"Phred" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "brooklyn1"
> > wrote:
> [snip]
>> [concerning] a second oven... and for the few times a year there
>>are inexpensive portable countertop ovens, in fact for most every day oven
>>uses that's all one needs instead of heating a full size oven.
>
> I've had a look at those things as available here, and two things
> rather put me off them:
>
> 1. According to the specs (warnings!), they get bloody hot; and
>
> 2. They look to be pretty hard to clean.
>
> Are these real issues in practice and/or are there models available
> that don't suffer such problems?
>

It is an oven, it is supposed to get hot! I don't find mine hard to clean.
I don't put my food directly into the dish they provide with the oven. It
looked like it would be hard to clean. I prepare what I am cooking in the
usual way and then put that dish into the oven in the provided dish. If I
think there could be spillage into the bottom dish, I cover it with tinfoil.
That way the only thing to be cleaned is the dish the food is in.

Debbie