Toast in Air Fryer

How to toast bread in air fryer or Ninja Foodi are easy if you don’t have a toaster. Best brown bread perfectly for breakfast. You can even bake homemade loaves of air fryer bread first if you love homemade.

Air Fryer Toast

You could use any brand of machine or toaster oven for this. I have a Cosori, AirWave but for this I used my 2 drawer Ninja Foodi dual zone machine. You don’t need much, same as if you were to bake toast in the oven. That is another variation you could follow if that is the only heat source you had.

in Ninja

If you have a Ninja Foodi rather large machine you can make a few at a time, smaller can only handle 1 or 2 slices of bread at a time. You can toast bagels, sourdough, Texas Toast or any style this same way. If large they may take 1 more minute but a great option if you are traveling.

Yes, we will show you how to do just that here. Why would you bother doing this? Well like I said above it came in really handy when it was the only device we had and were making a lot of RV meals. You can not only add butter but make air fryer cheese toast in it too by laying a slice of Kraft slices right on top, same timing.

What You Need

1. Slices of bread, as many as you will consume in one sitting – it’s better made fresh so make batches on request
2. Butter is best spread before you crisp we feel – we also add a bit when they are done, or homemade jam is great but it allows the flavor and moisture to really seep in
3. Air fryer basket and machine
4. A pair of tongs is nice

How Long to Toast Bread in Air Fryer

2-3 minutes is typical depending on a few factors. The thickness and size of your slices of course matter. If you add toppings that may take an additional 30 seconds, and how crispy you want it is of course a factor as well.

Air Fryer Texas Toast

You will need to set to 350 in this case. Always preheat before adding food that is meant to be crispy. A bit longer is necessary in this case as it comes frozen so that makes sense. Increase timing to 4 minutes in this case.

Bagels in Air Fryer

Now this air fries a lot faster than how to Toast a Bagel in the Oven because it is faster to preheat but comes out just as crispy!! Just pop those babies in for 4 minutes at 370F and you have yourself golden brown just like as if you used a toaster!!

Cheese Toast

You would follow the same instructions as far as temp. (I have decreased to 380 for 2 minutes too and that works well too) at 400 you only need 1 minute though. Butter on 1 side, lay a piece of easily meltable cheese, like packaged wrapped Kraft cheese slices on top.

You can even add meat to the top like our Air fryer tuna melt! OMG were these so amazing when we were famished after hiking all day long. Now you can go a a step further and into an actual meal like our Pizza Toast which is incredible too.

You can see here daughter #2 making it herself. Now that my girls are teenagers they are into cooking, especially if they don’t have to ask directions. 😉 I will share the quick step by step below but offer a printable recipe card below if you want to keep it handy.

Other Breads to Cook in Air Fryer

1. You can bake air fryer garlic rolls inside using frozen dough
2. Make a small bundt of cornbread in air fryer to serve with a bowl of chili
3. And did you know that you can even bake small individual loaves of air fryer zucchini bread in this baby?

If you too love SunMaid or Cinnabon raisin bread this will work the same way. I would definitely spread butter on the top before adding that to keep it nice and moist. Slightly underdone and not too crispy is better for this style. I’d say stick to 2 minutes since the pieces are slightly smaller and you want fruit inside to be tender.

Ready to try this and all of our other air fryer breakfast recipes? Go for it and let us know if you tweak it in any way we should try.