Toaster Oven Debate

Comments compare a featured precise or high-end cooking device to simple toaster ovens and other small kitchen appliances, often recommending the latter as cheaper, effective alternatives without smart features.

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Sample Comments

huhtenberg Feb 8, 2022 View on HN

It'd be more appropriate to fall back to a toaster.

scrrr Mar 7, 2017 View on HN

Is this different from any of the other similar cooking devices?

boromi Aug 8, 2019 View on HN

this would be pretty fun for other small kitchen appliances like toasters and toaster ovens

Scoundreller May 20, 2023 View on HN

get an instapot! Save lots of energy while cooking faster. (depends on what you're cooking of course).

seizethecheese Aug 14, 2024 View on HN

Sounds like a toaster oven to me

ape4 May 23, 2020 View on HN

Have you the tried the iCrock, it will change your mind ;)

mnky9800n Oct 26, 2023 View on HN

I wanted a table top oven, my flat doesn't have room to have a built in one. At the shops it was impossible to find simply an oven. Everything was some kind of oven, rotisserie, smoker, steamer, microwave, air fryer contraption. They all wanted 500+ euros for the honour of owning such a device. There were no knobs or buttons. Only a touch interface with dozens of icons with no description as to what they did. And when you use them, they seem to use all of their functionality with some kind

storborg Dec 6, 2010 View on HN

This is the single best reason to have a toaster oven.

zackbloom Dec 9, 2016 View on HN

Isn't a toaster oven a solution to this?

ithinkinstereo Apr 19, 2017 View on HN

Thanks for doing the analysis. I'm going to order one of these RIGHT AWAY. It's a perfect complement to my $1,500 June toaster oven!