Cuisinart TOA-60 vs Breville Smart Oven: Which Air Fryer Toaster Oven?

The Air Fryer Pro earns its name in owner reports — one buyer says "we love the Breville so so much and would buy it again immediately if it ever died," and several others describe the air fry mode as good enough to retire a standalone appliance. The Smart Oven Pro tells a different story despite offering an air fry setting: one owner reports "air frying in the Breville is messy and it is not as good as a much cheaper dedicated air fryer," recommending it be used as a convection oven and buying a dedicated fryer for real air-fry volume. The TOA-60 sits in between — ClearPick's own testing rates its air fryer function as working well at high convection speeds, and no owner mention specifically calls out poor air fry results, though the sample doesn't include a rave about it either.

Both Breville models have owners reporting genuinely long service lives — one Air Fryer Pro owner has run "the exact same Breville Smart Oven Pro since 2017... all of them are still working perfectly fine," and another has had theirs since 2018 and would "replace immediately if anything happened to it." But the failures that do surface are consistent: a Smart Oven Pro owner describes the convection fan starting to "sound like a jet engine" and dying at the 5-year mark, calling it "a common problem," while an Air Fryer Pro owner returned a unit outright over a cooling fan that ran constantly and loudly even with convection off. The TOA-60's failure mode is different but comparably frequent: the mode or bake-time dial breaking around 11-13 months, sometimes on a second or third warranty replacement unit. No product in this comparison is failure-free long-term — the difference is mainly what breaks and when.

The TOA-60's 9.5/10 value subscore is the highest of any subscore across all three products, and at $199 CAD it's the only option under $300. The Air Fryer Pro and Smart Oven Pro cost roughly $250 and $200 more respectively, and that premium buys a larger 0.8 cubic foot interior, Element IQ's five-element heat distribution, and — in the Air Fryer Pro's case — air fry results owners describe as genuinely replacing a dedicated appliance. Whether that's worth it depends on how much you cook: owners who use their Breville daily for a household of two, using it as their main oven and reserving the full-size oven for holidays, consistently say it earns the price. Buyers who mainly want toast and occasional air-fried chicken wings are the ones for whom the TOA-60's lower price and comparable core cooking make more sense, dial risk included.