The Ninja Prestige XL preheats surprisingly fast for its size and can handle dinner for four or more with four rack positions for multi-component meals. Good Housekeeping named it their best large pick, and it's currently discounted 42% to $250.
The oven preheated surprisingly fast, especially given the large capacity. Bread toasted evenly and consistently across three color levels (one, three, and seven). Our whole chicken was fully cooked and juicy in 50 minutes, with crispy skin all over.
It's spacious and can easily accommodate dinner for four or more. The four rack positions let you cook multiple components of a meal at once without preheating your full-size oven.
The Breville Smart Oven Pro is the consensus pick across nearly every expert source, with multiple editors owning it personally. Powerful convection, intuitive controls, and a spring-loaded door make it feel like a premium appliance that earns its counter space.
The Joule takes everything great about the Breville Smart Oven Pro and adds a genuinely useful app with autopilot cooking that cycles through multiple modes automatically. WIRED and Good Housekeeping both call it their top overall pick for cooks who want the best possible results.
The FlashXpress toasts bread to golden-brown in just 2.5 minutes, the fastest of any toaster oven tested, thanks to its double infrared heating system. CNET named it their best overall pick, and at $150 it's the rare case where the affordable option genuinely outperforms pricier rivals on core tasks.
The Cuisinart TOA-70 delivers the crispiest air-fried wings and fries of any toaster oven tested by WIRED, plus a unique ridged grill plate that adds real char to meat and vegetables. It's the pick when you want air fryer performance without buying a separate appliance.