Toaster Oven Reviews

Sep 23, 2010 11:55:05

Brand : T-Fal

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Bake, broil, toast (six slices), and reheat your favorite foods with T-Fal's Avante Elite convection oven. No other manufacturer has a unique warming compartment which allows you to warm bread or side dishes while cooking dinner. The Avante Elite convection oven has electronic controls and you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to use.

T-Fal OT8085002 Avante Elite Convection Toaster Oven Reviews By Customers

This is my first toaster oven. I love it! It is easy to clean. Food cooks wonderfully in it. I just couldn't be happier. It is so useful to us, since we are down to just the two of us. We don't have to heat a big oven for a small amount of food. I mix a batch of cookies and cook a few each day so that we always have fresh cookies. The oven actually cooks the cookies more nicely than my big oven! Does a great job on everything! I have cooked potatoes, mini-meatloafs and many meats. I just couldn't like it more!

Plugged it in and found it inert - Rkellerhouse -
I unpacked this item and plugged it into a wall socket. The little display lit but none of the buttons worked. No functions were available for use. I repacked the toaster oven and shipped it back to Amazon for about + having printed a return label. Strangely, the return had to be paid by me with a refund promised. My refund from Amazon amounted to . I went to the local USPS office and found out that I could not have returned the toaster oven for 10.00.
I am a long time Amazon customer and have reordered a second toaster oven from Amazon. So, .00 is not all that much money ... I wonder why or what I missed cautioning me about using UPS (ground) for the return ... better yet, telling me the amount of the refund at the time of the printing of the return label. Oui??

Buyer Beware - Victoria Brown - pacific northwest
I bought this oven two years ago (to replace the microwave) and for the most part it has performed well-enough for re-heating left-overs if you aren't in a hurry. If you want to toast bread though, use a toaster, it's faster.

My biggest complaint with this oven though, is that the rack slides out very quickly and there is NO SAFETY STOP on it. It not only slides out crazy fast, but it wobbles and tips down as it does so. Trying to remove a hot baking dish or tray with sizzling grease in the bottom is a burn hazard, even more so when one is trying to grip with hot pads and everything is unstable and awkward. The oven opening is shallow, just really difficult to get in there without sliding that rack, or accidentally touching the heating element on top. For the price, it should have been designed better.

Also, the inside is non-stick. I am trying to limit my exposure to this chemical coating, and was disappointed that the oven and the trays that came with it were all coated with what is essentially "teflon"..you can do your own research on that.

At the time of purchase, I was unaware of the "glass-shattering problem" and frankly, now that I've read so many reviews about it, I'm ready to toss this out now rather than wait for that to happen next. I'm surprised that there hasn't been a SAFETY RECALL--and that the unit is still being sold AS IS.

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