The Wonder Oven Pro is my new collaboration with Our Place, and it is everything I want in a countertop oven. (Patreon)

You can order the Wonder Oven Pro, see the rest of my collaborative cookware collection, find recipes I developed for the Wonder Oven PRo, and more from Our Place: https://fromourplace.com/collections/j-kenji-lopez-alt

If you order the Wonder Oven Pro or my new Titanium Pro nonstick, non-coated, clad cookward line in brushed steel using the code Kenji10, you'll get 10% off until October 14th.

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Back in the days before streaming and cable, you had to walk up to the TV and twist that satisfyingly clicky knob to flip through a couple dozen stations. During that period of my childhood, I became obsessed with cooking infomercials. Ron Popeil was a celebrity to me, and I loved the idea of single products that could replace a whole lineup of others. Of course, those promises were rarely true.

So it’s not without a hint of irony that, 35 years later, I’m here saying this one really does replace multiple appliances you may own—or have held off buying because you don’t have the space for a dehydrator, air fryer, or steam toaster.

Yesterday I hinted at a few collaborative products I've been working on. I'm really proud to introduce the first one: the new Wonder Oven Pro, which I developed with LA-based brand Our Place to produce in my signature Pistachio color (with Golden Yolk and Guava Pink accents). As someone who’s long relied more on my countertop oven than my full-sized one, this project has been a labor of love. I am not the kind of person to put my name on a product until I'm confident that it lives up to my rigorous standards, and this one is something that genuinely improves my own cooking life—I hope it can do the same for you.

I chose to collaborate with Our Place because not only do they have a fantastic track record of creating carefully considered, cutting edge cooking tools for home cooks, but they do it with style and joy.

I've been testing prototypes and production models of this oven extensively in my home kitchen as well as at the Our Place test kitchens for months now, working closely with their designers, chefs, engineers, and scientists in order to ensure that every detail works exactly the way I would like it to. The result is that I now finally have a countertop oven that not only performs all the tasks of a standard countertop oven—convection roasting, baking, toasting, broiling, reheating—but also dehydrates produce and meats, proofs doughs, air-fries, and—with its steam-infusion tech—makes the crispest, most moist toast I’ve ever had.

The Features

This oven expands on the versatility of their line of Wonder Ovens by adding some amazing new features and modes:

Powerful quartz heating elements that will broil, bake, roast, toast, and reheat faster and better than your full-sized oven.

Proofing mode that will allow you to proof dough at precise temperatures as low as 80°F for faster bread, pizza, and pastries.

Dehydrate mode that combines low temperatures and moving air to dry fresh fruits or jerky. Perfect for my kids when I've got fruit on the counter that won't get finished before it over-ripens.

Air-fry mode that combines high heat with a powerful optimized convection fan for crisp, browned crusts on wings, crunchy potatoes, frizzled broccoli and brussels sprouts, re-heated fried chicken that tastes fresh out of the fryer, and anything else you'd typically cook in a standalone air fryer.

Steam-Infusion toasting and baking for superior crusts and toasting.

Digital controls that allow you to control precise heat, timing, and cooking modes.

Non-toxic, non-stick ceramic bakeware in Golden Yolk color (including a sheet tray, a deep baking pan/pizza pan, and a muffin pan if you order with the Chef's Kit)

A satisfyingly clicky button in my signature Guava Pink color for satisfying clicking.

Like all Our Place products, the Wonder Oven Pro is as much a design piece as it is a tool to improve your cooking. I love the way the Pistachio looks in my kitchen, but it comes in a range of other colors (and stainless steel) as well. It's everything I've wanted in a countertop but have not been able to find in a single tool, yet.

You can order the oven, see the rest of my collaborative cookware collection, find recipes I developed for the Wonder Oven, and more at their site here: https://fromourplace.com/collections/j-kenji-lopez-alt?filter.v.m.collection.name=Kenji

And until October 14, use code Kenji10 for 10% off the Wonder Oven Pro or my new Titanium Pro nonstick, non-coated clad cookware line.