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At amazon today.

I’ve had Ninja for about a month and used it at least 8 times now which is way more than IP I bought over a year ago. I have used IP maybe 5 times so far. Mostly making bean dishes. For my style of cooking favoring fried foods common in many Japanese cooking, Ninja is useful. Small and quick for 2-3 serving sizes. Makes ok tonkatsu, shrimp and seafood fry, fried shumai and gyoza, fried chicken, and useful when reheating foods requiring crisp exterior quickly.

Works well for panko coated foods. Never like deep fried, but acceptable. I like french fried potatoes and sweet potatoes using this. Seems to stay crisp longer than traditional 2 stage deep frying for me. Makes great grilled fish quickly too. Still have not used it for using corn and flour tortillas. I want to create crisp corn tortillas for tacos next. I tried baking corn tortillas using the oven method and they came hard and not good at all. This machine is light which is great because I can move it easily on the counter. Cleans easily too.

Another first using air fryer today. I normally shallow fry eggplant slices which have been coated in bread crumbs in olive oil for making eggplant parmesan. I’ve tried unfried versions few times but did not like results at all. But frying eggplants in oil suck up too much oil and messier.

For air fryer versions, i dusted the slices in flour and lightly misted with olive oil. These eggplant slices were initially salted lightly and drained for 30 min to get rid of bitterness. Although I can only fit 4-5 slices per batch, it only took about 6 min total with mid turning per batch and no sputtering oil. Loved the results.

Not having good luck with air frying corn tortillas for making tacos yet. The wrappers fly around inside from air because they are too light.

I hope you like yours as much as I like mine. This is like flying on a jet instead of prop plane. Faster and turbo charged cooking than ovens. Cooks quickly, needs shaking or turning mid way for best results. Some foods cook faster than directions but it is very easy to pause and slide the basket out to check on foods.

Mine came with multi layer rack which I should have used to secure corn tortillas for tacos so they don't fly around and stay flat or whatever shape I am aiming for. This makes good tortilla chips too.

Not sure if this works for battered foods. I plan to try that soon. But it does work if battered first then panko used on outer layer.

Also, you can use aluminum foil inside.