The Our Place Wonder Oven is a better looking machine than a typical pod-shaped air fryer, and marginally more versatile (on a few specific tasks), but it’s a lot smaller and less versatile than a full-size air fryer toaster oven.
This model didn’t maintain its internal temperature as well as our air fryer toaster oven picks, and required more fiddling with the temperature to achieve adequate results. Also, its steam feature didn’t seem to make a difference in our tests. But unlike a typical pod-shaped air fryer, it does a better job of making toast, roasting a whole chicken, and baking cookies.
However, it fell short when cooking french fries and Brussels sprouts (tasks we think a good air fryer should be able to do well). Its convection fan can’t be turned off, which left the center of the cake we baked runny and the outside overbaked. We also found its shallow baking pan unwieldy to use—Brussels sprouts rolled off the pan when we tossed them with tongs, and hot chicken grease from a roast chicken spilled over the lip of the pan when removing it from the oven.
The Café Couture Oven with Air Fry looks snazzy, and aside from subpar baking results, it did well in our tests. Unfortunately, the printed labels on the buttons started to wear off after only a few uses.
The Hamilton Beach Professional Sure-Crisp Digital Air Fryer Countertop Oven 31243 ran too cool and couldn’t maintain its internal temperature, so it cooked unevenly. Annoyingly, the timer on this model starts counting down while the oven is still preheating, rather than waiting until it’s finished preheating to begin.
The GE Digital Air Fry 8-in-1 Toaster Oven acts more like an air fryer than a toaster oven. In our tests, its flimsy pan warped after a couple of uses and couldn’t hold the weight of a whole chicken, causing the pan to slip out of the slots along the oven walls.
Equipped with a surprisingly noisy convection fan that can’t be turned off, the Ninja Foodi 10-in-1 XL Pro Air Fry Oven DT201 is more strictly an air fryer than a toaster oven. It did a poor job of maintaining a set temperature.
Although the Calphalon Performance Air Fry Convection Oven looks nice and baked delicious cookies in our tests, its fan wasn’t quite powerful enough to deliver extra-crispy results—the chicken fingers we air fried were soggy and lacking in color. A 6-pound chicken couldn’t fit in the narrow oven cavity without touching the heating elements.
The Instant Vortex Plus 10-quart Air Fryer Oven browned toast unevenly and produced tough, dehydrated fries and uneven, overcooked cake layers in our tests. The rotisserie basket has a small capacity and is far more trouble than it’s worth since it’s a pain to clean.
The Instant Omni Plus 18L Air Fryer Toaster Oven ran especially hot, which caused nearly everything we prepared to be overcooked and dry. This model didn’t toast as evenly as our picks.
The Cuisinart TOA-60 AirFryer Toaster Oven (which is now discontinued and being replaced by the TOA-70 model) toasted unevenly. It cooked fries well, but the chicken fingers and fish sticks we prepared were pale and soggy.
Like the larger TOA-60 model, the Cuisinart AFR-25 Compact AirFryer was good at cooking fries quickly, but its narrow interior couldn’t fit a whole chicken. It also produced soggy chicken fingers and fish sticks.
The rotisserie spit in the Emeril Lagasse Power AirFryer 360 struggled to make a full rotation while roasting a chicken. This model also had difficulty regulating its internal temperature, so nearly everything we cooked took forever to bake properly.
We had difficulty tossing fries in the shallow basket of the Black+Decker Crisp ’N Bake Air Fry Toaster Oven without spilling them, and ultimately the fries came out undercooked with burned tips. Fish sticks and chicken fingers were pale and soggy on the bottom after baking.
The NuWave Bravo XL Smart Oven has an overwhelming amount of buttons, which are confusing and overly complicated. One of the biggest issues with this model: The roast, toast, and bagel settings are all programmed to 310 °F, which is far too low—it took over 12 minutes for us to get any color on the toast we made.
This article was edited by Marilyn Ong and Marguerite Preston.
