Best Toaster Ovens of 2026

The reversible ceramic grill/griddle in the box is what separates this Cuisinart from every other oven here. Set it ridged-side up under the broiler and you get real sear marks on a steak or a tray of vegetables; flip it flat and it's a griddle for Sunday pancakes. Add an air fry basket, a 60-minute timer and 1800 watts, and this is the oven we recommend to anyone who wants one appliance doing the work of three.

Capacity is the other half of the argument. At 0.6 cubic feet it toasts six slices, bakes a 12-inch pizza, roasts a 4-pound chicken and air fries around three pounds of wings — a family-of-four oven, where much of this group is cooking for two. Eight functions put air fry, convection bake and convection broil within a dial turn, and the temperature range runs from 80 to 450 °F.

Two quirks to know before you commit the counter space. It runs hot, so start 25 °F under what a recipe asks and check early; that habit is cheaper than a tray of burnt cookies. Cleaning around the exposed elements takes actual scrubbing, though the drip tray catches most spatter if you use it every time. Against that, the three-year limited warranty is the longest of any oven here, which makes this the value pick on more than price.

Slow cook is the function that earns this Breville its place. Set it low and leave it and the oven holds a gentle temperature for hours — braises, beans, chili — which nothing else in this group does. Everything around it is the familiar Breville package: five quartz elements, ten functions, and convection rated to cut cooking time by up to 30 percent.

Half a cubic foot is a real step down from the Air Fryer Pro, and sheet-pan dinners show it. What fits is the 13-inch pizza pan and the 12-by-12 baking pan that ship in the box, plus a wire rack above for a second layer — enough for two people, and honest about the ceiling.

The price gap to the bigger Breville isn't large, so the case for this one rests on the smaller body, the slow cooker and 22.8 pounds you can lift without a plan. If you have the counter, the Air Fryer Pro is the better buy; if you don't, this bakes and roasts just as convincingly, and the slow cook setting alone justifies the shelf space.

Flip is the whole idea, and it works: the body tips up to stand on its back edge against the backsplash, giving back roughly half the counter it occupies while it cooks. On a counter where a toaster oven normally lives out its entire life, that's the difference between owning one and doing without.

The rest of the spec sheet is generous for the size. 1800 watts, a side-swinging door, 85 to 450 °F so it can dehydrate as well as broil, and eight functions including air fry, pizza, bagel and dehydrate. OvenCrisp pairs infrared heat with circulating air, and the cavity takes a 12-inch pizza, six slices of toast or four pounds of food for air frying.

Two details we noticed in use. The handle sits on the left of that side-swing door, so the oven can't go flush against a wall on that side — worth checking before you claim a corner. And the accessories set the real limit rather than the cavity: the air fry basket and sheet pan cover less ground than the pizza claim implies, so a big batch goes in two rounds.

The door rolls up and over the top instead of dropping toward you, and that changes how the oven sits in a kitchen. No hot glass panel to lean over, no door sweeping through the bit of counter you were about to use. In a narrow galley, or an RV where the oven lands at the end of a short run, that clearance is the entire argument.

Underneath the trick door it's a plain oven done properly: bake, broil and toast, a 200 to 450 °F dial, two rack positions, a bake pan, a wire rack and a crumb tray that slides out from the front. At 16 inches wide and 8.2 pounds it goes almost anywhere, and nothing about it needs learning — one dial for temperature, one for function and time.

The mechanical timer takes a few tries to get used to, since it has to be wound past your target and brought back to engage. It also runs hot on the outside while it comes up, so leave clearance around the body and keep anything meltable off the top. For four slices of toast and a reheated dinner, neither is a real cost.

Air frying at the price of a plain toaster oven is the pitch, and it mostly holds: 26 liters of cavity, five functions, a 1150-watt element and a mesh air fry basket, in a body just over a foot wide. If a dedicated air fryer felt like too much money and too much counter, this is where we point you.

The 10-inch pizza and four-slice capacity are honest for the footprint, and the accessories are better than the money suggests: a PFAS-free ceramic-coated baking pan, a mesh basket, a wire rack and a removable crumb tray. One thing to picture before it arrives — it isn't stainless. 'Baked stone' is a warm beige, closer to a retro appliance than a brushed-steel kitchen.

Three dials run it — temperature, time and toast shade — with the crumb tray underneath, and that's the whole interface. Nothing to program and nothing to reset, which is the right call on an oven this size.

Where it lands for us: a real air fry oven for a small kitchen, a first apartment or a cabin, provided your cooking tops out at a 10-inch pizza and four slices of toast. If you want to bake a 9-by-13 casserole, none of that fits, and you're shopping a size up.

Six hundred fifty watts is about a third of what the full-size ovens in this group draw, and that number explains the appliance: a two-slice cavity, a 15-minute timer, a 200 to 450 °F dial, and a body small enough for a counter that isn't really a kitchen.

For a dorm room, a camper or an office, the case is easy. It fits where nothing else here will, it comes with a non-stick bake pan and a wire rack, and it toasts and reheats while barely registering on the circuit. This is the oven for someone who wants toast and a warmed-up slice of pizza and nothing more ambitious than that.

The limits are just as clear. Fifteen minutes on the timer rules out a casserole or anything needing a long bake, there's no fan and no air frying, and two slices means two — not four. Start cooking rather than reheating and you'll outgrow it within a month, which is the honest argument for spending more.