/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I use mine almost daily. It preheats very quickly, and I tuned the bimetallic switch so that the temps are accurate.

Great for baking, too.

Daily, when I’m only cooking for 2 it’s much faster than preheating my main oven.its worth buying s good one

>>13382634
I got mine when I first moved out because I hate microwaves and I have very little counter space. I use it very infrequently, mostly just to reheat leftovers. I don't really eat much bread. I could probably get rid of it and have more room in the kitchen, using the oven and range to reheat food.

>>13382640
>>13382653
This. It's better for reheating food and easier than heating up the entire oven for one meal. Toaster ovens are GOAT

Not every single day, but frequently enough that I'm thinking of getting a nicer one some day.

>>13382634
every single day to cook up my chicken tenders and fries, nice and crispy.

I like mine to identify the shit I cook through the power of Nvidia's RTX

>>13382634
I use mine to make hearty soups.

>>13382634
I use mine a lot, I don't own a microwave. I use it to reheat pizza, bake certain things since my oven sucks, cheese melts, etc.

>>13384393
I cook bread and make whole chickens in mine all the time. This is a 1500 watt 6 bread toaster oven. I murder bread in it like crazy. 4 loaves per cook. It's amazing.

i use it for everything because my real oven is broken. it's annoying because of the size and i can't cook on different shelves.

>>13382640
>>13382701
Unfortunately they suck as toasters. The cheapest POS china-slice toaster > Toaster Oven.
>>13384410
>1500 watt
When I get my house I WILL have a self-designed 220v, 40 amp toaster oven/broiler in my kitchen.
1500 watts is fine for what you are doing, good job sounds like you're ingenious.
Unfortunately you are limited by 1500 watts no matter what you say. Maybe you're aware of it.

>>13382634
> Do you own a toaster oven?

Yes.

> If so, how infrequently do you use it?

All the time. I’m only cooking for me so it’s waste of time and energy to use a big ass oven when a toaster oven does the same thing.

I got pic related for free and use it just about every day even if it does suck as a toaster. I also had a $19 walmart one before this and it was just as good.

>>13384698
I'd take that. Very useful.

>>13382634
I have the Breville thing. Use it at least once a day. It's a great machine.

I use mine primarily for two things:
1) Making toast
2) It has a section for warming. If I'm using my stoneware plates and I'm using the oven, I'll put them in the toaster oven on warm to heat them up so that they cool the food off so fast. If the oven is free, I just set it on the lowest setting and put the plates in it instead.

I only cook for myself so every day.

>>13382634
I use my toaster oven every day, as a single man it's superior to the oven.

>>13386456
True for meals, but they don't seem to be any good for baking.

>>13386465
Good thing I'm a MAN

>>13382634
I have an electric oven, for toast I have a Sunbeam beyond belief radiant heat toaster from the early 50's. Makes perfect toast and is almost impossible to burn toast (unless you want it that way).

>>13384427
Agreed, toaster ovens are great for heating small snacks, but absolutely terrible for toast. Always ends up firm on the outside and brittle on the inside, instead of toasted and softer innards.

>>13382634
I used to use it for fish but that's a luxury item now

my frozen pizzas say to NOT use a toaster oven
but i live like a madman and use it for frozen pizzas

>>13387718
Fuck have you seen the 2019 movie Joker? I think it's for people like you.

>>13386465
what happens if you try and bake in one?

>>13387718
>Oh noes, the frozen pizza police will come and put me in jail.

I weep for the NCLB generation. They die without instructions.

>>13387718
I bought my toaster oven from goodwill and I used it for the mini frozen pizzas until one day I was just messing around and realized it could fit a regular sized frozen pizza perfectly
Now I eat frozen pizza far more than any sane human being should

A hot plate, rice cooker, and toaster oven are the holy trinity of appliances.

>>13382634
Regularly, it works as a secondary oven.Whether that's to reheat food or cook smaller items than would fit in my oven, or just to cook things like sides while the main meal is in the oven is great.

>put it on bake and set it to its lowest temperature
>slide in some hot dog weiners and bake for like 2 hours
>let them get all sweaty and blistery like at the movie theater
>rotate occasionally

My fave way to prepare hot dogs these days.

Rice cooker omlet

>>13388676
>I live in a flop house

my roommate bitches about crumbs and cheese dripping onto the catch pan and making food in there taste bad.

any solutions to this? id rather not put it over foil as i would like the bottom of my slice of pizza to also cook

>>13382634
Daily. Never owned a microwave

>>13388779
Why does he live like that?
Doesn't he have a degree in nuclear physics or something?

>>13382634
I have a toaster oven and not a regular one because I pretty much do live like Lenny. I use the oven a lot.
Hated it at first but once you get to know the thing it works pretty well. You have to keep an eye on it a lot more than you'd need to with a proper oven, though. Thankfully, that's easy when your flat is so small the oven is on a table in the livingroom.

>>13388722
The best hot dogs are made with a nu wave oven. They get to that level in under a minute.

>>13389185
Clean the catch pan regularly?

Like what? Are you and your roommate dip shits?

>>13382634
I use it daily, way better than a microwave for most reheating job, and a cheese toastie is always good

>>13389185
You don't have a stove top?

love them. got this baby 10 years ago and works as well as the day I got it. pies, pizzas, fries, breads, whatever you need baby.

>>13382634
I use mine quite a lot, and not just for toasting, but also as a grill for hot dogs and sausages. Boiling and microwaving my meat logs, no thank you.

>>13384427
>Unfortunately they suck as toasters.

Mine makes great toast.