My mother-in-law bought the wife and me a 6.5 quart Ninja cooker. Looks like quite the machine. Who here has one and what advice can you offer?

Is that like an Instant Pot?
Electric pressure cooker, in essence?

Yes, presure cooker/steamer/fryer. It's even got a button on the control panel labeled "Yogurt"

We've got the Instant Pot variety.

Gets used regularly as a rice cooker.
Works great for a roast, too.
We've done meatloaf & mashed potatoes at the same time, with the divider it came with.

Supposedly can cook frozen chicken in under 20 minutes, but we haven't tried that.

The small cookbook which came with it says you can cook two pounds of frozen bone-in chicken breast in 25 minutes.

This one: https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-F...inless/dp/B08YP4NHQM

Sounds nuclear powered!

Looks like an air fryer too. I don't own one, but everyone I know recommends fries, tater tots, or chicken wings in them.

It's a great machine. I think mine is the older model of the one you posted.

I use the pressure cooking function to quickly cook chicken or pork and shred it. Then you can make sandwiches, wrap are just add your favorite sauce and eat it.

You can also make a wrap and toss it in the air-fry mode and it will heat and crisp it up.

Will make great french fries without all the oil. Just add enough to make one layer at a time and air-fry them up.

Got one last year. Love cooking chicken wings in it / combo pressure and air fryer function. Beat with fresh wings not pre frozen.

I really enjoy it for roasts or pork for carnitas and such.

I also use it to heat up cold items like a pizza slice, toast a sandwich, cook small items I don’t microwave. Quite versatile but never did the yogurt function. And I found it was way too long for jerky.

I have one but haven't done anything too fancy with it yet. The air fryer makes great chicken fingers and fries.

I've done several roasts using the pressure lid and they turn out fantastic and takes 80-90 minutes. I like to do a slightly modified version of a Mississippi Pot Roast and shred it for burritos.

I used to like to make meals using a crockpot. Then I got an electronic pressure cooker (mine is Cuisinart brand, but it works the same as Instant Pot).

Whatever I used to make in 6-8 hrs using the crockpot, I can make in 30-45 mins using the pressure cooker, and the results are just as good. I no longer own a crockpot.

These are great! My wife wanted one, I thought it was foolish, then we got one and I use it a lot.

One of the household favorites:

Chicken thighs (you could use breast, we just prefer the thigh):

Pat dry with a paper towel

Coat lightly with olive oil (butter will work too, if you prefer)

In a small bowl, mix salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder (you can play around with spices, to your taste)

Apply the spice mixture to the chicken

Use the Air Crisp (air fryer) function at 390°. I find that about 18 minutes is just about right, confirming with a ThermoPen for a target of 165° for breast or 170° for thighs. You can open the lid to check the temperature, that will pause the timer, and the cooking will resume when you close the lid.

Easy-peasy, and tasty!

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You can find all kinds of accessories for this. One that is very handy is this silicone thing for storing the removable pressure lid: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/pr...03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. We got a bright orange one, black things are stealthy and get lost easily.

We have one, pressure cooker and also heating element lid. It is great and can do just about anything.

I am sure I will be slammed for this, but I sold my Traeger after getting the pressure cooker. It does ribs in 90 minutes that are fall off the bone tender.

Chili in an hour instead of 6 hours in a crock pot.

Perfect hard boiled eggs in 5 minutes.

The easier question to answer is what can’t it do!

Wow, that does everything! It even dehydrates!

I have an Instant pot, and like the sous vide function for cheese sauce. Block of velveeta cheese, can of diced tomatoes, and a jar of homemade jalapeno slices chopped at 165F to melt, 140F to maintain. Add milk to thin as needed.

Here's the way it makes yogurt. You have to have a couple of tablespoons of yogurt, sort of like a sourdough starter for bread.

https://www.ninjakitchen.com/r...made-vanilla-yogurt/

We have one and love it.

Many good things can be made. I use it in particular for things like chicken wing or ox tail soup to really extract the collagen. Or beef short ribs / pork butt (carnitas) to make it really tender (even from frozen). Artichokes are also great but need to be careful (otherwise they melt away). Beans and bean soup - saves a lot of time. Making cream of potato or kabocha soup and the like is very quick.

I'm using ours right now. The oven is otherwise occupied, so the "baked" potatoes are in the Ninja Foodie.

I scrubbed the potatoes, coated them with olive oil (butter is a fine choice, too), then coated with a liberal application of kosher salt.

Into the Ninja for an hour on the Air Crisp (air fryer) function, and Bob's your uncle.

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Take a look on Amazon, you'll find many offerings of pre-cut round packages of parchment paper. You can put one of these sheets on the bottom of the air fryer basket to make clean-up a little easier. WARNING: If you're pre-heating the air fryer, do NOT put a sheet of parchment paper in during pre-heat. If there's nothing to hold the paper down (like food), the paper can easily fly up inside the Ninja, contact the heating element, and catch fire, so I never put a sheet in without food to hold it down.

We just replaced our first air fryer with a Ninja Dual Zone, but it’s not a pressure cooker. It air frys, roasts, and bakes. We use an air fryer weekly, it never occurred to me to have the pressure cooker option. Sounds like a good idea.

If it's like the one my wife uses (looks rectangular in shape), you are going to love it. Ours has bake function, stovetop function, and several others.

I don't use it much, but I know that when I set it on the high bake setting it will cook about 7 chicken thighs just right in about 50 minutes from stone cold.

I'm pretty sure my wife would rather take a sharp stick to the eye than lose her Ninja cooker!