Hamilton Beach 4-Slice Toaster Oven with 5 Cooking Modes (Bake, Broil, Keep Warm Toast & Bagel) with Stay On & Auto Shutoff, 2 Rack Positions, 1100 Watts and 3 Accessories, Stainless Steel (31143)

Excellent product. We've had it two months now and use it about twice a day, sometimes more. What we really like about it is that you can put four slices of bread in the toaster oven and they fit with not problems. It also does a fine job baking potatoes. We use this to toast bread, bake potatoes, and heat up leftovers. My only quibble is that the controls are off to the side and the toaster darkness knob is at the bottom and is a bit hard to see. But this is minor.

This is perfect if you don't want to spend money on unnecessary "extras," and are short on counter space. It warms, it toasts, it broils, it roasts, and takes up little counter space. The window is large enough to provide a good view of what's going on inside. The settings on the dials are very difficult to read, but not impossible, and I learned the settings quite easily (with the aid of a magnifying glass, since I have elderly eyes). It lacks a light to indicate when it has reached the temperature for which it's set, but I just turn it on, give it a few minutes if necessary, and assume it's at temperature, since it heats up quickly. One could use an oven thermometer if the temp. was crucial. I still use the microwave to heat liquids and leftovers, and the electric stove to boil eggs and bake bread, but this is perfect for toasting/warming baked goods, top-browning anything, and for making individually sized pizzas. A nice little kitchen appliance, very handy. Not all toaster ovens have the ability to broil, so that makes this a better buy than some others. But if you need temperature accuracy, you might want one with an indicator, and maybe dials that are easier to read.

This is a basic Toaster Oven - sized at "4 slice" so it has a small footprint, unlike the "6 slice" which are significantly larger. No frills, low cost, and it works. The GOOD: I like the way they put the drip pan under the rack. It slides in/out when roasting or broiling. Saves having to have a separate drip pan/rack for roasting and broiling - means another 1" or so of clearance inside oven. Great design idea. I thought the BAGEL option would be useless, but it has turned out to be a good feature. Basically, anything which you want toasted on one side and just warmed on the other (bagels, English muffins, croissants, sandwich rolls, etc.) you put the food on the rack in the upper level cut-side-up and use the BAGEL setting. Works well. Anything you want toasted on both sides - like bread - use the lower rack setting and the TOAST option. Kudos for providing something I didn't care about but found very helpful. The slide out crumb tray is another plus. You don't have to turn the unit on its back and tilt out the tray like some others and fish around inside where live wires are located. It heats fast - appears to have a quartz element instead of the usual wire element and that's good. The "COULD BE BETTER" items - I don't like the mechanical timer. But in fairness, it works and the results appear to be repeatable if you use the pictograms on the face of the unit. But in this day and age, a digital timer would have been preferred, together with a digital temperature readout. Others complain about the tick-tick-tick on the timer, but I didn't find that objectionable. It's not really that loud. Many of the toaster ovens have only a 30 minute timer, like this one. I think that's too little - a basic meatloaf takes about an hour. Should have a 60 minute timer. It's hard to read the information next to the dials. The dials are large (easy to grab and turn) but get in the way of reading the settings. H-B has another toaster oven at the same price with what appear to be better black plastic knobs, but different features. Why two designs of knobs? The door slams shut. It would be nice if it were damped somehow. It is bright with polished stainless (so they say) steel outer material. Stands out in the kitchen. I'd like something a bit less visible, perhaps black, or perhaps a brushed metal, or black stainless steel. I know, that's expensive, but the option even at a higher price would be nice. The VERDICT: Overall, this is a sturdy reliable oven (so far), at a great price. There don't appear to be many 4-slice toaster ovens so this is a good choice, despite the things I'd like to see different. It has a small footprint and fits where the bigger ones wouldn't. My criticisms are minor - this thing does the job and doesn't cost a huge amount. Don't be put off by the confusion on where the rack has to be - you'll get used to the options after a few uses. Some reviewers complained about cord length. We didn't find that an issue, although the cord is short. High-amperage heating appliances should not have long cords. It's a safety issue. And by the way - be sure you follow their recommendations and run the unit at high temp for 10 minutes before you put food in, to burn off any residual oils used in manufacture. After that, there is no odor from the oven.

I needed a toaster oven that is compact and plug and play, and this toaster oven was perfect. All the controls were easy to use without having to read the instructions. Has all the basic functions I needed. I particularly like the "warm" setting that avoids burning. Small enough to fit in small spaces but large enough to cook or warm food for two or three people.

So glad I purchased this toaster oven! Works great! Just the right size for my small counter and still big enough to toast or bake whatever I choose whenever I don't want to turn my big oven on and heat up my kitchen. Bakes and toasts evenly and fast. I already have an air fryer and just wanted a regular toaster oven. Many stores do not carry them just airfryers, so glad I found this one on Amazon.

It's Just OK - Pretty Basic - toasts a little unevenly and has to be watched - only parts toast and I have to use tongs, potholders to open midway toasting to try to get it evenly toasted by adjusting pieces - since there are only 2 heating elements. Also have to remember to adjust temp from a previous setting to the 450 for toasting along with the button. Just basic dials which I wanted - all I do is reheat things or bake a small casserole or reheat. The unit outside gets hot. Had a previous toaster oven years ago which lasted awhile. Don't know how long this one will last. Appearance-wise and size-wise it's ok without a huge footprint. The crumb tray if fairly ok to remove. Have not tried the broiler. Wait awhile to cool down to clean. Two racks are good. Purchased a separate 9x7 stainless baking dish as the aluminum one that came with the product seemed flimsy. Other than that it's Pretty basic.

Very nicely designed and easy to use. Cleaning is easy, and the crumb tray helps keep it clean. Everything cooks well and the knobs are easy to read. Door opens easily and easy to clean. Certainly great value!

This replaced a toaster that was not toasting bagels well. It also will replace small baking uses of a much larger Cosori air-fryer/oven. First two tries with bagels worked very well, bread toast came out well, and it baked half of a thawed lasagna sold frozen by a favorite Italian deli as well as the Cosori with identical time and temperature settings. The lasagna baked property in both ovens at the same time and temperature as the deli specifies. Optimistic. The compactness fits my gadget-crowded kitchen well. This could earn a go-to position and a fifth review star if next tests with frozen pizza slices, roasting a few bacon slices treated with maple syrup, toasting english muffins, baking a few corn muffins, and reheating leftovers work well. The larger Cosori fryer/oven and two convection-toaster predecessors replaced all uses of my house's main oven; however this HamBeach is much more efficiently sized for making meals and sides for 1 or 2 people. The main thing I would change is to make the AC power cord a foot longer for more flexible placement. A contorted sideways oven placement because of the short cord makes it hard to see any of the three control knobs; perhaps a very short extension cord is in this machine's future. The 1970's feel, such as the mechanical timing knob, is unappealing after each of my series of earlier convection-toaster ovens provided intuitive and reliable modern user interfaces for much more complex operations. My first mistake with this oven was to set the controls including the timer, hear the timer ticking and think it was operating, but the oven was not warming up. Yep, the AC wire was unplugged (as is recommended between uses). Probably 30 minutes later the finished ping would have sounded (not loudly enough for a single ping), even with no power to cook.

Me gustó su tamaño muy compacto y sobre todo acabados.

No issues with this oven, still humming along great!

This is a fantastic little toaster. Built well and good looking. I purchased it to toast things like buns, homemade bread and anything else that would end up being thicker than something a normal toaster would handle. I gave it 4 stars only because of the way it needs to be powered down. The on off timer is spring operated and the unit needs to be unplugged in order to power down. If you happen to put too much time on the timer the elements will stay on until the unit powers down. Once you get used to that it's a great machine and I'm glad I bought it.

Very good quality and just good to take less space

Works well for my toasts after using it most days for 3 weeks. It cooks the bread evenly. Hopefully the burners don't conk out on me later. It has so far surpassed the other branded toaster oven, which lasted 2 days before it burned out, which Amazon promptly exchanged for this one.