6 Best Air Fryer Toaster Ovens, Tested and Reviewed by Kitchen Experts

These models performed well but were edged out by our top picks in one or more key testing areas.

• Breville Joule Smart Oven Air Fryer: This toaster oven performed great in our tests, and consumers love it, but the built-in air fryer modes don't make food as crispy as other models we've tested.
• Café Couture Oven With Air Fry: This stylish air fryer toaster oven delivered strong results in our tests, producing crisp, juicy wings that released easily from the basket. There was no smoking during air frying, and the oven was straightforward to operate, thanks to its intuitive digital control panel. In our toaster oven tests, bread emerged evenly golden, and while the cake required a bit more baking time than some other models, it baked evenly and level.
• Cuisinart 15-in-1 Extra-Large Digital Air Fryer Oven: This extra-large toaster oven from Cuisinart is big enough to cook a 13-pound turkey, according to the brand. The toaster oven has several functions, including air fry, bake, toast, roast, broil, pizza, warm, low, grill, and dehydrate. While it performed well during testing, we did note that it required additional cooking time when using the air fry function.
• Emeril Lagasse French Door Air Fryer/Toaster Oven: This is a large oven that did a great job in our chicken and steak tests, though toasting performance was more moderate, producing lighter toast even on the darkest setting.
• KitchenAid Digital Countertop Oven with Air Fry & Pizza Stone: You may know KitchenAid best for its iconic stand mixer, but our experts also recommend the brand across a variety of kitchen appliance categories. We especially liked this air fryer toaster oven’s slim, stylish design, but it showed uneven heating in our tests.
• Martha Stewart French Door Air Fryer Toaster Oven: This new model from Martha Stewart’s countertop appliance line baked a cake evenly in our tests. While browning performance on steak was more subtle, it’s missing a manually operated oven light; it offers solid overall cooking results and a clean, streamlined design.
• Ninja French Door Premier Air Fryer Toaster Oven: This latest model from Ninja comes well-equipped with two racks, a crumb tray, a baking/drip tray, and an air fryer basket. It excelled in our air-frying tests, earning perfect scores for both French fries and chicken wings due to its evenly browned, crispy results. We found it tended to brown foods a bit more when baking items like frozen pizza and cake.
• Ninja Prestige Smart XL Air Fryer & Countertop Oven + Pro Cook: Like Ninja’s French door model, the Prestige offers a wide range of functions, including air fry, roast, broil, bake, pizza, toast, dehydrate, bagel, and reheat. Its extra-large capacity and large convection fan promote even heat circulation, helping it deliver excellent air-frying results for wings and fries, but its baking performance was mixed.
• Our Place Wonder Oven: While this model looks adorable on your kitchen counter (and comes in fun colors), its toasting and air-frying performance wasn't quite as strong as some of the top models we tested.
• Our Place Wonder Oven Pro: We recently tested the latest toaster oven from Our Place. Larger than the original and equipped with a digital display, it impressed us with its air-frying performance, earning top marks for juicy, evenly browned chicken wings. We found that the best results with frozen fries came from giving them a quick toss midway through cooking.

In the Kitchen Lab, we tested 24 air fryer toaster ovens for their ability to air fry, bake, broil, and, of course, toast. To assess each of these functions, we perform the following tests.

✔️ Size: Most toaster ovens can fit a whole, 4-pound chicken, but if you're tight on space, you might not need the extra height. If you mostly plan to use your toaster oven for bread, reheating leftovers, or one- or two-person meals, a compact model is sufficient. If you're looking to use it as a second oven, consider a larger model; some are big enough to fit a whole turkey.

✔️ Type of controls: Toaster ovens can have digital or mechanical controls. We recommend digital for more precise temperature and timer settings. If you don't mind less-nuanced controls or keeping an additional timer close by, mechanical dials will save you money.

✔️ Racks and accessories: All toaster ovens should come with at least one rack and one baking/broiling pan. Air fryer toaster ovens usually include an additional basket or rack for air frying. The baskets usually sit on the baking/broiling pan and allow safe cooking at high temperatures, as well as easy maneuverability and cleanup. But sometimes the air fryer rack slides into the toaster oven slots, and grease can drip onto the bottom heating elements if you don't position a pan below it. Some air fryer toaster ovens may include or offer the option to purchase more air fryer racks (that can also be used for dehydrating in most cases) to use at the same time, and some include a rotisserie attachment.

✔️ An air fryer is a stand-alone appliance that can crisp up food quickly. The heat source is located on the top of the unit and is paired with a large fan that circulates the hot air. There are two main air fryer styles to choose from:

• Basket-style air fryers have a basket where food is placed to air fry. The basket can include a removable perforated tray, which helps promote airflow and doubles as a rack that grease can drip through, or the basket itself can be perforated and sit inside a basket holder. Some people like a removable tray because it's easier to clean, but others prefer the dual basket because the grease stays in the outer basket, and the inner basket can be removed for easy transfer to a serving plate. Basket-style air fryers are particularly great for small foods that benefit from shaking, like fries, tater tots, or veggies. They can be used to cook in a single layer, too.
• Oven-style air fryers use racks instead of baskets. They're ideal for cooking different types of foods at the same time or cooking items that benefit from being in a single layer, like chicken, meat, or fish. The racks need to be rotated during cooking so the food can air fry evenly. This type of air fryer tends to be easier to clean because only the racks and drip pan need to be washed, versus a bulky basket. Some even come with accessories that allow you to cook rotisserie chicken.

✔️ An air fryer toaster oven is a toaster oven that's also designed to air fry. It will either have more heating elements and a larger fan or rely on existing fans and higher temperature settings. This type of air frying takes place in a shallow basket set atop a tray or in an air fryer basket. Like oven-style air fryers, the air-frying parts are easier to clean.

Nicole Papantoniou is the Senior Director of the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen & Cooking Lab, where she oversees all cooking-related testing. She has tested more than 20 air fryer toaster ovens herself and, while working in product development, helped develop one of the best-selling models on the market. She's been using them daily ever since.

Raena Loper is a former contributing writer and analyst in the Kitchen Lab, where she tested numerous air fryers and air fryer toaster ovens over the years. She contributed to the writing of this story as well.