The Cuisinart is exceptionally quiet as it air fries, with a dBA reading of 54.7. A bright interior light makes it easy to check on food as it’s cooking. There’s no preheat setting on the Cuisinart and no suggestions that you preheat the oven before air frying.
There are two tray positions in the oven – top rack and bottom rack. The oven is big enough to roast a whole chicken when using the bottom rack, but to air fry, the directions say you must use the top rack only. This is a really big one–in a regular air fryer, you can’t see your food cooking so it’s really hard to monitor. Air frying definitely has a learning curve, especially with the Cusinart, I’m told, because it tends to run pretty hot. The baking pan and the frying basket are dishwasher safe, and I preferred to wash these in the dishwasher. The stuck-on oil and caramelized starches that otherwise needed a good scrubbing cleaned really well in the dishwasher.
It is tall, which makes it easy to roast a 4-pound whole chicken. The oven fits underneath the cabinets without blocking airflow. It has a single door that drops down on the counter, which wasn’t my favorite feature in the oven. Taking out the tray from the bottom rack position after cooking is tricky. I found pinch mittens worked better, but I had to pay complete attention to not scrape my hand against the hot door. The construction is lightweight and is easy to move around for cleaning inside and around the oven.
And no matter if you’re preparing pastries for breakfast or broiling salmon filets for dinner, this machine is up to the task. The appliance has five different cooking functions, including baking, broiling, toasting, warming, and air frying, and fits up to six slices of bread or up to a 12-inch pizza. Its specially designed heat diffuser evenly cooks foods and it has a slide-out crumb tray to keep both the toaster oven and your countertop clean. It also comes with cuisinart clermont pellet grill & smoker cover more useful accessories than any air fryer we tested, because it includes a baking tray, a ceramic pizza stone, and two oven racks . You don’t need to buy any special equipment to bake in the Cuisinart oven, as you do with air fryers; an 8- or 9-inch cake pan or a standard loaf pan will fit with room to spare. The Cuisinart TOA-65 toaster oven air fryer combo is stainless steel and is a large size (0.6 cubic feet), meaning you can cook multiple dishes at once.
Our multifunctional air fryer toaster ovens offer a variety of features tailored to your cooking needs, making it easy to bake, broil, toast, air fry and even grill for any occasion. While the cuisinart clermont pellet grill & smoker cover Toaster oven comes equipped with an oven rack, air fryer basket, and baking tray, the NuWave Bravo XL comes with all these things and more. With add-ons like a pizza peel, pizza cutter, and internal probe, this machine is a very attractive option indeed. The internal probe is unique to this machine , in that it allows the digital sensor to record the internal temperature of whatever product you are cooking to avoid overcooking where possible. This is a great feature when cooking temperature-specific items like pork chops or whole chicken.
The Cuisinart comes with three trays–the air frying basket , a sheet pan, and a rack. These are all interchangeable in position based on what you’re cooking. You want whichever rack you are using to be on top, but make sure the air fry pan is always sitting atop the sheet pan so it can catch drippings, crumbs, etc. You can also use the sheet pan as you would a regular sheet pan in your full-size oven for baking, air frying, etc. The Cuisinart Digital AirFryer Toaster Oven isn’t compact by any means, but it is sleek enough to be left on the counter if you have the space. It looks like a countertop oven, and that works in its favor in the looks department.