Instant Pot 140-4004-01 Omni Pro Air Fryer Toaster Oven, 19QT, Black

Initial thoughts on the 14-in-1 Omni Pro. Nice design, easy to read display, and easy to clean. This will literally replace several other small appliances in my kitchen and that is just fine by me.Packaging was great but not excessive. It arrived safely with all pieces and parts securely in place. It comes with a nice, fry basket, tray and rack, as well as the rotisserie pieces. Also, the emptied box doubled as a fun playspace for my cats.The included cookbook was pretty much a waste, with overly elaborate recipes that no one buying an air fryer wants - lamb skewers, chicken with pruned mushrooms, and other such nonsense. Toss it. Instant Pot, take note: people who buy these things want recipes for decent pizza, chicken wings, fried pickles, breakfast bakes, biscuits, NOT braised veal with mango aioli.If you have concerns about "burning plastic" smells, that is not an issue with this model. I did the 20-minute test run and any smells emitted were not intense and were the equivalent to a new microwave that I purchased. After the test run, there were no noticeable odors, other than the smells of delicious food cooking. It should also be noted that it runs quietly, with just the sound of a fan blowing. Other models may have rattling, this one does not.This air fryer toaster oven turned an inexpensive self-rising frozen pizza into a work of art! I did use a slightly lower cook temperature than was suggested on the pizza box and watched it to make sure I didn't burn it, since I've never used this before. I loved being able to see what is cooking and having the ability to turn the oven light on is great.The temperature probe is great for meats. Keep in mind, that generally if you're aiming for an internal temp of 165, you want to set it for 155 or 160 because the meat will continue to cook after being removed from the oven. If you take it out when it has an actual internal temperature of 165, it will be overdone by the time it rests.If you're new to this (like me) test this with some cheaper foods - frozen pizza, biscuits in a tube, chicken drumsticks or thighs. That way you won't feel bad if you overcook it or something goes wrong.The rotisserie was one of the big selling points on this, for me, but keep in mind that the limit on it is a 4 pound bird. I've seen people griping about this limitation, but this isn't a dedicated rotisserie, it's just a nice added feature. I'm considering trying a chicken leg quarter tied with butcher's twine, in lieu of an adequately-sized chicken, I will update this review whenever I decide to try that, but there are grocery stores that sell smaller chickens. It's also noteworthy that people at farmer's markets and Amish markets tend to sell chickens that aren't all 'roided up, so check those out if you have any of those near where you live.Unlike the manufacturer's claim - preheating does not take "seconds". It takes a few hundred seconds (roughly 5 minutes). Not terrible, but it is an unnecessary and exaggerated claim. It may not be up to full cooking temp when the preheat cycle is over, but it's close enough.I probably will invest in something other than a microwave cart to place it on because obviously it does get quite warm to the touch and I don't want my animals jumping on it. Hopefully the door handle will be redesigned at some point because after 20 minutes of cooking on 400 degrees it was a bit overly warm.I'm very impressed with this machine and plan on making every meal with it for the next 30 days to see how it holds up. This is great for a single person. This is great for a family (unless you have a huge family). It's versatile, compact, doesn't heat up the whole house and fun to experiment with. Don't be swayed by negative reviews - this is a fantastic way to cook!!

The media could not be loaded. So this was on sale and is roughly the size of our old toaster oven, but this one has the air fry heat coil as well as the quartz heaters, our old air fry oven did not have the heat coil and it really didn’t air fry at all, it was mostly just a convection oven. We have a nuwave small air fryer that actually air fries but the portion size is not big enough for my family. We thought we would give this Instant Omni Pro air fry oven a try since we had such good luck with our instant pot. Unfortunately, you can’t set the time or the temperature for any of the settings. I did a lot of research on this unit and found the only negative comments were chickens falling off the rotisserie when the drip pan is installed and it was that some people were having a problem with the touch control, which is exactly what I was having problem with as well. The thing with the rotisserie chicken is that you can’t use the drip pan, if you look at the videos on this product roasting a chicken on their website the drip pan is not in the unit. I did see another video on YouTube that shows people putting foil over the bottom elements as they don’t turn on during rotisserie cooking to keep splatter off of them (good idea). We were planning mostly to use the rotisserie for pork roasts (yum) as rotisserie chickens at Costco are really cheap and taste really good, if they could just lower the salt content a little it would be perfect. Anyway, I was unable to adjust the temperature or time no matter which mode or setting I was in we tried all kinds of things like texting the manufacturer, which was a royal pain just to find out that holding down cancel resets the oven but I don’t think it’s really resetting maybe it just resets the stored presets, but it doesn’t help with the touchscreen problem at all. Amazon does not allow for replacements on this item, but you can return it which is what we’re doing and I just bought another one to give it another go (hopefully with better luck this time). Thank goodness it was still on sale. I have a good feeling that this unit is on sale because of all the problems they are having with chickens and most of the people online say they have to get another unit from the factory to correct the touch screen problem. Let’s hope the next unit doesn’t have the same problem or it’s going back as well and will try a different brand like shark ninja. I know that instant and Shark Ninja both have UL listed appliances which is very important to me and my family for safety, especially with something like this. The only downside to this oven is that I wish it would heat to 500° for better searing steaks instead of limiting it to 450°, but most hot air fryers only go to 400° anyway and we can still use the kitchen oven for searing. If the second unit works like it, should I will update this review.update 02/25: I did receive another unit after returning the first one. The second one seemed to work fine, although the touch buttons were a little finicky and after about a month, the display brightness of the segments were all different brightness, but it still worked. It actually worked very well and we loved it for reheating food. It was perfect every time but today when I was reheating some garlic knots the unit started randomly beeping and flashing the count down time (which was no longer counting down and stuck on six minutes) and also different parts of the display were flashing and the heater didn’t turn off. None of the buttons were responsive, and I was not even able to cancel the program. I had to unplug the unit to get it to shut off and when I plugged it back in it had the same behavior as soon as I tried to start any program for cooking, obviously the micro processor or something inside is now fried. I can’t believe that a modern appliance only lasts just over a year and you have to replace it again when you spent nearly $350 on it. I will never buy another instant product again!