{Photograph}: Matthew Korfhage
To cook dinner meals, the Crispi have to be positioned atop the 6-cup or 4-quart borosilicate glass air frying “baskets” that include the gadget—that are actually extra like casserole dishes, with finger-safe handles and Tupperware-style lids. There’s an adapter to permit the Crispi to suit the bigger 4-quart dimension. The coatings on the crisping plates, as with many Ninja merchandise, are PFAS-free ceramic.
Plug the Crispi in, flip it to one in all 4 air frying settings, and hit Go. That’s it. When the meals’s executed, doff the air fryer. Now the basket is a table-ready serving dish, full with handles and a base. Put the hermetic lid on prime, and the dish is now your fridge or journey container. Fortunately, each are remarkably straightforward to wash—simpler than most nonstick metallic baskets, actually.
This makes the Crispi an ingenious train in economic system—a zero-counter-space answer that has induced one UK author to hail it as an air fryer for the housing disaster. One other author thought the gadget was perhaps excellent for Zoomers, no matter this implies.
Both approach, the Crispi struck a nerve. Even with a $160 price ticket, hefty within the air fryer world, the Crispi has offered out a number of manufacturing runs for the reason that gadget was launched in September 2024.
A Fuzzy Thermostat
Now, let’s be clear. There are trade-offs. Strictly judged by cooking efficiency, the Crispi is much from the most effective air fryer you should buy for the worth. The fryer has simply 4 considerably squishy settings: Recrisp, Bake, Air Fry, and Max Crisp. The latter two blast air at excessive speeds, the primary two at a whisper.
A sticker on the Crispi guarantees somewhat-dodgy temperature ranges for every setting, from 375 to 450 levels Fahrenheit. In observe, even these fudged temperatures can’t absolutely be trusted.
For one factor, you’ll get completely different cooking temps and airflow relying on whether or not you utilize the big or small dish. On both, the Crispi tends to run not less than 10 levels colder than marketed, a thermostat problem that has dogged different Ninja gadgets I’ve examined. To get above 400 levels Fahrenheit, whether or not indoors or on a frigid winter patio, select the 425-degree Max Crisp setting. The Air Fry setting will get you nearer to 390.
