Ninja CRISPi Pro Review: A Glass Air Fryer Big Enough for a Whole Chicken

Every air fryer basket eventually looks the same after a year of use: scratched, slightly warped, and coated in a nonstick finish nobody fully trusts anymore. The Ninja CRISPi Pro sidesteps all of that by replacing the basket with a 6-quart borosilicate glass container, the same kind of glass used in lab equipment and oven-safe cookware, and it changes more about the daily experience than it sounds like it should.

Cooking in glass instead of a coated basket

Being able to see through the container while it cooks sounds like a minor convenience until you're actually watching fries go from pale to golden in real time instead of guessing through an opaque basket. It also means no more scraping stuck-on nonstick coating off a basket after a cheesy dish — the glass wipes clean and goes straight into the dishwasher.

A whole 3-4lb chicken fit in the 6-quart container with room for a bed of vegetables underneath, and the Roast mode browned the skin evenly on all sides without needing a manual flip halfway through, something baskets with a single air-circulation direction often struggle with.

Six modes, one 1800-watt heating element

Air Fry, Max Crisp, ReCrisp, Roast, Bake/Proof, and Dehydrate cover the realistic range of what a household actually cooks in a countertop appliance, and the 1800-watt element with an 80-450°F range had enough headroom to properly crisp frozen fries in under 15 minutes rather than the sluggish results smaller wattage units sometimes produce. ReCrisp mode, aimed at reviving leftovers, brought day-old rolls back to a genuinely fresh-out-of-the-oven texture rather than just warming them through.

Controls and everyday cleanup

The digital panel lists all six modes down the sides of the display with the temperature front and center, and the single dial handles both temperature and time without digging through submenus. Every food-contact part — the glass container, the crisper tray, the lid's interior — is dishwasher-safe and PFAS/PTFE-free, which matters for anyone who's grown wary of scratched nonstick coatings shedding into food over time.

Verdict

The Ninja CRISPi Pro's glass container isn't just a marketing angle — it genuinely makes the appliance easier to monitor, easier to clean, and less prone to the slow degradation that eventually kills most air fryer baskets, while the six cooking modes and 6-quart capacity mean it can realistically replace a toaster oven for a lot of households.

At $279 to $299, it's priced above basic single-basket air fryers, and the footprint demands real counter space. But for anyone cooking for more than one or two people who's tired of replacing a scratched-up basket every year or two, the CRISPi Pro is a legitimate upgrade rather than a novelty.