Oven Reviews

This is my second Black and Decker Toaster Oven. The first one lasted several years through heavy use. I was very satisfied with it. It is a good basic oven, no frills, just reliable. I am very excited to see a reconditioned one for such a good price.

Not anything spectacular, but a good reliable toaster oven. My [reconditioned] unit arrived with some scratches on the inner coating, but that hasn't affected performance. The beeping mentioned by other reviews is only a problem if you leave the oven on the "toast" setting - as long as you turn the dial back to "off" after toasting, no midnight beeping! I use my real oven for baking and roasting, but the TOB-30BCFR is great for toasting bread, reheating pastries, melting cheese - all the usual toaster oven functions. Oh, and I've never noticed the door sticking.

I own a lot of Cuisinart products (food processor, waffler, ice cream maker, toaster, coffee maker...you get the point) so I'm familiar with the exceptional quality. But I was not prepared for what arrived at my door yesterday.

First, I was amazed at how HEAVY this toaster oven was; 20lbs shipping weight. In addition, I expected to see some smudges and scratches considering that this is a refurbished piece of equipment. What I pulled out of the box could not be distinguished from new with the exception of a small scuff on the upper rear panel of the toaster. This is a BIG unit. When they say that you could cook a 5lb chicken in this oven, it's no exaggeration.

Finally - How does it work? First, I fired it up to cook some chicken nuggets and tater tots for the kids. 425 degrees came in less than 3 minutes! Not that these are gourmet items, but the nuggets and tater tots cooked perfectly to a nice golden brown in about 9 minutes instead of the requisite 13-15 in my large gas oven. And on a hot day (98 degrees yesterday) it'll be a real God-send.

Oh...I made some toast for the kids this morning and that works equally well. You simply cannot go wrong - especially at this price. I'm thinking about buying a few more and giving them out as Xmas gifts.

This is my first independently owned toaster oven ever, and I couldn't be happier. I live by myself, and rarely cook anything bigger than my fist. All those nights wasting power heating up a big oven, what was I thinking?

So far, I've only made toast, but the toast was stupendous. I mean it. This is a cool little oven. Simple, innocuous, and it beeps like a microwave and shuts off when the toast is done. It's the total package.

Arrived promptly, looks brand new. During initial test started smoking-the broiler tray required cleaning (oil-I think on the surface).
Toster is slow to heat, slow to toast, slow to bake. Suggests a problem with the thermostat???
I gave it away & bought a new one (Black and Decker) which operates far superior.

I have one, very basic requirement of a toaster oven, that it toasts bread. This toaster consistently took two cycles on the darkest toast setting before it would toast the bread to a light golden color. By the time the toast was toasted, it was so completely dried out it was inedible. I don't know how it works as an oven because it was put back in the box and returned after the toast trials.

I had been looking for a Krups white toaster oven, but didn't want to pay [too much]. I ordered this reconditioned unit on-line last year. It cost [not too much] including shipping, came promptly, and looked perfect. It quit heating entirely after about 2 months of minimal use (about once per week.) I didn't remember where I got it, so it sits in my kitchen holding papers.