"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Kent" > wrote:
>
>> "Steve Freides" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > We don't have a toaster, but we do have a toaster oven that makes fine
>> > toast, tuna melts, and the like. My favorite use for it is for what we
>> > call cheese toast - piece of bread, topped with sharp cheddar plus a
>> > little garlic powder and brown pepper, cooked in the toaster oven until
>> > the cheese is golden and bubbly, usually at 400 degrees for 3 minutes
>> > or
>> > so.
>> >
>> > We have a microwave.
>> >
>> > My wife says she'd like to have one less of these in our none-too-big
>> > kitchen, and directs me to ask here, so here I am. Would, e.g., a
>> > combo
>> > convection oven and microwave do what we need? I guess one question is
>> > really whether a convection oven can take the place of a toaster oven -
>> > we've never owned a convection oven.
>> >
>> > Specific brand/model recommendations appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > -S-
>> >
>> Your question isn't clear, based on what I read above. Do you want a
>> single
>> appliance that is both a toaster oven and a microwave oven? If so the
>> answer is no. As you know, toaster ovens radiate heat from top and
>> abottom
>> heating elements. There isn't any product that does this and is also a
>> microwave.
>
> Here's 810 appliances, some of which do roughly what Steve wants:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Ovens-Toasters...=amb_link_1013
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> The only one I looked at is a convection/microwave oven on the first
> page. It has a broiler, so it will make the "cheese toast" that Steve
> likes. Of course, if he just sets the oven at 400F for 3 minutes, then
> any of the convection ovens will do this.
>
> I would back this up with a conventional two slice toaster, which
> doesn't take a lot of space.
>
> I can't answer Steve's basic question, though, since I've never had one.
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
>
>
>
A true toaster oven is a small tabletop oven that has horizontal cooking
elements above and below the grate that you're cooking the food on. It cooks
exactly like an old fashion toaster, except there is a couple of inches
between the heating elements and the heating elements are horizontally
positioned above and below the grate. The true toaster oven must have this
configuration to be called that. There isn't any product that has the
toaster oven as above combined with a microwave heating element. There are
microwave convection and microwave grills and microwave convection grills.
None of them have the required above and below grate heating elements.
My primary reason to have a true toaster oven is because that is the only
way to reheat leftover pizza. Nothing else works. You have to have heat from
the bottom and from the top. The cheese melts on top, and the crusts regains
its crispness on the bottom.
Kent