"Debbie" > wrote in message
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> "Phred" > wrote in message
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>> In article >, "brooklyn1"
>> > wrote:
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>>> [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:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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
Go and buy the cheapest toaster oven you can find. I bought my
Euro-Pro X at Macy's for under $30. It was purchased
as kind of a toy. I find I'm using it a lot more than I thought I
would. It's the best for re-heating leftover pizza, better than
a conventional oven.

Ed