In article >, "Debbie" > wrote:
>
>"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?

G'day Debbie. Thank you for your reply.

>It is an oven, it is supposed to get hot!

Fair enough. But back in the days when my "proper" oven worked, it
got hot, but not so hot on the *outside* that you could seriously
damage yourself on it. According to the specs for the countertop
gizmos available locally, you just about need welder's gloves to get
near them by the time the roast is cooked.

> I don't find mine hard to clean.

You might be a more diligent housewife than me. As a mere male, I
need things to be pretty simple. :-)

>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.

Sounds like I should look into this matter more next time I'm in the
big smoke. The things I've seen locally don't have dishes provided
and certainly aren't multistory.

Cheers, Phred.

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