Save $50 on the pressure cooker that crisps

TL;DR: The Ninja Foodi is a pressure cooker that can also air fry, and right now its 6.5-quart model is on sale at Walmart for just $179. It normally retails for $229, so you’ll be saving about 22%.

Have you ever looked at something and thought, “Hot damn, why didn’t I think of that”? Well, now you know exactly how we feel about the Ninja Foodi.

Introduced in 2018, the Foodi is an amalgamation of our two favorite kitchen gadgets (the pressure cooker and the air fryer) that cooks food fast and finishes it off with a perfect crisp. It’s like an Instant Pot Duo 60 and a Philips HD9641/96 had a baby — a match made in culinary heaven, basically.

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The 6.5-quart Foodi typically retails for $229, but Walmart’s currently got it on sale for just $179 (a $50 savings). That’s $10 away from its Black Friday sale pricing, so you know you’re getting a stellar deal, here.

The Foodi gets its pressure-cooking/air-frying power from a dual lid setup: There’s a pressure lid for — you guessed it — pressure cooking, and a crisping “TenderCrisp” lid for air frying. You’ll pop the first lid on top of the unit to make your ingredients all tender and juicy inside (it works even if they’re frozen!), and then lower the crisping lid over it to crisp everything up just before serving.

FWIW, the Foodi isn’t *just* a pressure cooker and an air fryer: It also features settings for steaming, slow cooking, searing/sautéing, baking/roasting, and broiling, which — by my calculations — makes it seven devices in one. (Think: roasted chicken with crackling skin, or French onion soup topped off with a layer of bubbling, golden-brown gruyere.) Not too shabby for a countertop appliance, eh?

Along with those two aforementioned lids, each Foodi comes with its own a ceramic-coated nonstick pot, a ceramic-coated nonstick crisping basket, a layered insert, a stainless steel reversible rack, and a 15-recipe book — and best of all, those accessories (aside from the cookbook, obviously) are all dishwasher-safe for easy cleanup. Order one here for just $179.