I have a small NuWave and it is awful. I have a Ninja XL that I have only used a few times and I really need to dig it out.
sivyaleah
I agree with everything
Winchester
said about the Ninja brand. You really can't go wrong with anything they make.
sivyaleah
I don't know if you're old enough to remember....cooking bags used to be very popular back in the.....70s? I'm thinking? I think they were made by Banquet, but I don't remember. Anyway, you could buy them 10 for $1.00, something like that. They were bags of single serving meat: turkey, roast beef, chicken in a gravy (and I use that term loosely). You kept them in the freezer and when you were ready for a meal, you just got a bag out and put it in boiling water. When it was done, you cut the bag open and poured your entrée over rice, mashed potatoes, whatever. Whenever somebody mentions sous vide, I always think of those bags. Sous vide has gotten a lot of really good reviews, depending on which one you buy, but it's something I'm just not interested in personally.
I have one of the later, somewhat larger NuWaves, and it seems to work okay for me. The one gripe I have with it is that it's not easy to clean the grease pan. Another problem is that the cooking drawer doesn't positively latch into place and the cats have figured out how to open the drawer to try and get to the grease!
The non-stick coating is peeling off on the one I have and the basket doesn't go in easily.
Winchester
, I sure do remember those Banquet boil in the bag meats. My son was a horribly picky eater but he loved their Salisbury steak, referring to it as “Good meat”, and he has those for dinner at least four days a week. I couldn’t stand even the smell of them and would have to look away as I cut the bag open and dumped it on a plate.
, so she got it in some kind of cooking bag for him. Don't remember for sure, but it might have been Banquet. This was getting to be 60 years or so in the past.
