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| My pride and joy, respectively |
If there was ever an underrated kitchen appliance, the toaster oven is it.
People have toasters, and people have ovens, but not many people (at least by my perception) have toaster ovens.
I calculate this by the health of the toaster oven resale
market. My toaster ovens are always breaking, and I routinely get
like-new replacements from Freecycle or the thrift store at prices
ranging from zero to eight dollars. Apparently lots of people have
toaster ovens they never use, and the secondhand ovens are not in very
high demand.
I, however, adore a good toaster oven. So much more
versatile than a regular toaster (try cooking your mozzarella sticks in
one of those pop-up contraptions!) and so much easier to use than a
regular oven (say goodbye to the 10-minute pre-heat!), the toaster oven
is like a godsend for someone who consumes lots of leftovers and hates
it when they're soggy. Since I've been head of my own household (about
2010), I've gone through around three of them. I even donated one to my
office because the microwave just wasn't meeting my standards. Now that
I've moved into a home with rentable space, I acquired another one to
keep downstairs for guests (in some alternate future where the basement is clean and livable).
I might be the world's foremost toaster oven evangelist!
If you are one of the unenlightened who have not yet experienced the
joys of owning their own multi-purpose toasting device, come join me in
my always-crispy bliss! I can probably even get you a free unit on
Craigslist.
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