Ninja DCT401 12-in-1 Double Oven with FlexDoor, FlavorSeal & Smart Finish, Rapid Top Convection and Air Fry Bottom , Bake, Roast, Toast, Air Fry, Pizza and More, Stainless Steel

We've had a couple of air fryers, the basket kind that took up too much space, for the limited things that it would do, and the toaster oven kind from a brand that is outfront with certain pot that they make...This toaster oven with its two separate ovens which seems crazy but it's fantastic, does not use convection in the toasting top part of the oven. Instead of desiccating toast with hot convection waves, this actually toasts like real toast, you can put it on the rack or, I prefer oven toast on a small cooking sheet pan. This is like the toast I grew up with the toast that your grandmother or mother made in the oven! You can put butter on it and it comes out crunchy, not like a piece of sandpaper, as the toast from a convection oven does.That alone makes this thing worth it, however it has many other features that are user friendly, customizable, and helpful. So if you really do want to dry something out or cook it fast, the bottom of the will do that for you, and the air fry for french fries and fish sticks and chicken tenders, all of those things is fantastic and efficient and quick for an individual or a family. In fact the toast makes up pretty quick too because the top oven is very small so do not walk away. I've been accustomed to making toast for almost 4 minutes -- anow 2 minutes or so, you've got a nice medium brown piece of crunchy toast. Yes I'm obsessed with the toast! I really missed oven-type toast.It has a sweet little dinging tone for ending and selection that is not annoying like some of these models. Don't know if you can turn it off, I wouldn't want to because it's just the cutest little sound and is helpful.You have a dedicated instant on/off button. The knob selector that selects toast color and number or whatever function you need also punches in to lock that in. Once you are cooking, you can punch it to stop turn heat source immediately. There's also a button for a light that lights up both ovens, that stays on a fairly long time maybe 30 seconds. One tap and it's right back on again.It's slightly bigger than the "IP" brand that we had before, chunky little squareish thing. But it is much less wide than most of the multi-featured models out there, and of course it needs to be pulled out a little bit for hot air frying, cuz there's a vent on the back. The glass does get hot on the front, as of course it should.The two doors on this model are fantastic. You don't have to move stuff out of the way underneath, if your coffee is waiting for your toast to be done. You punch in the top button and open just the top shallow toaster oven, so there is no need to open all of the door that comes all the way down to the countertop. When you're making toast or Pop-Tarts or bagels or whatever, you only need open/close the top door. I love that little top flip door. You don't have a big hot oven spreading heat into the kitchen when you flip up in that little door.In fact both of them are well insulated even though the glass gets hot it does not spread heat into the room like our other brand. So you don't feel heat all the way from the countertop to the dining table as we had before.And it's quiet, so so quiet compared to the screaming multi-function oven we had before that sounded like a C-130 landing for 30 minutes.My one complaint and this is true of most appliances, when you have to burn and break in the new appliance. I thought I was going to leave the house. It is that disgusting and dizzying and miserable. It's much like self-cleaning your regular oven, it is smelly and sickening. There's just no way around it though. It has to be done before use, but I would recommend plugging it into the garage or even on a patio or something because inside the kitchen the smell of the burning off of the factory, really permeated the atmosphere in a miserable way. Turn your air purifiers way up, and the vent fan on your stove!Other than that it's a fantastic little appliance if you don't need to cook huge things. You could probably just live with this as your one and only oven. I'm not sure if you can bake cakes in it as you could with our other one, but I bake cakes in my big range anyway. I believe you can cook a whole chicken in this though. We use ours for toast and Pop-Tarts and bagels and warming up things reheating things, re-crisping things. There are a lot of things we microwave for a minute or so and then crisp up in this kind of oven and this does all of that very well. Another issue is that I toast buttered flour tortillas quite often, and I have burned up a toaster oven when the tortilla puffed up and touched the heating element. I heated up frozen flour tortillas, handmade by the way, so they are extra thick -- and I stood by and did not take my eyes off of the tortillas that were on a toaster oven size baking pan. I don't know if they just happened to be not puffy or if the freezing protected them from puffing up, but I successfully toasted some flour tortillas that were delicious. If you're going to do that, as with toast or bagel don't walk away, keep your eyes on that little top oven because it cooks really fast. So I'm crossing my fingers that I will have future successful toastings of flour tortillas.I really highly highly recommend this, especially if toasting bread is something that you do on a regular basis because the other air fryer / convection ovens do not have this extra little separate oven that is just a regular toaster oven. This makes all the difference. I've been suffering with desiccated bread from hot convection wind for a couple of years now, and it was such bliss to eat a regular piece of toast again that was cooked very quickly without having to heat up my huge oven that would have taken 20 minutes probably. Butter up a piece of bread throw it in on a little baking sheet, and you have some darn good crunchy medium toast in under 3 minutes, anyway. Pick your toast shade!Buy this thing you'll love it for the other functions as well. I first purchased an air fryer after having my gallbladder removed so I could enjoy crispy things without drowning them in oil. It's been 10 years, and we use an air fryer several times a week. High power 1800w so don't plug it in at the same time you're using another powerful appliance. This one shares a wall outlet with a coffee maker and can opener, is all.Worth every penny!!

Very pleased with the Ninja double oven. I bought it to replace an old Breville oven and a ninja Multi cooker with air fryer lid. These two devices were showing their age, becoming impossible to keep clean, and took up a lot of counter space. I already have an InstaPot which gives me the pressure cooker capability. The Ninja Double oven takes only little more room than the old Breville, has better air frying capability than the old Ninja, and has the convenience of the two independent ovens . I have had it for about a month, done a number of the dinner recipes provided, use it every day for toast and lunch sandwiches. I have found it much easier to keep clean (although I am much more careful about keeping ahead of the build up). One caveat: as stated in the manual this uses up to 1.8KW, considerably more than my other devices, so take care to have a dedicated or lightly used circuit to plug it in.

I bought this thing over a year ago, after spending hours reading reviews and lamenting that every appliance in the universe has a substantial percentage of negative reviews. If you're reading this, you're probably feeling that same pain. But after a year of using it every day, I said to myself, "I really should write a review, because this thing is everything I could have hoped for."I didn't even care about air frying, but it turns out that's kinda nice. But all I really wanted was something to replace my old workhorse toaster oven. I just wanted it to work, and not break. This does exactly that. The air frying is a nice extra, and the double oven feature is occasionally useful. But it just works and works well, and it gets used multiple times a day for over a year now. In this day and age, getting a product that just does what you expect seems to be a rarity.

After 9 months using the "Ninja DCT451 12-in-1 Smart Double Oven with FlexDoor, Thermometer" - stuff I noticed: uneven heating with basket of frozen cod &/or salmon fish fillets, the 2 pans are junk - have to buy good quality pans separately as the finish fails quickly (after 2 uses the finish had spots of failure that only got worse) on the provided pans.You learn to work around the uneven cooking (in both ovens - even with frozen pizza) easy enough but makes for more time & effort to prepare meal. The "SMART FINISH TECHNOLOGY" works great. I haven't used the "SMART COOK SYSTEM" Leave-in thermometer yet. As I like to roast whole chickens it was a major selling feature for me. When my son asked why I don't roast chickens in my new Ninja, I could only answer, "I don't want to waste a good meal trying it out. At some point I will pop a roast or a chicken in & give it a test.

Works and looks great, and love the space savings! Replaced 2 separate devices with one and freed up a countertop. So far both the top air fryer and bottom oven have worked great, but haven’t yet had the opportunity to try the smart finish feature. Fairly easy to clean too if you just wipe it down after every few uses. One thing I wished it came with would be 2 bread crumb trays instead of just one. You can’t buy one separately that I could find and if you use both (even if not at the same time) it’s nice to not have to keep moving it. I took the tray from one of the units I replaced and had to mod it a bit to fit.

Been using it daily since it arrived over a year ago. Is great for heating up stuff. Makes a great crunchy crust on pizza, which I like. Be aware that I have to do about 5 minutes less than it says on the box. Cut back all your recipes on time or temp or they will be burned. Which to me, speed is a good thing, so I'm happy with that.