5 Best Kitchen Toaster Ovens: From Reputable Brands in 2021

Toaster ovens are basically smaller versions of your traditional full-sized ovens. The only significant difference between them is size, which implies that all the best kitchen toaster ovens we will look at today can do more than just toasting bread slices.

If you want to bake a small tray of cookies or melt some cheese on your pizza slices, toaster ovens will come in handy as well.

That said, with the large array of models to pick from out there, I understand that picking the one that best meets your toasting needs and requirements may be easier said than done. But worry not, because that is where I come into play.

In order to help in your selection process, I spent days reviewing hundreds of toaster ovens all over the internet. Consequently, I tested around 20 of them to finally create this list of the top five and I made sure to only bring you the best of the best.

Without wasting any more of your time, let us skip to the main section of the post and look at the best kitchen toaster ovens.

Oster Toaster Oven | Digital Convection Oven

• Straight out of the box, the first thing you will love about this Oster Toaster Oven | Digital Convection Oven is it’s hard to beat design and aesthetic color combinations. In fact, after acquiring it, I placed it in different kitchens, and it blended in seamlessly with all of them.
• It is also a six-slice convection toaster oven, making it more reliable than your best four-slice toaster if you have a big family. Better yet, I’m not even talking about your standard-sized slices. I tested the appliance using the thickest and longest bagel and artisan bread slices I could find. All six of them fit in perfectly. Add to that the fact that the toaster oven is powerful enough to evenly toast any meal you put inside it.
• After confirming the interior space was sufficient, I decided to go on and test the toaster’s consistency. I wanted to ensure you could rely on it while hosting a party or simply having a lot of friends over. I acquired 20 loaves of bread and decided to toast all the slices, back to back.
• Needless to say, the last one that went into the appliance came out just as perfectly toasted as the first one that went inside. It also took less than two minutes for the appliance to deliver the slices, which qualifies it as one of the fastest toasters in the marketplace today.
• As you may have noticed from its name, Oster Toaster Oven | Digital Convection Oven also retails with a convection setting. This simply means that the appliance boasts an inbuilt fan that will blow hot air around so all your meals can come out crispy in a timely manner.
• If you have never used a convection toaster oven before, then the trick is to set it 15 degrees F lower than you would have set if you were using a regular toaster oven.
• It also comes with an interior light. Couple that with the perfectly see through door and the toaster will allow you to monitor the cooking progress of your meals without having to interfere with the toasting process.

Notable features:

• Retails with a removable crumb tray for easy cleaning
• Very powerful
• The interior is large enough to fit in even a 12-inch pizza
• Very versatile, thanks to the seven different cooking settings it retails with
• Has been fitted with an interior light for easy viewing
• The power cord is long enough
• Very easy to use
• Durable

Calphalon TSCLTRDG1 Quartz Heat Countertop Toaster Oven

• Calphalon TSCLTRDG1 Quartz Heat Countertop Toaster Oven’s unique selling proposition is its Quartz heating elements. They can preheat the toaster oven faster and 40 percent more energy-efficient compared to conventional tube heating elements.
• The interior is also spacious enough to fit in a 12 inches pizza. Couple that with the 11 preset cooking functions (dehydrate, cookies, reheat, warm, defrost, roast, bagel, toast, broil, pizza, and bake) and you have a toaster oven model that can handle anything you throw in it.

Notable features:

• The package includes accessories that will make cooking easier
• Very versatile
• Has been fitted with high quality and energy-saving heating elements
• Easy to use
• Easy to clean

Instant Pot Omni Plus Toaster Oven

• This toaster oven model is an air fryer too. If you have checked out the content on toaster ovens vs air fryers that I created a while back, then you know air fryers are way more powerful than your standard toaster ovens.
• Their interior space is also more compact, which allows the cooking hit to be concentrated in a small space. This Instant Pot Omni Plus Toaster Oven has been fitted with 11 different settings to accommodate your creativity. To choose from the 11 settings, easy-to-use buttons let you customize the program you are choosing as your cooking method.
• The toaster oven comes with various accessories to help you in your cooking. They include an oven rack, cooking pan, air fryer basket, rotisseries spits and forks, a rotisserie lift. These accessories allow you to create different delicious meals, not just for breakfast, but for lunch or dinner too.

Notable features:

• Delivers delicious toasties
• Easy to use, thanks to the easy-to-use dials
• The interior is sufficiently spacious
• Cooks and toasts evenly
• The exterior surface remains cool to the touch during operations

Toaster Oven 4 Slice

• This masterpiece from Müeller Austria has been designed with Even Toast Technology. This implies that the toaster’s interior is specifically designed to deliver evenly toasted slices. The interior is also curved, which allows you to easily fit even large slices of pizza.
• A 30 minutes built-in timer has also been included. Coupled with precise toast settings, this timer allows it to deliver deliciously toasted slices, and the wide temperature range of 150 to 450 degrees F lets you cook different meals. The appliance comes with a removable crumb tray, which makes the appliance easy to clean.

Notable features:

• Easy to clean
• Retails with an inbuilt timer
• Very versatile
• The exterior surface remains cool to the touch during operations
• Easy to use

Hamilton Beach 31330D Toaster Oven

• The last, but by no means the least kitchen toaster oven in our enumeration is the Hamilton Beach 31330D Toaster Oven. If you’re a cooking fanatic, then you have probably come across with Hamilton Beach’s products.
• The company was founded in April 1910, and throughout the century they have created a reputation for themselves, thanks to their ability to amalgamate durability, reliability, and efficiency in every kitchen appliance they release.
• This Toaster Oven has also been designed for easy access. Thanks to the curved, large glass door, retrieving your roasted meals won’t be a hassle and the cool to the touch exterior will protect anyone who accidentally comes into contact with the appliance during operations.
• To accommodate everyone’s taste in your family, it has been fitted with a temperature control knob. So, if you love your toasties lightly toasted but someone else in your family loves theirs darkly toasted, both of you can have what you want.

Notable features:

• Will look aesthetic on any kitchen counter
• The interior is very spacious
• Very versatile
• Has been fitted with a temperature adjustment knob
• The exterior surface remains cool to the touch during operations
• The toaster oven’s design allows for easy access
• Easy to use, even for beginners

I love toaster ovens and to create this post was one of the most funs I have ever had. With that in mind, I really hope you have found a model that can perfectly accommodate your toasting needs and requirements.

But if not, allow me to help you out with that. My favorite from the list is the second Calphalon TSCLTRDG1 Quartz Heat Countertop Toaster Oven. It can do everything the other models can do, but also looks exceptionally aesthetic.

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