The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S is a big, high-end toaster oven. While it's not intended for air frying, it has a convection mode that speeds up roasting and baking. It also comes with a temperature probe that monitors the internal temperature of your food as it cooks. Unlike most toaster ovens, its rack guides are completely removable for easier cleaning. It has wire racks, a baking pan, and a broiling pan.
Our Verdict
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S is mediocre for mixed use. This model is big enough to fit loaf pans and casserole dishes. It has fantastic temperature stability, which helps you get good results when baking cookies or roasting a chicken. While it preheats slowly, it's also a reasonable choice for reheating leftovers. However, it's not intended for air frying and doesn't do a good job of making crispy foods like French fries. It toasts bread very slowly, so it's not a convenient alternative to a slot toaster.
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Fantastic temperature stability.
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Big capacity.
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Toasts slowly.
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No air fry function.
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S is alright for reheating. Since it's a big oven, it preheats slowly, so you'll have to wait a while for your reheated leftovers. However, it doesn't overshoot your chosen temperature setting, reducing the risk of your food drying out before it's heated through. It can easily fit bowls, plates, and most larger casseroles or lasagnas.
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Fantastic temperature stability.
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Big capacity.
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Preheats slowly.
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S is fantastic for baking. The temperature inside the cooking chamber is accurate to your selected setting and doesn't vary much during cooking. It barely overshoots your selected temperature, reducing the risk of burning or drying out your food before it's cooked through. The temperature is also uniform throughout the chamber, so food should cook the same way, whether it's at the front or back of the chamber.
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Fantastic temperature stability.
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Uniform temperature inside cooking chamber.
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S isn't good for air frying. While it's equipped with a fan for convection baking and roasting, it doesn't have an air fry mode. No mesh air fry basket is included, which would help it produce more even results. While it performs a little better than toaster ovens with no fan, compared with a good oven/air fryer combo or most drawer-style air fryers, it takes a very long time to cook foods like French fries or chicken wings and produces uneven results.
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No air fry function.
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No air frying basket included.
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S has a sub-par toasting performance. Whether toasting four slices at once or using its full six-slice capacity, it makes decent golden-brown toast. However, it's very slow, so it's not a convenient choice to replace a four-slot toaster that you use often.
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Toasts slowly.
The Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S has a big cooking capacity. It can fit six slices of sandwich bread and bigger containers like casseroles and 9" x 13" pans. However, the maximum pizza size you can fit inside is 11 inches, which is a bit small for an oven of this size.
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Big capacity.
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Maximum pizza size is 11 inches.
- 6.4 Mixed Usage
- 6.9 Leftovers
Performance Usages
- 9.1 Baking
- 2.4 Air Frying
- 5.7 Toasting
- 8.5 Cooking Capacity
Changelog
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Wolf Gourmet Countertop Oven Elite is only available in 'Stainless Steel.' 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 Wolf Gourmet Elite is a large, high-end toaster oven. It's advertised as a more energy-efficient version of one of Wolf's full-size ovens and is indeed best-suited for things you'd do in a regular oven, like baking and roasting. Its fantastic temperature stability helps get good results when roasting a chicken or baking bread. It also has a wider range of temperature settings than most toaster ovens, so you can use it to proof dough or bake a homemade pizza at very high heat.
However, it's not good at toasting bread evenly. If you want a toaster oven you can use as a high-capacity toaster, the Ninja Foodi DT201 offers a better performance. The Breville the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro BOV900BSS doesn't maintain as stable a temperature as the Wolf, making it less well-suited for baking delicate foods. Still, it has an air fry mode and works much better for crispy air-fried foods like chicken wings and vegetables.
Test Results
This big oven takes up a significant amount of counter space.
It has a big capacity. You can fit six slices of bread and the average casserole dish. However, it can only fit an 11-inch pizza. The Breville the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro BOV900BSS and the COSORI Smart Air Fryer CS130-AO are both smaller overall but can accommodate 13-inch pizzas.
- 2 x 11.8" x 15.8" wire racks (30 cm x 40.1 cm)
- 8.9" x 12.6" baking pan (22.5 cm x 32.1 cm)
- 8.4" x 12.2" broil rack (21.2 cm x 31 cm)
- 2 x rack guide systems
- Temperature probe
- User guides
It's very versatile. The manufacturer advertises this model as a smaller and more efficient version of a full-size Wolf Oven, so it's meant to be a small convection oven and doesn't have an air fry mode. However, you can use its 'Roast' or 'Bake' functions with or without convection. It has a wider range of temperatures than many toaster ovens since its 'Broil' mode's maximum temperature is 550°F. The timer has a 'Stay On' mode. This toaster oven also comes with a built-in temperature probe that you can use to monitor the internal temperature of your food. This model displays the temperature on the screen, so you don't have to open the door. Finally, there's a chamber light that you can control with a dedicated button.
| Function | Temperature | Timer | Fan |
| Proof | 80°F (only) | 1 minute - 4 hours | No |
| Warm | 140 - 170°F | 1 minute - 4 hours | No |
| Roast | 170 - 450°F | 1 minute - 4 hours | Optional |
| Bake | 170 - 450°F | 1 minute - 4 hours | Optional |
| Broil | High (550°F) or low (450°F) | 1 - 20 minutes | No |
| Toast/Bagel | Select Light - Dark | Depends on setting | No |
It's very easy to clean by hand. The cooking chamber interior has a non-stick coating, and the rack guides are removable. Once you remove the racks, it's very easy to clean the walls of the cooking chamber without any grooves or guides to worry about. It's big enough that it's easy to maneuver your hand around, and it's not too difficult to clean around the elements on the top and bottom of the cooking chamber. However, the baking tray doesn't have a non-stick coating, so it may require extra scrubbing.
It makes decent toast at maximum capacity. It does a good job of evenly browning the surface of the bread but toasts the bottom face of the bread significantly more than the top face.
It produces a more even result with four slices in the cooking chamber. However, it still toasts the bottom face of the bread more than the top face.
It's not good for air frying despite being equipped with a fan. If you use it for commonly air-fried foods like chicken wings, it's slow and cooks quite unevenly, resulting in a large proportion of not-crispy-enough food. Toaster ovens like the COSORI Smart Air Fryer CS130-AO can produce better results in about half the time. That said, it's not intended for air frying and doesn't come with a mesh basket for that purpose, which can really help produce better results.
It's slow to preheat, which is normal for bigger ovens. There's a preheat reminder so you know when it's ready to go.
It has fantastic temperature stability. The oven's temperature stays consistent and accurate to your chosen setting during cooking without major swings, making it easier to follow recipes and predict the oven's performance when baking or roasting. The temperature is also very consistent throughout the cooking chamber, so you shouldn't notice hot or cold spots.
It toasts very slowly. Toaster ovens like the Cuisinart Air Fryer TOA-70 can make six slices of toast in less than half the time. It also takes an extremely long time to make a smaller batch of four slices of golden-brown toast.
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Wolf Gourmet Elite WGCO150S: Main Discussion
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On the FireTV version, while on the desired input: Press the “Gear” button on remote (top right below power button) Select “Picture” option. Scroll to the very bottom and select “Advanced Settings” Scroll to the very bottom and select “HDMI Input Mode” Change setting to “Mode 2 (2.0)” Hope this helps.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately no luck. AppleTV 4k recognized the S551F as 4k HDR10+/DV compatible, but the FireTV OS crashed persistently. This was with a HDMI 2.1 cable and enabling 2.0 speeds on the TV. A massive flaw, as this TV is advertised as capable of HDR10+ and DV. Have returned and switched to a Hisense U7. Wow. Google TV OS is light years better, and the Hisense just looks better. If you’re considering buying this TV for a dorm room, it’s a good deal, but if you’d like to utilize those features like HDR10+ / DV, this is not the one.
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Yeah that’s right, if your external player is doing the upscaling for you then you won’t have to worry about this. If you do plan on using an older device like a Wii, there are also external upscalers available that will do a much better job than the TV’s built-in processing.
Thanks for the reply Adam, sounds good! :)
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Can you explain how to do this? S551F, and anytime I try to play HDR or Dolby Vision content via AppleTV, it seems the FireTV OS just crashes. I imagine being locked to HDMI 1.4 would explain it, but I see no options regarding changing this.
On the FireTV version, while on the desired input: Press the “Gear” button on remote (top right below power button) Select “Picture” option. Scroll to the very bottom and select “Advanced Settings” Scroll to the very bottom and select “HDMI Input Mode” Change setting to “Mode 2 (2.0)”
Hope this helps.
Edited 18 days ago: spelling - 21010
So, I was considering this just as an extra, basic TV for an extra bedroom. Just looking for something cheap, so this would be fine enough. My main concern would just be the upscaling. My understanding is that this is actually referring to upscaling when the TV is doing it itself, correct? So if I hook up a DVD player or a Wii or something to the TV, it wouldn’t look great, but let’s say I hook up a newly released Switch 2, and play some 900p Switch games on it that the Console itself is upscaling to 4K. In that case, the Console is doing the upscaling, so it would be fine, right? If that’s the case, it’s not much of a worry, but otherwise could be a dealbreaker.
Yeah that’s right, if your external player is doing the upscaling for you then you won’t have to worry about this. If you do plan on using an older device like a Wii, there are also external upscalers available that will do a much better job than the TV’s built-in processing.
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For anyone trying to use this screen as a monitor, it will not output 4:4:4 chroma @60hz by default in PC mode, it is locked in 30hz 4:4:4 chroma or 60hz 4:2:0 chroma due to limiting itself to HDMI 1.4 under its auto-detection. You need to go into the settings and change the HDMI mode manually to HDMI 2.0. This is true for the S551F (FireTV), S551G (AndroidTV), and S555 (Roku) versions of this set. This may only be an issue with Nvidia GPUs but not confirmed. @rtings please update the inputs and PC Monitor section to reflect this necessity.
Can you explain how to do this? S551F, and anytime I try to play HDR or Dolby Vision content via AppleTV, it seems the FireTV OS just crashes. I imagine being locked to HDMI 1.4 would explain it, but I see no options regarding changing this.
- 21010
So, I was considering this just as an extra, basic TV for an extra bedroom. Just looking for something cheap, so this would be fine enough. My main concern would just be the upscaling. My understanding is that this is actually referring to upscaling when the TV is doing it itself, correct? So if I hook up a DVD player or a Wii or something to the TV, it wouldn’t look great, but let’s say I hook up a newly released Switch 2, and play some 900p Switch games on it that the Console itself is upscaling to 4K. In that case, the Console is doing the upscaling, so it would be fine, right? If that’s the case, it’s not much of a worry, but otherwise could be a dealbreaker.
Edited 22 days ago: Grammar - 32120
For anyone trying to use this screen as a monitor, it will not output 4:4:4 chroma @60hz by default in PC mode, it is locked in 30hz 4:4:4 chroma or 60hz 4:2:0 chroma due to limiting itself to HDMI 1.4 under its auto-detection.
You need to go into the settings and change the HDMI mode manually to HDMI 2.0. This is true for the S551F (FireTV), S551G (AndroidTV), and S555 (Roku) versions of this set.
This may only be an issue with Nvidia GPUs but not confirmed.
@rtings please update the inputs and PC Monitor section to reflect this necessity.
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Can these TCL “Roku” and “Google TV” smart TV’s be used WITHOUT connecting TV to internet? I JUST want the TV, gaming and streaming from an external USB stick
Yes! Google TV also offers a basic mode that completely disables all connected features like this, so you don’t even have to worry about the TV nagging you to connect to the internet or create an account.