Comments on: Toaster ovens

By: peculiah

peculiah — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:23:48 +0000

Oh you THINK you would use a kitchenaid in lieu of a bread machine but bread machines are addictive. We used ours mostly for dinner rolls (ie take out and bake). I am 100% in favor of the bread machine – I can’t wait to get married just to put one on my registry (my imaginary registry as of now).

If you havea gift card for Sears you could always get something splurge-like such as really high thread count sheets. That could potentially be more fun than a bread machine… :)

By: gally99

gally99 — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:30:35 +0000

I usually check to see if The Shopping Bags girls have done a review on any item that I'm considering purchasing. Watching the show can be pretty informative too :)

By: sensitive_one

sensitive_one — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:20:08 +0000

i tried to find a toaster oven a few years ago and gave up. it was too overwhelming a chore! let us know which one you decide on. :D

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:39:03 +0000

We have two regular blenders, neither of which ever get used, so the immersion blender is sort of a “Well, what if it worked this way around? Would we use it then?” thing. I can’t picture using a slow cooker that often since neither of us eat red meat. When you don’t have stuff that needs to slow-cook all day to get tender, it’s easier to throw a bunch of stuff in the rice cooker or the oven.

In any case, we’ve got a wedding registry to fill too; this is just dealing with the gift cards burning a hole in our pocket. :-)

I’m not sure about bread machines. I got one for my mother a few years ago, and she loves it, but we’d probably just use it for mixing and kneading even if we did have one, and at that point I’d rather have a good Kitchenaid mixer instead.

By: citizenx

citizenx — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:26:04 +0000

Hydro? How is this connected to heating?

(I know. It still sounds weird.)

By: peculiah

peculiah — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:30:58 +0000

Get a blender (smoothies and very gourmet soups) or a slow cooker (I am fascinated by these and the concept that your meal is cooked to perfection for you…and someone I new in University made an apple cranberry crumble that would make a grandmother cry with a slow cooker)…

My appliance dream is to own a bread machine.. my folks had one when I was younger and we used it so often that we burned the motor out.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:39:52 +0000

Yeah, I basically want to get something that we can use instead of the oven for pretty much anything that isn’t the baking of bread. We don’t roast turkeys or anything else that requires that much space and heating ever, so a little box that heats up fast (and doesn’t heat the rest of the house in the summer) seems like a good idea to me.

We don’t pay for hydro here, which is nice, but even then I figure we can still act as though we do!

By: fweebles

fweebles — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:34:40 +0000

We got one o' these as a present, but I think it's probably...a little lower-end than you're looking. It works well and it's cheap, but it doesn't really have much in the way of features.