A Texas woman recently filed a new Ninja Foodi cooker lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. She claims that while using the cooker, she suffered from serious injuries.
Ninja Foodi is one of the best-selling brands of pressure cookers available on the market. It has many positive reviews on both Amazon.com and in Women’s Health magazine and costs up to $400 for some models. It is designed with key safety mechanisms that are supposed to prevent injuries such as those suffered by the plaintiff, but she claims that these mechanisms did not work as expected.
Plaintiff Suffers Extreme Burns When Ninja Foodi Cooker Explodes
According to her complaint, the plaintiff was gifted the Ninja Foodi pressure cooker, Model #OP300 I07, in November of December 2021. She used it several times without any trouble. But on January 16th, 2023, she was preparing gumbo soup when something went very wrong.
The unit has multiple settings. On this occasion, the plaintiff used the sear function, which is a non-pressurized function. As she often had done when using the cooker in such non-pressurized settings, she decided to open it and add additional ingredients during the cooking process. The unit wasn’t releasing any pressure or steam and appeared to be in normal working condition.
As she opened the lid, she didn’t encounter any resistance. Unfortunately, when she removed the lid from the pot, she was immediately struck by boiling liquid that spewed out from the cooker. The liquid was extremely hot and hit her mostly on her torso and forearm. She went to the hospital for treatment, where they diagnosed her with 2nd– and 3rd-degree burns.
She claims that the product is defective and that the manufacturer failed to design it to prevent the lid from opening while the contents of the pot were under pressure.
Other Consumers Also Seriously Burned by Ninja Foodi Pressure Cookers
In Ninja Foodi YouTube videos, spokespeople tell consumers about safety mechanisms that take effect when the cooker is pressurized. These supposedly lock the lid closed for the consumer’s safety. The same information is provided in the Ninja Foodi cooker owner’s manual.
Despite these assurances, plaintiffs often allege that these safety features malfunction and fail to work as advertised. In other similar pressure cooker lawsuits, plaintiffs complain that they can rotate and open the lid while the unit is still under pressure even though the safety mechanisms are supposed to prevent this.
Back in April 2024, for example, a plaintiff from Florida also filed a Ninja Foodi pressure cooker lawsuit claiming that she suffered severe, disfiguring burn injuries when the lid unexpectedly exploded off the cooker’s pot during the normal use of the cooker.
The owner’s manual for her cooker—a Deluxe 8-QT Tendercrisp Pressure Cooker—stated that as the unit pressurized, the lid would lock as a safety measure and wouldn’t unlock until pressure was released. Yet, according to the plaintiff, that didn’t happen as the lid exploded off the pot while it was under pressure.
Hundreds of Thousands of Pressure Cookers Recalled Because of Burn Hazards
The United States Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued several recalls over problems with pressure cooker explosions. In October 2023, for instance, Best Buy recalled about 930,000 Insignia pressure cookers because of a burn hazard. In August 2023, Sensio recalled about 860,000 Bella pressure cookers, also because of a burn hazard.
Many other cookers, however, are still on the market.
Exclusively focused on representing plaintiffs, especially in mass tort litigation, Eric Chaffin prides himself on providing unsurpassed professional legal services in pursuit of the specific goals of his clients and their families. Both his work and his cases have been featured in the national press, including on ABC’s Good Morning America.
