Customer Reviews

Black&Decker Chrome Toaster Oven/Broiler

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1 star:		(7)

 

 

Update: I moved away from cheap toaster ovens and got the Cusinart TOB-50. I've had it for nearly a year now, and it's been great, no failures, heavy use. It's pricier but very worth it. Better than the Classic Toast-R-Oven and very usable, unlike this piece of junk.

I got this toaster because the $30 Classic Toast-R-Oven from B&D did fine (but the toast switch kept failing). I thought that the price premium was for the brushed metal look on the Classic TRO. (The Classic does fine for toasting bread. It's literally a disposable toaster oven. Use it for a year or two, then toss it when you burn enough cheese inside it)
THIS one, however, is a piece of junk. It's great until you use it. Toast burns on one side before looking toasted on the other. It takes way longer to toast and the timer moves the whole toaster around so you have to hold it too.
While this one has one heating element at the bottom, it has only one on top, not two like the Classic TRO. Even though you can place the rack very high, hoping to get even toasting, the bottom still gets done faster.
It isn't even evenly toasted on one side - maybe the metal housing conducts heat away or something, but one part of the toasted side gets darker. A total failure as a toaster. As a toaster oven, the unevenness also comes in, but I don't seriously bake stuff here. Just open-faced sandwiches, or reheating pizza etc. This appliance does a lousy job with those as well.
I got mine at Target, and I returned it. Buyer beware. I wouldn't take it for free.

We just received this for Christmas and it it the worst toaster oven ever. Not only does it take two cycles to actually toast, but in order to get the top brown, you end up with a partially burnt underside. But, that isn't even the worst part. This thing is HOT, really hot and I'm very leery of having it burn the cord and starting a fire, not to mention burning my hands if I forget and push it around after using it. What a total piece of junk, avoid it like the plague. I'm taking it back.

I bought this toaster oven a few months ago. It clicks like a timer. It always burns one side and doesn't cook the other. Then the light stopped working, so you couldn't tell if it was on or not. Then it started just sometimes not shutting off. I would put all switches on off, and come back and find it very hot much later. Very dangerous. It has finally just stopped working all together. Good riddance!!!

I received this as a wedding gift and from day one it hasn't worked very well. We always have to microwave everything we cook after we use the toaster oven because its not quite done. I also have tried to cook waffles ... it burned one side while making the other side soggy. Either spend more money on something that actually works or just stick with your regular toaster and microwave.

This toaster looked the best and had the price and brand name that I expect at Target. Unfortunately, the performance was poor as nothing toasted evenly. And the toaster ticked down the time like an old kitchen timer.

I have owned Black & Decker toast ovens in the past and been happy with them, but this toaster oven is an evil toast burner. It 1) clicks annoyingly, 2) can't be turned off halfway through the toaster cycle if you think your toast is already done, and 3) ALWAYS burns the bottom of your toast and leaves your toast top raw. This is in part because 4) there is only one heating element on the top and on the bottom, instead of the two strips the old toaster ovens had. The bake function also burns things.

DON'T BUY THIS TOASTER OVEN!

My husband and I were remoldeling our kitchen. We tossed our grungy 7 year old black and decker toaster (worked great, incidentally) in favor of this nicer looking model. Big mistake! No matter how I position the rack, there is no way to toast, cook, bake or brown evenly in this toaster. We have always used our toaster oven primarily for making toast and reheating pizza and other foods. It is impossible to do either of these tasks well using this toaster oven. One side always burns before the other is done.

Toaster ovens have never been known for their toast, but this is ridiculous. I can only advise using the broil setting because otherwise the bottom of your toast is burnt before the top is done. Oh yeah, the other bonus prize if you use the toast setting is...if you look at it and it's done, you can't just turn the knob and shut the thing off (although I didn't FORCE it)...you can either wait it out or remove your toast as the machine continues to toast nothing.

On the other hand, it works quite nicely for tasks in which you use the little pan. Frozen pizza and other convenience foods do well here, and the temperature seems fairly true to the stated settings (of which there are few.) Great if you don't want to heat the "real oven" for a few pieces of garlic bread.

Only toasts/browns a two inch strip. There is only one element in the middle of the top and one in the middle of the bottom. I too got it because it looked nice. It still looks nice, while we had to pull out our old stuff to actually have toast.

The first time I used it, no problem. The second time I used it SMOKE came out from it setting off the fire alarm in the kitchen. People keep telling me that maybr crumbs got in the bottom of it but at the rate the smoke was pouring out, I seriously doubt it.


DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE.