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As somebody who is firmly anti-toaster oven (they're an inferior toaster and a lousy oven), I'll admit that if you're hell-bent on slicing your bagels this way,

As somebody who is firmly anti-toaster oven (they're an inferior toaster and a lousy oven), I'll admit that if you're hell-bent on slicing your bagels this way, you should get a toaster oven. Everyone else can find a better use for that counter space.

juliangamble 5y ago
Sounds like an @siracusa review meme.
Jarwain 5y ago
How do you feel about air friers? Aka convection toaster ovens
- mauvehaus 5y ago
  I have no idea what this is or how a person would use one in practice, but it sounds like the sort of thing invented by and marketed to people who need to get more exercise and worry less about their use of cooking fat. Edited to add: before everybody gets the impression that I'm a total curmudgeon about kitchen appliances, I think electric kettles are up there with sliced bread and my immersion blender is the best $3 I've ever spent at a thrift shop. I thought food processors were moronic until I discovered how easy they make pesto (so easy!). And I would entertain the idea of sous-vide if it weren't so cultish. On the subject of bread machines, I'm convinced that the world needs no more of them and that the existing supply will suffice for decades if people who wanted to try one went to the thrift shop instead of buying new. I've never seen a thrift shop that didn't have a couple in stock.
  - jiggunjer 5y ago
    Air fryer is just marketing talk for a small convection oven. Useful for small studios or if portability is needed. I bake vegetables and chicken thighs in it because I can't fit a full sized oven into my kitchen. It was a toss up between this and a toaster oven. As I already have a toaster I went with the smaller airfryer.
modeless 5y ago
Really? As toasters they're merely serviceable but as ovens I find them actually good. They heat up and cool down faster and are convenient for the things that fit in them. Which is actually a lot of things if you're not cooking for lots of people.
- mauvehaus 5y ago
  Maybe I look at baking differently, but I don't have a lot of recipes that I bake that would fit in a toaster oven. Even when I've cooked for only myself, I've tended to cook in quantity for plannedovers and freezer meals. I hope you'll pardon my hot take above. I don't consider the way I cook to be the only valid one, but it's genuinely never crossed my mind that I'd bake something small enough that a toaster oven might suffice.
  - samatman 5y ago
    It's a whole different lifestyle. For example: you can bake a full sheet of chocolate chip cookies, eat one or two while they're warm and delicious, and put the rest into a jar to eat over a week. That's a thing you can do. Or. You can make a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, and whenever you're feeling like one or two cookies, bake them in the toaster oven. That way you never have to eat a stale cookie, or even a cool one. Whatever minute out of the oven is your ideal cookie, all the cookies are that one.

juliangamble 5y ago

Sounds like an @siracusa review meme.

Jarwain 5y ago

How do you feel about air friers? Aka convection toaster ovens

mauvehaus 5y ago
I have no idea what this is or how a person would use one in practice, but it sounds like the sort of thing invented by and marketed to people who need to get more exercise and worry less about their use of cooking fat. Edited to add: before everybody gets the impression that I'm a total curmudgeon about kitchen appliances, I think electric kettles are up there with sliced bread and my immersion blender is the best $3 I've ever spent at a thrift shop. I thought food processors were moronic until I discovered how easy they make pesto (so easy!). And I would entertain the idea of sous-vide if it weren't so cultish. On the subject of bread machines, I'm convinced that the world needs no more of them and that the existing supply will suffice for decades if people who wanted to try one went to the thrift shop instead of buying new. I've never seen a thrift shop that didn't have a couple in stock.
- jiggunjer 5y ago
  Air fryer is just marketing talk for a small convection oven. Useful for small studios or if portability is needed. I bake vegetables and chicken thighs in it because I can't fit a full sized oven into my kitchen. It was a toss up between this and a toaster oven. As I already have a toaster I went with the smaller airfryer.

modeless 5y ago

Really? As toasters they're merely serviceable but as ovens I find them actually good. They heat up and cool down faster and are convenient for the things that fit in them. Which is actually a lot of things if you're not cooking for lots of people.

mauvehaus 5y ago
Maybe I look at baking differently, but I don't have a lot of recipes that I bake that would fit in a toaster oven. Even when I've cooked for only myself, I've tended to cook in quantity for plannedovers and freezer meals. I hope you'll pardon my hot take above. I don't consider the way I cook to be the only valid one, but it's genuinely never crossed my mind that I'd bake something small enough that a toaster oven might suffice.
- samatman 5y ago
  It's a whole different lifestyle. For example: you can bake a full sheet of chocolate chip cookies, eat one or two while they're warm and delicious, and put the rest into a jar to eat over a week. That's a thing you can do. Or. You can make a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, and whenever you're feeling like one or two cookies, bake them in the toaster oven. That way you never have to eat a stale cookie, or even a cool one. Whatever minute out of the oven is your ideal cookie, all the cookies are that one.