[hyencomper]

Have you tried a toaster oven. It heats up almost instantly, and makes great toast so you don't really need a toaster either.

[surfpel]

Toaster ovens are too low power and don’t have enough convection still, at least for my use case. I roasted chicken just last night, and got a beautiful golden crust with a thoroughly cooked interior… you can’t do that with a typical toaster oven!

My air fryer has a toaster oven form factor[1]. The fan is much more powerful however and it has extra heating elements. Otherwise it literally is a toaster oven with convection, even says so in the name!

Conceptually all of these are very similar, it’s just the balance of heating power and fan speed that make the difference, though marginal it may be from an engineering design standpoint.

Typical air fryers have a basket design[2] that helps with splatter control, but they are otherwise again the same.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CXM33MD/

2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R6KMBQT/

[orev]

The typical comment about toaster ovens is that they’re bad at making toast and they’re bad at being an oven. Just learn to use the oven that’s already installed in the kitchen.

[Mistletoe]

My toaster oven uses way less electricity and doesn't heat up my house like my big oven though. When I make cookies they are done in 12 minutes to perfection and it plugs into a normal 120v outlet. I doubt my big 240v oven with the thick cables for lots of amps is even preheated by then.

[dagw]

I lived several years in a tiny apartment without an oven in the kitchen. I learnt to make just about everything (up to and including a soufflé) in a toaster oven after a while.