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Welcome to Test Drive, in which we subject kitchen tools and equipment to the rigor of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen, then judge which ones perform best. What can’t you make in a toaster oven? This kitchen workhorse can take on everything from roasted nuts to cheesy toast to broiled lamb kebabs, not to mention dessert. Www.House Plot For Sale In Oachira By Owner With PicturesBut which countertop oven deserves your kitchen space? Homes For Sale Leisure Ridge Manchester NjWe made pies, Reubens, and (yes) toast in a dozen models to find out.Puppies For Sale Decatur Georgia A dessert that can be baked in your toaster oven? How We Tested the Toaster Ovens We rated ovens on how evenly they toasted, how quickly they reached 350 degrees F and how steadily they maintained that temperature, and their ability to bake, roast, and broil relative to a full-size conventional oven.

The Winner: Hamilton Beach Easy Reach Convection Oven ($70) A removable drip tray catches spills and crumbs. This value model scorched the higher-priced competition. It was one of the fastest to heat up and didn’t have huge swings above and below the set temperature (a surprisingly rare feat): When it was set at 350 degrees, it really was 350 degrees. The convection feature was comparable to ovens three times its price, yielding evenly browned chicken skin. This was the only oven with a rolltop door, which everyone in the BA Test Kitchen loved because it saved counter space and kept the oven door clean. We weren’t crazy about the old-school analog controls, but with such stellar performance and the low price point, we got over it. A) The Speed Demon: Cuisinart Chef’s Convection Toaster Oven ($259) The Cuisinart’s real selling point is its two-speed convection fan, which gives day-old muffins that “just out of the oven” crispy top. The backlit screen is easy to read, but the controls are challenging to figure out.

B) The Looker: Breville Smart Oven ($250) Easy to use and nice to look at, this oven toasts beautifully in the center, but its heating elements are weaker around the perimeter, leaving the edges of the toast blond. It’s sluggish to warm up, but once hot, it turns out a perfect roast chicken. Get the Recipe: Cranberry-Pear Crumble Also, it’s about time you got an ice cream machine. If you’re like most of us, your microwave oven serves two main duties: boiling water and reheating leftovers. But wouldn’t it be great if rather than just taking up a chunk of space in your kitchen, you could actually rely on your microwave for cooking meals? Cooking food successfully in a microwave is challenging because the magnetron, the element that cooks the food in most microwaves, can only deliver full power. Even when set to “50% power”, the microwave oven is actually going through cycles of delivering 100% power, followed by a period of no power. Imagine if your regular oven worked this way!

Instead of cooking a roast at 350 degrees, you’d cook it at 700 degrees for ten minutes, then take it out for ten minutes, and repeat over and over again until the meat is cooked. Good luck with that! The Microwave Inverter Solution Panasonic and GE have microwave ovens on the market with something they call “inverter” technology, which aims to solve this problem. The inverter modulates the level of energy being transmitted by the oven to achieve a consistent level. So when you set 50% power, for example, you actually get a steady stream of 50% power for the entire cooking time. The result is more evenly cooked food, defrosting without cooked edges, and even the ability to keep foods warm until mealtime. Update 6/13/13: Whirlpool AccuWave and KitchenAid Optimawave ovens use the same technology. We spent a few weeks with Panasonic’s NN-SD688S, a 1.2 cubic foot counter top model with 1300 watts, to see how it worked out. Using recipes from Panasonic’s site, including some produced by the prestigious Culinary Institute of America specifically for inverter microwaves, we made hollandaise sauce, fruit crisp, corn chowder, barbecued pulled pork and some other fun dishes.

What we found was that the microwave inverter performed surprisingly well for dishes that required slow cooking in moist environments, such as the hollandaise sauce (which can be tricky to do on the stove top) and pulled pork. Corn chowder worked fine as well, though it would have been just as easy on the stovetop and we didn’t like moving large bowls of boiling liquid in and out of the oven. Perhaps not surprisingly, the fruit crisp was a flop, with a soggy, raw-tasting topping and overcooked fruit underneath. Based on our experiences, we could easily see using an inverter microwave in addition to our standard cooktop and range, especially during busy holiday times when we are trying to cook many dishes at once, while also keeping everything warm until serving time. It is a fast and clean way to steam vegetables, melt chocolate, braise meats or do any one of a number of occasional kitchen tasks that involve steady cooking and do not require browning. So if you are purchasing a microwave, we recommend that you give inverter models strong consideration.

All Panasonic models also recently received the Good Housekeeping Seal, which provides a two-year limited warranty against defects. Whirlpool AccuWave microwave ovens: Buy Now on Best Buy KitchenAid Optimawave microwave ovens: Buy Now on Best Buy UPDATE 4/2/15: With Whirlpool and KitchenAid apparently no longer making inverter models, Panasonic is the remaining brand of choice for this technology. And the Panasonic NN-SE982S was our recent winner in our Best Microwave Oven review. Panasonic's new "cyclonic wave" inverter oven technology, shown at CES 2015, should be hitting stores soon and we will try to get one in to review to evaluate whether it's worth the extra cost. How to Make Microwaves Even Better (An open call to manufacturers) Our experiment with microwave recipes, even those written specifically for Panasonic inverters, clearly revealed another long-standing design flaw with all microwave ovens. It turned our initial attempt at crumbled bacon for the corn chowder into charcoal, and curdled our first run of hollandaise.

The culprit is the nonsensical decision to use a scale of “1” to “10” to set the power level, rather than setting a specific wattage. This abstract power scale becomes a significant issue with microwave recipes because it requires the cookbook author to assume a certain wattage in developing the recipe (often 800 watts, sometimes not). However, microwave ovens vary significantly in wattage, from around 700 watts to about 1400 watts. So a 700-watt oven will take approximately twice as long on “High” as a 1400-watt one to provide the same amount of cooking. To compensate, the cook needs to convert those times for her own oven based on its wattage. But this assumes the cook knows what the original wattage was when the recipe was written and the wattage of her own oven. And if you don't know your wattage, don't bother looking on the oven. Amazingly, many manufacturers don't even print the wattage on their ovens! Talk about trying to make things difficult for cooks!