Our Place Wonder Oven vs Breville Smart Oven

The short version

For most people asking this question the answer is the Our Place Wonder Oven, and the reason is unglamorous: it is the only one of the three whose maker tells you the interior dimensions — 10 by 10.3 by 7.6 inches, 13 quarts, in a box 11.5 inches wide — so it is the only one you can check against your own counter and your own pan before paying. It draws a rating-plate 1,400 watts rather than 1,800, which is about a fifth less per hour, and it publishes a steam function no Breville in our catalog has.

Choose the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Compact (BOV680) instead if you need the oven to go cold. Breville publishes a 120 to 445°F band on Bake and Roast, and the Wonder Oven's published floor is 200°F with a timer that stops at 60 minutes. Proofing dough, holding something warm for two hours, drying anything at all — those are not features the Wonder Oven is missing, they are temperatures and durations its own spec sheet excludes.

The Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845)is the oven most people actually mean by “the Breville Smart Oven”, and it is a different class of machine: 18.9 inches wide, 1,800 watts, ten functions, a real slow cook, and no air fry at all. If you are weighing it against a Wonder Oven you are not comparing two small ovens, you are deciding whether you want a small one.

We have cooked in none of the three. There is no test kitchen behind this site and every figure below came off a manufacturer document we read.

First: which Breville Smart Oven?

“Breville Smart Oven” is not one product. In our catalog alone it covers the Smart Oven Pro (BOV845), the Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860), the Smart Oven Air Fryer Compact (BOV680) and the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro (BOV900) — four ovens from 15.7 to 21.4 inches wide, all rated at 1,800 watts, differing in element count, function list and roughly a factor of two in price.

Only two of them are honest opponents for a 13-quart Wonder Oven. The BOV680 Compact is the size match: Breville measures it at 15.7 by 16.9 by 10 inches, and its manual states a 1 to 4-slice toast capacity, which is the same published toast figure as the Wonder Oven. The BOV845 Smart Oven Pro is the name match and the one the phrase usually means, and it is nearly twice the footprint. We have put both on the page rather than picking for you, because which one you meant changes the answer.

If you were actually comparing the Wonder Oven to the big Breville air fryer, the relevant pages are the BOV900 review and the BOV845-versus-BOV900 head-to-head.

What each maker publishes, side by side

This is the comparison, and the interesting thing about it is the pattern of blanks rather than the numbers.

Read down the Our Place column and you can build a picture of the oven without seeing it. Read down either Breville column and you cannot answer “will my pan fit” at all. Read across the temperature row and the position reverses exactly: Breville commits to a floor 80 degrees below the one Our Place prints.

Both brands are, by this category's standards, unusually good at this. Breville prints the rating plate in the BOV680 instruction book — 120 V ~ 60 Hz 1800 W — which is the gold standard and which most brands at any price do not do. Our Place prints its 1400 W rating on the cover of its own manual. In a catalog where a third of the ovens publish no wattage whatsoever, these two are the top of the class. They are simply at the top of it in different subjects.

The decision, as two independent questions

Question one: do you need to verify that it fits? If your counter is tight, if there is a cabinet above, or if you own a specific pan this has to take, then an oven with no published interior is an oven you are buying on faith. Our Place publishes interior dimensions, exterior dimensions, a volume, a weight, and a manual asking for only an inch of clearance above, behind and on each side. Breville publishes an exterior and nothing else — for both models. What each maker asks for in clearance and the pan geometry underneath it all.

Question two: do you need to go below 200°F? This is the one that disqualifies the Wonder Oven outright for some people, and Our Place is admirably plain about it. A published 200°F floor and a 60-minute timer means no proofing, no dehydrating, no slow cook and no long hold — not because the modes are absent from the dial, but because the numbers are absent from the specification. Breville publishes a 120°F floor on Bake and Roast for both of its ovens here and a genuine slow-cook function on the BOV845.

If both answers are yes — you need to verify the fit and you need to go below 200°F — then neither of these three is the oven, and the one in our catalog that publishes both is the Our Place Wonder Oven Pro: an 80°F floor, a timer from 30 seconds to 24 hours, and the interior printed next to it. It is also considerably larger and more expensive, which is the trade you are making. The within-brand comparison is here.

Running cost: the one row where Our Place wins on a number

At the US average residential rate this site uses throughout — 18.34¢ per kWh, EIA Table 5.3, June 2026 — the arithmetic is:

So the Our Place is roughly 22% cheaper per hour and the annual gap is about the price of two coffees. That is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up: electricity is not a reason to pick between these ovens. Where 1,400 watts genuinely matters is the circuit— it draws about 11.7 amps at 120 V against the Brevilles' 15, which is real headroom on a kitchen outlet shared with a kettle or a coffee maker. The circuit arithmetic in full.

The other consequence of 1,400 watts cuts the other way: less power into a cavity means longer to get there. Our Place publishes a 13-quart interior, so heat density works out at about 108 watts per quart — high, because the cavity is small. Neither Breville publishes an interior volume for these models, so their density cannot be computed at all, and we are not going to estimate a cavity from the outside of the box. Where that density figure comes from, and the nine ovens it can be computed for.

Steam, and the thing only Our Place has

Our Place publishes a steam-infusion function, and no Breville in our catalog publishes anything comparable. In mechanism terms it is a water reservoir that releases moisture into the cavity, and the jobs it genuinely changes are the ones where surface drying is the failure mode: reviving bread, keeping a crust from going leathery, reheating rice. It is the one capability on this page that is not available at any price from the other brand.

It also comes with published fine print worth knowing. Our Place's own manual says none of the accessories is dishwasher safe because finishes may degrade, and the bake pan's non-stick is ceramic rather than PTFE — which tends to lose its release faster with use. On the Breville side, the BOV680's own manual is similarly direct about its ceiling: an 11-inch pizza pan, 12 inches only with the rack in the upward orientation, one to four slices.

What we would actually buy

A small kitchen, cooking for one or two, wanting air fry and a bit of steam: the Our Place Wonder Oven. It is the cheapest of the three at the prices in the table above, it is the only one you can check against your counter on paper, and its documented limits are limits most people in that situation will not hit.

Anyone who proofs dough, dehydrates, or wants the oven on for more than an hour: the Breville BOV680, on the strength of a published 120°F floor and the rating plate in the book. You are paying substantially more for a smaller published fit and no interior figure, and getting a temperature band and a brand that will show you its own rating line. The BOV680 review, in full.

Anyone who mainly bakes and does not care about air fry: the BOV845 Smart Oven Pro, which is deliberately the model in the range without an air fryer and is the better oven for bread and roasting at the cost of nearly twice the footprint. The BOV845 review, and where it lands on our cake ranking.

Nobody should buy either Breville here expecting a lower electricity bill than the Our Place, or buy the Our Place expecting to proof bread in it. Both of those are settled in writing by the manufacturers themselves, which on this site is as settled as anything gets.

How to read a spec sheet with holes in it

The useful habit this comparison teaches is to notice which figure is missing rather than treating a short spec list as a short spec list. A brand that publishes a rating-plate wattage and no interior volume has made a choice, and so has a brand that publishes an interior to a tenth of an inch and a floor it will not go below. Neither is hiding anything; they are each telling you what they think matters about their oven.

Three gaps that are worth treating as answers. No published wattage means no honest running cost and no heat-density comparison — and in our catalog that applies to a third of the ovens. No published temperature range means nobody will commit to a floor, which matters far more than the ceiling for baking and holding. No published interior means pan fit is unverifiable before purchase, which is the single most common cause of an oven going back. Documentation is one of the five metrics we score for exactly this reason.

Two checks worth doing before either purchase

Measure the depth with the door open. Both Brevilles here are deeper than they are tall and the door swings down and out; Our Place publishes a 10.6-inch depth, which is unusually shallow for this category. Depth is the dimension people forget until the door will not clear a backsplash.

Decide whether you need the floor before you shop on price. The 200°F versus 120°F difference is the only irreversible one on this page: a bigger oven can be lived with, a missing low temperature cannot be worked around. Everything else here is preference and money.