Our toaster oven just died !

[Yvonne Smith]

About 2-3 years ago, we got a really nice Emerille air-fryer toaster oven. Our regular oven on the stove does not work, so the toaster oven is all that we use now when we bake something. Sometimes, we use the air fryer to make baked squash or baked potatoes, which are much more flavorful than from the microwave.
Anyway, it had started getting erratic a few months ago, and one day, it was turning itself on and off and the little alarm bell kept dinging at me, so I told Bobby (Mr. Repairman) what it was doing.
It has one of those computer controls, but Bobby cleaned everything and then it worked oaky again for a while and then started acting erratic again, so I started unplugging it once i was done baking something , for fear it ight start turning on overnight and somehow catch the house on fire.

So, yesterday, I was baking the last of the IdaRed apples to make an apple cobbler, and the timer kept malfunctioning and turning off. Bobby finally got it to work long enough to cook the apple cobbler, but in the meantime, I went searching for a replacement toaster oven.
This time, I ordered the most basic one I could find that just has timer controls and not the digital ones that you touch to make it work. It does regular baking, toasting, and air-frying, and that is all we really need.
It is a Black and Decker, which is a good brand, and not expensive either.
It arrived from Walmart with our grocery order this morning, so Bobby has it all set up and the old one gone some mysterious place that only Mr. Bobby knows about (commonly known as his workshop).

 

[Hedi M.]

I have used ones for years, instead of stove oven . My first was a,GE and loved it for 8 years. Then they stopped making them,not happy. For last 4 years using another brand. Took forever to least like it. Helps having one a lot.

 

[Don Alaska]

About 2-3 years ago, we got a really nice Emerille air-fryer toaster oven. Our regular oven on the stove does not work, so the toaster oven is all that we use now when we bake something. Sometimes, we use the air fryer to make baked squash or baked potatoes, which are much more flavorful than from the microwave.
Anyway, it had started getting erratic a few months ago, and one day, it was turning itself on and off and the little alarm bell kept dinging at me, so I told Bobby (Mr. Repairman) what it was doing.
It has one of those computer controls, but Bobby cleaned everything and then it worked oaky again for a while and then started acting erratic again, so I started unplugging it once i was done baking something , for fear it ight start turning on overnight and somehow catch the house on fire.

So, yesterday, I was baking the last of the IdaRed apples to make an apple cobbler, and the timer kept malfunctioning and turning off. Bobby finally got it to work long enough to cook the apple cobbler, but in the meantime, I went searching for a replacement toaster oven.
This time, I ordered the most basic one I could find that just has timer controls and not the digital ones that you touch to make it work. It does regular baking, toasting, and air-frying, and that is all we really need.
It is a Black and Decker, which is a good brand, and not expensive either.
It arrived from Walmart with our grocery order this morning, so Bobby has it all set up and the old one gone some mysterious place that only Mr. Bobby knows about (commonly known as his workshop).

We haven't had a toaster over for years. We rely on the oven in the stove. When the Alaska family gathers here, there are 15 people to deal with, so the big oven is required for baking and roasting. We don't bake regular stuff--bread, etc.--since my wife no longer eats grains, but we roast everything from meats to beets.