Kitchen Reviews

Don't bother to buy this item. A copule of months after I bought this item, toaster side broke and I had to send it back to get it repaired. It took them 4-5 weeks to ship it back and I had to pay the shipping charges both ways.

This is such a neat toaster, I got it at my bridal shower, and was so excited to use it. And it worked great the first few times. But the on the toaster part of it... the handle that you press down to push the bread into the toasting slots wouldn't stay down. I had to push over and over again before it finally decided to stay and toast my bread. It doesn't happen everytime, but is very annoying. but the oven part of it has been wonderful, and I haven't had any problems with it at all.

PRO's - Looks cool. I like the little button that makes the toast pop up if you want it sooner than you've set the timer. The oven part keeps a fairly constant temp if you want to slowly heat something or keep it warm. I like the timer dial has numbers for the number of minutes you want to keep it on.

CONS - surface gets VERY hot. My last toaster oven (black and decker I think) I could pick the thing up, touch it anywhere and it was never this hot. If you have the oven part turned on a few minutes later you will not be able to touch the oven to move it on your counter. Be careful. On the back of the oven there are little plastic rods that stick out so you can't push it all the way up against the wall - I think this is because it gets so hot it might melt the cord on the back. You can almost see the little plastic things I'm talking about in the picture. The timer is a stinking wind up timer that you hear going "tick, tick, tick,...". The toaster is incredibly slow. Be prepared to wait 5 minutes (an eternity, believe me) for a lousy piece of toast in the toaster section.

All in all its not bad. For the people trying to bake cookies in a toaster oven all I have to say is, "what are you stupid?"