Breville BOV845BSS Smart Oven Pro Countertop Oven, Brushed Stainless Steel

A most excellent small countertop oven! This is my second Breville oven as I liked the first one so much, I gave it to my son! When this came up on sale on Amazon, I decided to purchase it as it was such a good deal! We don’t use our regular oven anymore except to bake bread as the interior is larger. The Breville oven does everything else. It toasts bread, bagels, bakes chicken wings, pies, cakes, and anything you can fit inside it. Breville came out with a version of this oven that air fries but we have a separate. ninja air fryer that works great on its own. I think the value of this countertop convection oven is perfect without the air frying feature. Two friends have bought this oven after seeing it in our home. It’s a great product I would highly recommend!!!

I have forced my mother onto a diet because her cardiologist wants to give her bariatric surgery before he decides if any surgical intervention is necessary on her heart. One of the biggest problems about cooking when you are single is that your oven is too big for little jobs. In my mother's case, it also holds baking sheets, cooking pots, strainers, etc. Between lugging out all that stuff, heating the oven, the wait, it is a little inconvenient. And obviously resorting to the microwave and convenience foods has hurt her. So I figured a small convection oven would be a good idea. It is convenient. It can handle a roast or a chicken. But it can also make a nice baked potato and roasted vegetables. My mother refuses to read a manual. Giving her a new phone every couple of years requires my taking dangerous amounts of Xanax mixed with alcohol. Computer pop-ups notifying her of updates result in harried phone calls. Tablets, Rokus, Blu-Ray players ... God help me. I wonder why I ever do it. (The obvious answer is so the neighbors cannot speak ill of me.) But the set up on this is simple enough that even she can handle it. The first nob is for method, the second is for temperature, and the third is for time. Yes, there is a convection setting button and one for frozen foods. She even figured those out. But it is intuitive. She knows now not to have anything touching the walls of the unit. She knows that it is necessary to pull it from the wall when she wants to use it. She knows not to touch the sides unless it has cooled down. What I am trying to say is that my mother, who was a government employee, can figure this thing out. It is great for cooking a one-pound pork tenderloin. It is great for baking a pork chop. In other words, it is great for a single cook. The window tells you what level to put the baking rack at. The bottom tray pulls out for easy cleaning. And because I read the manual, I was able to explain about not touching the elements when wiping down the inside, etc. This is a great little device for the single cook. One of the hardest parts about making food for oneself is either portion size or that you have to make big food and be stuck with it all week if you don't freeze it. This and a FoodSaver (which I also bought her) lets you buy a big roast and cut it down and vacuum seal it. Couple things I have noticed: 1) People who show photos of blown-out wall outlets or burnt walls or ruined plugs didn't read the manual. It clearly says that it should be four inches away from anything on all sides and six inches from anything above. This sucker gets hot. It is not insulated like a regular oven. Don't put it in a hole for a microwave, even if you have heat sinks all about. 2) If the thermal fuse blows on your oven, it is actually a five-dollar part and there are ample YouTube videos on how to fix this. It is easy to get the OEM replacement. There is no reason to throw the oven away. I'd also argue those who have this problem may be leaving their oven too close to walls. 3) I don't think convection saves a great deal of time. I cooked a one-pound pork tenderloin in there and followed the old rule about one-third less time at the same temperature. It didn't really work. But if you let the oven cook and use the convection, it results in a nicely cooked outside. I wouldn't say it is a sear, but it looks nicer than if one merely baked it. 4) This thing is great with frozen pizzas. It is auto-set for this and you just put it on the included pizza plate and let 'er rip. The convection gives a nice, even cooking to it and it doesn't come out all cracker dry and browned like in a conventional oven. Plus you don't have to look in on it every two minutes to see if it is done. It is hard to find a sweet spot on frozen pizzas in a big oven. Probably because of uneven cooking. I have not baked cookies or pastries in this oven so I don't know how that goes, especially with convection. I have only cooked meats, vegetables, and potatoes. Vegetables roast so nicely. I attached a photo of some Brussels sprouts I recently did. I think a single person or a couple will stop using their large oven if they get this. I am surprised that studio apartments don't just provide one of these and an induction top to save space. I am looking to build a very small home and I plan on doing just that. This is a fantastic little oven, and if used properly will produce satisfying results. Just read the manual. It is not as simple as just plugging in and making something. You do have to know how to use it.

I purchased this toaster oven on March 3, 2020, and I have used it at least once a day, every single day, in the nearly two years since. I have never once had even a slight issue with this fantastic oven. My English muffins come out consistently every time — all the muffins are the same level of brownness, and from one day to the next, they are absolutely perfect. I also occasionally bake pizzas and other foods in this oven. With only a very small exception, the cheese reaches a uniform golden brown exactly how I prefer it, and I know it will do the same the next time I make a pizza. One nice thing about this oven is that for most foods, you don’t have to guess a time and temperature. You just don’t. Instead, you select the type of program you want and the amount you’re making. For instance, I have English muffins every morning with breakfast. I set the oven to the “toast” program, darkness level 5, and quantity 3 — sometimes you have to set the quantity by +/- 1 to get the results you want, but that isn’t enough of an issue to reduce the rating. When I hit start, the timer is set to exactly the right time needed to achieve that level of darkness. There are many different programs, which you can read about in the product features above, so I won’t go into them here. I have personally used the toast, bagel, pizza, and bake programs. They all work very well. The bake program, unlike most others, does require you to set the time and temperature. For pizzas, you enter the size (in inches) and the temperature, and the oven suggests the appropriate time. I have found the time suggested for pizzas is far too long, but I have only baked thin crust pizzas. For a Chicago-style deep dish, the time would perhaps be too short. But without an option to set the crust type, this is to be expected. I have also baked frozen fried chicken tenders and French fries, with excellent results here as well. Warming up chocolate chip cookies from the bakery is a snap: in under 5 minutes, I have “fresh from the oven” chocolate chip cookies with gooey melted chocolate chips. Some toaster ovens I’ve used take forever to heat up… and some run so hot I have learned (the hard way) that I needed to cut the suggested time in half. This one is spot on. Preheating to 425°F takes around 5 minutes or a bit less (I haven’t actually timed it). The one small issue I have had is that the right front section tends to get slightly hotter than the rest of the oven. Not a lot; only slightly. It doesn’t make a difference with foods like toast, which complete quickly. But something like a pizza, which takes about 12 minutes (after preheating) for my preferred pizza in this oven, the cheese will be a bit browner in that area. The included baking pan, pizza pan, and grill pan are high quality and sturdy, but the finish does not stand up to pizza cutters, so be sure to take the pizza off the pan before slicing, or otherwise to cut very carefully. Cleaning is easy, but could be better. The crumb/drip tray pulls right out from the front. There could be some improvement here though, because there is a bar running across the front that collects crumbs, and the only way to really completely clean the oven is with a handheld vac with the right attachment. Also, I would prefer if the drip tray had a nonstick coating like the included pizza pan. If food gets baked on, it can be difficult to clean off. Of all the toaster ovens I have owned, I have been far happier with this one than any other. There is no contest. Is it perfect? No… but nothing is. It’s pretty darn close though. Breville toaster ovens are comparatively expensive, and this model doesn’t double as an air fryer, but I will never buy another brand again, so long as this oven continues to please me like it has for the last two years.

Difficult decision to make which Toaster Oven to purchase. I had to choose based on a specific Size requirement. I chose the mid-grade Breville unit, but it was still a bit pricey. After about a week of use, this Toaster Oven is great and worth it's price. The controls are easy to use and the dials are easy to read, especially with its backlit panel display. It even has a a great Oven Light that really illuminates well. The light automatically comes on 30 seconds before time is up. It can can also be turned on at any time. This Oven heats up fast, toasts items quickly and exactly like I prefer. All in all, a great unit. But still there's a few rough edges I need to tell you about. 1) the sides do get hot, and, 2) the door is not very smooth when opening or closing. But, it does have magnets that help pulls out the wire cooking rack.

Ya había tenido uno similar y la verdad es que es una excelente opción para hornear en casa. Somos una famila pequeña y el horno de mi estufa tiene problemas. Con este horno pequeño lo mismo he horneado galletas, pizza, pan de muerto, que algunos platillos. Es también un excelente tostador de pan y de semillas, he asado varios tipos de carne y simplemente siempre me da buenos resultados. No es de los más baratos, pero vale totalmente pagar un poco más por su constancia en cocción, precisión en temperatura y su facilidad de uso. Lo recomendo ampliamente.

Using this toaster oven is a pleasure... heats very evenly. The buttons and interface are easy to use and feel high quality. Very quiet when operating. It does beep when reaches temp and when complete, a bit loud then but it's not bad. Like that the lamp can be turned off. It also remembers your last setting. Would buy again!! Highly recommended.

La pantalla no sirve. Pediré devolución o bien cambio.

Lo utilisé desde el día de recepción, es mucho más fácil de usar que el horno de gas, tiene una serie de funciones pro- programadas que facilita el uso, recomiendo la lectura de las instrucciones para mayor aprovechamiento. Mis galletas de navidad quedaron fantásticas en este horno y tuestas deliciosamente el pan :)

This is our second Breville toaster oven. We also had the one prior to this model, similar but without the light, etc. I have used it each and every day, sometimes multiple times a day for years. It took a lickin' and kept on tickin'. It's quite common for some food to fall down onto the lower heating rod. It makes an awful smell when it does. When it cools, just scrape it off carefully. Despite that, it never stopped working. I love the shape and design in every way (I like boxy things with nice clean edges). The buttons are simple and intuitive. It cooks evenly and consistently. I do always cut down the time and temp from what prepackaged food suggests. I cook small beef roasts, pork tenderloin, roasted vegetables, baked eggs, cookies, everything in it. It is at eye level and uses less electricity than a main oven and doesn't heat up the house as much in summer. My husband likes the Convection setting but I think it's not worth the extra noise and electricity, a fan pushing air around such a tiny box (yes, on a big oven, but no here). Anyway, I purchased a new one because of all things, the spring in the door broke and although the oven was still functioning, the door fell to the counter easily. My husband took it apart to see if it could be replaced but it wasn't accessible. It was absolutely filthy inside and we didn't relish cleaning it, so having got many years of use out of it, once the price dropped way down again, I grabbed it. It's nice to have a light and some more Slow Cook time capability too. I do wish it was a bigger capacity or had two racks, but that equals a larger footprint on the counter and bulkier design, so this is my preferred choice. Liked it so much, I bought it twice.