Our favourite Ninja air fryer has plummeted in price – get it cheaper than ever this Black Friday
Ninja’s Foodi Dual Zone has long been a stalwart favourite here at Expert Reviews and now it is cheaper than ever for Black Friday
An air fryer is at the top of many people’s shopping lists this November and for good reason. These countertop cookers have taken UK kitchens by storm, winning consumers over with their rapid cooking speeds, energy efficiency and convenience. However, the biggest and best air fryers are quite expensive at full price, making sales periods like Black Friday the perfect time to pick one up.
If you’ve followed our reviews coverage at all, you’ll know that Ninja air fryers have been the most consistently impressive air fryers we’ve tested, thanks to their great cooking performance and innovative designs. Our favourite among the brand’s offerings has long been the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone, a well put-together dual drawer air fryer which bagged five stars and our Best Buy award when we originally reviewed it.
The Ninja Foodi Dual Zone debuted with a total of £220 and has since averaged a price of £172. A series of pre-Black Friday price drops throughout November saw it fall to £149, then £119, and now, for the day itself, it has crashed down all the way to £100. That makes this one of the best Black Friday deals currently available, so be sure to snap it up before the sale ends.
Why am I recommending the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone?
The Ninja Foodi Dual Zone impresses straight out the box, with a matte-black finish, digital screen and chrome accents, as well as a roomy 7.6l overall capacity (3.8l per drawer). Along with looking the part, the Foodi Dual Zone offers a commendable range of functions: Air Fry, Reheat, Roast, Bake, Dehydrate and Max Crisp, the latter of which boosts the cooking temperature to 240°C to quickly achieve a brilliant crisp on frozen foods. During the testing process, our air fryer expert, Danielle Amato, was impressed with the Foodi Dual Zone’s cooking abilities, setting aside the air fryer’s Max Crisp mode for special praise.
One of the main draws of dual air fryers is their versatility, as they allow you to cook different foods simultaneously in their twin baskets. The Foodi Dual Zone helps things along in this regard, with its handy Sync and Match buttons. The Sync function ensures foods in both baskets finish at the same time, even if they’re set to different times and/or temperatures, while Match mirrors the settings on both baskets, allowing you to cook up two batches of the same item without inputting the same settings twice.
Are there any drawbacks to the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone?
One usually unavoidable issue with dual drawer air fryers is their physical size. Arranging two sizable drawers next to each other means they’re inherently large, with the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone’s 41.5cm breadth potentially making it two wide for some people’s kitchen countertops. While the only previous solution to this issue has been to make space by moving things around, Ninja has neatly addressed this issue with its latest model, the DoubleStack XL, which arranges its drawer vertically instead of horizontally, giving it a much smaller worktop footprint. If you like the sound of that, I should mention that the Ninja DoubleStack XL is also reduced for Black Friday, dropping down from an average price of £246 to just £189.
Should you buy the Ninja Foodi Dual Zone in the Black Friday sale?
In the course of testing and reviewing air fryers for our kitchen section, I’ve settled on the opinion that dual air fryers are the best option for most people. They offer enough room to cook both sides and main portions, as well as the versatility to make multiple portions in the same appliance simultaneously.
The well-built Ninja Foodi Dual Zone with its versatile, drawer syncing abilities, solid range of cooking modes and excellent performance in testing, is as fine an example of a dual air fryer as can you’re likely to find anywhere. It has remained our favourite Ninja air fryer for a long time now and is one of favourite models generally, so getting it for just £100 – its lowest price ever and a massive £70 down from its average total – is a Black Friday steal that you can’t afford to miss out on.
