De'LonghiAir Fry Oven, Premium 9-in-1 Digital Air Fry Convection Toaster Oven, Grills, Broils, Bakes, Roasts, Keep Warm, Reheats, 1800-Watts + Cooking Accessories, Stainless Steel, 14L, EO141164M

My old De'Longhi toaster oven finally died after 13 years and thousands and thousands of uses, and I chose this one to replace it.It does a great job, comes to temperature quickly, toasts great, and is easy to use. It's a bit bigger than the older models, but it fits perfectly in that weird space on my counter under the cabinet and next to the fridge that's unusable for anything else! As others have noted, the design of the door handle means it doesn't open 100% of the way unless you have it positioned over the end of the counter, but that hasn't stopped me from being able to take things in and out, change around the shelves, etc. - all without searing my knuckles on the elements!The only thing I really don't love are the control knobs. They're finicky, not intuitive, and you can't get the precise control you could on the older models. I've learned how to work with it, but honestly, it's an overengineered solution for something that needs to be just a simple knob. But other than that, I love it, and hope it lasts as long as my last one!

Because this $299.00 DeLonghi seemed to rarely come on sale, I seriously considered the exceptionally well reviewed Breville BOV845BSS. The not too infrequent (for me) complaints about expensive to repair thermal/electronics failures in Breville line ovens kept me on the sidelines until a discounted "Used-Like New" DeLonghi unit was offered on Amazon, so I bit: So glad I did. The double paned front panel and good insulation keep much of the heat and convection fan sounds inside the oven. It runs quietly and only on the 450 degree setting does the top get slightly warm to the touch. In our South Carolina kitchen it does a great job crisping up frozen french fries without causing the air conditioning to rev up to compensate. The controls quickly became intuitive, and it is easy to make time and temperature changes on the fly. Toaster function is a snap, and does a great job with the denser thicker whole grain bread slices we use each morning. The roomy interior makes it easy to retrieve the slices without singeing the top or side of your hand. The Breville advertises a low and slow roast function. The DeLonghi can do the same thing, albeit in 2 hour increments. I've had great results slow cooking/steaming foil wrapped pork ribs and roasts with this unit.

I've only had this for a few days, but it's performed quite well so far. It looks decent, has a pretty good capacity, stays reasonably cool. Absolutely maddening to use, but I doubt if any of the others are better- they insist on putting these idiotic electric brains in everything; it would be so much easier with just on-off, temperature, and convection on/off controls, but we soldier on. I've tried a couple of the pre set programs; the "cookies" setting worked pretty well with a pretty average sort of dough; the "pizza setting" was less successful and took almost 20 min. for a thin crust pizza, but it may be as well as you'll do with an oven that only reaches 450 degrees. The accessories that come with it are OK- a perforated pizza pan would work better than what they give you, and a cookie sheet or two would be great; then again, it's gotten pretty hard to find a regular size cookie sheet, and most of what's available is insulated (ie useless). Actually, the supplied pizza pan has embossed lettering so deep that it actually holds much of the crust away from the bottom of the pan, so that's not so good. There is a sort of sheet pan (I thought for a while that it was the bottom of the oven. It is not, however, flat- there's a large raised rectangle in the middle with embossed lettering, so it's pretty much useless for baking.The big question with these ovens is durability, which of course I can't tell at this point; the heating elements are metal rods, which are reputedly more durable than quartz elements, and the electronics seem to be pretty well protected from heat, but it's hard to be sure. The glass door is hinged at the bottom; this is probably the most convenient for loading the oven and placement, but it does make it vulnerable if you drop or spill something while loading/unloading the oven. The signal buzzer is nearly inaudible from more than a couple of feet, so not very useful. The included accessories are solidly built but poorly designed, a surprise from this company.

I love DeLongi products. German made. Last longer than China made. This is my 2nd Delongi in 30 years

I was so looking forward to this combo unit because it was smaller than most and nicer looking. And when it came it was excited because it was exactly what I was looking for. BUT- it never worked. It had a over heating error message that came on within 5 seconds, on any setting before the leaching even started to warm up. Clearly a broken piece in there somewhere. Additionally, the door didn’t stay open when I was putting my food in to cook it. I was thinking that could be dangerous once the unit heated up. If the door doesn’t stay open, it could burn you as you try to get your food out. Since my food never heated I couldn’t see if this would be a problem or not, but it was certainly annoying. And lastly, the handle sticks out from the face of the door too much. So when you open all the way and it hits the counter so you can’t slide the bottom tray in and out. You’d have to pull the machine to the front of your counter and hang it off the edge so it can open at lease 90 degrees. On the counter it can only open maybe 75-80 degrees which blocks the tray from sliding in or out. If a new model comes out with the kinks worked out, I would want to purchase because it is the only one I could find with all these features in the smaller size that wasn’t super ugly to out in my just renovated kitchen.