Café - Couture Smart Toaster Oven with Air Fry - Stainless Steel

This amazing toaster oven has managed to let us take back some of our counter space while not having us compromise on cooking functions. It has a gorgeous design that will look great in most kitchens, the smart feature is something that I didn’t think I would use until I did, and it does a great job at making meal prep/cooking a breeze.

Very nice, I use everyday!!! Lots of options, it's practical.

High quality counter-top oven. Cafe is to GE as Lexus is to Toyota... The luxury brand of an excellent flagship company. This stove-top oven fits that description perfectly. First off, what does it do? *Air Fry *CrispFinish *Bake *Broil *Roast *Toast *Bagel *Pizza *Cookies *Proof *Dehydrate *Slow Cook *Keep Warm *Reheat After doing several tests ranging from frozen pizza, to bagels and toast and air-frying vegi's, this unit mastered all. The one caveat (and I have seen a couple other reviewers not the same), you may need to experiment with the time. While I am at 6500 feet above sea level, not sure if that makes my experience unique, but frozen items (tater-tot's and pizza's) seemed to cook rather quickly. A pizza that said 15 to19 minutes was easily done at 13 to 14. Just takes some experimenting. The CrispFinish feature is pretty cool. It does exactly as it say's... Offers a, well, crisp finish. Great for pizza's, sandwiches etc. While it does have WiFi capabilities, not really that useful. I understand why t is designed as it is, but it seems like a marketing tool more than a useful device. In all, a very nice, gorgeous, functional luxury item. I would recommend to a friend.

Cafe air fryer is simply amazing and it is one of the best fryers I’ve used in a very long time everything from the design to the way it cooks food. It’s pretty amazing! All little food evenly cooks perfectly and there’s a new feature that can actually crisp up things further to your liking. This has been so good for french fries and fried chicken wings. I’m telling you this is one of the best air fryers I’ve used PERIOD! Setting up was easy once it’s out of the box you can plug it up and instantly get going if you like. There’s a quick start guide manual and warrantee that comes in a box but you don’t necessarily need the Quick start guide because most of the things are self-explanatory. There’s a nice little recipe book that’s really useful they provided. Just getting this out of the way; the most difficult part about setting this fryer up was using the app to Wi-Fi due to the nature that there was a firmware update. With the app, you must sign in with an account. The oven is huge but it looks beautifully designed. It just looks so nice on a countertop. The oven door pulls down with plenty of room for space and cleaning. I like the turning knob to the settings, allowing fast access to modes. Comes with a Baking pan, Pizza pan, Airfryer / dehydrate basket, and wire rack that you can place into the oven. As you can guess all works perfectly fine. My favorite so far of use is using the pizza pan because I can finally put a 12-inch pizza inside. The pizza simple comes out delicious on the pizza setting. In fact, most of the cooking modes were downright perfect with temperatures. I enjoyed cooking seasoned vegetables and potatoes; a tray big enough for a family. Cooking modes: Air fry Bake Broil Roast Reheat Warm Slow cook Dehydrate Proof cook Cookie Pizza Bagel Toast Crisp finish (exclusive) The crisp finish is a mode that allows for melting, caramelizing, or even browning the food. Given an extra crisp of pizzazz, you may add to the food. Perfect for chicken wings when you just want them crispy but not too much. The LED indicator on the front is nice and bright too. The oven itself does take a little while to preheat and it gives you a progress bar when it lets you know when it’s preheated. You can select preheat mode off. Preheating only works on Bake, Roast, and Cookie settings. The oven light is nice and bright inside. Cleaning the oven is as easy as well the crumb tray provides it is beneficial just pull it out and clean it.! SmartHQ app is good for what it does. It allows you to remote start the oven over Wifi. There are other features you can do inside the app like turn on the lights, control the lock, and set the mode of cooking. But you must sign in to use it. Overall I haven’t had any problems or troubleshooting with this Airfryer. It worked great! Super satisfied with the way the food cook and I wouldn’t hesitate to bet another one for a family member.

GE Café Couture Smart Toaster Oven with Air Fry - Stainless Steel If your objective is to have the appearance of a gourmet, professional-looking kitchen, you’ve arrived. There can be no doubt with this stunning appliance sitting on a counter. After using the GE Café Couture for a good number of meal preparations, we know that this isn’t just about good looks. The Café thankfully also has a whole lot of features, functions and exceptional performance. There’s a lot to like here. SETUP and OPERATION: We prefer to plug in any of our newest appliances and be cooking in mere seconds. And so we did. This GE Café is thoughtfully intuitive. We turned the MODE DIAL and across the bright and easily read LED screen we could select from Air Fry, Bake, Broil, Roast, Toast, Bagel, Frozen Pizza, Cookies, Proof, Dehydrate, Slow Cook, Reheat, Keep Warm, and CrispFinish. Select your MODE. We chose BAKE, initially. Press the TEMP/TIME dial to toggle between each control. Once selected, turning the dial is either modifying the TIME or TEMPERATURE. So very easy. Adding a crispy finish, or melting cheese, etc is as easy as pressing the CRISP FINISH button (Lower right corner of DISPLAY.) The instructions, if you want details and guidance, are very well done with easily read, easily visible text size. (The COOKING MODES TABLE is too useful not to enlarge, laminate, and provide as the backside of a cook’s QUICK START). I’ll do that myself. (… but, think about it, GE.) There is a large cooking cavity heated with 6 halogen cooking tubes and the actual oven is pretty large. As you can see from my pictures, it looks right at home on any kitchen counter, but GE discourages placing this toaster oven under typical kitchen top cabinets with less than 4" clearance or on top of a surface that isn’t heat resistant. (“Ensure the oven has at least 4" (10cm) of clearance on all sides.”) External dimensions are 18.6" W x 14.0" H x 17.0" D Internal dimensions are 13.1" W x 5.0" H x 12.4" D Included: Oven rack, 12" enamel non-stick pizza pan, enamel non-stick coated baking pan, wire mesh air-fry/dehydrate basket, and removable crumb tray (at base of fryer). There’s a great cookbook of curated meals, desserts, and sides included, with helpful directions for this oven. You can watch your brightly lit food cook using the switch-controlled interior light. (Upper LEFT corner of display) There is a SmartHQ app which enable control some useful features using your phone connected to Wi-Fi or Google and Alexa. When connected to a WiFi network, you can adjust oven temperature, add or reduce cooking time, and/or stop a cooking cycle. While there is a way to START cooking remotely, I’m going to advise, don’t. [I started the process of setting up an account, getting verified, and ran out of patience at the “enter the oven password.” Wow. My bank is less secure. I’ll come back and finish. PERFORMANCE: 1- We needed to warm up some frozen rolls and microwaving is awful for this task. Getting quickly to a BAKE mode yielded a nicely warmed roll, ready for my tuna sandwich. I was tempted to add cheese and CRISP FINISH, but maybe next time. 2- Toasting another sliced-in-half roll resulted in nicely colored, evenly toasted halves. Perfect. We do that regularly, as you can see in the BAGEL TOAST picture. 3- Dinner tonight was bone-in pork chops. I prefer to start in a cast iron pan for a few minutes each side to seal in the juices. The GE Cafe was pre-heating to 375 degrees and was ready to finish my chops, which needed an 8 minutes bake or roasting to complete. Super well cooked, and no need to heat up our full-size oven. There has to be some energy savings here. We use the same technique on swordfish and tenderloin and this oven will make finishing them easier, with less energy. 4- French fries are the go-to test for the Air-Fryer. The AIR FRYER uses the built in fan and operates at a noise level of only 53dB. This is a quiet Air Fryer. You won’t be waking the baby with this one. Oh, and the fries were great. 5- Our test pizza was a dairy-free, high veggie count (artichoke/chicken/bacon) freshly made (uncooked) 12” specimen from a popular chain. This is a challenge for a home oven because it is wet, dense, and cooking needs vary from top to bottom. We followed the same directions as always, using the BAKE mode. 425 degrees, but a shorter than usual 16 minutes. We added 60 seconds CRISP at the very end. The results were perfect. We required probably 4 minutes less time than usual in our standard oven but this was a more even result with less fussing. This really worked out better and easier than we thought. 6- Compared to our previous Air Fryers there is an obvious difference related the size of the GE Café. This extra capacity allows for a broader, larger, repertoire of foods and meal sizes the can be prepared. And, as expected, some cooking speed is sacrificed. But very little. The convection fan is a great leveler. 7- I know there will comments about a rotisserie. Not from us. It’s a feature that invites reliability issues. More practically, we really don’t want to buy the smaller chickens necessary to use such a feature and we certainly hate the cleanup. It’s just our opinion. 8- The SmartHQ app is nice to have. Will we use it? We find cooking to be a hands-on experience. What makes the GE Café so much fun is the flexibility and intuitive changes-on-the-fly it offers and the big viewing window. While the App offers all that flexibility at a distance (even if from a patio or TV room 20 feet away) it frustrates the senses. So, unless GE is going to add a video camera to the cooking cavity, we won’t be using the App. SUMMARY: It would be silly to claim you have to spend this much money to achieve a high level of cooking performance. There are a number of really competent air fryer/ovens for your purchasing dollars. (We’ve owned a few). The GE Café Couture Smart Toaster Oven with Air Fry brings something special into your kitchen. It’s a whole ‘nother step above premium build quality and fun to show off. It could become the star of the kitchen (if we didn’t have a full size Monogram oven pair further down the counter). Performance must be perfection at this price and from we’ve witnessed, it sure is. Evenness of toasting is spot on. Convection (and related Air Frying) cooking is fast, predictable, repeatable and QUIET. The CRISP FINISH works great to get that extra brown crust on crab cakes or steaks frozen treats. It finishes off a pizza for picture perfect presentation. In our kitchen, the toaster over, air fryer combination is far and away the most used appliance. It has supplanted the microwave and cooktop. It had better do it all, and do it perfectly. We feel good about the GE Café Couture Smart Toaster Oven being in our kitchen. We recommend it highly.

I love this product. I have used it almost every night and cooks to perfection. It matches my Cafe appliances and looks so nice on the counter. It’s a little pricey but worth every penny.

I'm no chef so I'm reviewing this from a parents perspective. It's hard to take time to cook full meals while taking care of my energetic 2 and 3 year old. The Cafe Couture Toaster Oven has solved that problem almost completely. I'm able to easily throw in all of my kids favorites such as chicken tenders, french fries, pizza rolls, full pizzas, bagels, the list goes on and on! Within minutes their food is cooked to perfection. There's so many different cooking modes (14) that allow you to make a wide variety of dishes. With the Smart HQ app, I'm able to remotely adjust the cooking time, temperature, and turn the oven off/on. You can also connect your Toaster oven to your Amazon Alexa or Google Home devices to control it with your voice. This is the ultimate all-in-one countertop oven and it looks so elegant in my kitchen. It's extremely easy to use and I love the large capacity, making it simple to make plenty of food for the whole family at once. I especially love the crisp finish setting, right after my food finishes I set it to crisp for 1-2 minutes and it's perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. This setting is essential for my french fries. The Cafe Couture Toaster Oven does it all, from breakfast to dinner and every snack in between. It makes for the perfect addition to any kitchen.

First, let me tell you that I’ve literally owned dozens of Air Fryers, toasters and ovens. Some I really liked. But once I got this GE Café Couture, everything before feels like kids’ toy to me. Set up was not complicated. It's plug and play, but if you want to use some of its smart features, you will need to spend some time to download the app and set it up there, then connect it to Wi-Fi, Google and Alexa. Don’t skip it because it’s worth it. Design looks fantastic. Nothing like the hundreds of other models out there. The copper toned dials and handle are very pleasing to the eyes and complements the oven color. The LCD screen is also very pretty; no colors, just white, but like everything else, it fits the whole clean, sleek, luxurious design. So much care in the details. We have already received lots of compliments on its look. But it’s not just looks that have impressed us. The Air Fry function meets or exceeds the best we’ve owned. One unexpected function that we tried and enjoyed was the proofing, which we used for a focaccia dough. After watching it triple the size, we moved it to a sheet and baked it. It worked amazingly well, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. This was our first home made focaccia and it tasted just as good as the one in a fancy restaurant in town. I’ve added some pictures showing part of the process. CrispFinish is another very interesting feature, melting and caramelizing. This is also our first similar oven that keeps food warm and reheats, and it does it without burning or making it dry. Size is good for pizza – up to 12”, and the dehydrate function was put to use and we couldn’t be happier with the result. The only feature we haven’t tried yet is the slow cook but based on the excellent outcome of all other functions, I expect it to perform just as great. We love that we can turn on and off, control temperature, timer, and other programming features using our phones. Alexa and Google can also control it too. Having a lot of smart devices and lights controlled by those digital assistants, I am very happy that this oven integrates so well. You can just tell them what you want the oven to do, and voila. In summary, every single function exceeded our expectations. We tried to find anything that we didn’t like for this review, but we couldn’t. If I were to say something was missing, that would be a rotisserie, but the chicken we roasted came out so nice that I’m not sure a rotisserie would have made much, if any, difference. Luxurious look, very useful features, great performance, and smart. What else could I ask for? Ten out of five stars. That’s how we feel.

I'll be honest, when I first received this counter top oven, I was skepical. For reference, I've been using a GE 6 slice quartz toaster oven for a year and a half, and it's been great. I wasn't sure how big of an upgrade the Cafe Couture Oven woud be, but it definitely has some intriguing features that piqued my interest. There are 14 features, and while I haven't use them all, the ones that I have used have all worked out well. I've used my current toaster oven a lot, not just for toast and bagels, but as a replacement for my full sized oven. I usually cook for 1 or 2 people, so using a large oven is overkill. One of the few things I use my reguar oven for is yeasted bread, so I was eager to try out the proofing function on this oven. I placed an oiled loaf on the roasting pan and used the preset program of 85 degrees and one hour. At 35 minutes the loaf had doubled in size, so I was able to to punch down the loaf and form it for the pan. It definitely shortened the rise time. I used the bake setting to bake the loaf, and while it didn't turn out as well as it does in my full sized oven, I'm not sure if that might not have been operator error. I also tested the pizza function with a Red Baron frozen pizza. I followed package directions, but it was fully cooked and browned within 8 minutes. When you're learning to use this, make sure you are staying close to monitor your food. It takes much less time to cook than you are used to. I've used the toast and roast functions, and both turned out well, but these are features that you will find on most ovens, so it doesn't seem necessary to go into a ton of detail-- it's toast. Two things to be aware of: The size and the smart functionality. This oven is huge. It takes up a lot of real estate on your counter, so if you have a small kitchen this might not be the right countertop oven for you. The second is the utter uselessness of the smart function. You can control the oven from the app or with a smart speaker, but you have to press and hold the start button for three seconds before you are allowed to control the oven remotely, and then you must start the oven within 10 minutes. I understand this is for safety, but if you want to start preheating the oven while you're in the living room watching tv or when you're on your way home from work, you won't be able to do it with this oven. I'm not really sure what purpose the app serves. Overall, I'm really happy with this oven. Unless I'm cooking for a crowd, this will replace my full sized oven.