Ninja DoubleStack vs Philips 5000 Australia: Verdict

Two of Australia’s best-selling large air fryers solve the same problem in opposite ways. The Ninja DoubleStack XXXL stacks two drawers on top of each other so you can cook four foods at once. The Philips 5000 Series 7.2L Steam Airfryer gives up the second drawer entirely and bets on steam instead. This ninja doublestack vs philips 5000 australia comparison puts both on the same bench: live Australian prices checked 14 November 2026, full specs, running costs, and an honest verdict on which design philosophy wins for your kitchen.

The short version: the Ninja is the family-batch machine. The Philips is the better single-batch cooker, especially for food that dries out. The price gap is smaller than the October figures on this site suggested — $151 at The Good Guys, but only $63 if you compare the cheapest in-stock price of each. Which one wins depends on how you cook, not on the spec sheet alone.

Ninja DoubleStack vs Philips 5000 Australia: price at a glance

Prices checked live 14 November 2026. Both models are in stock in Australia today, but the cheapest price for each comes with a condition — read the table notes before you buy.

The honest price gap: $151 comparing the two black models at the same retailer (The Good Guys, $499 vs $348). Compare the cheapest in-stock price of each and the gap shrinks to $63 ($411 white Ninja at Appliances Online vs $348 Philips). The $299 Bing Lee Philips price is a backorder, not a price you can buy today — the buyable in-stock Philips price is $348. No live Black Friday deal exists for either model as of 14 November 2026; Black Friday falls on 27 November 2026 and any discount then is speculation until a retailer lists it.

Two price caveats worth knowing. First, the $411 Ninja is the white model only — no black Ninja below $499 was found at any live retailer, and The Good Guys lists the black SL400ANZ at $499 in stock. Second, both RRPs are soft: the Ninja’s $599.99 RRP comes from Amazon and AIVAnet listings, while TechRadar cites a $499.99 list price from Ninja’s own site; the Philips’ $499 RRP rests on a months-old David Jones listing and this site’s October single. Street price against street price is the comparison that holds up, so that is what this article leads with. Prices were re-checked against the sources named in the methodology section and must be re-checked again at publish time — air fryer prices move fast in the run-up to Black Friday.

Ninja DoubleStack XXXL: what you get for $411–$499

The DoubleStack XXXL (model SL400ANZ in black, SL400WH in white) is Ninja’s answer to the one complaint about dual-drawer air fryers: they eat bench space. Instead of two drawers side by side, it stacks them. The total capacity is 9.5 litres — two 4.75-litre drawers — and each drawer has two cooking levels, so with the two stacked meal racks you can cook up to four foods at once. It fits two 2.3 kg chickens, and Ninja positions it for households of four to six (Kogan’s listing says up to eight).

The two drawers are independently controlled, and the two features that make the stacked layout work are Smart Finish, which syncs the drawers so different foods finish at the same time, and Match Cook, which copies the settings from one drawer to the other. There are six functions — Air Fry, Max Crisp, Roast, Bake, Reheat and Dehydrate — at 2,270 watts, with a temperature range of 27–230°C. The crisper plates are dishwasher-safe, and the warranty is two years.

The trade-off is height. At 385 mm tall, 286 mm wide and 488 mm deep, the DoubleStack is taller and deeper than the Philips, though narrower. The stacked design is 30% slimmer than a traditional side-by-side two-drawer fryer, but The Good Guys’ own listing warns that the taller body needs clear room above it and that low overhead cupboards are the main placement check. Measure the space under your cupboards before you buy — “fits under standard cabinets” is a claim some retailers make, but the height and the clearance warning are the numbers that matter. It weighs 10.2 kg per The Good Guys (some listings say 10.3 kg; the 0.1 kg difference is retailer rounding, not a different model).

Read the full deep dive in our Ninja DoubleStack XXXL single review, which covers the Smart variant (SL451, $600 at Kogan) and the cheaper Ninja alternatives. The Smart variant is a different model with a food probe — do not confuse its price with the base SL400ANZ.

Philips 5000 Series 7.2L Steam: what you get for $348

The Philips 5000 Series 7.2L Steam Airfryer (model NA547/07) is a single 7.2-litre basket with one idea the Ninja does not have: steam. It has three cooking modes — Airfry, Steam and Steamfry — where Steamfry combines hot air with steam to keep food crisp outside and juicy inside, and the steam-only mode suits dumplings, fish and vegetables. Philips claims the steam preserves up to 87% of nutrients, and the fryer uses RapidAir Plus technology for faster, more even airflow. It also claims up to 90% less fat than deep frying.

The basket cooks up to 1.4 kg of vegetables, 10 drumsticks, 6 salmon fillets or 9 muffins in one batch. It runs at 2,000 watts with a 40–200°C range, has a ceramic non-stick coating, a viewing window, an EasySlide rail for one-handed basket pull-out, a detachable water tank, dishwasher-safe parts, an automatic SteamClean function, auto shut-off and a keep-warm function. The warranty is two years. At 320 mm tall, 334 mm wide and 457 mm deep and 8.9 kg, it is shorter and lighter than the Ninja but wider — and nearly as deep, so it still needs a proper stretch of bench.

One specification is genuinely unresolved and this article will not pretend otherwise. The Good Guys lists 9 preset cooking functions; Bing Lee’s FAQ says 12 pre-set programs. No official Philips Australia product page for the NA547/07 could be found to settle it, and the 12-preset figure also appears on listings for the dual-basket Philips NA551/00 — a different model — so the Bing Lee figure is most likely copied from the wrong model. Count on 9 presets and treat 12 as unconfirmed. The same caution applies to one retailer error: The Good Guys’ listing describes this black model as “in gold” in one line. It is black; the gold reference is a data error.

Read the full deep dive in our Philips 5000 Series 7.2L Steam single review. Do not confuse this model with the Philips 5000 Series dual-basket 9L (NA551/00) — that is a different fryer with its own price, and its $249 JB Hi-Fi listing is not this model’s price.

Ninja DoubleStack vs Philips 5000 Australia: head-to-head specs

*Preset count: The Good Guys lists 9; Bing Lee lists 12. No official Philips Australia page for the NA547/07 was found to settle the difference, so 9 is the figure this article uses.

Stacked dual-zone vs single-basket steam: which philosophy wins?

The spec table tells you what each fryer is. The decision is about how you cook — and that is the question this ninja doublestack vs philips 5000 australia comparison keeps coming back to: two drawers, or steam? The Ninja wins on throughput: two independent drawers, Smart Finish syncing, and four foods at once. If your weeknights are a protein in one drawer, vegetables in the other, and a second batch while the first rests, no single-basket fryer keeps up. The Philips wins on what comes out of the basket: steam keeps chicken, fish and reheated food moist in a way dry hot air cannot, and the SteamClean function makes the clean-up after a greasy cook easier.

Capacity is the number most buyers get wrong. The Ninja’s 9.5 litres is split across two drawers, so its biggest single batch is 4.75 litres. The Philips’ 7.2 litres is one basket, so its biggest single batch is bigger than either Ninja drawer — a whole 1.4 kg of vegetables or 10 drumsticks in one go. If you usually cook one big thing, the Philips’ single basket is the more useful capacity. If you usually cook two or three things at once, the Ninja’s split capacity is the point.

Size is the other honest difference. The Ninja is taller and deeper but narrower; the Philips is shorter and lighter but wider and nearly as deep. Neither is small. The Ninja’s 385 mm height is the figure to measure against your overhead cupboards. The Philips’ 457 mm depth is the figure to measure against your bench. Do not buy either on a “smaller footprint” claim without measuring both numbers against your kitchen.

On value, the gap is genuinely close. At the same retailer the Ninja costs $151 more. At the cheapest in-stock price of each, it costs $63 more — and that $63 buys a second drawer, 2.3 litres more total capacity and 270 watts. The Philips at $348 is the cheaper buy and the better single-batch cooker. The Ninja at $411 in white is the value pick if you can live with the colour; at $499 in black it is a $151 premium for the dual-zone layout. There is no wrong answer here, only a wrong reason: do not pay the Ninja premium if you cook one thing at a time, and do not buy the Philips expecting it to cook a protein and a side simultaneously.

Who should buy which?

If you are still torn after this ninja doublestack vs philips 5000 australia head-to-head, the deciding question is simple: do you cook two things at once, or one thing well?

Buy the Ninja DoubleStack XXXL if: you cook for four or more, you regularly need a protein and a side ready at the same time, you batch-cook, or your bench has the height for a 385 mm unit but not the width for a side-by-side dual-drawer fryer. Choose white at $411 from Appliances Online if the colour suits your kitchen — it is the same fryer as the $499 black model. Our best air fryers Australia 2026 roundup already named the DoubleStack its best overall pick; this head-to-head is the decider for buyers choosing between it and the Philips, not a re-ranking.

Buy the Philips 5000 Series 7.2L Steam if: you cook one big batch at a time, you reheat leftovers often, you cook fish, dumplings or vegetables that dry out in hot air, you want the steam cleaning function, or your cupboards are too low for the Ninja’s height. At $348 in stock it is also the cheaper buy, and the $299 Bing Lee price is worth watching if you are happy to wait out a backorder. If glass containers and a non-stick-free cooking surface matter more to you than capacity, our Ninja Crispi Pro review covers the glass-container alternative — note it is a different kind of fryer, not a third contestant in this comparison.

Buy neither yet if: you already own a working large air fryer and neither the second drawer nor steam solves a problem you actually have. Both are good fryers; neither is a reason to replace a working one.

Running costs: what each one costs per hour

Neither fryer is expensive to run, and the difference between them is small. Using the Australian Energy Regulator’s Default Market Offer 2026–27 caps — Ausgrid 33.14 cents, Energex 27.97 cents and SA Power Networks 41.91 cents per kWh — the maximum-draw cost per hour is about 75 cents (Ausgrid), 64 cents (Energex) or 95 cents (SA) for the Ninja at 2,270 watts, and about 66 cents, 56 cents or 84 cents for the Philips at 2,000 watts. The gap is roughly 9–11 cents per hour at full draw.

That is a ceiling, not a typical cook. Air fryers cycle on and off and rarely run at full draw for a whole cook, so the real cost per meal is lower — roughly half the maximum-draw figure for a 20–30 minute cook at typical thermostat cycling, though the exact figure depends on what you cook and how long the element stays on. The DMO caps are also standing-offer ceilings; most households on market offers pay less per kWh. The running-cost difference should not decide this purchase. The GoSwitch electricity rates table lists the AER Default Market Offer 2026–27 figures used here.

Buy now or wait for Black Friday?

Black Friday is 27 November 2026 — thirteen days from this article’s price check. No retailer page checked on 14 November shows a live Black Friday deal, badge or end date for either model, so there is no deal to wait for yet, only a date. The prices in this article are the prices you can buy at today: $411–$499 for the Ninja, $348 in stock for the Philips.

If you need a fryer now, buy at today’s prices — every price in this ninja doublestack vs philips 5000 australia comparison is a price you can buy at today: $411–$499 for the Ninja, $348 in stock for the Philips. If you can wait two weeks, watch the same retailers: the Ninja has been as low as $189.95 in an expired July 2026 Prime Day event and $259 in a 2025 Black Friday event, so deep discounts do happen, but those expired prices are not a promise of what 27 November brings. Our deals hub tracks current Australian tech deals as they go live. Whatever you do, do not pay more than the prices in this article’s table — if a listing shows a higher price, it is not the deal.

How we compared: methodology, exclusions and gaps

This is desk research, not hands-on testing. No review scores in this article are ours — retailer star ratings and other sites’ scores are never presented as an ItsReleased verdict. Prices were checked live on 14 November 2026 at The Good Guys and Appliances Online (Ninja) and The Good Guys and Bing Lee (Philips), with stock status read from each page. JB Hi-Fi and Myer prices from this site’s October singles could not be re-verified — no current product pages surfaced for either model at those retailers — so no JB Hi-Fi or Myer price is quoted as current here. Appliances Online’s Philips price could not be found, and no official Ninja Kitchen Australia or Philips Australia product page for either model could be located. All prices must be re-checked at publish time.

Excluded deliberately: expired event prices (TechRadar’s $189.95 Prime Day price, 2025 Black Friday and Boxing Day prices), stale retailer crawls, the Kogan $600 Smart variant (SL451, a different model with a food probe), the JB Hi-Fi $249 Philips 9L dual-basket (NA551/00, a different model), UK and US prices in any currency, and any USD-to-AUD conversion. Grey imports were not considered. The capacity figures used are the manufacturer and retailer spec figures (2 × 4.75L drawers; 7.2L single basket) — a “two 4L drawers” figure in one older article is wrong and is not repeated here. The preset-count conflict (9 vs 12) and the RRP conflicts for both models are stated in the article rather than settled, because no official source was found to settle them.

Frequently asked questions

Is steam worth giving up a second drawer for?

It depends on what you cook. Steam keeps fish, dumplings, vegetables and reheated food moist in a way dry hot air cannot, and the Philips’ Steamfry mode gives you crisping plus moisture in one cook. But steam cannot cook a protein and a side at the same time — only the Ninja’s second drawer does that. If you reheat and cook delicate food often, steam is worth the trade. If your weeknights need two things ready together, the second drawer is worth more.

Will the Ninja DoubleStack fit under my kitchen cabinets?

Measure first. The DoubleStack is 385 mm tall, and The Good Guys’ own listing warns that the taller body needs clear room above it and that low overhead cupboards are the main placement check. Some retailers say it fits under standard cabinets, but that claim does not override the height figure. The Philips is shorter at 320 mm but wider at 334 mm and 457 mm deep, so check its depth against your bench instead.

Which one is cheaper to run?

The Philips, by a small margin. At maximum draw it costs about 66 cents per hour on Ausgrid’s 33.14c/kWh cap versus about 75 cents for the Ninja, with a similar 9–11 cent gap in other states. In practice both cycle on and off, so a typical 20–30 minute cook costs less than the maximum-draw figure for either fryer. Running costs should not decide this purchase — the price gap and the cooking style matter far more.

Is the $411 Ninja the same fryer as the $499 one?

Yes — same model, SL400, same 9.5-litre stacked two-drawer design. The $411 price at Appliances Online is the white model (SL400WH); the $499 price at The Good Guys is the black model (SL400ANZ). No black Ninja below $499 was found at any live retailer. Do not pay $499 for the white model, and do not expect the $411 price on the black one.

Should I wait for Black Friday before buying either air fryer?

Black Friday is 27 November 2026, and no retailer page checked on 14 November shows a live Black Friday deal for either model. If you need a fryer now, today’s prices — $411–$499 for the Ninja and $348 in stock for the Philips — are fair. If you can wait, watch the same retailers, but treat expired sale prices from past events as history, not as a promise of what 27 November brings.

Disclosure: ItsReleased currently earns no commissions from product links. Prices were checked live on 14 November 2026 and can change — re-check the retailer’s page before you buy. This article is desk research based on retailer and manufacturer specifications; neither air fryer was hands-on tested by ItsReleased.