia models, these are; Max Crisp, Air Fry, rally, Singe, Reheat, and Dehydrate. The US model comes with a seventh function, which is Air Broil.

The air shindig function can be set for over 60 twinkles outside of 210 C/ 410 F while the more important Max Crisp function heats at a set temperature of 240 C/ 450 F for outside of 30 twinkles. There are no predefined settings for your favorite foods, but you get a Quick Start Guide in the box which includes time and temperature suggestions as well as oil painting amounts for lots of foods as well as 20 fashions to try. Still, we’d like to see more cooking advice given for the rally and Singe functions as the companion is lacking this word.

Performance

• Cook time pauses when the handbasket is removed
• Quiet
• crisper plate allows redundant fat to drain down

There’s no set-up required and with a simple intuitive control panel and lots of cook times provided, it’s easy to get going with the Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160 even if you’re an air frying novice.

The primer suggests preheating the air range for three twinkles to get stylish results, so before adding food we set the timekeeper to three twinkles and let it preheat. This process isn’t annoying, but it would be great if Ninja could incorporate a preheat setting to make it simpler.

Using the Quick Start Guide we figured out an air shindig time of 20 twinkles for our hand-cut chunky feasts. The companion advises between0.5 Tbsp to 3Tbsp oil painting, so we decided for1.5 Tbsp which is further than needed by some other air range brands, but at the end of the cuisine, over0.5 Tbsp had drained into the bottom of the handbasket, leaving lower than 1Tbsp on the feasts.

We gave the feasts a shake three times during cuisine, but you do have to flash back to do this as the air range doesn’t prompt you. The finished feasts were golden, crispened, and ethereal outside, but we could have shaved a nanosecond or two off the cuisine time as some were a little overdone, having said that it was a pleasingly fast result to go from raw potato to cooked feasts in just 20 twinkles.

Frozen steak cut feasts cooked to perfection on the Max Crisp setting and despite the bag giving a chef time of 26 to 28 twinkles, they took just 12.5 twinkles which is lower than half the time they would take in a roaster. We did preheat the air range for three twinkles first and had to give them a shake a couple of times, but the result was impressively crisp feasts with soft ethereal centers.

When cooking funk bodies we reduced the suggested chef time, due to our portion being much lower than the quantum suggested in the companion. In the end, they took 12 twinkles and we chose not to add the 1 tbsp oil painting that Ninja suggested, this allowed fat inside the bodies to drain down for a healthier option. We turned the bodies doubly during cuisine and they developed a crisp skin while staying wettish and succulent outside.

The hottest temperature we recorded on the outside of the air range was 50 C/ 122 F but the handle and control panel stayed cool. The air frying process was quiet, registering just 50dB on our noise cadence, making it one of the quietest air toasters we’ve tested to date, and the original sound position of general chatter at home and fully respectable.

Nothing wedged to the handbasket or the crisper plate during our testing and both washed well in the dishwasher, although they aren’t too tricky to wash by hand moreover.

Should I buy the Ninja Air Fryer Max AF160?

Buy it if…

You’re short on counter space
Although it’s altitudinous, its small footmark means this air range doesn’t dominate your kitchen counter so you can enjoy the benefits of air-fried foods indeed if your kitchen is compact.

You want an easy-to-clean air range
The visage and crisper plate can be washed in the dishwasher so there’s really veritably little cleaning you’ll need to do by hand.

If you want healthier feasts gormandize
From raw potatoes to crisp golden home-cooked feasts in just 20 twinkles, not only can this air range save time in the kitchen, but you’ll be making healthier feasts with lower oil painting than if you cook them in a range.

Don’t buy it if…

You want binary cuisine zones
With just one cuisine handbasket this air range doesn’t give you the option to cook two foods alongside each other like the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone Air Fryer AF400.

You’re cooking for a crowd
Depending on what you’re making there’s ample space to cook for over 4 portions but larger families would profit from an air range with a larger capacity.

You want food presets
Some air toasters offer predefined settings for common foods like feasts, funk, and firmed food. rather, this air range comes with a quick launch companion full of cooking maps detailing time and temperature settings for a whole host of foods.