Enter the characters you see below Sorry, we just need to make sure you’re best pressure cooker a robot. Ninja Foodi: We compare the top kitchen gadgets Every time we think one cooker has one-upped the other, a new model comes out.

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But attempting an intricate recipe doesn’t have to be as intimidating as we make it out to be. Not with a pressure cooker, at least. Putting them head to head only makes sense. Is the Ninja Foodi the same as the Instant Pot? Not a yes, but not necessarily a no, either. Instant Pot invented the electric pressure cooking game. Though the first Instant Pot model came out in 2008, the hype around a single kitchen device to do it all grew to unprecedented levels around 2015.

People — both seasoned food enthusiasts and those who only cook out of necessity — obsessed over it so much that it felt like no appliance would ever even share the spotlight. Ninja had a quieter entrance to the scene around 2018, when it diverted from the realm of fancy blenders to create the Foodi: a pressure cooker that doubled as an air fryer. At the time, the ability to offer both kitchen buzzwords in one device was more than Instant Pot could say. Ninja and Instant Home are constantly growing their product lines to close gaps and compete with one another. On top of upgrades to the classic pressure cookers, both brands have expanded to non-pressure cooking air fryers that also do a ton of other stuff. The Instant Vortex, Instant Omni, and Ninja Speedi are the big ones.