The Best Toaster Oven Air Fryers

It does nearly everything you'd otherwise heat the big oven for. Thirteen functions cover toast, bagel, bake, roast, broil, pizza, cookies, proof, slow cook, reheat, warm, air fry and dehydrate. The interior measures 16 by 13.5 by 7 inches, which swallows a 9-by-13 pan, a 12-cup muffin tray or nine slices of bread. Breville rates it for a 14-pound turkey. If you cook for a family, that's Sunday dinner handled without touching the wall oven.

The heating is the part you'll actually notice. Five independent quartz elements sit under Breville's Element iQ system, which shifts power around the cavity instead of blasting everything at once, and digital temperature control holds the setting steady. Published reviews consistently praise it for even browning and tight temperature accuracy. In plain terms: cookies on the same sheet come out the same color, and the back row doesn't burn.

Air fry mode gets food genuinely crisp, not just hot. The two-speed convection fan has a super setting that moves a lot more air, and Breville says it cuts cooking time by up to 30 percent. Frozen fries and wings brown all over rather than in patches. The same fan drives the dehydrate function across four trays at once, which is more jerky and apple chips than most people will ever need.

Owners keep these for years, which is the whole argument for spending more. Long-term feedback repeatedly describes daily use across two and three years with no drop in performance, and plenty of buyers here are replacing an older Breville that finally quit after a decade. Several also mention this one runs quieter than the smaller Smart Oven. Buy once, use it every day, stop thinking about toaster ovens.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

It's the biggest thing on this list, and it acts like it. The body runs roughly 21.5 inches wide and 17.5 deep, and you need breathing room on every side for venting. On a standard countertop with upper cabinets, it takes over an entire working zone. Measure before you commit — a lot of owners hesitated over the size, and they were right to think about it.

Owner reports flag two failure modes worth knowing about. The quartz element sleeves can crack, which is a real concern if you're eyeing an open-box unit, and a handful of owners describe the timer hanging after preheat instead of starting the cook cycle. It isn't common, but it's the kind of fault that turns a serious oven into a paperweight. Replacement accessories are proprietary and expensive.

It's the most expensive oven here by a wide margin. If you mostly toast bread and reheat leftovers, the Element iQ system is doing work you'll never see. The case for it rests on cooking often and cooking varied — baking, roasting, dehydrating, slow cooking. Use it twice a week and a mid-range oven does the same job for a lot less.

It fits the amount of food a family actually cooks. Two racks run at once with no rotating, so a five-pound chicken can sit on one level and a sheet pan of vegetables on the other. Ninja rates the cavity for two 12-inch pizzas or a 12-pound turkey. If your current toaster oven forces you into two batches every dinner, this is the fix.

It starts fast. Ninja lists a 90-second preheat, which is the difference between using the thing and defaulting to the wall oven out of impatience. At 1800 watts with what Ninja calls true surround convection, it also cooks up to 30 percent faster than a full-size convection oven. On a weeknight, that matters more than any preset ever will.

The controls stay out of your way. The display sits in the handle and lights up the right rack positions for whatever function you picked, so you're not guessing which slot the wings go in. Settings freeze when the door opens, so you can't bump a cycle mid-cook. Owners also like that it remembers the last time and temperature for each mode.

Owner feedback skews strongly positive over the long haul. Buyers describe daily use for a year or more, and more than a few bought a second one for another household after living with the first. Air fry draws the most praise: wings and fries crisp up close to what a basket fryer gives you, without the batch-size ceiling that makes basket fryers frustrating for four people.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

Cleaning it is a chore. The cavity is wide and the elements are exposed, so grease finds corners you can't easily reach, and this comes up constantly in feedback from owners who otherwise love the thing. Plan on wiping it down while it's still warm. If low-effort cleanup is your top priority, a sealed ceramic interior will treat you better.

The bulbs at the top are a known weak spot. Owners report breaking them during routine cleaning and then finding they aren't covered, which turns a small accident into an out-of-pocket repair. Be gentle around the roof of the cavity. The fan also gets loud at full air fry speed — not a dealbreaker, but you'll hear it from across an open kitchen.

It's wide and deep. At roughly 17.4 inches across and close to 20 deep, it asks for more counter depth than most toaster ovens, and a shallow counter under cabinets simply can't take it. Ninja publishes the footprint, so check those numbers against the actual spot you have in mind before you order. Depth is the dimension people forget.

It covers the basics and nothing else, which is the point. Five settings — air fry, bake, broil, toast and keep warm — plus a 30-minute timer dial. The cavity takes a 9-inch pizza or four slices of bread. For a dorm room, an office kitchen, a camper, or overflow capacity when you're hosting, that's the whole job description. There's nothing to learn and nothing to configure.

It's small and light enough to move around. Just over nine pounds and about 15.5 inches wide, it drops into the spot where your old pop-up toaster lived. It comes up to temperature quickly, so you're not standing around waiting to reheat two slices of pizza. Owners who bought it as a stopgap keep mentioning it does more than they expected for what it is.

Parts and accessories are easy to come by. It ships with a bake pan, an air fry mesh tray, a wire rack and a removable crumb tray, and BLACK+DECKER pans and racks are widely stocked. When something warps or stains beyond saving, you replace it without hunting down a proprietary part. That's underrated on an appliance you plan to use hard and not baby.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

You have to watch your food. The most common complaint from owners is burning — the heat runs hotter than the dial suggests, and the small cavity puts food close to the elements. Set it short, check early, add time. Once you learn its habits it's predictable enough, but this will never be a set-it-and-walk-away oven.

The build is thin and it shows. Owners report the door glass hazing over from heat within months, which is cosmetic but permanent, and a few say the listed dimensions don't match the unit that arrived. It's the lightest oven here by a lot, and it feels that way in the hand. Treat it as a few good years, not a decade.

It gives you your counter back. Flip the whole unit up against the backsplash and it takes about half the space, which is the difference between an oven you own and one you actually leave out and use. At under eight inches tall in its cooking position, it also slides under most upper cabinets without the usual clearance anxiety.

It still cooks like a real toaster oven. Eight functions cover air fry, roast, broil, bake, pizza, toast, bagel and dehydrate. It handles four pounds of ingredients, a 12-inch pizza, six slices of bread or six chicken breasts. Ninja's OvenCrisp setup pairs infrared heat with circulating air, and owners say fries and chicken come out crisp, often faster than the standalone fryer they replaced.

It's the one people buy for apartments, campers and vacation houses. Owner feedback is full of exactly those situations: small kitchens, a broken or missing full-size oven, or summer heat that makes running the big one miserable. Ninja claims 80 percent better energy efficiency than a full-size oven, so you're not paying to heat the room along with dinner.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The cavity is shallow. The trade for that low profile is vertical room, so a tall casserole dish or a whole chicken isn't happening in here. Think sheet-pan food, toast and air fry baskets. If your cooking regularly involves anything with height, one of the boxier ovens above will serve you much better.

Toasting can fade over time. Some longer-term owners report having to push the darkness setting higher and higher after a year to get the same slice they used to get. That's the most common durability gripe on this model, and it matters if toast is your main use. Feedback on air frying and baking stays steadier.

The flip is one more step. You have to clear the top, lift the unit and latch it every time you finish cooking. If you use it three times a day, you'll stop bothering and it'll just sit flat like any other oven — which is fine, but then you're paying for a hinge you don't use.