I have a Ninja Foodie SP300, which has 13 functions. I’ve had it about a year and a half, and I like it a lot. In the photo the sear plate and baking rack are in it; it also has an air fry basket. It also flips up out of the way when not in use.

by definition an air fryer IS a convection oven. if they called it that, nobody would've bought one since so many countertop ovens have a convection feature no need for another.

but call this an AIR FRYER and everyone wants this new thing.

The Ninja DCT401 ($200) earned a recommended rating from CR. You might watch the video and read the instructions before deciding whether you're interested in this unusual double-oven appliance.

We have a Gourmia french door toaster oven /air fryer. It can bake, broil, toast, air fry, dehydrate, and reheat. I bought it over a year ago from one of those pre- Black Friday sales and it's used almost daily. The only negative I have is that I have to set the temp a bit lower when baking muffins, etc. or it will burn the tops. However, it will cook a pizza perfectly on the "pizza" setting. We have a separate air fryer and we don't use it at all since I bought the Gourmia.

https://www.amazon.com/Gourmia-capacity-accessories-convection-GTF7460/dp/B08TSV54MG?th=1

I have the extra large Gourmia model GTF7660 from Costco, currently on sale Dec '23, $30 off. It's huge. I have the space for it in my pantry and it's used daily, mostly as a reheater for baked goods and for toast. I like the size for safety of placing and removing items with plenty of clearance. It's likely not as accurate as the dead Breville it replaced (not a fan), but I use my regular ovens for most baking. It has a mesh air fry tray as well as a rack and a large tray, many functions or modes of cooking. I air fry non oily, low mess stuff in it (dryer foods). Like many toaster and countertop ovens, the inside would not be easy to scrub. The appearance is not appealing to me, i.e. not sleek or modern. The biggest drawback for me is the very loud sharp BEEEEPing. I have an equally loved Gourmia 7 qt drawer style air fryer that I use for things that need oil spray. The air velocity seems stronger in the drawer style.

Gourmia XL counter oven GTF7660

• 18.5" x 21.26" x 12.8"; Weight 23.15 lbs
• 1700 Watts

We have a countertop Cuisinart oven which functions for us as a toaster, reheater, and regular oven. Since there are only two of us now, I wanted something that we could more efficiently use for both baking/broiling and reheating food. I specifically chose this model because it can fit a 9x13. It also came with a stone, and I sometimes use that in the oven to bake cookies. Like others have mentioned, an air fryer is just a convection oven, but marketed differently. This oven is a convection oven, and when I ordered it, many articles touted it's 'air fryer' capabilities and bemoaned Cuisinart's marketing. That said, maybe I just don't understand the whole 'air fryer' hype, but AF recipes I've made just tastes like regular oven baked. My husband thinks it takes way too long to toast (5-6 min). But overall, it does what we bought it to do. I did notice once that it gets RED HOT at the back, so we now keep it pulled away from the wall an extra few inches, so you may have to consider that when measuring your space.

We have a Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer/Toaster oven BOV860BSS. Works well. Small, great for two, all the usual functions including air frying, broiling, toasting, pizza setting. Easy to use digital display, good performance.

Also have an Anova Precision Oven, which is in a class of its own. It's a combi oven with fully controllable steam function allowing steam baking, say for bread, as well as fun stuff like bagless sous vide. Control over not only steam, but choice of which heating elements to use (rear, top, bottom). Extraordinary temp control--typically +/- less than 5 degrees, versus typical oven swings of =/- 30 degrees or more. Switchable convection fan allowing air frying. If you have a tolerance for at times wonky technology and want the closest thing to a restaurant combi oven, it's the best choice.

I have the Oster French Door Convection oven - it's LARGE and unless you have lots of counter space would probably find it a space hog. I keep it outside as part of a small outdoor kitchen on the back porch. I use it all the time from the day we turn on the AC till heating season and it's also wonderful overflow oven space for holidays. I can cook large roasts, roast whole chickens, slow cook porch shoulder or convection/air fry veggies, potatoes etc.

Here is the one I ordered, thanks to TBL and woodrose. It looks great and fits the space perfectly. Too perfectly, I found as I read the directions more carefully. It needs 4” space all around. Groan. Posting this for other careless dummies. 🤣. Back it went to our nearby costco.

I’m over it and will consider a replacement…after the holidays..BTW, the mic above is 20 years old GE inexpensive, simple to operate…love it.

My Breville toaster oven has convection which as has been mentioned is the same as air frying.

I use the oven 90% of the time. It's a workhorse in my kitchen.

https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/breville-smart-convection-oven/?catalogId=79&sku=6926232&cm_ven=PLA&cm_cat=Google&cm_pla=Electrics%20%3E%20Toasters%20%26%20Toaster%20Ovens&region_id=680400&cm_ite=6926232_14571727833&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwaqZ-6ySgwMVCjfUAR2I4A3dEAQYASABEgJk3PD_BwE

My Frigidaire wall ovens have air fry mode. I tied strings to the oven racks to compare the air movement between the two modes. AF mode definitely had more activity. But how would this affect practical results? And how would they compare to my countertop appliances? I decided to test with frozen chicken nuggets, attempting to adjust the settings to achieve similar actual temps, if anything wanting to give convection the advantage.

1. Ninja XL. Set at 375, even after a solid preheat my Thermworks Smoke showed it had way overshot to about 450 after putting in two nuggets before coming back down. I didn’t go so far as to chart the temps to calc an average, but I did watch time and temp and by my estimation it averaged around 410 over the ten minutes cook time. The nuggets came out dark and crisp, overdone I’d say with internal temps right about 212.
2. The Breville Smart Oven (convection) was hard to control. Although well preheated, the temps swung up and down considerably, with 410 being too hot and 400 being too cool. I flipped back and forth manually between these two settings over the ten minutes to best average 410, again, if anything giving the convection the benefit of higher temps. The nuggets came out mushy***, not crisp at all, with an internal temp of about 185.
3. I set one wall oven to air fry and one to convection. After a long preheat, cheapo bimetal oven thermometers showed again showed AF to be high so I lowered it to 375. At this point both ovens sat just a bit over 400. After ten minutes the nuggets from each looked about the same as they had out of the Breville, arguably both just a touch dryer than the BSO. Interestingly the internal temps varied in the opposite way of what I expected: the AF nuggets were about 175 and the convection ones were about 185.

Are there flaws in my experiment? Absolutely. For one thing I didn’t allow three of the four appliances to behave as they were engineered to based on their settings. And secondly I obviously didn’t cook any of these all to their optimal finish. What I do believe I did show though, is that my dedicated countertop AF did exactly what these appliances are advertised to do, and that is cook quickly and provide a crisp exterior. The other appliances, not so much. Clear difference.

My son has a Cuisinart toaster oven with air fry, if I think of it maybe I’ll add it to this list when it comes home from college this summer.

***WTactualF has happened to Tyson chicken nuggets? We don’t eat a ton of them but for many years I’ve kept them around for a quick snack if there’s nothing else around. The past couple bags have been entirely inedible. They’re either complete mush or complete sawdust. I threw out one bag, returned another, and now am on my third bag which is equally disgusting. I’m done.

Martinca, I'm so sorry it didn't work in your space. Can you put it in a different place and use that space for something else? I'm not sure about putting something that gets very hot right underneath your nice microwave. Mine sits on the counter, so no worries about spacing.

Thank you, woodrose :) Actually, its all good. It’s way too big to put on the counter, looks looks-wise, and when dh asked if it was really needed, I knew it wasn’t. I may get a smaller one, but the thrill is gone. iykwim