The Best Toaster Oven

After speaking with experts and spending years doing our own long-term testing since 2013, we look for these important qualities in a toaster oven:

• Easy to operate: A good toaster oven should be intuitive to use, with clearly labeled controls and an easy-to-read display. It should have a range of temperatures (ideally between 150 °F and 450 °F) and adjustable toast-shade settings. Other nice features, like a timer, an oven light, or automatic cooking modes are convenient, but not necessary.
• Heats evenly: Several factors play a role in how evenly food cooks—the distance food is placed from the heating elements, the number of elements used and their placement inside the oven, and how well the elements maintain a set temperature. All of our picks toasted evenly no matter where the bread was placed in the oven (unlike many models that scorched some pieces of bread and left others pale and underdone).
• Useful accessories: Most toaster ovens come with a crumb tray, an oven rack, and a baking pan. More-expensive models usually offer multiple oven racks and additional pans, such as broiling and pizza pans. You don’t need to buy an air frying basket—a regular quarter-sheet pan will give you similar results in a convection oven.
• Sufficient warranty: Most toaster ovens offer a standard one-year warranty. Two of our picks are an exception: The Cuisinart Chef’s Convection Toaster Oven comes with a three-year warranty, and the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro comes with a two-year warranty.

While our testing procedure has evolved since we started covering toaster ovens in 2013, we’ve always started by filling each toaster with as many slices of basic white bread as we could, then setting each machine to toast at medium shade. The results give us a heat map of each oven, showing us how evenly each model toasted and if it had any hot spots.

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We also made break-and-bake Toll House cookies and pizza Bagel Bites in each model, evaluating the finished product for color, consistency, and texture. To even the playing field, we didn’t use the convection setting on any of the models we tested (unless we were specifically comparing models that shared that feature).

Additionally, we baked chicken thighs in the finalists to see how well they could crisp up the skin.

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Using an air probe thermometer, we monitored how well each oven maintained a set temperature.

We also tested the unique features on certain models, such as dehydrate and steam modes. We tested ovens with dedicated air fry modes, such as our upgrade pick, the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro, with similar contenders for a separate guide—these models typically have larger, more powerful fans than toaster ovens with standard convection fans.

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