The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is a medium-sized toaster oven/air fryer that offers a wide range of preset cooking modes, preprogrammed recipes, and customization options. You can choose from cooking modes like Bake, Roast, or Grill, browse preset recipes in the included recipe book, or set up to 30 of your own custom recipes, so you can start cooking quickly. It also comes with a temperature probe and, unlike most toaster ovens, gives you the option to switch between the top and bottom burners depending on what your recipe calls for.
Our Verdict
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is a mediocre choice if you want a toaster oven that can multitask. It's best suited to air frying, since it leaves most of your frozen fried snacks crispy, but it runs hot, so the edges of your food often burn. The same problem makes it just satisfactory for baking and reheating leftovers. There's enough space in the cooking chamber for a variety of dishes, and it preheats quickly. However, the lack of temperature stability makes your food more likely to dry out and burn if you don't adjust the temperature carefully. It offers alright performance for toast, browning each side evenly, but it leaves one side a lot darker. Regardless of the recipe, this toaster oven also cooks pretty slowly, so you'll have to wait a few extra minutes for darkly toasted rye or crispy mozzarella sticks.
Roomy chamber provides space for a range of larger dishes.
Effectively crisps frozen convenience items, like fries and nuggets.
Browns the surface of bread evenly.
Temperature fluctuations lead to dry, burnt baked goods and leftovers.
Toasts one side of your bread much more than the other.
Temperature instability results in burnt edges.
Cooks slowly, regardless of what you're making.
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is just decent for reheating leftovers. It preheats quickly and offers a large cooking capacity, so you can start cooking large batches quickly, but it doesn't cook them evenly. The temperature fluctuates above your chosen setting as it cooks, which leads to food drying out or burning.
Roomy chamber provides space for a range of larger dishes.
Preheats quickly, and alerts you when it's ready.
Temperature fluctuations lead to dry, burnt baked goods and leftovers.
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro isn't well-suited to baking. The temperature is very unstable and often overshoots your setting, resulting in dry, burnt baked goods.
Temperature fluctuations lead to dry, burnt baked goods and leftovers.
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is good at air frying. It leaves most of each batch of French fries, chicken nuggets, or onion rings crispy, with just a few undercooked pieces in the mix. That said, it tends to burn the edges of your food, and it doesn't cook particularly quickly.
Effectively crisps frozen convenience items, like fries and nuggets.
Only leaves a small portion of each batch undercooked.
Temperature instability results in burnt edges.
Plenty of toaster ovens air fry faster.
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is a reasonable choice for toasting. It browns each slice evenly across the surface, but the two faces of your bread don't match, so one side of your toast comes out noticeably darker than the other unless you flip it partway through. It also takes a long time to finish toasting.
Browns the surface of bread evenly.
Toasts one side of your bread much more than the other.
Toasts very slowly, even with just four slices.
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro offers a good amount of cooking capacity. There's enough room in the chamber for six slices of toast or a 13-inch pizza, and enough usable height for taller dishes, like chicken thighs or ramekins of mac and cheese. With four rack positions, you can choose the ideal option for each of your recipes or use two at a time to make a double batch.
Roomy chamber provides space for a range of larger dishes.
Four rack positions let you cook multiple batches at once.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro comes in Stainless Steel. There's also a Costco variant, which comes with a different set of accessories. We tested the standard variant; here's a picture of our unit's label.
| Model Number | Retailers | Accessories |
| 20893LW | NuWave, Amazon, Walmart | Pull-out crumb tray, 2 heavy-duty cooking racks, enamel pan and enamel broiler rack, air fry basket, and temperature probe |
| 80155CT | Costco | Pull-out crumb tray, heavy-duty cooking rack, grill pan, mesh rack, temperature probe |
If you encounter another variant, tell us about it in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Popular Toaster Oven Comparisons
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro is a mid-range combination toaster oven and air fryer with a wide range of preset recipes and cooking modes. Like the Typhur Sync Oven, a large-capacity toaster oven with an array of high-tech features built in, this model also comes with a temperature probe, making it easier to cook meats to a specific temperature. However, this toaster oven can't match the Typhur's performance; it struggles to bake, toast, air fry, or reheat leftovers as evenly, and it takes longer to cook. Instead, it provides performance more similar to the Hamilton Beach Quantum Air Fryer 31350G, another fairly conventional-looking toaster oven. Both of these ovens lack temperature stability, which leads to dry, overdone baked goods and leftovers. If you're looking for an option that stays closer to your set temperature, consider the Breville the Smart Oven, which, like many Breville ovens, maintains a remarkably stable temperature, making it less likely to burn your dinner.
To find out what we recommend, see our picks for the best toaster ovens, the best small toaster ovens, and the best air fryer-toaster ovens.
The Ninja French Door Premier FO101 is a better toaster oven than the NuWave Bravo XL Pro. The Ninja is a better choice for baking and reheating leftovers, thanks to its excellent temperature stability. It also toasts more quickly and evenly with four or six slices. While the NuWave leaves more of each batch of air-fried food crispy, it tends to burn the edges of your food, and it takes longer to finish cooking. The Ninja is also easier to clean.
The Our Place Wonder Oven Pro (Toaster Oven) is a better bet than the NuWave Bravo XL Pro. Unlike the NuWave, the Our Place maintains a very stable temperature while cooking, which helps baked goods cook properly and leftovers reheat without drying out or burning. The Our Place also toasts more evenly, though both models take a long time to finish toasting. While the NuWave leaves a little more of your food crispy when air frying, it also tends to burn the edges of small foods like fries and onion rings. Finally, the Our Place is easier to clean, and it offers more capacity, giving you space for larger dishes.
The Typhur Sync Oven offers better performance than the NuWave Bravo XL Pro. One of the biggest differences between these toaster ovens is temperature stability. The Typhur’s temperature fluctuates less throughout cooking, making it the better choice for more delicate tasks like baking and simpler ones, like reheating leftovers. While these models offer similar toasting evenness with four slices of bread, the Typhur pulls ahead when toasting at maximum capacity and finishes toasting faster. It also air fries faster, though it leaves slightly more of each batch undercooked. The Typhur is easier to clean, too, and it offers more capacity.
The CHEF iQ MiniOven is a better toaster oven than the NuWave Bravo XL Pro, though it’s also much pricier. The Chef iQ offers better performance for a range of uses. Unlike the NuWave, it maintains a stable temperature while cooking, making it a good choice for baking and reheating leftovers. The Chef iQ also toasts more evenly and a little faster. It comes out ahead for air frying, too, leaving more of each batch crispy and taking less time. It’s also larger and easier to clean.
Test Results
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro isn't enormous overall, but it's quite wide, so you have to set aside a pretty large stretch of counter space for it. It takes up most of the space in an average-sized kitchen cupboard, so storing it when not in use is possible, but not ideal.
There's a good amount of capacity in the cooking chamber. It offers enough space to cook a 13-inch pizza or six slices of toast at a time, and it has four rack positions, so you can use two racks at once to make a double batch or choose the position that works best for your recipe. The chamber also has enough vertical space to accommodate taller foods, like a tray of stuffed peppers or a batch of bakery-style muffins.
- Enamel baking pan, 34.3 x 24.4 cm (13.5 x 9.6 in.)
- Enamel broiler rack, 33.9 x 23.9 cm (13.3 x 9.4 in.)
- Air frying basket, 30.7 x 24.9 cm (12.1 x 9.8 in.)
- 2x heavy-duty cooking racks, 36.8 x 31.1 cm (14.5 x 12.2 in.)
- Digital temperature probe
- Recipe book and user guides
The NuWave Bravo XL Pro offers excellent versatility. It has a very wide range of temperature settings, a powerful broiler, an option to manually switch between the top and bottom burners, a temperature probe, and a large number of handy preset cooking modes:
| Cooking Mode | Default Temp. | Default Time | Temp. Range | Heat Source |
| Toast | 425 °F | 5 min. | 50 °F - 500 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Broil | 500 °F | 5 min. | 50 °F - 500 °F | Top/Bottom (100/0) |
| Bake | 350 °F | 25 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Roast | 375 °F | 30 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Grill | 425 °F | 15 min. | 50 °F - 500 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Pizza | 400 °F | 15 min. | 50 °F - 500 °F | Top/Bottom (30/70) |
| Proof | 90 °F | 30 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Air Fry | 360 °F | 15 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Reheat | 350 °F | 10 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Cookie | 350 °F | 10 min. | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Slow Cook | 165 °F | 1 hour | 275 °F - 325 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
| Dehydrate | 100 °F | 2 hours | 50 °F - 450 °F | Top/Bottom (50/50) |
You can also manually set the temperature and time, though time settings are limited depending on which temperature you choose.
One limitation to consider is the weak fan, which limits how well the toaster oven can evenly crisp food, resulting in worse air frying and roasting performance.
You can read more about this model's functions and settings in the user manual.
Cleaning is decently easy. The interior has a non-stick coating, and the baking pan is enamel-coated, making them both pretty easy to clean. Tight gaps between the top heaters make them tricky to scrub, but the bottom elements are easier to get around. There are a couple of somewhat sharp spots to avoid, but the medium-sized interior is easy enough to maneuver around.
At maximum capacity, this model toasts reasonably well. All six slices come out evenly browned on each side, but much darker on one face than the other.
With four slices of bread at a time, this model toasts very evenly across the surface of each slice, but one side winds up a lot darker than the other.
This toaster oven offers good, but not great, air-frying performance. When you cook fries or other frozen snacks, most of each batch comes out crispy, but as the picture above shows, even some of the crispy pieces come out burnt on the ends.
Preheating doesn't take long, and a reminder lets you know exactly when to add food. Some preset modes include an automatic preheat function, while others require you to hit the Preheat button after selecting your desired cook time and temperature.
This toaster oven's temperature is surprisingly unstable throughout the cooking process. We ran this test three times with cookies in two different rack positions, just to be sure. Each time, the oven overshot our set temperature for most of the cooking cycle, resulting in three batches of burnt cookies. The temperature is very uniform throughout the cooking chamber, so your food cooks at the same rate regardless of where you place it, but you'll probably want to set a lower temperature to get the results you want.