Best Toaster Ovens

Steaks, pork chops, turkey or chicken breasts with a perfectly golden crust and juicy from the inside, delicious casseroles with awesome crunchy tops, cheesy pizza rolls and toasted sandwiches look appetizing and make your mouth water. These are only a few dishes you can cook in a toaster oven. Roasts really come out awesome from a convection oven. But what about fries? Most models are not meant for frying. If you are a lover of crispy chicken wings, crunchy fried shrimps, fritters, and French fries, you should rather go for a deep fryer or air fryer. Yet, wouldn’t it be nice to have both units? With the Cuisinart TOA-60 countertop oven, you can have them both packed in a single countertop appliance and even more.

Right off the bat, this model stands out with its triple functionality. First things first, it is a convection oven. Featuring a built-in fan on the top, it works wonders baking, broiling, roasting, grilling and warming all sorts of food. Also, it doubles as a toaster. The appliance offers three specific toaster shades with an adjustable timer so you can achieve the level of crunchiness you like without the risk of burning bread. Finally, the Cuisinart TOA-60 comes fitted with a built-in air fryer. Hence, you can use it to cook delicious fried dainties in a healthy way with a minimum amount of oil. As a result, the food will be crusty and contain little to no fat. It’s notable that all accessories you'll need to get the most out of the oven functionality are included in the set. That is, the package contains an oven rack, a baking pan, an air fryer basket, and even a crumb tray to ensure quick no-mess cleanups.

The BOV845BSS is a recent model in Breville's range, which boasts a thought-out design and utmost functionality that will simplify your culinary tasks quite a lot. The manufacturer calls this model smart and not without a reason. The BOV845BSS stands out for its SMART ELEMENT IQ™ heating system. The distinguishing feature of this system is that it comprises not two heating elements like many other toaster ovens but as many as five (3 on the top and 2 on the bottom), which allows it to produce consistent heat, reach the set temperature more quickly and ensure faster and more precise heat distribution inside the chamber. Furthermore, the BOV845BSS utilizes a fan-assisted convection technology, as a result of which the heat inside the cooking chamber distributes more evenly, minimizing hot and cold spots. All this paired with impressive unit power of 1800 watts allows not only reducing the overall cooking time a lot but also ensures you can achieve flawless results each time, no matter what you cook.

Despite top-of-the-line functionality, the Breville Smart Pro comes encased in a no-frills design and has intuitive controls so you will be able to easily get to grips with it. The all-steel body with enameled interior looks nice and is very easy to clean and maintain while three control dials with a digital display on the control panel make the unit operation a breeze. One of the things we especially like about this oven is its special ejecting mechanism. Thanks to this mechanism, the central rack of the oven automatically pulls out when you open the door of the oven, making it easy to take out hot items without burning your fingers. A set of accessories which include a baking pan, broiling rack, and a 13” pizza pan contribute to the convenience of use too.

Nobody's going to deny that putting a meal together after a long working day is a pretty tiresome task. Firing up an oven and heating up the entire apartment or house while using up tons of electricity for cooking doesn't sound like fun. So, if you want to cook faster and cheaper, especially on canicular days, keeping your kitchen cool, we recommend you to consider the BLACK+DECKER CTO6335S, a toaster oven being recognized for both its reasonable price and excellent performance characteristics.

This 1500 Watts oven is designed with 4 heating elements - 2 on the top and 2 on the bottom. They heat up pretty quickly and toast your food evenly, thus you will never get your chicken or pizza with underbaked center. What's more, the oven features pretty straightforward controls. Designed with an extra-large display and illustrated mechanical buttons located under it, the CTO6335S model allows you to pre-set the cooking time, temperature, and the mode you need, showing all the settings on the display. Bake, broil, toast, bagel, pizza, frozen snacks, potatoes, cookies, this is the list of the pre-set cooking modes you can choose from and customize them depending on your preferences or needs. You can set the timer for up to 120 minutes to alert you when your meal is ready. Without the timer, the oven automatically shuts off every 30 minutes, allowing you to use it for some short cooking jobs like toasting or baking small items.

Finally, those who like crispy and browned food will highly appreciate the convection function that is used with the Bake function only. It uses an internal fan to distribute the heat inside the oven more evenly and thus, bakes at lower temperatures much faster. Note that the temperature you set should be 25 degrees lower than the recommended one when you are baking something using the Convention option.

If you are into practical solutions and seek to add functionality to your kitchen without adding too many appliances, you will definitely like this toaster oven from Oster. Combining an electric oven and toaster functionality, this model is very simple in use and will help you easily cook a variety of dishes ideal for a home menu.

First off, the Oster TSSTTVMNDG toaster oven offers a decent capacity that will let you cook a whole 12'' pizza or 6 slices of toasts simultaneously. With a 0.6- cubic feet chamber, you can prepare the whole chicken for a family or toss off a quick meal for yourself. The power of 1600 watts and 4 heating elements ensure fast and even cooking while a variable temperature range up to 450 degrees allows achieving optimal cooking results with different foods and dishes.

The next thing you can't but like is a user-friendly digital control panel. Instead of a mechanical dial, you'll have responsive control-buttons, all marked for intuitive and fool-proof operation. You'll have two toast shades to choose from by simply pressing a button on the control panel and using the +/- Temp buttons. Toasting time is set automatically based on the shade selection.

Apart from selectable toast shades, the model has a number of pre-programmed cooking modes including Bake, Broil, Pizza, Defrost, and Warm. So, you can easily cook meals from frozen ingredients as well as reheat precooked treats.

If you have a cramped or small kitchen or your countertop space is limited, your choice of countertop kitchen appliances is limited as well, especially when it comes to rather bulky units like countertop ovens. Sounds pretty much like you? Yet, you still want a toaster oven, even at the expense of some other devices? This is where the Hamilton Beach 31123D toaster oven will come into play.

What makes this model stand out (in addition to a fairly affordable price no thrifty cook will give a miss) is its compact and clever design. It is not only about a smaller footprint that will eat less countertop area as compared to bigger models but also the thing is in the door construction. Unlike in other similar ovens with front opening doors that need added space to freely use the oven, the Hamilton Beach 31123D features a roll-up door that needs no space in the front. Moreover, you’ll have easier, safer, and more convenient access to the foods inside. Now checking foods or adding some ingredients while cooking is a breeze with minimal risk of burning your hands on the hot door.

Though this toaster oven won’t replace a full-scale oven and it has only four cooking modes it will more than surely cater to your basic needs. In general, the oven provides you with all the essential functions you need. You get broil and toast modes for making crispy toasts, cooking quick snacks like chicken nuggets or some frozen meals as well as roasting steaks and fish; a bake mode for creating all sorts of desserts, from delicate mousses to crunchy croissants; and a convention mode for cooking pizzas and pastries with an appetizing crust. This functionality is more than enough to toss off some quick meals, diversify your breakfast menus, and make yummy snacks for the whole family.

Instead of digital controls, the Hamilton Beach 31123D comes equipped with mechanical switches. Yet, they ensure the same level of operational convenience. Properly marked dials allow easily set the desired cooking time and temperature, while a 30-minute timer with an auto shut-off will take care of the unit safety. Two rack positions are also included to cook larger and smaller portions and you can turn the convection function on and off when necessary.