Kitchen

[cookinfreak]

If you have it, how do you like it?  Reviews are good.  Do you have to reconfigure times for cooking & baking?

Thanks

cookin

[Mz iMac]

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@cookinfreak wrote:

If you have it, how do you like it?  Reviews are good.  Do you have to reconfigure times for cooking & baking?

Thanks

cookin

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If you are talking about a toaster convection oven, then the answer is yes.  I use this website which converts temps from a regular oven to a toaster oven convection:  Convection Oven Calculator

I have a bright red Kennmore convection toaster oven.  It's almost a month old.  The above website link has saved me from burning the kitchen down more than once.

[KYToby]

I had the KA countertop convection oven.  While it did perform well, and I had no problem with the results, I found that it heated up my kitchen as much as my regular oven, so I ended up giving away this countertop hot box and making roo for other kitchen gadgets.

[froggy]

I have this oven (got it from Costco - $80) and I don't find that it heats up the kitchen at all. I have been using it for everything that I  would make in my regular convection oven. It's great for baked potatoes, I'm very happy with it.

[marzi 1]

Yes, I have it..love it, bought it at costco for about $80.00..I use it almost everyday, I like that it still has the old fashion knobs and not the digital controls...I did not want to bother with learning something new..Ha

[January121]

A few years ago I bought this oven and I loved it but, after a little over a year it stopped working ... Like I said I really loved it so, I bought another one .... the second one lasted about two years and died .... as much as I am tempted I will not buy another one.

[Mz iMac]

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@froggy wrote:

 It's great for baked potatoes, I'm very happy with it.

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What temp do you use for your baked potatoes & how many hours?

I baked a small potato today for the first time in my counter top convection oven.  I set the temp to 300 degrees & baked for 1 hour.  Again my red potato was small.  It came out "ok."  Not as soft as I would have liked.  I had wraped the potato in aluminum foil.

I guess I have to play around w/it again.

[froggy]

Well, we like our potatoes very well cooked so I do medium russets, wrapped in foil for about 2 hrs at 450 - same as in the big oven. I have also used the KA oven for small casseroles and for crispy snacks - chicken nuggets, etc.

[Mz iMac]

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@froggy wrote:

Well, we like our potatoes very well cooked so I do medium russets, wrapped in foil for about 2 hrs at 450 - same as in the big oven. I have also used the KA oven for small casseroles and for crispy snacks - chicken nuggets, etc.

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I will try that the next time.  I only buy red potatoes because they are sort of sweet to the taste.

Anywho, cooking convection (counter top) is all trial & error.  What I am doing since I am new to this is keeping a note book of convection time & temps of all the recipies I use daily and/or use a lot.  Will print them out soon hopefully.  Still trying to bake a potato to my liking.  LOL

My regular oven is now a storage space for all of my pots & pans.  The empty pots & pan cabinet is now a place I keep all my  counter top appliances w/still plenty of room to spare. 

I live in an apt.