Healthy treats!!! Omgl ! ** This review now has the Ninja Slushie AND the Ninja Swirl Reviews mentioned…see below: Update week two: There is a love affair going on with Ninja in my kitchen. Took the leap and bought both the slushie maker and the swirl maker. I have been using the same batch (all solids pre puréed )..I put the batch into the slushie maker (pick the frozen drink button) enjoy an amazing slushie in 30 minutes…then, with the left over slushie batch, I pour into my Ninja Swirl Pint Cup, freeze for 24 hours and then blend it with the Ninja Swirl Machine. I blended it once, added a touch of coconut milk, then hit the “re-stir” button. I was amazed how creamy and delicious it was. The batch I used was: Coconut milk, one small container of fresh organic strawberries (puréed ), berry stevia drops and two table spoons of coconut nectar . I will include the slushie pic and then the 24 hours later, the ice cream (I chose lite ice cream button) . Also, I am using and trying different non-low glycemic index sweeteners, ALLUOSE is very powerful and you must watch the portions or be prepared to be hanging out by the bathroom. Coconut nectar works just fine. Coconut is on Dr. Gundry’s Yes List , so that is good. Another helpful tip, if you have left overs from your mixed icecream, assuming you get the Swirl, you just flatten the top to a level surface and re mix later after 24 hours . First batch: Coconut milk, ALLUOSE and rose donut stevia flavoring , it was delicious. I get no benefit of any kind from my reviews - I too, depend on HONEST reviews , so I’m just doing my part of the circle: Second batch : Dr. G’ Heart Defense & MCT , water and ALLUOSE . Oh what fun! It took 30 minutes for both to set up . Haven’t even had the machine for twelve hours. Already my best friend !!

I'll preface by saying I've used this grill extensively, and as a product designer myself, it was impossible to not be constantly bothered by the silly, nonsensical design choices made in this grill. Overall, it's super quick to start, easy to get going, cooks amazingly for what it is, but the user experience could be improved quite a bit. In theory, the grill tries to guide you along to do the right thing at the right time and make it stupid-baby-simple, but in practice, it obscures the simplicity of its functions, makes what you're trying to do annoying, and forces users to fight against the grill to do what they want. First, the knob for the mode selector. If you touch it in the middle of cooking and change a setting, which is quite easy to do, everything resets. I've had this happen more than once and it's very frustrating. I've also accidentally went from the "grill" setting to "off" a couple times by accident which just shouldn't be possible. This should be a much more rigid knob at the least, and the on/off switch should be a totally separate function. Alternatively, if you try to change a setting during cooking, the display should ask you if you actually want to change cooking modes and hit start to confirm. Second, the woodsmoke button is weird and not intuitive. You have to enable woodsmoke by pressing the button BEFORE pressing start or it won't ignite. There is a way to turn it on mid-grill by pressing and holding the woodsmoke button until it starts flashing but this isn't obvious and also doesn't seem to work as well. This should simply be an on/off switch on its own circuit and operate independently from the rest of the unit. There are times when I don't want to start smoking until later, or want to cut off the smoke when I think it's had enough, and I really can't do that unless I reset the grill and go through the motions again to get it running with the right settings. Next, temperature. Why is there not a thermometer reading on the interface or the shell of the grill so that you know what the air temp inside is? It absolutely has a thermoregulator because there's a preheat function that will change its progress bar if the grill is already hot when you begin the preheat, so its measuring something in there, but we aren't allowed to see it! Silly! The meat thermometer is nice and works well but sometimes I'm not cooking meats and still want a temp reading in there... Cooking... For whatever reason, the grill (and possibly other) setting adds in a random "FLIP FOOD" beep that triggers at half of whatever your grill time was when you set it. This is almost never correct, gets your attention for no reason, and won't go away until you lift and close the lid. Get rid of this dumb "feature". Because this is essentially an air fryer, almost every setting wants to utilize the internal fan. Depending on what you're cooking this can be really annoying. I've cooked pancakes on this using the flat top add-on, and when the fan kicks in, it makes the pancakes slide and fly around inside the grill. makes a huge mess. you have to stand there and lift and close the lid every time the fan kicks on. Please add a "griddle" setting or something that will not use the fans, or will only spin them a tiny bit. THE BEEPS - my god this thing likes to beep. it sings beeps all the time. Chill with the beeps unless the preheat is done or the timer is done. There's no other reason to bother me. Overall, I still really like it, it does cook very well despite its size and it basically being an air fryer. I've smoked pork to success, made pizzas, pancakes, bacon & eggs, anything you can think of, and it CAN yield great results... It really would be the perfect little electric grill if it would just shut the F up and let me use its functions the way I want to instead of pretending that it's helping me. Lastly.... "WOODFIRE" is a F'ing stupid misleading title for this thing. It's just not a woodfire grill. Factually, it is not the thing that it is called. That makes no sense and misleads users. This should have been called WOODSMOKE!!! Come on!!!