Monday, January 25, 2010

Black & Decker CTO4500S 6-Slice CounterTop Convection Oven with Pizza Bump, Stainless Steel

From Black & Decker

Price: $79.99
 


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Features
- 12-Inch Pizza bump (6 slices) and convection functions
- Perfect broil, maximum bake, and temperature: 450°
- Slide out crumb tray and bake & toast signal bell
- Non-stick interior (easy to clean) with rack advance (easy access to food)
- 120 Minutes timer, 1 rack (2 rack Positions), and 1500 watts

Product Description
Breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks, this versatile toaster oven-toasts, cooks, broils and reheats a variety of foods. Enjoy your favorite muffins, 9-inch pizza, casseroles or small chicken parts-cooked to perfection right on your countertop

Customer Reviews

Have Same Toaster Oven but in Black
Date: 2009-07-16 | Rating: 5
I have the exact same toaster oven except it is not stainless steel, but in black at a substantially lower price. A correction on the info, the timer goes to 60 minutes not 120. I do NOT use mine to make toast. I have a standard upright toaster for that purpose. Anyone who buys a toaster oven to make toast can expect poor results. This product is meant to be used for baking and broiling. I have used it only for broiling so far and found it to do as good a job as my big range. Chicken, steaks, burgers broil up great and at about the same time it would take it a regular oven. When broiling use the top position with the rack facing upwards, getting the food as close to the heating elements as possible without actually touching them. This will insure thorough broiling and quicker cooking. Again, this all depends on what your broiling. I did use once for cooking a frozen pizza and the convection feature seemed to make the cooking of the pizza more even. Highly recommended. A good value for the price.

It does a good job
Date: 2009-02-17 | Rating: 4
We bought this toaster about two months ago, after much research. Our old one was a simple, cheap one from Sunbeam, which lasted about ten years until the lever for toast broke. I never really wanted a "convection" toaster, but I decided to give it a try because I thought it might save energy when baking. It actually does a very fast job at that, much more efficient than the regular oven we used before. I used the broiler just once so far and it works well. Toast is very good: crunchy on the outside, moist inside (but that depends on taste). One gripe is with the knobs, which are hard to grab. The design of the knob is especially annoying in the timer, because it just sort of slides to the desired time, there's no way of precisely selecting the position, like a good stereo knob would. We haven't quite found the best spot on the timer for the perfect toast, I'm having to rely on visual clues and often just take the toast out before the timer rings. The tray is easy to clean and slides out conveniently. The hooks on the door hinges that make the rack slide out make it difficult to close the door completely - we decided to fold ours in and not use them, so the door closes correctly. Be diligent when shopping for this item, prices vary widely from place to place and you may overpay.

Better than expected
Date: 2009-10-14 | Rating: 4
I've been using this oven for over 2 months now,so far so good. For a 6 slice oven its a good size, not too big.The crumb tray slides out completely, that makes it easy to keep the oven clean. Please take the time to read the manual. It has a couple of good tips about using the oven. The toast function is fast. It does not use convection feature for toasting. I've baked eggplant and butternut squash in it. It takes almost the same time as a normal sized oven, but saves a lot of energy and does a good job. The broil feature works well too. I'm looking forward to baking pizza in it.

It caught fire
Date: 2010-01-08 | Rating: 1
It caught fire while toasting. One minute it was underdone, the next the oven is on fire. Luckily we were right there and had a fire extinguisher in the kitchen. Looking around a bit on consumer sites and I see this is not uncommon. If it had been used more than a few times, I could say it must have been due to debris, but this thing was spotless.

Caught on Fire!
Date: 2010-01-15 | Rating: 1
This oven was relatively new. We threw in a piece of food for a quick snack. Coming back earlier than normal to check on the progress, we found a freakin' fire inside. Mistake was opening the door (to put it out). Flames shot out overhead. Really frightening. Smoke was coming out the vents and the entire inside of the oven was engulfed in flames. Uh.... draw your own conclusions...

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