A good toaster oven browns your morning toast, reheats last night's pizza without turning it to rubber, and roasts a small dinner without heating up the whole kitchen. But the cheap ones run hot in one corner and cold in the other, so your toast comes out striped and your fries stay soggy. We analyzed thousands of verified buyer reviews, recent sales data, and expert evaluations to find eight toaster ovens that cook evenly and earn the counter space they take.
Every product we compared, in ranked order. Tap through to Amazon to check today's price, or jump to the full review below.
Our Best Overall pick: the only oven in this lineup with a true ceramic grill and griddle insert, adding char-grilled sear marks to Nuwave's fastest convection system. 142 presets and independently adjustable top and bottom heaters give it the most granular control of any model here.
Our Best for Large Families pick: Nuwave's fastest, most-improved convection fan paired with full 30-quart, 4-rack family capacity, 100 one-touch presets and a built-in temperature probe, all at a lower price than its grill-equipped sibling.
Our Place's steam-infusion system uses just a teaspoon or two of water to crisp the outside of food while keeping the inside juicy, a technique covered favorably by The Kitchn, 40 Aprons, Forbes and Food Network. It preheats in under 2.5 minutes and is built without PTFE, PFOA or other forever chemicals.
Typhur built its reputation on a wireless meat thermometer independently praised for half-degree accuracy, and the Sync Oven bundles that same probe technology into a 27-quart, 12-in-1 convection oven with 360-degree turbo airflow. App-based control lets you monitor a roast's internal temperature from across the room.
The original Nuwave Bravo pairs an integrated digital temperature probe with 1-degree precision to 5 quartz heating elements and a 50-500°F range, in a full 30-quart, 12-in-1 convection oven built to handle a whole holiday spread. Buyers consistently credit the probe with eliminating guesswork on roasts and poultry.
Our Best Affordable pick: a compact 10-quart digital air fryer with 17 touch-screen presets covering everything from rotisserie chicken to dehydrated fruit, tested by TechGearLab and praised for turning out consistently juicy roasted chicken. It pairs that tested performance with the lowest price of any oven in this comparison.
A straightforward 15-quart air fryer toaster oven with 5 touch-screen cooking functions and two dishwasher-safe air fry baskets, sized between this comparison's compact countertop ovens and its 25-30 quart giants. Retailer buyers consistently describe it as simple to operate, with several specifically praising how well it handles frozen air-fry staples.
Midea's French-door design swings both glass panels open past 90 degrees for easy access to a 26.4-quart cavity that holds a 12-inch pizza or up to 14 chicken wings at once, at the lowest price of any 25+ quart oven in this comparison. Reviewers consistently note remarkably even, consistent heat for an oven this size.
Short on time? These three cover most buyers: our Best Overall pick, the only oven here with a built-in ceramic grill and griddle for true sear marks, the most affordable way to get genuine air-fryer and rotisserie versatility, and the same full 30-quart family capacity as our Best Overall pick without paying for the grill insert.
Understand the category before you buy - what the science actually says, and which specs matter.
Most toaster ovens sold today are really air-fryer toaster oven combos, and that changes the math on what you should own. Here is how they work, why a convection model with an air-fry mode can quietly replace two appliances, and the specs actually worth comparing.
A toaster oven is a small electric oven that sits on your counter. Heating elements above and below the food radiate heat into an insulated box, and you control the temperature and time to toast, bake, broil, or reheat. Because the cavity is small, it heats up fast and cooks small batches without waiting on a full-size range.
The models here layer on more than that:
Here is the thing most shoppers miss. Air frying is not a separate technology. It is just aggressive convection, hot air blown fast around the food, which is exactly what a good convection toaster oven already does. That means a single convection oven with an air-fry mode can stand in for both a pop-up toaster and a standalone air fryer, freeing up an outlet and a chunk of counter.
So the real questions are not how long the preset list is. Presets are just shortcuts for settings you can dial in yourself. The questions that decide whether you are happy are usable capacity and whether the oven has true convection, meaning an actual fan. Capacity in this lineup runs from the compact Chefman Multifunctional at 10 quarts up to the 30-quart Nuwave Bravo models, the largest ovens in this comparison, with the 12.7-to-27-quart Our Place, Midea and Typhur models in between. A bigger number is only worth it if you will actually fill it, since a larger box takes more counter and more energy to heat.
One more honest advantage: for a couple of slices of toast or a tray of vegetables, a countertop oven preheats faster and wastes far less energy than firing up your full range, which was built to heat a cavity many times larger.
Once you know convection is the engine, a few features decide which oven fits your kitchen:
Graded Picks rankings are aggregated from several independent signals: verified buyer ratings and the size of the review base for credibility, recent monthly purchase volume for relevance, assessments from trusted kitchen and appliance publications, and how each product places in leading category lineups. For toaster ovens we weigh:
Everything we learned from buyer reviews and expert testing, product by product.
Our Best Overall pick. The Bravo XL Pro with Grill is the most feature-dense oven in this lineup, built around the one differentiator that sets it apart from its non-grill Bravo XL Pro sibling also in this comparison: an included ceramic nonstick grill and griddle insert that adds genuine sear marks and char flavor, something no other oven in this lineup can replicate. The upgraded convection system moves air aggressively and evenly, which testers found translates into faster cook times and crispier results than the original Bravo, and independently adjustable top and bottom heaters (0 to 100 percent each) let you dial in a crisp base with gentle top heat for pizza, or the reverse for browning a casserole top. With 142 presets, 5-stage cooking and 3 sear modes, this is the most configurable oven in this comparison, built for cooks who want maximum control rather than a simple dial-and-go experience. The 30-quart capacity and included temperature probe carry over from the standard XL Pro, and the grill insert remains the standout feature that nothing else in this lineup replicates - the combination of grilling versatility, convection speed and configurability that earns it the top spot in this comparison.
The Bravo XL Pro is our Best for Large Families pick, combining Nuwave's fastest convection fan with full-size family capacity at everyday value. Its 30-quart cavity across 4 adjustable rack positions is sized for a whole chicken, a full sheet pan or multiple dishes at once, and the upgraded fan moves air more aggressively than the original Bravo elsewhere in this comparison, which reviewers and buyers alike credit for faster cook times and a crispier exterior on fried-style foods. The ability to independently balance top and bottom heaters from 0-100% lets you dial in a crisp base with gentle top heat for pizza, or the reverse for browning a casserole top, and a built-in temperature probe removes the guesswork on roasts big enough to feed a crowd. A hundred one-touch presets cover nearly every common cooking task without digging through a manual. It skips the ceramic grill insert exclusive to our Best Overall pick, which keeps the price a step below it while delivering the same 30-quart capacity and core cooking performance. Some buyers report an initial learning curve with the settings menu, a common thread across the Bravo family in this comparison, but the combination of family-sized capacity, convection performance and everyday value earns it this ribbon.
The Wonder Oven stands out on the strength of a genuinely different cooking approach and the broadest expert coverage in this comparison: The Kitchn, 40 Aprons, Forbes and Food Network have all covered its steam-infusion feature favorably. Adding just one to two teaspoons of water creates a burst of steam that crisps exteriors while keeping interiors from drying out, a real departure from the dry convection heat every other oven in this lineup relies on. Reviewers highlighted fast preheating, under 2.5 minutes by Our Place's own testing, and quiet operation that makes it pleasant for everyday reheating and weeknight cooking. The compact 12.7-quart cavity and six cooking modes (toast, roast, bake, reheat, broil, steam) suit a smaller kitchen better than the larger multi-rack ovens elsewhere in this comparison, and the stainless steel build is free of PTFE, PFOA and other forever chemicals. The honest caveat from reviewers: if you want the most aggressive, ultra-crispy air fry blast or the largest capacity, dedicated air fryers and the larger Nuwave models here push harder on those specific tasks, and buyers weighing raw convection performance and configurability tend to land on one of the larger Nuwave Bravo models instead - but for everyday cooking with a technique and expert following no rival matches, it remains a strong contender in this comparison.
The Typhur Sync Oven's standout feature is inherited from the company's dedicated wireless thermometer line, which independent testers found accurate to within half a degree and rock-solid on connectivity through entire cooks, a level of precision usually reserved for instant-read thermometers. Built into a 27-quart convection oven, that same sensor technology lets you monitor a roast without opening the door or walking back to the kitchen, tracked through the companion app over Bluetooth or WiFi. Three shelf positions and 360-degree turbo convection airflow handle everything from dehydrating to roasting across a 85-450°F range, and the accessory set (air fry basket, baking pan, wire rack) covers most cooking styles out of the box. Typhur backs the oven with a 1.5-year warranty, half a year longer than most rivals in this lineup. The tradeoff for the smart-probe convenience is a reliance on app pairing that some users find adds a setup step a simpler dial-controlled oven skips.
The original Nuwave Bravo is a 30-quart convection oven built around an integrated digital temperature probe with 1-degree precision, 5 quartz heating elements, 3 selectable fan speeds and a wide 50-500°F range. Four adjustable rack positions and a 12-function preset library make it a genuine oven replacement, easily handling a whole chicken, a full sheet pan or a holiday spread at once, and buyers consistently credit the probe with eliminating guesswork on roasts and poultry, a level of accuracy few toaster ovens in this comparison match. It also comes with a comprehensive accessory set at a lower price than the newer models. Nuwave has since released the Bravo XL Pro models (with and without a grill, both also in this comparison) that push a faster fan and larger preset libraries, but the original's core convection-and-probe technology remains just as capable for everyday cooking, and it continues to earn strong marks for proven performance, probe accuracy and value.
Our Best Affordable pick. The Chefman Multifunctional earns this ribbon on the strength of independent testing from TechGearLab, which found it handled everything from a whole roasted chicken to dehydrated produce competently, with testers specifically noting the chicken came out juicy rather than dried out, a common complaint with smaller air fryers. Seventeen touch-screen presets and a rotisserie function with retrieval tool, spit and forks give it genuine versatility for a 10-quart footprint, and the large viewing window lets you check progress without opening the door and losing heat. It undercuts every other oven in this comparison on price while pairing tested real-world performance with genuine versatility, a rare combination in this category. The honest tradeoffs surface in daily use: the wire racks lack side walls, so flipping food is fiddly, and multiple reviewers flagged the trays as difficult to remove and prone to sticking food, meaning cleanup takes longer than on rack-based ovens. Some buyers have also reported the unit stopping unexpectedly after extended use. Even with those caveats, the combination of independently tested performance, genuine versatility and the best price-to-capability ratio in this comparison keeps it a standout budget choice in this lineup.
The Chefman EasyAir Oven + Fryer fills the gap between this comparison's compact countertop ovens and its 25-30 quart giants, with a 15-quart cavity across 3 rack positions and a touch-screen panel covering bake, broil, air fry, toast and bagel functions up to 450°F. It ships with two dishwasher-safe air fry baskets, a flat wire rack and a broil pan/drip tray, and a halfway-point flip alert reminds you to turn food for even browning. Retailer buyer feedback is consistent: reviewers describe it as simple to operate thanks to an easy-to-read digital timer, and several specifically call out frozen fries and other air-fry staples coming out well. The honest tradeoffs echoed across reviews are a digital display some found dim or hard to read in bright kitchens, and crisping that a few buyers rated as good rather than the deepest, crunchiest results in this comparison, even though everything cooked evenly and quickly. Chefman backs it with a 1-year warranty.
The Midea Flexify Classic pairs consistent, positive coverage from home-appliance publications with a genuinely useful French-door layout at the lowest price of any large-capacity oven in this comparison. Both glass doors swing open past 90 degrees for full access to the 26.4-quart interior, which comfortably fits a 12-inch pizza, six slices of toast or a full sheet pan of wings. Reviewers highlighted unusually even heat retention for a countertop oven this size, crediting the smaller footprint relative to a full oven, and air fry results came out evenly cooked across the rack without rotating. Ten presets cover air fry, roast, bake, broil, toast, pizza, reheat, slow cook, dehydrate and warm, spanning a 100-450°F range. The honest tradeoff, per multiple reviewers, is the dedicated toast setting: getting evenly browned bread sometimes takes two cycles, so if toast is your daily priority, pair this with (or choose) a dedicated toaster.