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Cuisinart vs Breville Convection Ovens

The two brands that will tell you what you bought. Cuisinart's flagship publishes both wattage and interior volume; Breville publishes wattage and drives its elements independently. The choice comes down to depth versus control.

By Stephen V.Updated How we rank
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The short answer

Quick picks

#OvenBest forScorePrice
01
Cuisinart Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (TOB-260N1)
Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (TOB-260N1)

The best-documented interior in the category

1,800 W
8.6
$299.95Amazon
02
Breville Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845BSS)
Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845BSS)

Baking, if you bake seriously

1,800 W
8.4
$269.95Amazon

#ad · Prices pulled live from the Amazon Product API, last checked Aug 8, 2026. Where we have no verified live price we show none — we would rather leave a gap than print a number that has gone stale. The wattage column is what the manufacturer publishes; “not published” means exactly that, and we have not estimated one. Scores are ours, compiled from published specifications, and are not test results.

The rare comparison where both sides publish their numbers

Most brands in this category leave you guessing; Cuisinart and Breville are the two that mostly do not, which is exactly why they are worth comparing directly. The Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (TOB-260N1) is the only oven on the site whose maker publishes both a wattage (1,800 W) and an interior volume (0.95 cubic feet) on the same page, with a stated list of what fits. The Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845) publishes its 1,800-watt rating on the product page and backs it with Element IQ, independently driven elements. Both draw the same power and cost the same to run, so the decision is about how they use that power, not how much.

Cuisinart's case: the best-documented interior

Depth of specification and depth of cavity. The TOB-260N1 gives you 0.95 cubic feet — within five percent of a Breville Pro's interior — for meaningfully less money, and fifteen functions including a genuine dual-cook mode that runs two temperatures in sequence. The catch is literal depth: at about 20.9 inches it is the deepest oven on the site, so measure your counter to the backsplash before its excellent interior wins you over. It is also listed as discontinued, so stock and price move around. Full Cuisinart review here.

Breville's case: control over the heat

The Smart Oven Pro is the range's convection oven with the air-fry layer removed, and its advantage is a real proof and slow-cook capability plus independently driven elements that push more heat from below early and less from above late. That element control is the one thing you cannot retrofit, and it is why the Breville bakes bread more evenly than a cavity of the same size with two elements switched together. It publishes no interior volume for this model, so on raw stated space Cuisinart wins the paper argument. Full Breville review here.

The decision rule

Buy the Cuisinart if you want the most published, checkable interior for the money and your counter is deep enough to take it. Buy the Breville if you bake bread and pastry and want the element control and the stable proof setting, and can live without a published cubic-foot figure. If baking bread is the whole reason you are buying, the Breville's temperature control edges it — we rank both on exactly that.

In detail

The picks, in full

01
Cuisinart Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (TOB-260N1)

The best-documented interior in the category

Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (TOB-260N1)

Rated power:1800 wattsInterior:0.95 cubic feetFits:13" pizza / 9x13 pan / 9 slicesFunctions:15
Wattage and volume both publishedDeep cabinet footprint
8.6/10

The only oven here whose manufacturer publishes both a wattage and an interior volume in cubic feet on the same page. 0.95 cubic feet at 1,800 W, with a stated list of what fits — a 13-inch pizza, a 9x13 pan, nine slices.

Power
9.5
Usable space
9.5
Footprint
5.5
Documentation
10
Value
8.5

What it gets right

  • 0.95 cubic feet published in the same place as the 1,800 W rating, which makes it the easiest oven here to compare on paper
  • Within 5% of the Breville Pro's interior for a good deal less money
  • Fifteen functions including a genuine dual-cook mode that runs two temperatures in sequence

What it doesn't

  • 530 mm deep is a lot of counter — deeper than the Breville Pro
  • Fifteen functions on a backlit panel is a lot of interface between you and heat
  • Cuisinart lists this model as discontinued on its own site, so availability moves around

What it costs to run

About 33.9¢ an hour at full draw, or $61.86 a year at 30 minutes a day, 365 days a year and 18.83¢ per kWh.

1,800 W ÷ 1000 × 182.5 h × 18.83¢ = $61.86

1800 watts as published by Cuisinart on the TOB-260N1 product page, alongside the 0.95 cubic foot interior figure. This is an upper bound: the elements cycle off once the cavity is at temperature, and no manufacturer publishes a duty cycle, so we compute at full rated draw rather than invent a correction factor. The full method is published.

Skip this if…

…your counter is shallow. At 530 mm deep this is the deepest oven on the list, and depth is the dimension people forget to measure until the door will not clear the backsplash.

$299.95on Amazon

Price last checked Aug 8, 2026. Prices move constantly — Amazon's at checkout is the one that counts.

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Breville Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845BSS)

Baking, if you bake seriously

Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845BSS)

Rated power:1800 WDimensions:18.9" x 15.9" x 10.9"Functions:10
Wattage published on the product page
8.4/10

No air fry function, which is the point. This is the convection oven from the range with the marketing layer removed — ten functions, 1,800 W, and a proof setting that actually holds a low temperature rather than pretending to.

Power
9.5
Usable space
8
Footprint
8
Documentation
8.5
Value
8

What it gets right

  • A real slow-cook and proof capability, which is the specification that matters if you bake bread
  • Same 1,800 W and same footprint as the BOV860 without paying for the air-fry basket
  • Breville publishes the wattage on the product page rather than burying it in the manual

What it doesn't

  • No air fry — if that is on your list, this is the wrong model in the range
  • No published interior volume for this model either
  • Ten functions is still more than most people use

What it costs to run

About 33.9¢ an hour at full draw, or $61.86 a year at 30 minutes a day, 365 days a year and 18.83¢ per kWh.

1,800 W ÷ 1000 × 182.5 h × 18.83¢ = $61.86

1800 W as published by Breville on the Smart Oven Pro product page. This is an upper bound: the elements cycle off once the cavity is at temperature, and no manufacturer publishes a duty cycle, so we compute at full rated draw rather than invent a correction factor. The full method is published.

Skip this if…

…air frying is on your list at all. This is deliberately the model without it, and buying it then wishing it had one is the most predictable regret in the range.

$269.95on Amazon

Price last checked Aug 8, 2026. Prices move constantly — Amazon's at checkout is the one that counts.

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How we picked

Ovens we claim to have cooked in: 0

Everyone in this category tells you they roasted forty chickens. We have roasted none, and we say so. Here is what we do instead: read the manufacturer's manual and spec sheet, record the published wattage, interior volume, temperature range and warranty term, work out what the oven costs to run for an hour and for a year, show the arithmetic so you can redo it with your own electricity rate, and cite all of it. Where a brand publishes no wattage, we print no running cost rather than borrowing a number from a similar model. Prices come live from Amazon's API and disappear rather than go stale.

The scores above are judgments from that documented research — not test results. One of the five metrics is Documentation: whether the manufacturer will tell you what its oven draws at all. The full rubric, including what disqualifies an oven, is published in full.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is Cuisinart or Breville better for convection baking?
Both are excellent and both publish real specs. Cuisinart's TOB-260N1 gives you the most published interior for the money (0.95 cu ft and 1,800 W on one page) but is very deep. Breville's Smart Oven Pro controls its heat better with independently driven elements and a stable proof setting, which edges it for bread specifically.
Which is deeper, the Cuisinart TOB-260N1 or the Breville?
The Cuisinart TOB-260N1, at about 20.9 inches deep, is the deepest oven we cover -- deeper than the Breville. Measure your counter to the backsplash before buying it. Our sizing guide covers what to measure.

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We have not cooked in these ovens and we do not pretend to have. Specifications come from the manufacturer's own published documents; electricity rates come from the US Energy Information Administration; prices come from the live Amazon API. Where a figure is not published, the page says “not published” rather than guessing. Read the full method.