The Dash Mini Toaster Oven is a very small, inexpensive toaster oven. This brand makes a variety of mini appliances, including the Dash Compact Air Fryer, a drawer-style air fryer. This toaster oven is much more compact than most others on the market and comes in several bright colors. However, it has a very simple design; its only controls are a 15-minute timer. It comes with a wire rack and baking tray.
Our Verdict
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven isn't good for mixed use. It's too small to fit standard cookware and runs very hot. If you use its included tray to bake a few cookies or a chicken breast, your food will likely burn before it's done cooking. Because it has no temperature control, you can't try to compensate by using a lower setting. It does preheat quickly, which is expected for smaller toaster ovens, and it's a decent choice for reheating something like a pastry. It also works well for toasting but can only fit one slice of bread at once.
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Toasts bread evenly.
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Preheats quickly.
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Tiny capacity.
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Bad temperature stability.
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No temperature control.
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No fan or air fry mode.
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Can only fit one slice of bread.
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven is decent for reheating leftovers. Its small size limits what you can reheat. It also runs very hot and doesn't maintain a stable temperature, so it may burn your food before it's heated through. However, it preheats very quickly and isn't a bad choice for reviving a day-old pastry or heating a small amount of leftovers.
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Preheats quickly.
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Tiny capacity.
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Runs very hot.
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven is terrible for baking. It has bad temperature stability and no temperature control. It's supposed to have a default setting of 400°F, but it's almost always much hotter than that. The temperature also swings up and down significantly during cooking. Unless you're quickly toasting bread or melting cheese, it will be hard not to burn your food.
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Tiny capacity.
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Bad temperature stability.
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Runs very hot.
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No temperature control.
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven isn't suitable for air frying. It has no fan or air fry mode, and its very small cooking chamber gives you little room to arrange food in a single layer. If you use it to air fry chicken wings or Brussels sprouts, it produces very uneven results, so most of your food will either be burnt or undercooked. It's also very slow compared to a good air fryer, which is normal for ovens without fans.
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Tiny capacity.
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No fan or air fry mode.
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven is great for toasting. It can brown the surface of the bread quite evenly, although it toasts the bottom face of the bread more than the top. While it's pretty fast, it can only toast one slice at a time, so it's not very efficient.
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Toasts bread evenly.
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Toasts quickly.
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Can only fit one slice of bread.
The Dash Mini Toaster Oven has a tiny capacity. It can fit one slice of bread, a single sandwich, and snacks like pizza pockets.
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Tiny capacity.
- 2.8 Mixed Usage
- 7.4 Leftovers
Performance Usages
- 1.4 Baking
- 0.3 Air Frying
- 8.1 Toasting
- 3.7 Cooking Capacity
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
This toaster oven comes in four colors: Aqua, Pink, Red, and Yellow. We tested it in Red. Here's a picture of our unit's label.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Compared To Other Toaster Ovens
The Dash Mini DMTO100 stands out from other options on the market for its diminutive size. However, its tiny cooking chamber limits what you can use it for. Its lack of temperature control and poor temperature stability also hurt its versatility. It's a decent toaster and broiler if you want to make one slice of toast or warm up a sandwich, but it isn't really suitable for baking, much less air frying. While the Dash might work for heating snacks if you like its pocket-sized design, the BALMUDA The Toaster is only a bit bigger and offers more versatility since it can fit two pieces of bread. It also provides much better temperature stability, so it's possible to use it to bake a small batch of cookies. If you don't mind something bigger, the Breville the Mini Smart Oven BOV450XL is still compact and offers more features, like a Broil function.
Test Results
It's a truly small toaster oven that could fit into a shelf or tight corner in your kitchen.
It has an extremely small capacity and can only fit one slice of bread or a five-inch mini pizza. There's only one tray position. You can use it to cook small items like a sandwich or pizza pocket.
- 5.7" x 5.1" wire rack (13 cm x 14.5 cm)
- 4.8" x 4.8" baking tray (12.2 cm x 12.2 cm)
- User guides
The wire rack comes installed right out of the box.
This very simple toaster oven doesn't have temperature control or any modes. It doesn't have a broil mode or a fan for air frying and convection baking. You can only adjust the cooking time. The timer goes up to 15 minutes, and the dial has icons that tell you where to set it for light or dark toast.
It's difficult to clean. Its tiny cooking chamber is difficult to maneuver your hand around inside. Grease builds up quickly in the small area, and the interior lacks a non-stick coating, meaning you must do some work to clean it properly. Similarly, the baking tray has no coating and also requires some extra scrubbing. That said, getting a sponge behind the upper and lower elements is possible. The fact that it's so small means you don't have a lot of area to clean, but it's still pretty tedious.
It produces decent results when toasting at maximum capacity. It does a good job of evenly toasting the surface of the bread, although the top gets cooked more than the bottom. It can only fit one slice of bread at a time.
It's not intended for air frying and does a terrible job with commonly air-fried foods, like French fries or crispy chicken wings. It's slow and air fries very unevenly, so your food will either end up overcooked and burnt or undercooked and pale.
We usually use 250 grams of fries for the air frying test, but we found that the maximum we could fit in the Dash Mini Toaster Oven was 90 grams.
It preheats very quickly, which is expected for a small oven.
It has awful temperature stability. While it has no temperature control, the manufacturer advertises that it's always set to 400°F. However, the temperature fluctuates wildly during cooking, and the actual temperature is usually well above 400°F. You'll have to be very careful not to burn your food, and it will be difficult not to burn or dry out anything that needs a slightly longer cooking time. Despite how small the oven is, the temperature inside the chamber is also less uniform compared to most other toaster ovens we've tested.
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