Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker (OP300 Series) VS iRobot Roomba j7
Verdict DROP IT DROP IT
The Reality CPSC's May 2025 recall notice documents a serious real defect specific to the OP300 Series: the pressure-cooking lid can be opened while the contents are still pressurized, causing hot contents to escape. SharkNinja received more than 100 reports of burn injuries, including more than 50 second- and third-degree burns to the face or body, and the defect has been the subject of 26 separate lawsuits. Roughly 1.8 million units were recalled, sold at major retailers including Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon, and Target from January 2019 through March 2025. MIT Technology Review's December 2022 investigation found that images captured by development versions of the Roomba J7 series -- gathered during a 2019-2022 data-collection program with paid testers -- ended up leaking publicly. In one 2020 case, gig workers in Venezuela hired by contractor Scale AI to label objects in the images (used to train the object-recognition feature) posted at least 15 of those images to closed social-media groups, including a photo of a minor and a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet. Nearly a dozen program participants came forward after the investigation was published, saying they felt misled about how their images would be handled and viewed by outside contractors. iRobot's position is that these images came from development units under separate testing consent agreements, not from a consumer's purchased Roomba operating normally.
SHORT ANSWER
Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker (OP300 Series): CPSC's May 2025 recall of 1.8 million Ninja Foodi OP300 Series pressure cookers documented over 100 burn reports -- including more than 50 second- and third-degree burns -- caused by the pressure-cooking lid opening while contents were still pressurized.
iRobot Roomba j7: MIT Technology Review's 2022 investigation found images from Roomba J7 development units -- including a photo of a woman on a toilet and a minor -- were leaked to social media by workers at an overseas data-labeling contractor, though iRobot says these came from testing units, not consumers' purchased Roombas.