9 Best Toaster Ovens for Your Kitchen
Toaster ovens are one kitchen appliance you don’t know how much you need until you end up using it every day. They take up minimal space, replace several kitchen appliances (like your toaster and air fryer), and shorten cooking times, especially when you use the convection setting. Since most toaster ovens don’t require preheating, they’re great for the summer months when you don’t want to heat up your entire kitchen with your conventional full-size oven. Here are our top picks for the best toaster ovens.
Breville
amazon.com
Electronic controls and preset cooking programs for bagels, cookies, and pizza (up to an 11-inch pie) make the Breville Compact Smart Oven super easy to use. It browned toast quickly, baked a beautiful cake, and roasted tender potatoes and chicken in our tests. A nonstick coating makes cleaning a breeze. The control panel is also very intuitive and easy to use and the stainless steel design feels solid. Lastly, there's something to say about an average 4.3 star rating on Amazon from nearly 2,000 reviewers.
Hamilton Beach
Hamilton Beach Super-Crisp doesn’t fail to perform. While it looks very basic with easy-to-use controls, it toasted bread and baked pizza very evenly in a relatively short amount of time. We were most impressed with its air frying abilities: It made crispy and juicy wings, and crispy fries that weren’t dried out. In addition to its performance, the small footprint won't take up too much space on your countertop but can still fit six slices of bread and a 13-inch frozen pizza, so you won't sacrifice size for usability.
Cuisinart
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Although relatively compact, the stainless steel Cuisinart Deluxe Convection Toaster Oven Broiler can roast a golden brown chicken in an hour and is almost as fast at toasting as a pop-up toaster. It's spacious interior can also fit a 13" pizza. (Not to mention, it comes with a pizza stone!) In addition to its roomy interior, it features multiple convection fan settings and can be programmed to dual cook, which means you can cook a chicken at one temperature to brown the skin and another to finish cooking it through.
Breville
amazon.com
Need to feed a crowd? This toaster oven is enormous: Its one cubic foot interior holds nine slices of bread or a five-quart Dutch oven. It toasts, bakes, and roasts so evenly (and quickly), we'd actually consider tossing our full-size oven. You can even use it as an air fryer! This oven is one of the most intuitive to use with its very easy-to-read screen and control panel, and helpful rack position settings listed on the door. You'll rarely have to even think about setting a certain temperature or time — it's loaded with presets.
Cuisinart
amazon.com
This is an air fryer toaster oven that can do it all. It includes 13 different cooking functions including five different air fry settings (from nuggets to vegetables), dehydrate, roast, and dual cook, and two different modes (convection setting and frozen) that can be used with multiple functions and settings. We loved how quickly and powerfully the air fry function worked: Chicken wings cooked up the crispiest and so did French fries in the shortest cooking times.
It toasted the most even bread, baked a golden brown cake, and cooked frozen pizza to perfection. It heated the quickest and seemed to get the hottest. The control panel was a little difficult to use, but the user guide was very useful and included a lot of cooking tips, recipes, and charts. We liked the added bonus of being able to store the guide (loaded with recommended cooking times and rack positions) right below the oven! The stainless steel housing stayed cool during use and all accessories were dishwasher safe.
KitchenAid
amazon.com
There’s lots to love about KitchenAid’s newest toaster oven. It's sleek and space-efficient, yet can fit nine slices of bread at one time (although they only recommend six). It has a function for cookies, roast, pizza, bagel, toast, bake, broil, reheat, and keep warm, which means no need fussing around with temperatures or times if you don’t want to. We particularly like its very easy-to-use interface with two basic dials and underrated start and cancel buttons. The display reads very easy, as well.
Ninja
amazon.com
We know counter space is not easy to come by, even when you have a lot of it. This air fryer toaster oven from Ninja flips up for storage and stands flush against your backsplash so you don't have to choose between a new appliance and prep space. The bottom surface also releases so you can clean it easily. In our tests, the control panel was intuitive to use and easy to read. Bread toasted well and cake baked very evenly. We particularly liked the air crisp function that made crispy, yet moist wings. The air fry rack is large and offers ample cooking room, an especially good feature for air fryers that promotes air circulation for the crispiest results.
Panasonic
amazon.com
This highly rated toaster oven is compact (it will fit a 9-inch pizza) and can automatically set the cooking time based on the food item selected from its presets. It features presets for toast, reheating waffles and rolls, and heating frozen foods like pizza and hash browns. We like that the rack is attached to the door, so it automatically pulls forward as you open it. Keep in mind that the oven will heat for a maximum of 25 minutes, so it’s perfect for prepared frozen meals, but for longer bakes you’ll have to restart it. Reviewers noted that the pan is difficult to clean and rusts easily. We suggest covering it with a fitted layer of foil before placing food on it.
juneoven.com
This toaster oven is one of a kind from a technological standpoint. Place a piece of food inside, and a camera will detect what it is and recommend how to cook it. Then, you can either start cooking by pressing the start cooking button, or override it completely and cook it the way you know best. The touchpad is practically addicting: It responds as fast as an iPhone and offers a very clean and easy user experience.
The oven itself is big and solid with a very roomy interior that’s easy to wipe down. We were able to fit 12 slices of bread on one of the shelves and it toasted relatively evenly and baked a very nice cake. It also baked a delicious pizza with evenly melted cheese and a lightly crisp bottom.
9 Best Toaster Ovens for Your Kitchen
Toaster ovens are one kitchen appliance you don’t know how much you need until you end up using it every day. They take up minimal space, replace several kitchen appliances (like your toaster and air fryer), and shorten cooking times, especially when you use the convection setting. Since most toaster ovens don’t require preheating, they’re great for the summer months when you don’t want to heat up your entire kitchen with your conventional full-size oven. Here are our top picks for the best toaster ovens.
You might never turn on your full sized oven again.
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