Oster Extra Large Digital Countertop Convection Oven Reviews

This Oven Is Perfect , it only needs a light I use a flash light to check on the food cooking ... I love my Big little oven ... Dutch Baby in a 10” skillet see all that room ??? It's 25 degrees off being high but I just lower the temp 25 degrees no problem it's so nice to have this extra oven and it's so roomy makes excellent toast too ... I'm so pleased with my purchase ...

I was looking for a good-sized, actual countertop oven, not just a toaster oven because I already have a 4-slice toaster for toast and bagels. This Oster has probably the largest interior of appliances of this type, at least for household use. The unit seems well built and can be used for essentially anything that I would normally have to use the oven of my kitchen stove for. However, I am very disappointed in the operating controls. I have owned several countertop ovens over the years and one feature they had was the built-in ability in most situations to pre-heat. It is pretty much standard when cooking or preparing frozen food that the packages specify that the food be cooked at a specific temperature for a narrow range of time. So the standard routine is to set the temperature and time, start the oven, and when the desired temperature is reached the oven beeps and then you place your food in the oven. This Oster cannot do that. They have a strange, supposed work-around for pre-heating where you choose the temperature you will be using, set the time for 7 minutes, press "Bake", and when that is done you then set the oven up for what you really are wanting to do. If you do not do that if you, for example, select "Pizza" (which is preset to 400F and cannot be changed) and set the time, as soon as you press "Start" the timer starts to count down immediately. That is true for "Bake" and all the other settings (as far as I can tell) except for toast/bagels where the unit uses a selectable darkness setting to control how long the unit runs. I am puzzled by such a stupid design in a moderately expensive Oster-branded appliance.

We recently purchased this countertop oven for our daughter. It cooks just like a regular oven and is large enough to fit a full 9 x 13 pan for baking. The controls are easy to use.

My oven broke unexpecidely but i needed something asap. I bought this oven best choice ever. I love it and have not bought and,oven because this does the job. Cooks full pizza, i even,cooked a whole ham,in there for easter by taking the second shelf off. Everything in the pic was made in the oven

I have had this oven for a few months. I would definitely buy it again, although it isn’t perfect. I do not own an actual oven, so this gets used at least once a day, for everything. Biscuits, cakes, muffins, casseroles; everything. This is going to be a longer read. The temperature seems right on, but it does cook unevenly. The back cooks slightly faster. The easy fix is to remember to turn the dish about half way through. You basically always want to use the convection setting.

A lot of people say the top gets too hot to have anything on it. It does get hot, but I’ve had my coffee maker, plastic coffee container and a box of hot chocolate on top for months and they are all fine. I just make sure they aren’t covering the vents to the right side.

My biggest complaint are the buttons. It would be better to have a microwave set up, where you enter your time and hit start. With this, you hit convection, it starts at 350, you hit temperature up and down to select your temperature. Not that big of a deal. The worst is the time. It starts the timer at 30 minutes and you have to use the up and down arrow to go to whatever time you need. If times almost up and you decided you need to add time, you have to hit up for every single minute (or 30 seconds if the time is under 5 minutes). This is an inconvience, but not the end of the world.

Overall I am happy with the purchase and would buy it again.