The short answer
The Crisp 'N Bake is one of the cheapest ways onto a countertop that still has a real convection fan, and it comes from a line unusual in the budget tier for documenting itself. Its sibling, the TO1785SG, publishes 1,150 watts, a two-year warranty and exact capacity — more than most ovens three times the price. What you are buying is a small oven that air fries, at a price where the value question mostly answers itself, provided you are honest with yourself about the size.
The documentation, and its one gap
BLACK+DECKER publishes 1,150 watts, a 4-slice / 9-inch-pizza capacity and a two-year limited warranty for the TO1785SG in this same Crisp 'N Bake air-fry line, which is genuinely more than most brands at any price manage. The honest catch: we have not found a separate published wattage for this exact SKU, and we have not assumed the two are identical just because they share a line. So on our scoring this oven carries no watt figure of its own and no running-cost number — the sibling's 1,150 W is a strong indication, not a substitute. That is a smaller gap than most budget ovens leave, but it is a gap, and we would rather name it than paper over it.
Why 1,150 watts is a feature, not a shortfall
At the low end, a lower wattage is not only a compromise. 1,150 watts draws about nine and a half amps at 120 volts, which leaves real headroom on an older kitchen circuit shared with a kettle or a microwave — the exact situation where an 1,800-watt oven trips a breaker. The trade is time: 1,150 watts preheats and cooks more slowly than 1,800, so a cheaper hour of running can still be a slightly more expensive meal. We put numbers on that trade here. If your kitchen wiring is a constraint, that lower draw is worth seeking out rather than apologising for.
The size you are actually buying
Small. Four slices and a 9-inch pizza is the honest ceiling, and no amount of preset labelling moves it. For one or two people that is plenty; for a family it is not, and the returns label that follows a hopeful “it'll be fine” is the most common sizing mistake in the category. If you need genuine room, spend up to a large-capacity oven rather than expecting this one to stretch, and read how to size an oven to your household before you buy.
Who should skip it
Anyone cooking for more than two, and anyone who wants a fully documented electrical specification for this exact model before buying. If capacity is the constraint, this is the wrong oven; if a paper trail is what you value, the TO1785SGin the same family publishes everything and costs about the same. For a single person, a dorm or a second oven, though, the Crisp 'N Bake is a real convection oven at a price that makes its eventual failure an inconvenience rather than a loss.
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.
