The 4 Best Small Toaster Ovens - Winter 2025

The best small toaster oven we've tested is the Ninja Flip SP151. This toaster oven has a compact design and a space-saving trick: you can flip it backward when it's not in use, saving counter space. It has a wide cooking chamber with more surface area than a lot of smaller toaster ovens, so it can fit smaller (11") frozen pizzas or six slices of sandwich bread. It's a great choice for multi-purpose use. It maintains a mostly stable temperature during cooking, which helps you get good results when baking. It has an air fry function and works well for making evenly crispy, golden-brown foods like fries or chicken wings, although it doesn't quite match the performance of a good basket-style air fryer.

It does a good job of evenly toasting six slices of bread at once, although it's not the fastest toaster. There are a few downsides to its design. The cooking chamber doesn't have much vertical space, so something like a loaf pan might not fit. It's also more awkward to reach into a clean compared with more spacious ovens, especially since its interior doesn't have a non-stick coating.

If you plan to use your toaster oven for baking pizzas, cookies, and cakes, the Breville the Mini Smart Oven BOV450XL is a great compact option. This small toaster oven doesn't have an air fry feature, so it won't work as well for your favorite crispy snacks like chicken wings. However, it has some advantages for baking: its cooking chamber is taller and has three possible rack positions, so you have more options for where to place your food. You can even bake a couple of trays of cookies at once on different levels. More importantly, it maintains a more stable temperature during cooking than the Ninja, which helps you accurately follow recipes and get good results when baking delicate foods.

It's also a good choice for toasting since it's faster than the Ninja Flip SP151, although it can only fit four slices of bread.  It also lacks a fan for convection baking, so you can't use that feature for faster cooking. It's decently easy to clean, and its interior has a non-stick coating. However, it's awkward to reach behind the upper elements.

Speed is the biggest downside of using a toaster oven instead of a slot toaster. If your kitchen is crowded in the morning or you tend to rush out the door, the design is much less appealing. The Panasonic FlashXpress NB-G110P toasts faster than most toaster ovens, and unlike a slot toaster, you can use it to quickly heat snacks like frozen pizzas (up to 9"), pastries, and hashbrowns. It preheats quickly, making it a good choice for reheating leftovers. This compact model has a retro look and a simple design, with six simple functions. Its cooking chamber fits four slices of bread.

This toaster oven is best suited for basic uses like toasting and reheating leftovers. It can't air fry, broil, or maintain a low enough temperature for uses like dehydrating. There's only one possible rack position. That said, despite its small size and lack of a non-stick coating, its cooking chamber is easier to clean than that of many small toaster ovens.

The best budget small toaster oven is the Black+Decker Natural Convection 4-Slice TO1756SB. You can pick up this simple option for well under $100. While it's not very versatile, it preheats fast and has good temperature stability, so it's a good option for reheating leftovers or baking something like hashbrowns or a frozen pizza. Its timer only goes up to 30 minutes, which is the same as the Panasonic, but it has a 'Stay On' option, so you can have it cook for as long as you want.

However, it has no air fry function, and its toasting performance doesn't shine since it's a little slow to make somewhat uneven toast. While it has good overall temperature stability, its performance isn't as strong as the previous picks, so it's more likely to burn or dry out delicate foods. It's also the most difficult toaster oven to clean on the list since the cooking chamber lacks a non-stick coating, and it's difficult to clean behind both the upper and lower elements.