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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Oven for You and (If Applicable) Your Diet!, March 14, 2007
This review is from: Black & Decker FC150B InfraWave Speed Cooking Countertop Oven, Black (Kitchen)
Ok, I must admit that when I took the Black & Decker FC150B InfraWave Speed Cooking Countertop Oven out of the box and felt how light it was, I thought: "What is this? A toaster oven?" Well I was quickly proven wrong as I put it through its' paces soon enough. My first use of the Speed Cooking CounterTop Oven was to cook a frozen chicken breast. I coated the rock hard bird with some olive oil and spices and then popped it in. I set it to broil and in about 25 minutes I had a golden brown piece of chicken which was moist and juicy inside. Try this in a conventional oven and you usually end up with meat with super-ball consistency. The next night I baked a fillet of catfish which was bathed in olive oil, herbs, garlic, lemon slices, and white wine. I baked it at the fish fillet setting and in 15 minutes, my meal was done to perfection!
I went out and bought 3 "pyrex" dishes which easily fit into the oven, one for baking/broiling, one deep dish for lasagna, meatloaf, and a cassarole with lid, for stews. Now what this helps me with is that I am now cooking smaller portions. One will no longer cook as if you are feeding the 8th army, leaving a slew of leftovers in the fridge. If you are single, or a couple, you will not mind that you are cooking smaller meals, because not only is it good for your waist line, you will also not waste food. Since using this oven is fast and efficient, cooking will not seem like a chore.
Now obviously if you are feeding a family of 5, this oven may not be for you.
My one caveat, as noted by others, is that the top of the oven does indeed become too hot. You will not want any children around it, but that's a good rule for any type of cooking. Some additional weight of the oven could have been used for some insulation between the inner and outer walls.
I also want to point out the complaint that you need to fiddle with the timing settings sometimes in order to cook your food the way you want. Well no one is proclaiming that this is a magic oven that will automatically have every single setting, for all types of food. Consider that when you cook in a conventional oven who know that a 1 inch rib steak will be medium in less time than a 3 inch piece. Once you use the oven a few times, you will know whether or not you will need to adjust the time of your meal without any brain strain.
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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Little Oven, January 6, 2007
This review is from: Black & Decker FC150B InfraWave Speed Cooking Countertop Oven, Black (Kitchen)
After watching the infomercial several times, I could no longer resist the urge to buy one. Upon it's arrival I opened up the box, set it up on my counter and have been running it through it's paces.
I must say this oven is very light in comparison to what I imagined. As a result I store it away in it's box and just pull it out when I'm going to use it. The inside dimensions are 10-5/16" x 11" x 6". This size will accomodate the included slide rack, bake pan, and broil rack. It will also accomodate an 8" x 8" or 9" x 9" glass dish.
The oven has several settings: pizza, cookies, quick foods, speed toast, bake & roast, broil, and the convert menu. I found the speed toast setting to work very well and quickly brown toast to perfection. The pizza setting I found to be a little short on time, so I now use the add time buttons to increase the cooking times by three minutes. I've also used the convert setting to bake canned, refrigerated cinnamon rolls. It did an excellent job converting the cooking instructions into Infrawave instruction. In ten minutes (no preheating) I had perfect rolls. On items with sweet toppings (ie: sugar, cinnamon) I found that covering the top with aluminum foil for the first half of the cooking time prevents the items from burning on top.
Overall, I have been very pleased with the performance of this appliance. I will update this review once I've had time to try out the bake and roast setting and the broil setting.
Update 10/08:
I've continued to use this oven frequently and am very happy with it. The broil feature has been especially useful. I normally wouldn't broil anything as it took way too long for my electric oven to reach the necessary temperature. Plus the door needed to be propped open. That is not a problem with the Infrawave. You just stick the food in, hit the broil button, and in just minutes your steak, chicken, etc. is done to perfection. Thanks to Black & Decker for making such a great cooking product.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Perfect toast, December 21, 2006
This review is from: Black & Decker FC150B InfraWave Speed Cooking Countertop Oven, Black (Kitchen)
Amazingly quick, perfectly browned toast--bread, bagels, and english muffins. And it is actually cool to watch it cook.
Haven't used it as an oven yet though. Advises against using frozen foods that are to be cooked in their plastic container even if container has oven as well as microwave cooking directions.
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