Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro vs Typhur Dome 2

The Typhur Dome 2's dual top-and-bottom burners blasting heat into a compact 5.6-quart basket is why it crisps 24 wings in 14 minutes. The Breville's larger cooking chamber disperses that heat across a bigger space — great for baking a casserole, genuinely worse for getting a shatteringly crisp chicken skin. Breville even acknowledges this: their air fry function isn't as powerful as dedicated basket fryers. That's not a knock, it's just physics.

The Breville does toast, bake, broil, roast, air fry, and dehydrate — and does all of them well enough that Serious Eats calls it a near wall-oven replacement. That's a genuinely rare thing. The Typhur does one thing — air fry — at a level nothing else matches. If your kitchen is already equipped and you just want the best air fryer, the Typhur wins. If you're consolidating a cluttered counter, the Breville is the smarter buy.

The Typhur Dome 2 requires zero preheat — load the basket and start cooking immediately. The Breville, like most toaster ovens, needs time to come up to temperature. For weeknight cooking when you're hungry at 6:30pm, skipping preheat plus faster cook times means the Typhur gets food on the table noticeably faster. Over hundreds of uses, that adds up.

The Breville sits at a consistent $333-$350. The Typhur Dome 2 ranges from $340 to $499 depending on where and when you buy — that upper end is a serious premium. At $340 they're essentially the same price and the Typhur is the obvious performance winner. At $499, you need to be genuinely committed to having the best air fryer on the market to justify the gap over a machine that also toasts and bakes.