I am a toaster person. I have lived 67 years without a toaster oven, and not missed it, but Lordy, I love my toast, so I am all about the vertical crisper.

My daughter, however, is part of the toaster oven cult and thinks me nuts. I love her anyway.

Toaster

Toaster oven, because the last toasters I got had problems. The toaster oven is nice because I can see how it’s going, and I can put in more than two pieces of toast, and it doesn’t have problems like the toasters did, and the timer dial works well, there are various modes, and I can toast larger things and not worry about the size or the ejector. I toast bread, bagels, buns, naan, etc.

I’ve used both. I found no difference in the toast, but prefer a pop up toaster due to lack of counter space.
Other uses I found for the toaster oven was to heat up cold pizza slices or rolls or Italian bread. I don’t like using the microwave for heating bread.
Also I could make cinnamon toast with toaster oven.
I also have toast every morning. With peanut butter.

Toaster. I have my grandmother’s Sunbeam that she bought new in 1959. A classic!

Toaster. Simple.

We had a toaster oven for years, but we never made toast in it. Always used a toaster.

I don’t even remember what we used the toaster oven for, although we did use it a lot, but it went away when we got a microwave. Sometimes I wish we had both.

I have a backup toaster in my basement now, still new in the box, because I don’t want to be stranded when the present one gives out.

Neither,
I use a cast iron skillet

Toaster oven. Less crumbs on the countertop

I use a toaster at home, or I will put the item into the regular oven.

At work, there was a toaster oven and I had a buttered bagel in there and it caught on fire. My toaster oven days were over. I carried the burning bagel over to the window and held it where the smoke wouldn’t hit the smoke detector, and the flame went out. Nobody else knew what happened but it kind of freaked me out.

@jca2 So then what happened to the bagel?? Did you throw it out the window? What kind of building are you in? What floor were you on? Did it hit anyone?? Were you even trying???

@kritiper: I don’t remember if it was still edible. I was on the 4th floor of the building I worked in. Just an office building – a former IBM building in a city in NY. I could only open the window about 4 inches (I think the building was made that way so people wouldn’t jump out) and so I put the paper plate with the bagel on it out the window, blew the flame out and then took the bagel back in. I was mortified at the thought that the smoke alarm would go off, there would be a fire drill, the whole building would have to be evacuated and the fire department would come because of that. There were occasions where that happened and we would hear that it was because someone burned toast.

I use an air fryer or toast on the stove with a bit of margarine or oil.

Toaster oven. I use it for lots of stuff besides toast because it heats up quickly and doesn’t heat the whole house like our full-sided oven does.

Toaster, hands down.

I do have a toaster oven, for heating, broiling, or baking small items. But, my plain ol’ toaster does a much better job on toast.

Toaster, for sure.