Best Rotisserie Ovens in the UK

Tired of walking by those delectable roasted chickens in the supermarket and envying the crispy meat since your oven doesn’t quite manage that? Well, you can actually easily get that kind of roast at home if you use a tabletop rotisserie oven. For the best quality, we recommend the Tower T14014 Mini.

Though it might look like a microwave at first glance, this sleek black appliance is a full-blown oven with 2000 W of power. More than that, it has two hotplates with 1000 W and 600 W of power each. They can be used for roasting, frying, and quickly heating up meals as well.

But the addition of hotplates isn’t just a question of utility, it’s also a big help in keeping the meat roasted evenly. Since you can control each of the 4 heating elements and 2 hotplates separately, you can quickly cook the meat through in spots that might have been left underdone otherwise. This will help keep your meals perfect as can be with a crispy finish on the skin.

Just make sure not to get too giddy as you rush to take out the meal because the glass door of the Tower T14014 Mini gets quite hot in the operation. Make sure you’re wearing a potholder or at least grab the handle through a towel or something similar lest you burn yourself on the heated-up glass.

Want something with the compact and elegant design of a pressure cooker but with the capability to roast and fry and pretty much everything but the kitchen sink? Well, rotisserie ovens are a good choice here but you could get ambitious and ask for even more. For example, could we find one that matches the description and is also affordable and economical? You betcha and it’s right here - the JML 14 PC Set Deluxe.

This model uses a halogen lamp (unusual, right?) to cook food. Now, you might not know exactly what it means but the specialists have helpfully specified that this makes the JML oven 46% faster at roasting meat than a convection model. A priceless feature for cases where you have guests coming over soon and need to stir up a feast or need to head to work but don’t have even a bite in your fridge. And that’s not all as halogen is also more energy-efficient, which means your electricity bills won’t be staggering even if you cook every single day.

Now, the oven is designed specifically to keep the heat and the light from the halogen lamp in, which means your view of the food will be limited. It’s not much of a problem since you can control how long the dish is cooked and at what temperature but it’s always nice to see the cooking process with juices running off of the meat.

Isn’t it annoying how most portable ovens nowadays are these stainless steel monstrosities taking up half of your countertop and whirring like a truck while they cook? If you said yes, you’ll be happy to hear about the Quest 34020.

Not only is this model vertical, thus taking up less space than horizontal ones by design, it’s also quite compact for a vertical one as is. At just 45 x 27 x 33 cm, you can easily fit it onto your kitchen table and slide under the wall-hanging cabinets. Now, you might think that this kind of size makes it less than capacious but the Quest 34020 easily fits up to 21 L. This means a whole chicken or turkey can be stuffed in there along with some potatoes or vegetables so you can cook a whole roast at once.

And you don’t have to restrict yourself to roasting whole birds only as the 7 kebab skewers that come with the oven will help make small kebabs using meat and vegetables. Don’t worry about having to wipe up the juices from the food either as the drip tray will be picking up any debris and excess fat. This is most effective thanks to the vertical orientation of the oven as all juice rolls straight down to the tray. Yet another benefit of the compact Quest 34020 that’s simply not available in the horizontal competitors.

Tired of slaving away at the stove for hours only to get food that tastes alright but looks nothing like the stuff you see in restaurants? Well, there’s a solution to that and we believe it’s an important one because we take food in with our eyes first and foremost. So, without further ado, let’s take a close look at the Quest 35370 and why its cooking is so delectable.

Right away, as you set this wide horizontal oven on your kitchen counter, we suggest you turn on the convection mode. This will not only speed up the cooking process but also ensure that any meat you cook gets this golden crisp on all sides without any char. No longer do you have to rub butter into the chicken, making it less-than-diet-friendly, or have to deal with burnt spots that appear when you try to do a nice crisp all over. Instead, the oven just rotates the dish, browning it and using all of its 1600 W of power to cook your meal to perfection.

Now, you might be thinking “that sounds like it’d wreak havoc on my electricity bills” and we’re happy to report that it’s not the case. Thanks to the A mark in energy efficiency, you can rest assured that the Quest 35370 will consume less energy than most similar ovens without losing anything in terms of power.

If you’ve ever tasted a juicy Turkish kebab or a broiled chicken cooked on the open flame, you won’t forget those authentic flavours of roasted meat and chances are great that you’ll want to be able to cook the same at home. Sounds like you? If so, turn your eyes to an electric rotisserie oven from Elitezotec.

It’s yet another vertical oven with a smaller footprint that won’t eat up much space on the countertop surface. So, it will fit pretty much any kitchen. At the same time, it features a 21L capacity and can easily accommodate a whole chicken, pork knuckle or ribs, and 7 skewers with shashlik, kebab, seafood, vegetables, and more. If you are a fan of lavash wraps stuffed with spicy roasted meat, the shaft is also suitable for grilling a pile of chicken breasts or tenderized pork and beef chops.

A vertical heating element has the power of 1500 watts. So, it heats up in an instant and delivers consistently high heat throughout the whole cooking process. Besides, it is installed against a reflective surface that ensures quick, efficient, and more even heat distribution. Thus, a whole chicken will be roasted to a crispy golden crust in less than an hour while shrimps will be grilled in mere minutes. And to achieve even roasting from all sides, the shaft with the plates for skewers rotates 360 degrees.

The only niggle we have about this model is the lack of temperature control. Heating up to the preset cooking temperature, the Elitezotec is not the best options for slow cooking or baking where a variable temperature is a must. However, when it comes to roasting or grilling, this oven does its job really well. And once you adjust perfect cooking times for different dishes, you’ll be amazed by the taste of your roasts.