Cuisinart TOA-60 Stainless Steel AirFryer Toaster Oven + $100 Target GC Expired

this is the GOAT of air fryers.

Been using it for years, its fantastic.

Have had this for a few years now. There's things I love and things I don't love so much.

Pros:
Gets nice and hot so you can do things that some other air fryers can't. Some air fryers cap at 400° but this goes to 450°

Its a good toaster oven as well with a good size for bigger trays than typical toaster ovens. It's also way bigger than typical drawer style air fryers so you can fit more food. That's something that drove me crazy about the cheaper air fryers. Sometimes I need more than 6 dumplings cooking at once.

This analog version is much better than the digital version which malfunctions a lot. I have multiple friends who bought the digital one which is newer than this one because Costco had it the year after I got mine. However, because sometimes things steam a bit while it cooks, when the moisture gets into the electronics, its potential catastrophe. The temps jump around and the times do too. So if you bake something for a long time and forget about it, you could potentially come back to either an uncooked item or a house fire... I've never had that problem with this knob version.

Cons:
Because it's not a drawer style air fryer, it seems to smoke a bit more than them. Idk if it's just the way this one is designed in general but if you cook something super oily like hot dogs and have it on the top rack at a high heat, the oil splattering into the heating coils will cause some good amount of smoke and set off the alarms. I learned to move this near a window when I'm cooking something really fatty/oily at high heat.

The timer knob isn't super accurate. I learned this while baking something for an hour. Luckily I had a separate timer to go off after an hour as well. But when the separate timer went off, the knob still read about 15 minutes remaining even though I set it to an hour.

I think drawer style air fryers do a tiny bit better at air frying. My old one got a better all around crisp to things I air fried where as this one usually requires some flipping mid way to get everything evenly crisp.

It requires a lot of power. My old surge protector often cut off while using this and having even one other small appliance running. I upgraded to a higher output surge protector and it works fine now but just keep in mind this is a power sapper.


Overall I love this thing. I learned to live with the few cons that it has. To me, it's totally worth replacing a separate toaster oven that probably isn't as good AND an air fryer that's only slightly better but is dedicated to only doing that one function.

Keep in mind that the 5% will only be off $129.99 since they will deduct $100 for the gift card and not give you 5% off of it. This to me should be illegal pricing scam. In this case, you miss out on $5 discount.