I was looking for a new blender the other day and since Ninja is the new hot thing in all kitchens I started thinking about which appliances we could use in our off grid kitchen considering we have the following solar settings:
1. Winter home, smaller, 24 V inverter with 4 x 475 W solar panels and 7kW battery capacity. In a good sunny day we can produce 1000 W simultaneously on this system and power an electric stove reduced to 500W using a variator, a fridge, 2 laptops at the same time with no effort. In winter, on a cloudy day, we can produse as low as 50 W and power a fridge and laptop without using the batteries.
2. Summer home, larger, we use it mostly in summer, don't heat it in winter unless we have guests, but we can use the solar power to cook for example and transfer it to the other house, 24 V inverter, 8 x 500something W and 10 kW battery capacity. In a good sunny day, we can produse more than 2300W at the same time and power an electric stove full capacity 1000W, a toaster, a fridge, laptops simultaneously or a toaster, a sandwich maker, a stove, the well pump which uses about 1200W one by one /not at the same time.
I found this nice list from Food and Wine of Ninja Bestsellers on Amazon and I'm going to tell you what we could power and when out of it and which I could buy to use in my kitchen.
- Professional Countertop Blender - 1000 W, yes, but mainly in summer with maximum other 500 W appliances cumulated on. 1500 - 1800 W symultaneously maximum is a decent amount and for periods like 15-30 minutes;
- Crispi 4-Quart Portable Air Fryer - 1500 W, yes, I could use it but only in summer and for shorter periods like 15-30 minutes without other appliances larger than 200-300 W on, that being a laptop or a fridge for example.
- Ninja Fit Compact Personal Blender - 700 W, yes, in summer for longer periods like up to even an hour and cumulated with other appliances and even in winter when the production is lower for shorter periods like a few minutes on a cloudy day;
- 4-Quart Air Fryer - 1550 W, same as number 2;
- Creami Ice Cream Maker - 800 W, same as no.3, the compact blender and of course less in winter because who wants ice cream in winter, right? Or am I wrong?
- Swirl Ice Cream Maker - 800 W, same as above
- Foodi 10-in-1 Smart XL Air Fry Oven - 1800 W - kind of a NO. We have a vacuum cleaner with similar Wattage, but we use it on level 2 at 1000 W max. 1800 W we could use for about 10 minutes max and that's not enough for an oven. In terms of oven we have a Turkish version that has a bottom and upper heating plate, each of 500 W that can be used both separately and simultaneously. We normally use the bottom one for about an hour in winter and both in summer for over an hour.
- Possible Cooker PRO 8.5-Quart Multi-Cooker - in summer, yes, absolutely - in winter we use the wood stove that also has an oven more;
- Combi Oven - 1760 W, nope, same as no.7
- 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Brewer - 1100W, yes, but mainly in the summer - for winter we need the wood stove or the gas stove - this one drains the batteries too fast in winter;
- Ninja Thirsti - 55 W, same as a laptop, so absolutely yes, all year round;
- Foodi Indoor Grill - 1760 W, Watts, not KiloWatts as the website specifies, as 1760 KW means 1760000 Watts and that's huge, the are industrial machines in plants that use less. But anyway, it's a NO like no.7 unfortunately;
- Food Chopper Express - 200 W, yes, same as no.11, YES all year long, no problem.