BLACK+DECKER 4-Slice Air Fry Toaster Oven

This is my second one. Third great for toast and cooking frozen items like fish filets or shrimp. I cook biscuits in it. It has an air fry setting, a bake and broil setting. You just have to get to know it and keep
An eye on your food. Sometimes it cooks faster than your this ink it’s going to. Ive enjoyed mine. I purchased a new one because after a couple of years of daily use it started to look bad. Make sure you never leave a loaf of bread or anything in plastic bag where it can possibly touch the oven. It will melt on the glass door and it will not come completely off…ever. Using the air fryer I think also gets a brown residue on the glass door that is impossible to completely clean off. I tried a lot of different”remedies” with just minimal results. So Ingot Shiny new one and am being extremely careful to try to prevent anything from marring it. We’ll see, with time. Meantime it’s a handy little oven. I really like it and it’s not so expensive it can’t be replaced.

This toaster oven has multiple functions – it can also air fry, bake and broil. Yet doesn’t take up a lot of space. Very easy to clean. A very satisfied!

I’ve been wanting a toaster oven for simple stuff, like warming up frozen rolls, broiling an open faced sandwich, etc. Nothing fancy. Not looking to roast a chicken, bake a cake, etc. Just something for when a microwave won’t do (you need crispy) and you don’t want to heat up the whole kitchen by firing up a big oven (especially during the summer in Florida). This little appliance does the trick. Heats up instantly, no pre-heating. Melts the cheese on an open faced sandwich in just a couple of minutes. Has a crumb tray for easy clean up. The controls are super basic. I mostly use the toaster timer, which makes a hilariously retro ticking sound (apparently it uses an old-fashioned mechanical timer), and just watch through the glass window to see when things are done, since cook time is usually just a couple of minutes for what I’m doing. No digital displays or controls. Really basic. Which also means really inexpensive. Controls weren’t immediately intuitive, but by “immediate” I mean that it took me all of a minute or two to figure out how to make the toaster oven do what I wanted. Simple. I already have a full-size oven for serious baking, so I didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars and take up a lot of counter space for a fancy appliance. This simple, small, inexpensive toaster oven is just what I needed — basically a horizontal, enclosed toaster, just like I remember from the good ‘ol days.

The listed dimensions of it on the amazon page are also wrong – and quite frustrating how mislabeled they are. By my measurements of the product I received, it is 15 inches wide (left to right), 8 3/4 in Depth (front to back), 8 1/2 in High (top to bottom). These are the measurements for the OUTSIDE of the product, not the inside. These dimensions are not able to properly manage a homemade loaf of bread.

That being said, this toaster oven was bought as a stopgap measure for our oven which no longer works. We use it to make anywhere from pizza, calzones, cinnamon rolls, to bread. Essentially it is the workhorse for my burgeoning passion for baking and cooking. I have not used it to make any sort of meat dish at all.

As well, the performance of this when it comes to baking is fairly poor. I don’t say poor as in it does not cook, but that it takes longer than the temperature and time allotments allow. It is unreliable. Following a temperature set in the beginning would not be enough, it would need to be higher and hotter if not also longer, and because of that I’ve had several dishes come out either undercooked, or dry and over cooked.

This toaster oven however, has an annoying habit of simply turning off the heating elements and leaving the contents to cook itself, thus leading to the constant need to adjust and readjust time and temperature.

For comparison’s sake I also have an airfryer which performs far more consistently for the uses needed. It has made pizza and donuts and bread far better, even though I am a neophyte baker. That is no excuse for the unreliability of this product. It works and does its job, it just does it poorly. My rating of three stars is because it still does the job with much supervision and readjustment in my time of need.