Oster Toaster Oven | Digital Convection Oven, Large 6-Slice Capacity, Black/Polished Stainless

It's just a toaster oven, right? Wrong. I read many, many reviews before selecting this toaster oven when my family's previous one died. I have never had such an amazing toaster oven IN MY LIFE! Everything tastes DIFFERENT using this toaster oven, everything tastes BETTER. I have never loved toast until getting this toaster oven. Toast. Is. So. Good. Now. For cooking frozen foods, the secret is pre-heating the toaster oven adequately, then following the heating instructions on the food packaging. Everything is more flavorful and my gluten free chicken nuggets have a crisp that they never had before with previous toaster ovens. Just some minor things to note: the toast "2" setting can be too dark, but "1" is not toasted enough, so I select "2" and just take it out early. I used to select "1" and leave it in a bit, however, the timer when it goes off is pretty loud, so I try to stop it immediately when it goes off. I don't bother setting the clock because I do not leave the toaster oven plugged in (for safety purposes) and every time it gets unplugged, you'd have to set the clock again. Overall, it's very easy to use. I would definitely purchase this again if I needed a new one.

This little gem works perfectly for all my needs. In fact, now I don't even have a "real" oven in my house at all. This saves me buku bucks on electricity not to mention all the extra space I now have in my kitchen.It's large enough to handle any frozen pizza I've ever found in stores. The baking pan that comes with it is handy. I picked up a second wire rack so I could bake two (thin) items at once. The convection fan is very quiet, not that I use it much -- I haven't quite gotten the knack of it. The crumb tray is extremely easy to remove, so easy that one of these years I may actually take it out and clean it. On other ovens I've owned that process is such a pain that I normally wait to clean it until it smokes or catches fire.One of the best features on this thing is the forced use of the timer. Some folks may not like this. But let's face it, we've all set the kitchen on fire once or twice by leaving the toaster oven on. Storing your lantern fuel next to it doesn't help matters; ask me how I know this. Now you can set it and forget it, knowing that your adult beverages will remain safe in the refrigerator.There is a clock on the thing that you can set if you care. When the power goes out it doesn't annoyingly blink 12:00, it just starts at 12:00 and runs as usual. This may be a welcome feature for folks out in the boonies. Or if you live in a 3rd world country with unreliable grid power. Or if you have neighbors that like to come over with bolt cutters and cut down your power lines. You get the idea. I like being able to come home and see exactly what time the power came back on, and I especially like not having the thing blinking when not set.Now the gripes, but nothing important enough to knock off a star:- There are only up-down arrows to set the cooking time. It starts out at 30:00 and you have to keep pressing over and over to get to the time you want. This makes setting certain times very cumbersome, but this is acceptable to me because a full keypad would probably clutter up the device. If you're blind you probably don't want this model because there is no feedback for when the buttons are pressed. Ditto if you are missing all of your fingers or something. Be careful with that chainsaw because the buttons are too hard to press with your nose. Ask me how I know this too.- The light remains on the entire time the oven's on by default. This is a waste or power and bulb life. It only takes one press to turn it off but I often forget. It would be better if there was a way to change the default setting. Maybe I should read the manual before complaining though. :)- You cannot change from convection bake to regular bake, etc without starting all over. Same with toast darkness setting. Many things cannot be changed once started which I find rather annoying.- The top of the thing gets rather hot. So much heat on the outside means wasted power, but I suppose it's unavoidable. You definitely don't want to set your beer down there, or store your bread on top of the oven.- Toasting takes way too long. Silly me for trying toast in a toaster oven. Buy a separate cheap toaster or give up toast. It probably causes cancer anyway.All in all, I am extremely pleased with this oven. You will be too. Buy it. If I had a 2nd kitchen I'd buy a second one. When this one starts on fire or accidentally gets on the wrong end of the shotgun I'll buy this exact same model to replace it.** Update ***8 years later it's still going strong! I got lazy about 1 year in and stopped manually turning off the light when cooking, but the bulb remains working and I've never changed it. I'm still using this as my ONLY oven in the house. I could not be more pleased! I've not once in these 8 years had anything that wouldn't fit in this oven.. Sure you can't bake a large turkey but if you condone killing animals you're going straight to hell anyway.

I live in a rental home with an oven that is AWFUL. So I looked and looked for a good toaster oven. I actually bought a different one, but returned it, before I came across this one.I wanted a digital oven so that I could set the temp accurately, and that was the strongest selling point for me. I really, really, really wanted one that would accommodate a 9x13 pan but this one DOES NOT unless you buy a pan without edges/handles. Same for cookie sheets. I'm only cooking for two, but one of us two eats quite a bit (translate that in to 17 yr old son). I make do by using two 8x8 pans, which doubles the cooking time but also gives me leftovers. So its an inconvenience that's worth it.The instructions to preheat the oven say it takes about seven minutes. This has not been the case for me. On first use, it took almost 20 minutes to preheat the oven to 350. I used an oven thermometer for accuracy (I still do). And it still takes about 20 minutes to preheat.However, once preheated it holds the temperature perfectly. I read one review where the customer was concerned about heat escaping through the area around the removable crumb tray. If heat escapes there, it hasn't affected the internal temperature or cooking time.I have not found the buttons difficult to press at all. When I do press the timer or temperature buttons I have to wait a few seconds before either begins to actually move, but this has been consistent, and all the buttons work just fine.I've used all the functions at least once just to test them out and they all work exactly like they're supposed to. However, as others have stated, there is no stop on the included rack so when you pull something out of the oven you've got to be careful or it'll tip toward you and potentially spill (and all the nastiness that goes with having 350+/- degree food spiill on you). Also you have to be pretty careful pulling out even a small pan like the 8x8 that I've been using, as there isn't a whole lot of room to get a good grip. Just be careful, and it won't be a huge issue.The light stays on the entire time something cooks and I don't see this as a real plus or minus. I like seeing what I'm cooking and when I used an oven I was constantly turning on the light and looking in on it. On the other hand I see no point in having the light on the entire time. I suppose if you don't hear the beep when the oven turns off, you'd definitely notice the light was out when you go by.I have not tried using the little pan or rack that come with the oven. To bake things I would use a cookie sheet for, I've put tin foil over the baking rack because it gives me more room.The top of this oven gets VERY hot, like it says, but cools off pretty quickly after the oven is off. And the front gets hot enough that I'm careful not to set my can of cooking spray or anything that can melt in front of the oven, either. You won't get a burn from touching the front of the oven when its on unless you actually try, but you'd get quite a start and probably wanna rinse in cold water. This also cools off quickly once the oven is off.All in all I'm very happy with this toaster oven and I'm not only keeping it, I'm very gladly giving it a FULL five stars. I'd recommend this to anyone and everyone.