Not many small appliances change daily life for the better, but this does. It preheats in a couple of minutes, maintains accurate temperatures in any cooking mode, and makes baking / roasting / toasting / air frying / broiling easy and much more accessible without heating up the kitchen.
This is our second Cuisinart toaster oven and it works great! Love that the crumb tray now opens from the front. Easy to use controls with lots of options.
The “beep” is so high frequency, I don’t hear anything. I thought it was broken and then my wife said she could hear it. Good thing it has a count down timer, but then I end up setting another one that I can hear.
This oven is easy to operate, toasts very well and is up to big meal tasks. We're very happy with the product. We haven't tried the pizza stone yet and look forward to giving it a try soon.
It’s great for roasting veggies! It gets up to temperature really quick! So much faster than the oven. I notice for oven recipes that sometimes you have to decrease the temperature because the outside of the food will heat up too quickly otherwise. It takes less time though even with decreasing the temperature than the oven recipe will say.
We've had this toaster oven for over 2 years now. We love it. It's great for making dinners for 2 people, for toasting bagels, and just about anything else that doesn't require the big oven. As empty nesters, cooking for 2 with this appliance just makes sense. One complaint: the switch that turns off the time display after you're done cooking no longer works properly. Sometimes, you have to lush the door closed and hold it for a minute to turn off the display.
I personally loved my old Cuisinart but that model was discontinued. This new one I like but I don't love. It seems like there is spots that don't heat the same on both sides and we only purchased it 2 months ago.