Which airfryer. AF300 or Af 400

[Cheshirefaye]

There have been other airfryer discussions. Mine is which of these 2 to get. I dont eat meat and hubby doees nt always
Although only the 2 of us we are sometime 6 and sometimes 9. But not often 9

I use a microwave and slowcooker and almost always cook from scratch.
I like the idea of cooking a full sunday lunch in the air fryer which would mean the af 400.
Also i could do say gammon and a chicken and have enough meat for the week.
Gammon freezes so well.
The is nt much difference in price
What do you all think /advise
Many thanks faye

I have the AF300 which I use during the week for dh and I, for more people at the weekend I use the oven. There’s no way you’d beable to cook for 9 in it. I’ve never seen the AF400 so can’t help you with that.

Should add I love the air fryer, wish I’d got one years ago!

Thank you. Very helpul
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Me too. They ve rocketed in price or are out of stock

Currently flying off the shelf virtually on Ideal World, not Ninja, Instant brand!

I have the 300 and there are 2 of us here, would get the 400 if buying again, just to have bigger drawers.

We have AF 400. There are 4 of us altho we also cook for 2 or 1 in it. AF400 all the way as you have more space in drawers to do things like cakes, individual crumbles in little pots, etc. glad I didn’t go with 300. Friends bought the 300 for two of them and wish they’d gone larger.

We are a vegetarian family. I finish jacket potatoes in them and do lots of roast squash for soups.
kids air fry their vege burgers etc.

We have had several air fryers in the past and the insides of the trays turn black within 3-6 months, no matter how careful we have been in washing them according to instructions and this is extremely disappointing.

After googling for several days, I came across the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone Air Fryer AF300 which states "first air fryer with 2 independent 3.8L baskets that let you cook 2 foods, 2 ways, at the same time, not back-to-back like a traditional single-basket air fryer" There are almost 5000 reviews on this product, mostly 5-star.

After being impressed with these features and looking at reviews, we made the plunge and purchased this fryer. We have cooked all sorts of foods in this machine from raw vegetables (making chips), to frozen products and use it every day, several times a day. It has a huge 7.6L capacity with 6 cooking functions - Air Fry, Air Broil, Roast, Bake, Reheat, and Dehydrate.

This fryer is so versatile with its 2 separate compartments and you can cook and separate different foods and "match" them to finish cooking at the same time if items in one compartment take longer the the other compartment. Absolutely brilliant and we all love this feature so much and so time saving in having to do things differently before air fryers existed, or with our other previous air fryers we had. Otherwise you can simply cook using just the one compartment for brilliant results also.

One bug bear has always been that fryers (as well as pizza trays) go black eventually. A $7 pizza tray after a year is acceptable- just throw it out and buy another one, but when it comes to all our previous air fryers, the supposed non-stick trays going black after just 3-6 months is disgusting and is a common problem with all other air fryers, even expensive one that we have had, BUT- 13 months on and used several times a day, our Ninja fryer is as clean as the day we purchased it! How can you better that?

A warning though- a lot of people mentioned there is a nasty chemical smell when first used and we found this also, but if you google how to get rid of chemical smell in air fryers, and follow the steps as we did and "sanitised" about 4 or 5 times, then its been faultless ever since.

This has to be the best cooking appliance we have in the house for every day use.

Have recommended this to all of our family and friends and I know they have purchased one.

I am currently thinking I might actually sell one of my kids to get my hands on a AF400!

I have no idea when they are going to come back into stock, and apparently even when they do people are paying and then Ninja aren't sending them because they don't have the stock.

I am also looking at the Tower 9l dual basket as an alternative, but that's nowhere to be seen either. There is also the Njnja AF451 I think it is which is still 9l dual basket but slightly different control panel.

If anyone knows where I can get one (for not 509 quid!) then let me know! I have signed up for emails from all the usual places.

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Got mine now wonderful. Ebay and wad abkur £285. Supplied by user called Gobbo. Postage free. Ordered Su day was here yesterday am

We have the AF400, it's ideal for me & my mum, the drawers are big enough to fir a large potato gratin in a foil tray or 2 breaded plaice fillets, I have also managed 4 pork steaks in one drawer & then potatoes in the other. I'm going to buy the silicone liners & the metal racks next week so we can cook more in one cycle.

Yes is great. Did 4 chicken breasts and roast potatoes yesterday and put frozen yorkshires in with the roast potatoes for the last 4 mins
Need to get to grips with settings and times but seems easy enough.
Where are you getting silicone baskets and racks from.
Enjoy your cooking
Faye