On Jun 1, 12:39*pm, sf > wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 02:06:22 -0700 (PDT), somebody
>
> > wrote:
> > So, I actually have another toaster. *I had got it for the wife before
> > we got married. *One of those little toaster ovens for about $80 at
> > Lowe's. *My question/comment is that I rarely use the toaster oven
> > (for an occasional frozen pizza basically. *It seems more efficient
> > than heating the gas oven). *It seems to me the small toaster oven is
> > not nearly as efficient as the 2 slice toaster. *Not that any toaster
> > is very efficient to begin with, but the 2 slice one seems slightly
> > more efficient. *Thoughts, comments, bric-a-bracs?
>
> I had a not-so-huge, 2 slice toaster oven back when the kids were
> still kids. *It toasted two slices of bread as quickly as a pop up
> toaster and it could bake too so I loved it! *One would wear out, I'd
> fix it until they couldn't fix it anymore and buy a new one... until
> GE sold their small appliance division to Black & Decker (which was
> worse than cruddy). *Fast forward a couple of decades - I think B&D
> might make a decent two slice toaster oven *now*, but I am not in the
> mind-set to buy one anymore. *I don't care that I'm heating up a full
> sized oven to make a baked potato - my oven doesn't add any heat to
> the room. *So it costs me a penny or two more in electricity. *I don't
> care.
>
> --
> Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

When GE sold out to B & D, their small appliances were crap. I have
always had a toaster oven, ever since they became available. I don't
know the brand of my current one - got it at JCP. Sunbeam and
Hamilton Beach still make reasonably good small appliances, along
with, of course, KA and Cuisinart. I don't know if those last two
make toaster ovens, though.

N.