On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:10:55 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:

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I've got $30 to spend at Kohl's and "I've always wanted one since I was
a little girl."

What all can I do in one that would be better served with use of a TO
than doing it in my range oven?

Whaddaya say?

I have a cheap Black and Decker about two years old. We use it every
day. None of these things hold accurate temperature, and they all have
hot and cold spots, even an expensive Delonghi convection oven the kid
has at college, so using one is a learning process. We use it for
toast, bagels, making cornbread, frozen biscuits, toaster pastries,
nachos, potato skins, cooking those little individual frozen pizzas
for a quick lunch, brown and serve rolls. We cook frozen french fries,
and we make oven roasted potatoes (peeled and diced to about 1-inch
dice and sprinkled with olive oil and spices). It's better than a
microwave for heating up many leftovers because some things get
overcooked in a MW, or they don't cook right, like leftover fried
chicken with a crispy coating (it will crisp back up in a TO, but not
in a MW). Once you learn how to use it IMO it can't be beat. It's a
lot cheaper and faster than heating up the main oven.

BTW, I've tried baking cakes, pies, casseroles, etc., mostly to see
what we can pre-make for the kid to cook in the dorm, and they all
failed miserably. Just can't compensate for uneven heat distribution
and incorrect temperature regualtion.

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
Follow-ups set to r.f.equipment

I've got $30 to spend at Kohl's and "I've always wanted one since I was
a little girl."

What all can I do in one that would be better served with use of a TO
than doing it in my range oven?

Whaddaya say?

I just used my toaster oven today to heat a few frozen hors d'oevres for
company. Used a lot less energy than cranking up the big oven in the
range and kept the kitchen cooler.

I find it very difficult to keep the toaster oven clean. I would look at
the ease of cleaning feature on the one you plan to buy.

Janet

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
Follow-ups set to r.f.equipment

I've got $30 to spend at Kohl's and "I've always wanted one since I was
a little girl."

What all can I do in one that would be better served with use of a TO
than doing it in my range oven?

Whaddaya say?

I've only tried one, a Black and Decker "Toast-R-Oven".
I've had it for about 32 years so far. I first bought it to heat
convenience food for lunches at my first job, around 1975 or so. It's
pretty ugly now, but it still works.
It has proven handier than a microwave oven for foods that should be
browned or crisp, and I recently slow-roasted a 2 pound beef roast in
mine. It wouldn't hold anything much larger than that without the food
being too close to the heating element.
I'd guess it consumes less electricity than a full sized oven.
Don't expect it to make good toast, though. That requires more heat,
generated faster, than my toaster oven can produce.

Off-topic, I was just going through my closets, and found that I had
four 12-meal boxes of MRE packets... Around 17 years old! The garbage
can is going to be unusually heavy next week..!
I might keep the "Accessory Packs" for camping trips - The toilet paper,
matches, and plastic spoons can't go stale at least, and the instant
coffee (vitamin C added!) couldn't GET any worse than it was when fresh.

Oh pshaw, on Sun 16 Dec 2007 08:56:31p, Janet Wilder meant to say...

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
Follow-ups set to r.f.equipment

I've got $30 to spend at Kohl's and "I've always wanted one since I was
a little girl."

What all can I do in one that would be better served with use of a TO
than doing it in my range oven?

Whaddaya say?

I just used my toaster oven today to heat a few frozen hors d'oevres for
company. Used a lot less energy than cranking up the big oven in the
range and kept the kitchen cooler.

I find it very difficult to keep the toaster oven clean. I would look at
the ease of cleaning feature on the one you plan to buy.

Janet


Or cheap enough to toss and buy another.

We use ours 80% of the time for broiling small quantities of meat for 2.
Makes a horrible mess inside that I will not attempt to clean thoroughly.
We just replace it every so often.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Sunday, December(XII) 16th(XVI),2007(MMVII)

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Cats must knock the brush Mom uses on
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Melba's Jammin' wrote:
Follow-ups set to r.f.equipment I've got $30 to spend at Kohl's and "I've
always wanted one since I was a little girl." What all can I do in one
that would be better served with use of a TO than doing it in my range
oven?

Whaddaya say?

I've only tried one, a Black and Decker "Toast-R-Oven".
I've had it for about 32 years so far. I first bought it to heat
convenience food for lunches at my first job, around 1975 or so. It's
pretty ugly now, but it still works.
It has proven handier than a microwave oven for foods that should be
browned or crisp, and I recently slow-roasted a 2 pound beef roast in
mine. It wouldn't hold anything much larger than that without the food
being too close to the heating element.
I'd guess it consumes less electricity than a full sized oven.
Don't expect it to make good toast, though. That requires more heat,
generated faster, than my toaster oven can produce.

I had one of these about 30 years ago and about 10 years ago replaced it
with a fancy larger DeLongi. Then replaced that twice with fancy large TOs.
I finally bought anther B & D last year.

I found that while the larger ovens are useful for doing all kinds of baking
and browning, the thing we were using them for the most was toasting bread.
The larger ones all took twice as long to make toast than the little B & D.

Jon

Coffee Maker/Toaster Oven
I have for sale a Coffee Maker/Toaster Oven combo. this is a 5 cup
coffee maker and toaster over together. it also includes an egg cooker
to make one egg at a time.

THIS HAS NEVER BEEN USED AND IS STILL IN THE BOX.
the cost for the item is $35.00 plus postage
the postage I use is Priority mail FLAT RATE in the U S
outside of the US (I.E CANADA) I use Airmail M Bag
Nonetheless please provide your zip code/postal code so I can
calculate postage properly.

Thank you
CatherinPS I can take $30 but there is postage...its brand new and has
everything with it
all you need is the filters for the attached coffee maker.