Breville Smart Oven Pro BOV845BSS vs Panasonic FlashXpress NB-G110P

This is the whole comparison in one sentence. The Breville has a convection fan, multiple rack positions, and enough interior space to roast a 4-pound chicken or fit a 13-inch pizza. The Panasonic maxes out at a 9-inch pizza, has one rack position, and a 25-minute timer — meaning a baked potato is literally impossible. If you ever want to cook anything more complex than reheating a slice, the Panasonic will frustrate you within a week.

At $130-$160, the Panasonic is roughly half the cost of the Breville. But the Breville replaces a dedicated air fryer ($80-$150), a convection toaster oven, and potentially your main oven for weeknight cooking. If you'd otherwise buy two appliances, the Breville is actually the cheaper path. If you genuinely only need toast and the occasional frozen pizza, paying $140 more for features you'll never use is just waste.

The Breville's convection fan isn't a gimmick — it cuts real cook times by 5-10 minutes compared to recipe estimates, which adds up fast if you're cooking dinner in it every night. Roasted vegetables come out caramelized instead of steamed. Chicken skin actually crisps. The Panasonic has no fan at all, relying entirely on infrared heat, which is brilliant for toast but leaves you with uneven results on anything thicker than a bagel.

Don't dismiss the Panasonic's double infrared heating as a marketing trick — CNET and Serious Eats both confirmed it produces the fastest, most even toast they tested, hitting golden-brown in 2.5 minutes. The Breville matches that speed, but the Panasonic does it in a machine that weighs 7.5 pounds and takes up a fraction of the counter space. For pure toast performance per square inch of counter, the Panasonic wins outright.