Best Toaster Ovens of 2025
These multitasking models deserve a spot on your kitchen counter
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The small but mighty toaster oven has evolved far beyond making a great piece of toast. Not only can you use one to roast vegetables, bake cookies, and broil burgers, “you can reheat casseroles, turn out a whole chicken, bake a pizza with a crispy crust, and more,” says Kenneth Sutton, the Consumer Reports test engineer who oversees our toaster oven tests.
With the right techniques, you can even cook an impressive meal (like these Caribbean dishes) and bring leftovers back to life. Newer models have features that let you air-fry, slow cook, and dehydrate foods.
Because of its small capacity, a toaster oven heats up quickly and can replace a conventional oven for daily use by singles and smaller households. Toaster ovens also come in handy when your kitchen oven and cooktop are maxed out and you need more cooking capacity to prepare elaborate meals. And on hot summer days, a toaster oven won’t heat up your kitchen the way your full-sized oven would.
But CR’s independent testing reveals that some toaster ovens work better than others. Check out our toaster oven ratings to see how dozens of them perform in our labs. For more details on choosing the right toaster oven, consult our toaster oven buying guide. You can also read more about our top picks below, which appear in alphabetical order.
With a temperature range of 120° F to 450° F, the 1,800-watt Breville The Smart Oven BOV800XL does a nice job of baking food, reheating leftovers, and turning out an even batch of medium-brown toast. It’s a cinch to operate and easy to clean. Plus, CR members give the brand high praise for reliability and owner satisfaction. There’s one minor drawback, though: Our testers found that this model is only so-so at toasting a single slice of bread to perfection.
The DeLonghi EO141164M may look like a simple toaster oven, but its performance in our labs is far more impressive. It aced our color range and full-batch tests, meaning it can achieve that perfectly browned, crispy slice of toast just the way you like it and consistently turn out a full batch to medium brown. It earns top marks in our ease-of-use evaluations, meaning its controls are easy to understand and operate, and cleaning its interior and exterior is a breeze.
The GE G9OAAASSPSS receives top marks in our one-slice, full-batch, and color range tests. It’s also very good at baking, which we test by analyzing how evenly it bakes corn muffins and cookies. This model also aces our ease-of-use tests, thanks to its clear digital display, dials, and push-button controls. It has an air-fry mode, comes with an air-fry basket, and maxes out at 450° F. Like many toaster ovens, it falls short in our tests of how evenly lasagna is reheated.
The Hamilton Beach 31156 is something of a unicorn. It’s the only model in our ratings to receive top-notch scores in all of our tests for toast, and it does a solid job at baking. The only area in which it delivers an average performance is in reheating. And it’s not the most user-friendly option you can buy. But it does have a novel design: a bread slot for toasting, like you’d find on a dedicated toaster, with a small oven cavity underneath. This simple model is best suited for kitchens with limited counter space or for people who use their toaster oven in a limited capacity. Its temperature tops out at 450° F, but don’t expect it to replace your standard oven for meal prep. CR members find Hamilton Beach toaster ovens pretty reliable, but the brand receives a lackluster score for owner satisfaction.
If you tend to pack up leftovers for later enjoyment, the reheat function on the KitchenAid KCO124BM won’t leave you disappointed. Its reheating performance was very good in our tests. It could take longer than you’d expect to toast a full batch of toast at the medium setting, but this model still received very good scores for toasting both a full batch (six slices of bread) and single slices. It reaches a max of 450° F, but its baking performance could be better. When baking corn muffins and cookies in our labs, the results were uneven. This model also has convection bake and dehydrate functions. But note that the oven’s height is relatively low, so taller items may not fit.
The KitchenAid KCO255BM does an excellent job of turning out perfectly browned toast, though you’ll be waiting a while to get it on your plate. The push-button controls and digital display are user-friendly, and its interior won’t take too much elbow grease to clean. Messes are also easy to hide, given the dark tint on the oven door. This KitchenAid can handle a host of functions: bake, broil, convection-bake, air-fry, keep warm, bagel, reheat, proof, and dehydrate. This large oven can also fit a 7-pound whole chicken (or two 3.5-pound birds) and a 9x13-inch pan. Our testers say that the air-frying function works well, giving food the kind of crisp one would expect from rapid convection cooking.
The Ninja 2-in-1 Double Oven DCT401 is an overall top performer, earning high to top-tier scores in nearly all of our lab tests. It stands out for its unique design—it’s two separate ovens in one—how easy it is to use, and how well it bakes and toasts. The one area where this 1,800-watt model falls slightly short is in reheating; it receives just a middling score. Still, a temperature range of 100° F to 450° F, a digital display, an air-frying function, and the capacity to cook a whole chicken make this Ninja a pretty solid pick.
How CR Tests Toaster Ovens
Our engineers put toaster ovens through a series of rigorous lab tests. We assess how well these appliances deliver a nicely browned slice of bread and how well they’re able to toast a whole batch evenly. We also evaluate the range of toast color options, from light to dark, and how easy the appliances are to use and clean. We test how well they can reheat lasagna and how evenly they can bake cookies and muffins.
But we don’t stop there. Each model’s Overall Score factors in brand reliability and owner satisfaction ratings gathered from 2021 and 2024 surveys covering 30,619 toaster ovens purchased new since 2016. The data allows us to calculate ratings on 28 toaster oven brands. We have found that brand reliability varies widely, with only a handful of brands snagging an excellent predicted reliability rating.
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