Ninja's Glass-Bowl Air Fryer Won Me Over. Here Are 4 Reasons I Made the Switch

Ninja's Glass-Bowl Air Fryer Won Me Over. Here Are 4 Reasons I Made the Switch
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Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise are cheese, chocolate, cooking and wine. She’s a culinary school grad, certified sommelier, former bartender and fine dining captain with 10 years in the industry. When not sitting at the keys, she leads in-home cheese classes, wine tastings and cocktail demonstrations.
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David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen

David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from Northeastern and has toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or tinkering with a toaster. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.
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Ninja Crispi

Pros
  • Cook, serve, and storage capabilities
  • Easy to clean: almost everything is dishwasher-safe
  • Intuitive operation
  • No concern about PFAS
  • Ability to see cooking in progress
  • Can buy additional glass vessels for maximum food prep
  • Small storage footprint with nesting capabilities
  • Portable

This past spring, a new contender stood out: an air fryer with a sleek glass cooking chambe that breaks from the usual bulky black-box design and hard-to-get-really-clean nonstick basket. After running it through our full battery of tests, it didn’t just pass — it quickly became the favorite.

The Crispi is one of the more expensive air fryers we’ve tested at $160. But if you’re hunting for an air fryer that’s easy to use, easy to get clean — like, really clean — built to last and causes no concern about ingesting cookware chemicals, the Ninja Crispi is worth a look.

Here’s how it works and four reasons I switched to a glass-bowl air fryer in 2025.

4 reasons I switched to the glass-bowl Ninja Crispi

  1. You can see what you’re cooking

As expected, the ability to see the cooking in progress was really satisfying, both from a nerdy perspective and also to be able to look for visual cues in terms of when to flip your items or to assess doneness. Both chicken parts and Brussels sprouts were cooked evenly and efficiently with little risk of over-cooking given the 360-degree window into the proceedings.

2. Glass bowls are nontoxic and easy to get clean

Most air fryers use aluminum cooking baskets with a nonstick coating. Those coatings tend to chip and breakdown if you’re not careful. Plenty of folks are concerned about the health ramifications for ingesting nonstick chemicals that chip of of cookware. With a glass-bowl air fryer, there’s no worry.

Additional cooking bowls in a variety of sizes can be purchased separately, allowing for the possibility of a multitude of individually cooked meals with no cleanup required in between use: just transfer the cooking pod from one cooking vessel to the next, assembly-line style. Sunday meal prep has never been easier, nor required fewer dishes.

See it at Ninja

Source: CNET.

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