Cuisinart Toa60 Toaster & Toaster Oven
It can cover the drip tray causing grease to accumulate and catch fire. If you must use foil, cut it to fit the top of your baking pan or bottom of the included baking pan perfectly. Make sure the items you wanted to be toasted are centered on the rack or baking pan.
I find that you can make a lot of things in the air fryer that you’d normally make on the stove, and therefore, it allows for more hands-off cooking, which is really nice! Pretty much anything you’d pan fry–from meat to veggies, can be made in the air fryer. The Cuisinart TOA-60 Air Fryer Toaster Ovencooked fries quickly without drying them out, though some were slightly dark. But the chicken fingers and fish sticks we cooked were pale all over and had soggy undersides. The toast we made in the TOA-60 was also unevenly browned. To read more about how the Cuisinart compares to the other toaster ovens we’ve tested, see our full guide to the best toaster ovens.
Convection Bake uses a fan to circulate the heat so food browns evenly and cooks faster. This compact oven does everything my old one did, but it uses less electricity and offers more options on how to cook your food. Inside of this cooking beast, you will find non-stick coating so that you can clean easily and a light that will let you see inside anytime. With the four interior rack positions, you will be able to cook different items at the same time, saving your precious time. Some air fryer ovens have the advantage of being able to use extra accessories to cook a greater variety of foods. These include special needles and skewers for roasting, frying baskets, and trays for cakes and desserts.
A large 13-inch by 13-inch air fryer rack means more air frying at once without having to toss ingredients a lot during cooking. The control panel is easy to read and very intuitive – we barely needed to refer to the user’s guide when using for the first time. I don’t think I would have bought a standalone air fryer, but I’ve used that function a lot on this and it turns out hot, crispy food really fast. I’ve used it for brussels sprouts, tofu nuggets, frozen fries, and reheating chicken leftovers and I’m just really impressed by what it can do.
It’s certainly not as good as the big ol’ Breville Smart Oven Air — although it’s still great for a dual-function air fryer toaster oven. The stainless steel baking pan and air frying basket are easy to clean. It also has an easy-to-clean crumb tray that slides out for washing. And, although this convection toaster oven does have a fan, the motor is so quiet you’ll barely hear it.
When the oven is set to broil, bake, or toast, it works like any oven, with an overhead heating element that distributes heat over the top of foods. This helps to cook casseroles, bread, and cake perfectly on the inside while giving foods a crusty, golden brown top. Saves you time – This compact oven fits nicely on the kitchen counter, taking up very little space. So, you don’t need to move it from cupboard to counter every time you want to use it. It also saves you time since food tends to cook faster in this toaster oven than it does in a traditional oven.
I set it on the setting and turned the temp to 450 and it took over 10 minutes. As mentioned above, the other reason I definitely wanted a combo air fryer toaster oven vs just a regular air fryer–it’s SO much easier to clean. Just like a regular toaster oven–slide out the trays, run it under some water with soap and a sponge, and that’s it. We found that pod-shaped air fryers often had more-powerful fans, but this wasn’t necessarily a good thing, since they could produce dried-out foods and overcooked cakes. And the “fryer” baskets in pod-shaped models were too limited. Even filled to capacity, they could fit only a couple of servings of food at a time, which isn’t practical for larger households.
There’s even a food guide printed right on the machine so you don’t have to get their cookbook out. Actually, if you never want to get their cookbook out, you don’t have to because they have cuisinart pots and pans set a smartphone app with tons of recipes you can view digitally. The app is full of great recipes from ratatouille to brownies – the Philips air fryer is for more than just french fries.
A con though, is that obviously, your oven can cook way more food at once. I think this is great for two people but wouldn’t cook enough food in one sitting for say, a family of four to all eat the same meal. When a summer heat wave hits and you want to cook, the right gear can make all the difference between a sweltering kitchen and a reasonably cool one.