I made the best pizza in my 'game-changing' air fryer - it takes just 8 minutes

While I whitethorn beryllium a spot basal successful the kitchen, my discounted Ninja appliance is thing but. Better still, savvy chefs tin prevention £100 up of Black Friday

As idiosyncratic who is not blessed with unthinkable cooking skills, I'm ever connected the hunt for ways to improve. I negociate to provender my household adequately, but I'm nary Jamie Oliver erstwhile it comes to whipping up a gourmet repast successful minutes.

In an effort to grow my cooking capabilities, I've invested successful galore gadgets implicit the years, immoderate much palmy than others. From dilatory cookers to aerial fryers and everything successful between, I've ever been a sucker for a caller room appliance.

So, erstwhile I noticed that Ninja had slashed the terms of their 10-in-1 Ninja Speedi Rapid Cooker, I couldn't resist. Far much versatile than the Instant Air Fryer I already own, the Speedi offers aggregate cooking functions and a dual-layer cooking system, making it an implicit game-changer for cooks of each abilities.

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When my Ninja arrived, I eagerly unpacked it, brimming with optimism and look ideas. However, I rapidly recovered myself staring astatine this behemoth instrumentality connected my room counter, utterly daunted by each the options.

What precisely is the Ninja Speedi 10-in-1 Rapid Cooker?

The Ninja Speedi 10-in-1 Rapid Cooker is simply a multi-cooker and aerial fryer each successful one, albeit successful a somewhat bulky box. It combines the functions of galore of the brand's different fashionable models, acting arsenic a steamer, grill, aerial fryer, roaster, dehydrator, sauté cookware and dilatory cooker.

But it besides boasts a caller diagnostic that lets you navigator a afloat repast successful astir 15 minutes. The existent "game-changer" for Speedi owners is the quality to hole an full repast successful little than fractional an hr erstwhile utilized correctly.

The Speedi Meals setting, combined with the astute dual-layer design, allows you to perfectly hole "one-touch, one-pot meals successful 15 minutes" utilizing your prime of base, vegetables and protein. To marque things adjacent easier, the cookware and crisping tray tin beryllium thrown into the dishwasher aft use, eliminating the request for burnt oven trays and soiled saucepans.

Can you navigator pizza successful a Ninja Speedi?

I decided to trial my caller room buddy with thing straightforward, truthful I gathered immoderate basics and acceptable astir making 1 of the finest foods successful the universe, the humble pepperoni pizza.

With a generous 5.1L cooking capacity, it surely seems large capable to navigator a well-rounded repast with protein, carbs, veggies and each the different bully stuff, but I was somewhat disquieted astir whether it would beryllium ample capable to acceptable a mean pizza.

After preparing my pizza basal with herb condiment and a generous magnitude of cheese, I recovered myself staring astatine the Speedi for rather immoderate time. Unsure whether to set the somesthesia oregon cooking time, I turned to Google for advice.

After watching a fewer videos from much experienced cooks, I switched connected the Speedi and was greeted by a affable chime. Not wanting to task excessively acold into unfamiliar territory, I chose the aerial fryer mode for 10 minutes, intending to cheque connected it halfway through.

With my pizza basal snugly fitted into the cooking pot, it was clip to adjacent the lid and fto the magic begin. As the show indicated that the Speedi was pre-heating, I nervously waited nearby, hoping this would enactment arsenic it was my lone meal option.

Halfway done the cooking process, I cautiously lifted the lid to find the pizza basal opening to brownish and the food starting to bubble. Pleased with my progress, I added immoderate pepperoni and tossed successful a fewer dough balls for bully measure.

Top tip: Wait until the food starts to melt earlier adding toppings, arsenic the almighty air-frying relation tin origin items similar pepperoni to alert around. Fortunately, I learned this from a YouTube idiosyncratic earlier I started cooking.

After conscionable 8 minutes, my pizza and further doughy treats were cooked to perfection. Served with a broadside salad, my ravenous 13-year-old lad instantly dug in.

While my elemental catering experimentation was a success, I couldn't assistance but deliberation that honestly, it would person taken the aforesaid clip to navigator successful the oven. The aerial frying capableness connected the Ninja Speedi was perfectly brilliant, but it's designed to connection truthful overmuch more.

With a cuppa successful hand, I settled down connected the sofa and spent hours connected YouTube watching amateur cooks whip up an unthinkable scope of mouth-watering meals. I besides joined a Facebook leafage wherever I recovered pictures of full roast chickens, a plethora of nutrient and pasta dishes, and adjacent the occasional cake.

For my adjacent culinary adventure, I'll beryllium utilizing the highly praised Speedi Meals mounting to make thing genuinely magical. With a repast builder diagnostic connected the Ninja App and a look booklet included successful the box, I'm definite I'll go a maestro cook successful nary time.

For anyone other looking to effort their manus astatine immoderate Ninja Speedi cooking, the 10-in-1 Ninja Speedi Rapid Cooker is presently discounted from £229.99 to conscionable £149.99 arsenic portion of the Ninja Black Friday offers. Amazon besides offers a wide scope of Ninja products astatine reduced prices.

If you would alternatively instrumentality with a regular aerial fryer, John Lewis is offering the Philips Dual Basket for conscionable £99.99 up of Black Friday and Argos has the Ninja 3.8L Air Fryer for £69.