Cuisinart Cooks Convection Toaster Oven
The very best toaster oven.
This Cuisinart offers up remarkably even cooking, a whopping
nine-slice salute ability, a three-year warranty, and also some beneficial
devices.
The flexible Cuisinart Chef's Convection Best Toaster Oven
(TOB-260N1) is among the very best toaster ovens that we have discovered for larger
jobs, like cooking a 13-inch pizza, roasting a whole chicken, or toasting
approximately nine pieces of bread at the same time. This model is a different
beast completely than the Panasonic FlashXpress (our choice for the very best
little toaster): It's almost two times the size, and its much bigger stove
tooth cavity can deal with a broader variety of cooking tasks.
The Cuisinart toasted
bread much more equally than the various other best toaster ovens we attempted at
this price level. It also has a better guarantee, more accessories, and also one
of the shortest pre-heating times of all the models we checked. And also, the
two-speed convection follower makes it much better at air frying than any kind
of air fryer we have evaluated.
The Cuisinart had the most effective edge-to-edge home
heating out of all the big toaster ovens we examined at this price level.
Picture: Michael Hession
Certainly, the Cuisinart dispersed heat equally across its
voluminous cavity, toasting 9 slices of bread in a solitary set to near
golden-brown excellence. Corner to corner, nothing else stove was as consistent
(besides the too valued Wolf Premium Countertop Stove).
In a similar way
valued huge toaster ovens (like ones from Breville as well as KitchenAid) both
focused heat in the center of the oven as well as had an extra substantial
fall-off of warmth toward the edges.
The Cuisinart comes with several devices: 2 racks, a baking
pan, a broiling tray, and also a ceramic pizza rock. After years of long-term
testing, the pizza stone continues to make crisp, golden-brown pizza crust.
Most of the other competitors we saw at this price level come with only flimsy
steel and also a single shelf pizza pan, so the bonus with the Cuisinart seems
like a step up.
The oven tooth cavity is likewise vast sufficient to fit a
standard quarter-sheet tray. The Cuisinart has four slots for the shelves, with
steel hooks that take out the center rack when the door is opened. It was among
the fastest models to preheat to 350 ° F, taking just over 3 minutes.
The Cuisinart has one uncommon function we didn't see with
any other toaster: a setting called the double setting. It's a standard means
of programming your very own cooking cycle by hooking 2 existing modes with
each other to play out back-to-back.
So, allow's say you're cooking a couple of cinnamon rolls.
Using twin mode, you could, for example, cook them to perfection, and after
that run a 15-minute warming cycle instantly after they're done cooking while
you wait on your family to wake up.
If you wish to use this stove as an air fryer (since as we
clarify in Exactly how we selected, air fryers are simply small convection
ovens), the Cuisinart likewise has 2 convection rates, routine and high. We've
found that broadband establishing works better for air frying, cooking food a
little faster.
And in general, after
checking the Cuisinart against numerous air fryers for our guide to air fryers,
we assume it's the better device for that purpose since it fits extra food,
chefs extra uniformly, and includes far better accessories.
The Cuisinart has a three-year minimal guarantee, while most
competitors include just 1-year warranties for the same cost. When returning
things under service warranty, in the past we have listened to grievances
concerning Cuisinart calling for clients to pay for delivery.
Yet according to an agent we talked with, Cuisinart just
recently updated its warranty solution program, and also the company will
certainly cover shipping expenses to and also from its solution facility if
your design is defective under warranty.
Long-term screening notes
Writer Michael Sullivan had the gas turned off in his
apartment building for virtually 4 months as well as utilized the Cuisinart
TOB-260N1 for doing everything from cooking cakes as well as cookies, to
roasting entire poultries and also quarter-sheet trays of vegetables. He's been
using it frequently given that 2017 and also it's still going strong.
Problems however not dealbreakers: Cuisinart Chef's Best Convection Toaster Oven
The Cuisinart's controls took some obtaining used to given
that the dial control functions as a consolidated start/stop button as well as
a timer. Image: Brendan Nystedt
The greatest shortcoming on the Cuisinart is the single-dial
control, which functions as a consolidated start/stop switch and timer. It's
not as intuitive as the two-knob controls on the Breville Smart Stove, once we
acquainted ourselves with it, we valued its sleeker, pared-down user interface.
Likewise, we located the middle shade setting for toasting
(establishing 4) to be a little bit too dark. We recommend utilizing setting 3
for making the best golden-brown salute.
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