The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp 31196FG is a medium-sized toaster oven/air fryer. It has a straightforward design, with dial controls, six functions for different cooking methods, and a 'Stay On' feature. It comes with a mesh basket for air frying, a baking tray, and a wire rack for baking.
Our Verdict
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp Toaster Oven is decent for mixed use. This medium-sized toaster oven won't fit a 9" x 13" baking sheet but can accommodate a 12" pizza. Its chamber has a lot of vertical space for taller items like whole chickens or pot roasts. It also maintains a mostly stable temperature during cooking, which helps you get good results when baking or reheating. It makes good toast fairly quickly. However, despite having an air fry function, it's not good at making quick, crispy snacks like French fries.
Good amount of cooking capacity.
Maintains a stable temperature.
Toasts bread quite equally on both sides.
Preheats quickly.
Toasts somewhat slowly.
Makes unevenly air fried food.
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp air fryer/toaster oven is great for reheating leftovers. It preheats quickly and doesn't overshoot your selected temperature setting, which helps keep your food from drying out before it's heated through. It won't fit a 9" x 13" baking pan but has a good amount of capacity for something like a pizza or a plate of leftovers.
Good amount of cooking capacity.
Doesn't overshoot temperature setting.
Preheats quickly.
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp 31196FG is fantastic for baking. The temperature varies a little during cooking, but not very much, and it never overshoots your selected temperature setting. This helps make the toaster oven's performance more predictable and helps produce better results when baking cookies or bread. The temperature throughout the cooking chamber is also uniform, without major hot or cold spots, so your food cooks evenly wherever it is in the oven.
Maintains a stable temperature.
Doesn't overshoot temperature setting.
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp air fryer/toaster oven has a poor air frying performance. It comes with an air fry basket and has a good amount of surface area in its cooking chamber, but its fan isn't very powerful. If you use it to air fry foods like chicken wings or French fries, most of your food will come out underdone. It's also very slow when air frying.
Mesh basket included.
Makes unevenly air fried food.
Fan isn't very powerful.
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp air fryer/toaster oven is very good for toasting. If you use its six-slice maximum capacity, it makes mostly evenly browned toast, toasting both sides of the bread equally. That said, some toaster ovens are faster. It produces slightly better results if you only use four slices at a time.
Toasts bread quite equally on both sides.
Toasts somewhat slowly.
The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp air fryer/toaster oven has a very good capacity. It can fit the average frozen pizza or six slices of bread, and its tall cooking chamber can accommodate items like a roast chicken.
Good amount of cooking capacity.
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Changelog
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Updated Mar 13, 2026:
We added a link to the Our Place Wonder Oven (Toaster Oven) in the Air Fry box for users who want faster air-frying performance.
- Updated Feb 07, 2025: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
This toaster oven comes in one 'Stainless Steel' variant. Here's a picture of our unit's label.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
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The Hamilton Beach Sure-Crisp 31196FG is a medium-sized toaster oven/air fryer with a similar design to other models from the brand, like the Hamilton Beach 31143, with dial controls and no screens. It has a fan and is meant to work as an air fryer, but it doesn't perform very well for that purpose. The Hamilton Beach Quantum Air Fryer 31350G and the Cuisinart Air Fryer TOA-70 can make much more evenly crispy food. That said, the Sure-Crisp is good for toasting and maintains a more stable temperature than the Quantum Air Fryer, making it more suitable for baking.
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