Commercial toaster ovens are popular pieces of equipment in the professional kitchen because they heat up so quickly and combine the convenience and design of both a toaster and an oven. Since they are so versatile, they are often used in the place of a regular oven for a lot of tasks. In particular, toaster ovens are great for keeping food hot, or heating it up. In the pro kitchen, its common to find up to 2000-watt commercial stainless steel ovens.  Since cleanliness is a major concern, many of these have a brushed stainless steel finish for easy cleaning.

For the home, possibly the best convection ovens are the top quality Cuisinart TOB-175BC. This oven has excellent performance due to convection heating (which excels at baking and browning food) and has two large racks. Toaster ovens for the home come in a range of styles and colours, including red, black, white and steel.

For commercial grade toaster ovens, we need to look elsewhere. Here are a selection..

Waring WCO250 Commercial Convection Toaster Oven

Waring have been making products for commercial kitchens for more than 60 years, so they should be a name you can trust. They manufacturer a range of household & commercial grade toaster ovens.

One possible candidate is the Waring WCO250. This oven is a quarter sized, heavy duty convection oven which gives you the options of convection baking, roasting, baking, broiling & using a rotisserie. Its an excellent oven for cooking foods like roasts, pizzas & breads. Cooking chicken is a snap by using the rotisserie. You’ll also get a stainless steel drip pan which can double as a baking sheet, and two baking racks. It’s brushed stainless steel heavy duty finish with stainless steel interior, make this a popular choice.

The WCO250 has a big brother, namely the WCO500, which is a half size commercial toaster oven. With its 1.5 cubic feet interior, stainless steel finish and clear-view tempered glass window, its another option, albeit a little larger. You get the convection bake, roast, bake, broil & rotisserie, plus stainless steel baking tray and 1700 watts power.

Waring also make the Waring Pro CO1500B Professional 1.5-Cubic-Foot Convection Oven with a 1.5 cubic foot interior, 4 rack positions, temperature control know and 2 hour rotary timer. The Waring PRO CO1500B Professional is a 1700-watt oven that can oven bake, convection bake, broil, roast and cook on a rotisserie.

Cuisinart 6-Slice Toaster Oven

The Cuisinart 6-slice toaster oven is designed for the busy lifestyles of its owners. This classy toaster oven will allow you to bake, broil and toast all within one compact device. Its compact enough for most kitchens, yet it can cook a 12 inch pizza. This oven is finished in stainless steel on the front with a brushed chrome commercial style handle. The controls of the 6-slice toaster oven consist of a touchpad and the oven itself has heat sensors to ensure it maintains internal temperatures accurately. There is even a button to switch between 6-slice and 4-slice toasting. You’ve got a reheat & defrost button plus automatic shut off. While this toaster oven may not be heavy duty enough for a commercial kitchen, its certainly one that households should consider.

Cadco POV-013 Commercial Half-Size Convection Oven

Another quarter sized commercial convection oven that comes in heavy duty stainless steel. The interior occupies 0.83 cubic feet, and has three shelves separated by 2.5 inches each. Cadco POV-013 can accommodate three quarter sized commercial sheet pans. The heat control can be set from 175F up to 500F, with a 60 minute timer if required. This model has an innovative heavy duty squirrel-cage fan for better circulation of the air in the oven. The safety door features “cool touch” and has a double thermal glass window. This oven is 1450 watts convection.

Sirman Commercial Stainless Steel Toaster Oven

This model is designed for bars, coffee shops and small restaurants, and is ideal for toasting, heating food and melting cheese. It has top & bottom infra-red heating elements and is finished in stainless steel. Made in Italy, the Sirman oven uses 2000 Watts power.

Kalorik PRO-OT-19735 Prostar Commercial Style Italian Toaster Oven

The Kalorik PRO has a double shelf, and can fit 12 slices of bread at a time. You can also cook pizza, broil, reheat food and more. It’s made with brushed stainless steel. The 15 minute timer and 1650-watt top and quartz top & bottom heating elements (which you can control separately) give this toaster oven a lot of flexibility.

Equipex 25″ Toaster Oven (RST 227)

This one has a compact footprint, 15 minute timer and a double shelf. With stainless steel interior and exterior, it certainly looks the part. You have separate control over the top and bottom heating elements, allowing you maximum flexibility.

This oven is ideal for melting stuff like cheese, warning food and toasting. You get a crumb tray for easy cleaning, and open style models have heat resistant rack handles.

Equipex also have a range of other toaster ovens – BAR-100, BAR-200, BAR-106/1, BAR-206/1 and the RST-127

Looking to make a lot of toast?

Maybe the Commercial Pro 14″ countertop conveyor toasters are what you are looking for. It’s has continuous delivery of toasted bread and bagels with 300+ slices being delivered per hour. It consumes 2600 watts, and weighs in at 40 lb. It’s manufactured by Commercial Pro International.

On this site we’ll look at some of the more popular convection ovens and offer user ratings where possible.

The Hamilton Beach Toastation in red, is a great looking red toaster oven.

This great looking addition to any kitchen has a range of great features including:

• Top slot for toast like a traditional 2 slice toaster.
• 1.5 inch toasting slots so you can fit thicker bread, muffins and other goodies into the toaster.
• Electronic control over the shade of toast produced plus automatic shutoff.
• Oven big enough to fit two 16 inch pizza slices.
• Oven temperature controls.
• Made in galvanized steel.
• Settings include toast, bake and reheat.

This red toaster oven is great for cooking toast, waffles, muffins, heating pizza and other snacks, etc.  Its small footprint means it won’t take up too much room, and is a good addition to any kitchen.

Check Price & Availability on the Hamilton Beach Toastation in Red

The Hamilton Beach 31508 toaster oven offers auto-shut off plus timer.

The slide out crumb tray makes it easy to clean, and it comes with a bake pan and broil grid for baking, broiling and toasting your food.

This compact toaster oven is great as a second oven or a 6 slice toaster.

Check Price & Availability on the Hamilton Beach 31508 Toaster Oven

This extra-large toaster oven uses convection heating to ensure an even heating of your food.

With temperatures up to 450F and easy to use knobs and timers, this toaster oven is a good & popular choice as a second oven or a lower-energy alternative.

This countertop toaster oven is versatile, offering toasting, baking, broiling, convection heating and a rotisserie.

With two large racks you can cook 2 12 inch pizzas at a time.

Check Price & Availability on the Hamiton Beach 31199XR Toaster oven

Hamilton Beach is a name every chef will recognize with over 35 million appliances being sold every year.  They are a leading distributor of small kitchen appliances with famous brands like Hamilton Beach, Ecletrics, Proctor Silex and TrueAir.

Hamilton Beach are innovators with the announcements in 2009 of the single serve blender (available from January 2010) & the voice activated coffeemaker (where you can set the clock and brew time by voice!) – available from September 2009 and other kitchen appliances.

As you might expect, Hamilton Beach also have a range of toaster ovens, including:

Hamilton Beach 22708H Toastation 2 Slice Toaster and Mini Oven – combining the functionality of 2-slice toaster and small oven, this 2-in-1 compact toaster and mini-oven is a great space saver for those with smaller kitchens.  Featuring electronic toast shade and oven temperature controls, as well as automatic shut-off, removable tray etc.

Hamilton Beach Meal Maker 6-slice toaster oven – in stainless steel and non-stick interior, this toaster / broiler looks great in any kitchen.

Hamilton Beach 31199XR Countertop Convection Toaster Oven – a great looking toaster oven with convection heating offers user-friendly controls and temperatures adjustable to 450 F.  Includes timer and auto shut-off, slide out tray etc.

Hamilton Beach 31197R Countertop Oven with convection & rotisserie – Another great looking toaster oven from Hamilton Beach, featuring broil, convection, bake and rotisserie with 10 – 120 minute timer and temperatures up to 500F.

Breville began life in the 1930s on Melbourne Cup day, when two Australian entrepreneurs by the names of Bill O’Brien and Harry Norville combined their surnames to make Breville.  These two guys started off making radios and then moved onto mine detectors in the second world war, but the radio business was sold after the war, and they concentrated on the small appliance market.

Once their research and development centre was setup in the 60s, the inventions started to come thick and fast.  They invented the Snack ‘n’ Sandwich maker in 1974 and in 1977, the Breville Kitchen Wizz – Australia’s first food processor.

Today, Breville make a range of kitchen appliances including a few toaster ovens like:

Breville BOV650XL Toaster Oven – an 1800 watt countertop oven with independent heating elements.  This toaster oven has 8 presets including toast, bake, bagel, broil, pizza, cookies, roast and reheat, making it a highly versatile toaster oven for the modern kitchen.  Taking up less space that its big brother – the Breville Oven, the Breville Toaster Oven takes up less space.

Breville The Smart Oven Convection Toaster Oven Bundle – BOV800XL comes with Silicone tongs and a heat resistant slotted spatula.  This is a good choice of oven for those who prefer a natural convection oven (with fan) instead of a microwave.

Before we cover specific convection toaster ovens, its important to know what the term convection means so you can better understand how these kitchen appliances work.

There are basically three types of heat – convection, conduction and radiation.

Convection Heating

Simply put, convection is the movement of heat in currents. Those currents can be in a liquid (as you stir a pan of water on the cooker), or in air. In convection cooking, the heat is moved around the oven with a fan, ensuring that the full interior of the oven has the same temperature. If all parts of the oven are at the same temperature, you’ll get even cooking.

We don’t need to go into conduction (this is a particle to particle transfer of heat as particle bash into each other, like an iron in a fire, the heat is conducted along the iron), or radiation (electromagnetic waves that carry energy through space, eg. sunlight).

Convection Toaster Ovens

A lot of the toaster ovens you can buy today include a fan, and therefore heat by convection if the fan is enabled – they are convection toaster ovens!

However, make sure by reading the specification for the ovens you are interested in.

Some popular convection toaster ovens include:

• Cuisinart Convection Toaster Oven Broiler
• Breville BOV800XL The Smart Oven 1800-Watt Convection Toaster Oven with Element IQ
• Oster 6-Slice Convection Toaster Ovens
• Cuisinart TOB-165 Convection Toaster Oven/Broiler
• Hamilton Beach 31199R Countertop 1.1-Cubic-Foot Convection Oven with Optional Rotisserie
• T-Fal OT8085002 Avante Elite Convection Toaster Oven
• Krups Convection Toaster Oven
• Rival CO606 Stainless-Steel 6-Slice Countertop Convection Toaster Oven with Broiler

Black & Decker have a wide range of toaster ovens, both countertop toaster ovens and under cabinet toaster ovens. We’ll review and compare a number of the best selling Black & Decker Toaster Ovens so that you can make a wise buying decision.

For the under cabinet models, Black & Decker have a Black & Decker TMB3 Under Cabinet Toast-R-Oven Heat Guard that mounts under the cabinet, and provides protection for the cabinets where you mount your toaster oven..

Black & Decker TRO480BS Toast-R-Oven 4-Slice Toaster Oven – The TRO480BS Toast-R-Oven 4-slice toaster from Black & Decker is a1200-watt 4-slice toaster that gives you the option to bake, broil, keep food warm, and toast bread, bagels etc. Its curved interior will fit a 9 inch pizza. Temperature control up to 450 F, and a 30 minute timer.

Black & Decker TROS1000 & TROS1500B SpaceMaker Traditional Toaster Ovens (under cabinet toaster oven) – has a large interior that can cope with a 9 inch pizza or 4 slices of bread. There is a 30 minute timer, and installs easily under a cabinet to save space. This toaster oven will enable you to bake, toast and keep food warm.

Black & Decker CTO6301 6-Slice Convection Toast-R-Oven – this stainless steel finished toaster oven with non-stick interior, is a six slice counter top convection oven that has a large interior capable to cooking a 12 inch pizza. There is a dual position oven rack and a digital display and soft touch control buttons. There is an auto-off timer up to 120 minutes as top temperature of 450 F.

Black & Decker TRO964 Classic Countertop Toaster Oven – with 1350-watt power and a four slice toaster capacity (with a toast darkness control) and brushed chrome finish with easy cleaning crumb tray. This oven bakes, toasts, browns and can warm up and re-heat food. The TRO964 has temperature up to 400F, and a quarter cubic foot interior.

Black & Decker CTO4500S 6-Slice CounterTop Convection Oven with Pizza Bump – This big capacity countertop oven will fit a 12 inch pizza, with a 2 rack position and 120 minute timer. It’s great for baking & broiling with a maximum temperature of 450 F. The crumb tray slides out easily and there is a signal bell to tell you when your food is ready. The interior is easy to clean thanks to its non-stick surface.

Black & Decker FC150 InfraWave Speed-Cooking Countertop Oven – The attractive countertop oven is finished in stainless steel, and uses infra-red technology to cook the food evenly. This technology will also cook food 50% faster than a normal convection oven and there is no pre-heating of the oven, nor do you need to thaw frozen food (pull the food out of the freezer and into the Infrawave speed-cooking oven, and you’ll be sitting down to eat in no time). You’ll get a large number of preprogrammed functions, and a broil rack, baking pan and removable crumb tray.

Black & Decker FC350 InfraWave Speed-Cooking Countertop Oven with Rotisserie – Another countertop infra-red oven from B&D featuring rotisserie. These ovens, like the one above, cook food much faster and there is no time wasted heating the oven or thawing your food.

Cuisinart is a universally recognized name in kitchen equipment including bakeware, blenders, coffee makers, countertop cooking appliances, hand mixers, microwave ovens, pizza ovens, waffle makers and toaster ovens to mention just a few. On this page we’ll highlight some of the best selling Cuisinart toaster ovens.

Cuisinart TOB-195 Exact Heat Toaster Oven Broiler

This 6-slice convection toaster oven and broiler has a 0.6 cubic foot capacity which is big enough to roast a whole chicken or accommodate a12 inch pizza.
The TOB195 can bake, broil, reheat and defrost. It can maintain precise oven temperatures. Its attractive electronic touchpad includes a clock and timers. The removable crumb tray makes this one easy to clean.
At Amazon, this toaster oven has fantastic reviews, scoring an average rating between 4 and 5 starts out of 5 based on 173 customer reviews. Things that the customers liked about this toaster oven include:

• The size and its ability to fit a large pizza.
• door controls.
• Temperature alarm to tell you when the oven has reached temperature.
• convection oven feature.
• non-stick interior for easy cleaning.

One reviewer mentioned that the the door can get hot, and you have to touch it to open the oven, so use oven gloves or a towel.

Other Popular Cusinart Toaster Ovens that are similar to the TOB-195:

1. Cuisinart TOB-155 Toaster Oven
2. Cuisinart TOB-165 Convection Toaster Oven/Broiler

There are also some smaller toaster ovens from Cuisinart, including:

1. Cuisinart TOB-60 Convection Toaster Oven Broiler
2. Cuisinart TTOB-30BW Toaster Oven/Broiler
3. Cuisinart TOB-50W Classic Toaster Oven Broiler
4. Cuisinart TOB-50 Classic Toaster Oven Broiler

Oster products are found in most kitchens. I myself have an Oster blender, and have never been happier with a piece of kitchen equipment.

Oster began in 1924 when John Oster offered a hand-operated hair clipper. A few years later, a motorized version was released, and The John Oster Manufacturing Company never looked back. They became the name to trust in the grooming industry. The company bought out Stevens Electric , the company that invented the liquifier blender in 1923, and the kitchen appliance market opening up.

Oster now make a range of quality kitchen appliances including the following toaster ovens:

Oster 6295 6-Slice Convection Toaster Oven
This quality 6-slice convection toaster oven has a large interior for baking, broiling, toasting, reheating, warming etc. You have enough room to roast whole chickens, or a full 12 inch pizza. The temperature can be adjusted between 150 – 450 F, and you have shade settings for toasting. The double wall in this toaster oven ensures good insulation that prevents heat loss through the walls. You also get a useful 60 minute timer, automatic shut-off and bell. You get two reversible cooking racks, plus baking tray and broiler insert. The Oster 6295 6-slice convection toaster oven is a good looking unit that will be a fine addition to your kitchen.

Oster 6052 Toaster Oven
This toaster oven isn’t as popular as the first one, but has a lot of good features, including convection technology, large interior, interior light and glass view for watching your food. This is a probably a good choice for two people families.

Oster 6-Slice Convection Toaster Oven
This 6-slice toaster oven uses convection technology for even cooking of your food. The interior light makes it easy to keep an eye on your food as it cooks, plus the large interior will be big enough for most people (you can fit a 12 inch pizza). Obviously you can cook 6 slices of toast at a time, but you can also cook cookies, pies and roast dinners.

Other models of toaster oven from Oster include:

• Oster 6081 Channel 6-Slice Toaster Oven
• Oster 6071 6-Slice Toaster Oven
• Oster 6290 6-Slice Toaster Oven
• Oster 6058 6-Slice Digital Convection Toaster Oven