The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro is a compact, premium toaster oven built around the same steam function as the original BALMUDA The Toaster, which is meant to help keep bread moist as it toasts or to bring leftovers back to life. It adds a new top-down broiling mode on top of presets for sliced bread, pizza, and croissants. It features a fixed rack position and doesn't include a baking tray, unlike the original.
Our Verdict
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro isn't a great pick if you want a toaster oven that can handle a wide range of cooking tasks. It bakes well and reheats leftovers reliably, holding a steady temperature so food doesn't dry out or burn. But it falls short almost everywhere else: there's no fan for air frying, its small chamber limits what you can fit in at once, and it doesn't even produce evenly-browned toast.
Reheats leftovers quickly without drying them out.
Maintains a stable temperature for baking.
Small cooking capacity limits what you can cook.
Lacks a fan so it can't air fry.
Toasting performance is unremarkable.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro is great for reheating leftovers. It preheats quickly, so you don't have to wait long before you can pop food in, and its stable, accurate heat means you can warm things back up without drying them out or leaving cold spots. The only downside is its small chamber, which limits you to reheating a couple of portions at a time.
Heats evenly and accurately, keeping reheated food from drying out or overcooking.
Preheats quickly.
Small cooking capacity limits what you can cook.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro is great for baking. It holds a steady, accurate temperature throughout the cook time, so you won't end up with burnt edges or undercooked centers. Its small chamber limits you to smaller batches, but for everyday baking, it delivers consistent results.
Maintains a stable temperature for baking.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro isn't intended for air frying. Without a fan to circulate hot air, food comes out mostly undercooked rather than crispy, and even what does cook takes a long time to get there.
Lacks a fan so it can't air fry.
Slow to cook, and most food still ends up undercooked.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro is a decent choice for making toast. It toasts quickly, but you're limited to just a couple of slices at a time, and even at that batch size, the browning comes out uneven rather than a uniform golden color.
Toasts quickly.
Can only toast two slices at a time.
Produces unevenly browned results.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro has a small capacity, limiting what you can cook. You can fit a couple of slices of bread or an 8-inch pizza, but there's no room for anything taller. With only one rack position, you can't cook multiple items on different levels. It's best suited to small portions rather than family-sized meals.
Small cooking capacity limits what you can cook.
Single rack position means taller foods won't fit.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro only has a single variant, which we bought and tested. Here's a photo of our label.
If you come across any other variants, let us know in the comments.
Popular Toaster Oven Comparisons
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro occupies a narrow niche: it's a very small, single-purpose toaster oven built around steam toasting rather than general cooking versatility. Compared to the original BALMUDA The Toaster, it adds a Salamander Grill Mode for broiling and preheats faster, but its cooking chamber and overall footprint stay nearly the same, so you're not gaining much beyond those two things.
If you're not in the market for a steam toaster, though, there are better toaster ovens available to suit your needs. The Ninja Foodi DT201 offers a far larger cooking chamber, more even toasting, and genuine air frying, making it a much more versatile choice if you want one appliance that can handle full meals. The Ninja Flip SP151 also out-toasts the BALMUDA and adds a real air fry mode, all in a similarly space-saving design.
The Typhur Sync Oven is a much more capable toaster oven than the BALMUDA The Toaster Pro. Its cooking chamber is large enough for a 13-inch pizza, with room for multiple tray positions, and it also offers solid air frying, which the BALMUDA can't match. The BALMUDA does hold a couple of genuine advantages: it takes up noticeably less counter space, preheats faster, and gets to golden brown toast a bit quicker despite its tiny two-slice capacity. Unless a small footprint and steam toasting are non-negotiable for you, the Typhur is the better option.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro and the original BALMUDA The Toaster share nearly the same compact footprint and cooking chamber, but the Pro preheats significantly faster, making it the better choice if you often reheat leftovers or just don't want to wait around before you start cooking. It also adds a Salamander Grill Mode for broiling, something the original doesn't offer at all. Unlike the original, however, it doesn't come with a baking tray in the box, so you'll need to buy one separately.
The BALMUDA The Toaster Pro and the Ninja Foodi DT201 are built for very different kitchens. The Ninja is a large combo toaster oven and air fryer with a tall, spacious chamber that can fit a whole chicken, multiple trays at once, or up to nine slices of bread, and it backs that capacity up with genuinely strong performance across baking, air frying, and toasting. The BALMUDA is a small, single-purpose steam toaster that can only fit a couple of slices of bread at a time, can't air fry at all, and doesn't hold up to the Ninja even at its own purported specialty, since the Ninja toasts more evenly despite its size. The BALMUDA's only real advantages are a much smaller footprint and a noticeably faster preheat, so it won't eat up counter space or leave you waiting around. Unless counter space is extremely tight or you specifically want a countertop steam toaster, the Ninja is the better all-around choice.
The Ninja Flip SP151 is a better toaster oven than the BALMUDA The Toaster Pro. They both have small footprints, making them a good choice if you have limited counter space, but the Flip is the far more capable of the two. It fits up to six slices of bread compared to the BALMUDA's two, toasts more evenly, and adds an air fry mode along with dehydrating. The BALMUDA preheats a touch faster, and it includes a steam function the Flip doesn't offer at all. If you want one toaster oven that can actually do a bit of everything, the Flip is the better buy.
Test Results
This is a very small toaster oven, so you won't need to sacrifice much counter space for it. It's compact enough to tuck onto a narrow counter or a small shelf.
The cooking chamber is small and restrictive. You can fit a couple of slices of bread or an 8-inch pizza, but there's only one rack position, so anything taller, like a loaf of bread or a standard baking dish, is off the table.
- 5cc water cup
- Boiler plate
- Crumb tray
- 7.5" x 10.4" wire rack (19 cm x 26.5 cm)
- User guides
This toaster oven isn't very versatile. Because it doesn't have a fan, you can't air fry or convection cook, and you're limited by a 15-minute timer. The minimum temperature is high, so you won't be able to dehydrate food or proof dough. That said, there are a variety of settings to choose from:
- Shokupan Mode: Warms up thicker soft bread like Japanese milk bread and lightly browns the surface
- Golden Toast Mode: Standard toast setting
- Pizza Mode
- Croissant Mode
- Oven Mode: manual, set at 350°F, 400°F, or 450°F
- Salamander Grill Mode: a broil option that the original BALMUDA Toaster didn't have
You can see all the settings on the control panel, and the manufacturer's manual offers more details.
This toaster oven is difficult to clean. The interior lacks a non-stick coating, so anything that sticks or burns is tricky to remove, and the small chamber makes it hard to reach every corner. Both heating elements sit behind grilles, which block off access to any mess that builds up around them. You also won't find a baking tray in the box: BALMUDA sells a stainless steel tray separately if you want one.
This toaster oven doesn't toast evenly when filled to its maximum capacity. When toasting two slices of bread, you'll notice blotchy, inconsistent browning across the slices rather than a uniform golden color, so if you're making toast for the whole table, expect some pieces to look noticeably lighter or darker than others.
This model can't fit four slices of toast.
This toaster oven lacks a fan and isn't intended for air frying, so it does a bad job with commonly air-fried foods like French fries or crispy vegetables. It cooks your food much more slowly than a dedicated air fryer, and most food will end up undercooked rather than crispy.
This toaster oven preheats very quickly, so you don't have to wait very long before you can start cooking.
This toaster oven maintains a steady temperature while cooking. There's a brief drop in temperature right after putting food in, but it recovers quickly and stays close to the selected setting with minimal overshoot and even heat across the chamber, so you shouldn't run into hot or cold spots that leave part of your bake underdone or overdone.