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hi I'm Katy Pilkington associate editor for cnet.com and I'm standing next to the Breville Smart Oven with a price point of 249 dollars standard retail this is one of the more expensive toaster ovens on the market but if you're in the market for a luxury toaster oven this is definitely worth your money one of the reasons the Breville offers you a lot of bang for your buck is as well as features it has an optional convection and it has nine preset functions that you can use to cook a variety of foods this brings me to one of my favorite parts about the Breville Smart Oven which is this user interface it involves three dials and four buttons all of which are very easy to use and understand it's an incredibly intuitive machine and even without reading the manual the average consumer could probably figure it out on their own a feature that is both a good and bad thing about the Breville Smart Oven is its top which gets very very hot during the cooking process Breville designed it to double as a plate warmer but if you are not warming plates you should use caution as with all of our toaster ovens we put the Breville Smart Oven through some pretty rigorous testing involving toast pizza chicken cookies and burgers with regards to the chicken the Breville Smart Oven was the top performer compared to some of the other toaster ovens the Breville does have some hot spots you'll notice when making toast that your toes towards the center of the rack gets more Brown and when you're making pizza the part of the pizza that is closest to the door will be browned slightly more than the rest but overall these warmer spots were not enough to deter us and giving it a favorable rating the Breville Smart Oven also boasts the largest interior oven space of any of the toaster ovens that we've tested so far so if you're looking for a toaster oven that has extremely large oven capacity and can handle a six pound chicken or a roast or a 12 inch pizza the Breville Smart Oven is absolutely a good choice if you're looking for a basic toaster oven that performs all of the functions that we tested and does them well we recommend the Panasonic flash Express which retails at 149 dollars so you can find it on Amazon and other sites for as low as 90 but if you're looking for more of a luxury purchase with a toaster oven and the 249 dollar price point doesn't put you off then the Breville Smart Oven is absolutely a recommended by for seen at I'm Katy Pilkington