We have the Panasonic convection microwave and the Breville convection toaster oven. Our main oven is a GE Monogram convection oven. 1. The Breville toaster oven is the best toaster oven we've ever owned. During Christmas visits my adult children dubbed it the magic oven. It toasts bagels perfectly because toaster settings can be customized. It bakes frozen pizza well enough that it can be considered more than barely edible in a pinch. It crisps homemade pizza to perfection. I have convection roasted game hens in it and cooked tuna to medium rare in minutes after searing it's edges on my cooktop. Overall it's one of the best small appliances I've ever owned. 2. The Panasonic does all of the above, has a larger capacity EXCEPT it is not a toaster. We toast a lot of things that wouldn't fit in a regular slotted toaster so toaster ovens are a must for us. We live in Florida so we don't need two full size ovens. We also (contrary to most people, it seems) use a microwave oven as a full partner in our array of cooking appliances. (I don't know if it is still available but the Microwave Gourmet cookbook by Barbara Kafka is a great resource for fully utilizing a microwave oven. She has such great recipes that I often adapt the seasonings for use in a regular oven also). Thus, we are happy to have the Panasonic with the dual use capability. Although we did our installation several years ago and I can't remember what we paid, I'm sure the $200 price quote for a Panasonic trimkit is way too much. You should check on line to try to get a better deal. HTH.

docmamma, I'm not sure how many dishes you need to use for a particular meal that require an oven, but I've had as many as 6 different things to cook in an oven at various temperatures. We have one convection oven, a convection MW, and a 36" induction cooktop (LOVE IT, and worth the money!) in the 1st floor kitchen, and one oven in the range in the lower level kitchen. However, I seldom have to use the one downstairs. I plot my cooking times, temperatures, and baking/serving dishes the night before a large meal. (I have to have lots of choices, because one person is a vegetarian, 2 are on low/no fat diets for medical reasons, and there are also young children.) Depending on the size of the baking/roasting dishes, I can get 4 to 6 of them in my warming drawer (GE Profile). I think the brochure says that you can keep food in the warming drawer for up to 4 hours, but about 2 hours is the maximum I've kept anything there. Since the meat/turkey/pork can take up more space than vegetables or potatoes, I do it last so it can go directly to the table. I'm trying to get better at planning ahead, so that for large meals, I can have one item in the crock pot, one that will use the MW, and a couple that are done on the cooktop. I'm also working at figuring out how long to bake 2 items in the oven at the same time that take the same temperature. Don't know if any of this would help your situation. Anne

I have a Breville and really like it. It saves heating up our large oven if you just want to do a small to medium roast, chicken, casserole, etc. It does a good job broiling a few items such as melting cheese on a few open-face sandwiches. However, if you make toast regularly, or are in a hurry in the morning, I would keep your toaster since it will make toast more quickly than the Breville.

I have a convection microwave. It is a fine microwave. I got it for the same reason your thinking, once a year in my tiny kitchen I wish I had a but more oven. Well I don't use it that often is probably the issue, but when my oven went out in an electrical surge (still had stovetop), and we were deciding on new stove or fixing (then waiting for the replacement for damaged new one that arrived), I had to cook out of it for about a month or only use my stovetop. It will cook some things in a pinch, but certainly not as advertised. That whole roasting a chicken thing in less time.... well in twice the time I had raw meat. Excellent for cooking smaller pieces of chicken or even tater tots for the kids. Baked potatoes were great (once you undercooked or burn your share). I will certainly use it at Thanksgiving for that extra oven, but it is certainly not a go to in this house for convection. Now that my o enough is back up and running, I would rather heat it up.