How do you start your day on the breakfast front? A fuss-free bread bun filled with your favourite filling? Perhaps a cheese toast (check out this rainbow cheese toast recipe), a muffin or a bagel with butter and jam? Yums.
To make these taste even better, eat them warm. And you can easily warm them up using a toaster and/or a mini electric oven.
These small appliances are inexpensive and come with useful features to enhance food prep. Generally, they let you heat up food at any time of the day, and some of them even come with grilling and baking functions.
They come in different formats. For instance, if your family is big on toasts, get a heavy-duty toaster that can toast several slices, thick or thin, at the same time.
Have a small kitchen but want appliances to heat up and cook food items of different sizes and portions? Choose one multi-tier, mini electric oven to help you save counter-top space.
On the other hand, those who intend to do small bakes should look for mini ovens with specified temperature settings.
Now, if you love eggs in the AM, look for breakfast stations with multiple features that let you cook eggs and even make coffee using one appliance.
Whatever your needs are, we have you covered with this list of value-for-money toasters and mini electric ovens.
At breakfast, this countertop electric oven makes a good option for big families as you can toast and heat up different items at the same time. The compact oven comes with a baking pan and wire rack, and lets you make cookies, cake and pizza. It also features a removable crumb tray and a scald-proof handle for ease of use.
This stylish black matte appliance lets you toast up to four slices of bread at one go. It comes with deep toasting slots for even browning. There’s also a frozen bread setting that helps get your frozen slices of bread warmed right away to reduce wait time.
Your personal breakfast station, this 3-in-1 mini electric oven lets you toast up some buns, fry an egg, bacon or sausages, and warm your coffee at the same time. The space in the oven is large enough to fit a 6-inch pizza. The heat control for the pan and grill is controlled by one nob, and there’s one knob for the coffee maker.
This adorable toaster takes 2 mins to heat up two slices of bread, and you can increase the heat as you like as well. You also don’t need to thaw frozen bread – feel free to pop it right in! If you have a habit of checking on how browned your toasts have gotten, you’ll appreciate that this – unlike most toasters – comes with a “viewing window”, so you’ll know just how browned your toasts have become.
Perfect for those who don’t have a lot of space in the kitchen, this vertical-style mini steam oven comes with three tiers for you to heat up and cook items of different height. It comes with four heating tubes for even-cooking, and also has a lighting feature in the oven, so you can easily monitor your food as it cooks.
Said to be built like a tank, this toaster is not only suitable for toasting sliced bread, but it also comes with slots that are wide enough for sliced bagels. It has four functions: Defrost, Keep Warm, Reheat, and Bagel (yes, a dedicated control dial for bagels!). The toaster toasts evenly and fairly quickly, and its Keep Warm function keeps toasts warm even after toasting, and until you’re ready to pop it up.
If you simply need a fuss-free toaster, check out this 2-slice bread toaster from a local company, Odette. Compact and lightweight, it comes with a slide-out crumb tray for quick and easy cleaning. Better yet, it also features a lid to keep dust (and insects) out when you’re not using it – something most brands leave out.
This basic and niffy toaster oven offers you adequate features for bread-toasting and heating foods. It also comes with a detachable crumb tray, a 15-min timer, and 4-heat selection control.
The double-decker electric oven lets you create plain toast, grilled cheese toasts, grilled fish and small bakes. It comes in a minimalist, cute design that exudes an old-school charm that would fit into any kitchen decor seamlessly. As the temperature is not specified, it may be best not to do complicated bakes with this toaster oven; you can still do it but you need to trial and error to get the right temperature.
This electric oven does more than toasting bread and reheating food. It offers uniform heating and specified temperature settings, so you can grill and bake with more efficiency as compared to a toaster oven. The design is retro and chic, with attention paid to details like the colour, knobs, pull-down handle and legs.
This toaster station is for someone who is as serious about their bread as they are about eggs. Aside from the two bread-toasting slots, this comes with the added function of cooking eggs at the same time as your toast. And it even has different trays according to your preference: a steamer tray for hard-boiled eggs and an egg poaching tray.
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Text: Simone Wu