When she’s not working, Helen can be found enjoying the local countryside or dreaming about her next house renovation project. Having completely renovated her current house, Helen reviews kitchen appliances from her open-plan kitchen at home in a beautiful Berkshire village. Breville doesn’t sell replacement parts for any of the oven’s internal components.
However, DON’T line the basket itself, because you need the air to be free-flowing through the basket to ensure evenly cooked and crispy food. If there is a liner, the air won’t reach the food from the bottom. I spent almost a year eating sad soggy delivery french fries and wings.
The rack and air frying basket are simple to clean, so that’s a positive. If you think the noise might bother you, we’d recommend getting our runner-up pick, the Cuisinart Chef’s Convection Toaster Oven TOB-260N1, which is very quiet on both its high and low settings. Since you’ll be using either the oven rack or the air fry basket, be sure you have space to store the one you’re not using, as well as the baking dish and any other accessories. The air fry basket tends to be shallower but wider, letting you cook more food at once. It’s also easy to monitor cooking through the window and to pull out the basket to stir and flip over food. In another life, I rustled pots and pans as a professional chef in New York City restaurants.
When you’re all done, the nonstick interiors make cleanup easy for our air fryer toaster ovens. Toaster ovens can handle a whole range of tasks, from toasting four or more slices of bread to broiling, baking, and reheating. The Cosori Air Fryer Toaster Oven compromises a bit on air frying results to add toasting, baking, broiling and rotisserie. French fries or chicken nuggets don’t come out much crispier than baking them in an oven.
There was a good amount of condensation build up from steam while the chicken roasted — which made me nervous the skin would be flabby — but at about 45 minutes I had two golden, crispy and tender chicken breasts. The baking/drip pan was easy to clean and there was no sign of grease on the bottom of the appliance. Since this is a relatively new category of appliances, the manual is critical in getting started. We checked to see if each explained how to use the product thoroughly, provided guidelines for cooking specific foods, and included recipes. During testing, we considered each product’s size, construction, design, and safety.
However, I didn’t preheat the Cuisinart and noticed after 6 ½ minutes that the top of the granola was browning and needed a stir. That’s a pretty impressive eight minute reduction in cook time compared to my normal oven, but the drawback is only being able to bake up small batches. It will take you some experimenting to get the hang of your air fryer, but like I say with cooking anything, keep checking in as you go. If I ate a lot of canned things, oatmeal, frozen meals, etc, those are not things you can make in an air fryer, so honestly, it just depends on what kind of food you eat and how often you are cooking for yourself.
Even after an additional 10 minutes, the fries were still underdone, so we dismissed it. The TOB-260N1 comes with a number of accessories, including two racks, a baking pan, and a broiling tray. It’s also the only model we’ve ever tested to include a ceramic pizza stone (which is great for baking bread and pies, too). Most of the other toasters come with only a single rack and a flimsy metal pizza pan, so the extras feel like a step up. We also like that when you open the door, the timer automatically pauses until you close it again.
Mostly that’s because of how tiny the holes in the wiring are, so it requires a detail-oriented attack. We also love that it allows you to really control the cooking time, temperature, and function instead of having to rely on preset programs like other ovens we tested. I was initially skeptical about Cuisinart’s TOA-65 Air Fryer Toaster Oven. Its roughly 17 x 22 x 16 inch size seemed too large to merit space on my counter, and I couldn’t imagine myself luging it out of a cabinet to toast a bagel or air fry onion rings. However, as I tested each of its seven features, my judge-y disposition faded; every setting nailed it — from toast to French fries.
The Cuisinart air fryer measures 14 inches tall by 15.75 inches wide by 14 inches deep, making it large enough to toast six slices of bread, bake a 12-inch pizza, and roast a 4-pound chicken. The spacious interior features a nonstick surface and an oven light. This stainless steel toaster- oven air fryer comes with an oven rack, an air-fryer basket, and cuisinart toaster costco a baking pan. The Cuisinart TOA-65 is a toaster oven–style air fryer with an 18-quart capacity. It has a whopping 18 functions, including five air-fryer presets for specific foods like chicken wings and frozen snacks. This toaster-oven air fryer boasts an 1,800-watt motor that powers its wide temperature range from just 80 degrees up to 450 degrees.