The Breville Joule Smart Countertop Oven Air Fryer Pro is the connected version of Breville’s Smart Oven line, the high-end countertop ovens that have been a fixture in serious home kitchens for over a decade. The Joule version adds Wi-Fi connectivity and the Joule Oven app, the same software backbone that powers Breville’s well-regarded sous vide circulators. Beyond the smart features, this is a 13-function oven that air fries, dehydrates, slow cooks, proofs bread, roasts, broils, and bakes, with a 21-liter cavity large enough for a 14-pound turkey or a 13-inch pizza.
The Breville Joule Smart Countertop Oven Air Fryer Pro is on sale at Amazon for $400, marked down from the $500 list. That’s $100 off, working out to a 20% discount.
An appliance that can get dinner on the table in minutes
Element IQ technology is the core of why this oven works as well as it does. Six independent quartz heating elements at the top, sides, and bottom of the oven cavity adjust their power individually based on what’s being cooked, which means a roast chicken gets the bottom-up heat needed to crisp the skin while a tray of cookies gets even top-and-bottom heat to brown both surfaces at the same rate. The result is more consistent cooking than a single-element oven can manage.
Air fry mode is the function most people buy this for. The convection fan combines with the top heating elements to circulate hot air around the food at high speed, producing the kind of crispy exterior a dedicated air fryer delivers, but on a tray large enough to hold dinner for four people instead of one. Frozen french fries, chicken wings, and brussels sprouts all come out crispier than a conventional oven setting and faster than the stovetop.
The Joule Oven app is what separates this from the standard Breville Smart Oven. The app includes a library of guided recipes: tap a recipe, and the oven preheats to the right temperature, runs the cooking program automatically, and notifies your phone when the food is done. Remote start lets you preheat the oven on the way home from work so dinner can go in as soon as you walk through the door.
The interior fits a 9-by-13 baking pan, a 14-pound turkey, or a 13-inch pizza. A removable crumb tray makes cleanup straightforward, and the sealed door has a triple-pane glass window that keeps the kitchen from heating up the way a full-size oven does in summer. The 1800-watt heating system preheats faster than a conventional oven, so a 350-degree preheat takes about 4 minutes instead of the 10 to 15 minutes a full-size oven takes.
The Breville Joule Smart Countertop Oven Air Fryer Pro normally costs $500, and right now it’s $400. That’s a bargain for a gadget that has air frying, baking, roasting, slow cooking, and dehydrating with app-guided recipes built in.