Is the Midea Flexify French Door toaster oven air fryer combo worth it?

How the Midea Flexify's infrared heat and French doors actually work

Here's where the engineering actually does something useful. Infrared heating elements don't just warm the air, they radiate heat directly at the food's surface with tight, five-degree precision, so a chicken thigh crisps on the outside while the center comes up to temperature at nearly the same rate. That matters because in a cheap toaster oven, the outside burns while the middle stays raw. The air fry mode adds a second layer, a fan pulls that infrared heat around the food instead of just from one direction, which is why you get crackly texture using a fraction of the oil deep frying needs. The French doors are the other half of the trick. Instead of a single door that swings out and demands a foot of clearance, two narrow doors open sideways like a cabinet, so the appliance can sit closer to a wall or under an upper cabinet and still open one handed. That's how Midea fits a 25 quart interior, big enough for a 12 inch pizza or a 6 pound rotisserie chicken, into a footprint that's genuinely slim on paper. The tradeoff: packing that hardware into a compact chassis means the control panel and door surfaces sit nearer the heat source, so expect some warmth radiating off the front while it runs.