COSORI Bread Maker Machine with 50 Recipes, Gluten Free Function, 12 Presets, 30 Minutes Keep Warm, 13 Hours Delay Start, Accessories Included,…

I have used all the different settings, airfry, bake, toast, etc. they all work so good. I like that I don’t have to drag out another appliance to prepare a meal or snack. Easy to clean and maintain!

I don’t write reviews–trying to change my ways. Purchased the COSORI Smart Air Fryer, Toaster Oven Combo and WHOAH! We have been impressed. I did a lot of Christmas research and it came down to the big (4) air fryer-capable ovens–the Ninja, the Cosori, the Cuisine Art, and the Breville. We wanted a combination counter top oven for balanced use, including ability to fry [we found the table top (Instant Pot Air Fryer attachment) to be cumbersome to deal with and limited on how much you can cook/hold]. The Cosori is easy to use, looks nice on the counter top, a natural athlete in all baking, toasting, frying tasks, and I haven’t found an issue with keeping the oven clean at all, despite some of the reviews talking about a defective door design (I’m not sure what folks are expecting here–if you cook something that spatters… clean it up; every door is going to hinge, spill hot food while you are pulling it out and I’m sorry, it’s on you). It is an oven after all, but what is amazing to me is the ability to basically replace your main oven for almost all tasks, except turkeys and high volume chocolate chip cookie and muffin output. We have been impressed with various types of reheats–tortilla chips from Chilis, Pizza reheats, pizza rolls, frozen chicken tenders, garlic bread, banana nut bread loaves, and really any kind of fried food reheat (including the the impossible to pull off french fry resurrection). The results: toast / garlic toast comes out as good as I’ve ever seen– evenly crispy and browned (maybe my standards are lower than some), pizza rolls are nice and crisp, chicken tenders are crisp and juicy inside, and it is just nice to have the option to air fry 2-day old fried foods and somewhat re-crisp. I say ‘somewhat’ because of course you can never approach the level of the original cook, but it is a nice option to do better than the the rubber we used to get when we toaster bake or microwave. A few reasons I chose Cosori:
1. Price: The price was right–on sale, about half the price of the Breville. Included the smart oven option that integrates with Alexa–nice bonus.
2. Size: This oven fits the 9×13 baking and muffin pans (has to have no handles). Fits a full pizza depth with ease. The height will handle a rotisserie chicken. The Ninja was not tall enough for me, athe Cuisine Art as I recall could not handle the 9×13 pans.
3. Included: Shelves and pans are complete (non-stick pan, air fry mesh tray, and standard oven shelf. Rotisserie skewer and feature.
4. Easy to use dials and selection process — did not read instructions.
5. Integrated light that you can turn on at any time. LIght will turn on automatically at last minute of cook.
6. Smart features -sends alert to your phone; if you want, you can control from your phone. The only thing missing is an integrated camera like with 3D Printers!
7. Non-stick interior, easy to clean.
8. Solid reviews, support.

Criticism:
1. Oven is honking big–you need the counter space. But, we knew what we were getting into with the checklist–full size pizza, enough height to do tall stuff (rotisserie chicken). We are glad we have it on the counter, we use it every single day.
2. Cleaning. You gotta clean it regularly. What do you expect when you use something every day for so many things? I find cleaning around the heating elements to be irritating; cleaning the shelves and trays are irritating; so is doing the dishes.
3. Alexa integration. If someone were to break into my home and decide to throw on some pizza rolls, I would know exactly when this happens, including when the oven is pre-heated…. in the middle of a work meeting…
4. Once this thing heats up, it runs hot. You need to get the food out on time–not much error. I don’t find it runs excessively hot, but I notice we can’t leave things lingering in the oven for long–especially on the air fry setting.

Other than that, I’ll offer a nugget of embarassing enlightenment recently acquired. The whole ‘cover your drip tray in tinfoil to ‘protect’ from drippings thing? DON’T DO IT!! It reflects and intensifies heat and can accelerate the corrosion on your drip tray and inside surfaces of the oven. I believe it also to make your oven run hotter than it should. Took the foil out of our main oven too and notice it doesn’t run as hot as it was. I noticed the bottom plate of our oven was corroded, possibly due to heat reflection/retention from the lower element. Feel like a complete idiot–after all those years. To my surprise, the drip tray is easy to clean and has no caked on stains after much use–just clean it often with plenty of dish soap.

And a final question as I close the discussion. Is it humanly possible to re-heat McDonald’s fries the next day and have them be edible beyond rubber? As good as this oven is, I still can’t pull this off.

Our range/oven died. We loved it, but it was old and parts are discontinued. Therefore, we had to buy a new range/oven. Thanks to current global supply issues it will take 5 to 6 months to get our new range/oven. The stove still works, but the oven is dead, so we decided to get a toaster oven for baking and continue using our range (we have to light it with a lighter lol).

Since we got the Cosori we have been able to cook most everything we did in our busted oven. Don’t get me wrong, it takes a bit longer to cook which surprised me, but it gets the job done. Our daughter has even started baking cookies in it and they are delicious! Pic attached 🙂

Negatives…

It has a weird system for cook time and temp. My daughter has no problem with it but every time I use it I hit the wrong knob because it’s one knob that does everything even though there are two knobs. It’s annoying, but I’m laughed at by my daughter which tells me it’s me and not the oven lol.

The other thing is the chassis gets crazy hot. Make sure you don’t leave anything on top of it while you’re cooking and there is space between the Cosori oven and anything else.

5 stars even with the negatives.

Update:
October 28, 2022

We still love our Cosori! It has gotten us through this time without an oven. We still don’t have our new range/oven and are still using the Cosori for everything baked. It has not let us down. We did have to make some adjustments on baking times and where to put the baking rack depending on what we are cooking. Seriously though, this thing has saved us. Our daughter is still baking cookies in it, but she can’t wait for our new oven to get here so she can make more at a time lol.

In my original review I said it takes longer to cook. That’s true with things you make from scratch. If you’re cooking a frozen pizza it takes less time. I burnt a couple pizzas.

Anyway, zero regrets. We love our Cosori.

I bought this because I have a dietary restriction so it will be easier for me to mostly make my own breads. I definitely had to read the instructions and recipes because I know nothing about baking bread. It was very simple and straightforward. I made my first loaf yesterday. It turned out really great. It was yummy and I had a slice toasted this morning with breakfast. It helps to keep an eye on it during the kneading process. You can easily see if your ingredient measurements were good and you can make adjustments if needed. I can’t wait to make more with recipes and try something a little different with fruit and nuts… maybe a banana nut bread.

This little big oven is great, it save energy cooks quickly and great outcome. It is not particularly easy to clean but it’s worth the trade off of function and easy clean! Someday someone will make a self clean oven in this size!