The first thing I did with the Ninja Crispi had nothing to do with dinner.
That resilience comes from the borosilicate glass Ninja calls CleanCrisp, and it is the whole reason this machine exists.
The gap Ninja India must fillAbroad, Ninja sells extra Crispi containers and parts through its own stores, but in India there is no accessory store, and Ninja’s website doesn’t list the bowls either.
I have yet to meet anyone supremely disappointed with a Ninja, and the Crispi holds up that claim.
If Ninja India opens up that accessory shelf, this little glass kitchen could well become the first appliance in every new apartment.
The first thing I did with the Ninja Crispi had nothing to do with dinner. I ran a cooking cycle, lifted off the heating unit, and poured ice water straight into the scalding glass bowl, then repeated the exercise several more times, because influencers around the world had been making claims about this appliance that I couldn’t take on faith. The bowl survived every round without so much as a hairline crack. That resilience comes from the borosilicate glass Ninja calls CleanCrisp, and it is the whole reason this machine exists.
Mine came out of that very first batch. SharkNinja’s limited pre-order run in India sold out within days, ahead of the official launch on September 10, 2026., and the box reached my door on a Sunday morning.
What arrives is the FN101IN, the Indian model, built around a 1700W heating unit Ninja calls the PowerPod, which clips onto one of two glass containers. The small one holds 1.4 litres, enough for a single portion of almost anything, while the larger 3.8-litre bowl is for when friends are coming over. On paper, the Crispi costs ₹19,990, but the number most buyers will actually see right now is ₹14,999, the price on Ninja’s own India store during its festive sale. During the LPG crunch, our question was practical: how do you keep a kitchen running when the cylinder didn’t show up? The Crispi nudges that conversation somewhere more personal, towards something every one-BHK eventually asks itself: how do you cook properly for one or two people without ending every evening at the sink?
A kitchen in a single bowl
The Crispi’s natural home is the one-BHK, whether that belongs to a single professional who cooks four nights a week or a young couple without children who want the counter clear by nine. The appeal begins before any cooking happens, because the prep takes place in the container itself. Paneer goes into the small bowl with hung curd, kasuri methi and Kashmiri chilli the night before, the lid snaps on, and the whole thing can sit in the fridge until the next evening, when the PowerPod clips on top and dinner cooks in the same bowl it marinated in. You eat from it too, and whatever is left gets its lid back and becomes tomorrow’s lunch.
A rava-crusted surmai steak for one fits neatly on the small crisper plate, but gravies are where the glass quietly earns its keep. Last night’s rajma or a portion of chicken curry reheats in the bowl with the crisper plate removed, then holds on Keep Warm until you sit down, leaving no kadai to scrub, no serving dish to wash, and no steel dabba to transfer leftovers into. Ninja itself pitches the Recrisp function at samosas and pakoras, and rightly so, since a day-old samosa comes back with its shell intact instead of the soggy, microwaved slump we have all learned to accept.
The system travels well, too. When you are heading to a friend’s place for dinner, you can pack three or four glass containers of prepped food under their sealing lids, carry the PowerPod along and cook once you arrive. I would not recommend tucking it into your airport cabin bag, but for a Sunday lunch across town it is a genuinely clever trick.
What is in your air fryer basket?
Few buyers stop to ask what their air fryer basket is made of. Most conventional baskets are metal with a non-stick layer, and that layer is often a fluoropolymer from the PFAS family, the so-called forever chemicals that linger for years once they get into the body. When the Dutch consumer body Consumentenbond tested five air fryers, it could not confirm that any one was PFAS-free, and two major manufacturers confirmed their baskets used PTFE, the compound most people know as Teflon. These coatings also wear down over time. Research at the University of North Carolina on non-stick pans marketed as PFAS-free found that scratching the surface, the way a fork or a scourer does over months of use, sharply increased how much PFAS migrated into water, which means every scrubbed basket adds up.
The Crispi’s glass containers are PFAS-free, and the only coated part is the crisper plate, made of aluminium with a nano-ceramic coating that Ninja India lists as PFAS- and PTFE-free, which the brand confirmed to us. If you would still rather have nothing coated near your food, you can simply leave the plate out and cook directly on the glass. The underside of your food will come out a touch less crisp, but the choice is yours, and that flexibility is the beauty of this design.
Four modes, fixed heat
The Indian Crispi offers four functions, each with a preset temperature, and the PowerPod adjusts its heat to whichever bowl it sits on. The unit works within a range of 70°C to 185°C, though Ninja does not publish an exact figure for every mode. Air Fry runs at the top of that scale, which Ninja’s quick start guide likens to a conventional oven at 200°C, and it is the everyday workhorse for fries, tikkas and fish. Roast handles chicken legs, aloo and anything that needs longer, steadier heat, while Recrisp, the mode I reach for most, brings leftovers back to life, with both running below the 185°C ceiling at settings Ninja keeps to itself. Keep Warm sits at the bottom of the range, around 70°C, holding a finished dish until you are ready to eat.
A plug that actually fits?
The Crispi ships with a 16-amp plug with proper earthing., which reads like a spec-sheet footnote until you do the arithmetic. A 1700W appliance on a 230V line draws roughly 7.4 amps, more than the 6-amp rating of the small round-pin sockets found in most Indian kitchens. Having tested so many appliances over the years, I have lost count of the brands, a lot of them Indian, that arrive with European two-pin plugs or undersized connectors, leaving buyers hunting for adaptors that were never meant to carry that load. Ninja got this right.
Calling the helpline
To see how after-sales support would hold up, we called Ninja India’s toll-free line and staged a scenario where something had gone wrong. The team was quick, patient, and genuinely helpful, and followed up twice to set up a home demo. The Crispi carries a two-year warranty, which keeps it level with the category’s biggest names and a year ahead of several popular brands that still stop at one.
The gap Ninja India must fill
Abroad, Ninja sells extra Crispi containers and parts through its own stores, but in India there is no accessory store, and Ninja’s website doesn’t list the bowls either. That is a huge bummer, because I want three more glass bowls right now, whether to prep a week of lunches or to carry a full spread to a friend’s home. Give me that option, Ninja!
The nitpicks
Pick up almost any air fryer recipe online, and it will ask for a temperature, say 180°C for paneer tikka, which is the one thing the Crispi cannot give you, since you pick a mode, set the timer and let the machine decide the rest. The tikka still turns out well, though the cubes resting on the crisper plate come out paler underneath than on top, so you need to turn every batch halfway through with a pair of tongs. When the cycle ends, the Crispi announces it with a shrill run of beeps that cannot be switched off, which is worth knowing if anyone in the house likes an afternoon nap.
What comes next
Ninja already sells a bigger sibling abroad. The Crispi Pro launched in the US in October 2025 at $279, with a 6-quart glass container, six functions and digital temperature control, which addresses the most common complaint about the original, while a 7-in-1 version in Europe goes up to 240°C. When we reached out, Ninja told us many more products are headed to India, and we’re hoping the Pro is among them.
Ninja is among the most viral appliance brands in the world right now, and virality is not always genuine, since plenty of what trends online is manufactured. Ninja, though, keeps picking apart its own hype by delivering on the promises behind it. I have yet to meet anyone supremely disappointed with a Ninja, and the Crispi holds up that claim. If Ninja India opens up that accessory shelf, this little glass kitchen could well become the first appliance in every new apartment.
