Hamilton Beach 31160

Advantages: Pretty Fast
Disadvantages: Not up to date

It's ok, but toast comes out uneven. They recommend you put the rack towards the top. Who wants to keep moving the rack from one place to another, for toasting vs. baking? Takes up to 5 min's for toast, and that seems way slow if you're in a rush. Also, I have a problem with these dial-type toasters - Instead of setting the darkness then pushing down, as toasters have done since the Stone Age, now you have to dial to the darkness you want then suffer ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, cooks perfectly
Disadvantages: none

Now, this is a toaster oven. 1- It is cheap (that's not always good, but just wait...!) 2- You now have the opportunity to not only cook, what, pizza, but it actually handles home made cookies! Now, I must admit, when I was in college, I tried to cook some cookies in the DORM toaster oven, DeeeSaasteeRR. Some were burned, others were undercooked. I came away from the experience totally disenfranchised with toaster ovens, especially with cookies (that ...
...So, now we come to today. Today, (actually, yesterday), I decided to cook some cookies in it. Needless to say, I was very apprehensive. No need, they turned out beautifully. And, I didn't have to wait 15 minutes for the BIG oven to heat up. Just had to use the toaster oven. That's it, nothing else. And.... IT'S CHEAP!! ... Read review