There’s a steep learning curve to making the right combo for good (plant-based) ice cream. I thought of old fashioned taste of homemade churned ice cream when I bought this. Nope. It just makes your ingredients a different texture than your blender can. So far, I’ve had to buy a lot of things I’d never otherwise purchase, including plant-based cookbooks. I’m new to it and slightly frustrated. The icy treats melt fast unless you buy yet another contraption to eat it from. It goes down the purchasing rabbit hole. Also YouTube videos. There are a lot but so far none have helped much as my ingredients differ. I hope to get it right with the cookbook. Used: The box arrived barely together. ninjaoutlets.com offered a return but how can I return it in this box?! The Creami machine was dusty. One cup was stinky so I put it in the dishwasher + ordered new ones. I spent an hour washing the dirty Creami machine including the drill. But once cleaned, I used it and it works fine.

Years ago, we tried an air fryer and it seemed to take forever to cook anything, so we got rid of it. We started looking at air fryers again when we wanted to be able to make small meals more frequently without needing to use the entire oven. We don’t have a lot of counter space but this fits great and has a large capacity. I cooked three very large chicken breasts in here with no problem and they came out tender and juicy. We even did a side-by-side chicken wing comparison with chicken wings in here versus chicken wings that were fried on the stove top and we actually were really happy with the way the air fried wings came out! We’ve used the different settings and cooked vegetables, crispy shrimp, eggrolls, french toast sticks, you name it… We’re getting a lot of use out of this!