Toaster Oven Perfection: A Smarter Way to Cook on a Smaller Scale

Take your toaster oven from sidekick to superhero with 100+ streamlined recipes that save time and energy and make your cooking life easier.

If you’ve found yourself only using the toaster oven to toast bread or heat up leftovers, your toaster oven is woefully underutilized. A toaster’s abilities are myriad (it can do many things a regular oven can do, and some even air fry), and ATK shows you how to tap into them, from making mini meatloaves, pizza, and a whole roast chicken, to baking individual ramekin desserts. Whether you are a habitual host, the owner of a new toaster oven, or someone with limited space, this is the book for you.

Our sheet-pan dinners for two take advantage of every inch of your toaster oven’s pan and makes your main dish and sides in one go (think Pork Tenderloin with Green Beans). Or, enlist your toaster oven to...

Roast up a vegetable side dish (no jostling for oven space) with recipes for Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and more

Bake easy appetizers like wings, empanadas, and granola (tastier and fresher than store bought)

Make meals with a range of serving sizes; feeding 1 person to as many as 8

Embrace the joys of small-batch baking with freeze-and-bake cookies and scones: bake off a couple at a time and they’ll always come out hot and fresh.

We draw upon our extensive testing of toaster ovens to help you navigate the variety of models and recipes were tested across a range of models to ensure it will work in yours.

America’s Test Kitchen publishes award-winning and best-selling cookbooks, including Air Fryer Perfection and Multicooker Perfection, along with Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines and produces public television’s top-rated shows, America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country. It is a very real 15,000-square-foot kitchen located in Boston’s Seaport district and is home to more than 60 test cooks, editors, and tasting and testing experts.