I use a countertop toaster oven mostly

Our family uses one quite a bit, too. It heats up faster than the big oven and saves a few cents. It's not really obsolete.

Don't you live on a cattle ranch?

If I lived on Southfork, I would BBQ steaks every night.

Cooking gas in cheap in NYC electricity is not. I toast bread in a pop-up toaster a lot cheaper than the toaster-oven specially if you are just doing two slices of toast or an English Muffin.

baconheart wrote:

Cooking gas in cheap in NYC electricity is not. I toast bread in a pop-up toaster a lot cheaper than the toaster-oven specially if you are just doing two slices of toast or an English Muffin.

Wut?

I'm not THE Patrick Ewing. I live in NY

I guess I dont use the toaster oven to save money, just convenience. It saves so much time, they are big enough to cook half a chicken, and make food taste so much better than the microwave.

If I hover over the toaster oven when it's on, i sweat all over it,

I cook almost everything in a toaster oven unless I have to boil something. I have never owned a Microwave and don't think anyone should. If I had to roast a turkey, I'd use the conventional oven. But to broil chicken or melt cheese on top of things, which is most of my diet, a toaster oven does fine.

I also don't use the oven much any more. I typically use a grill instead.

We're the same way at my place - we have a toaster oven that can fit a whole chicken and can do convection. We have probably used the real oven twice in the last year, use the toaster oven almost daily.

Can He wrote: I have never owned a Microwave and don't think anyone should.

Why shouldn't we own one?

I do all my cooking on the iron but use the radiators to warm up frozen items.

I use the stovetop for almost everything. I think your diet and size of the family dictates a lot. My family eats vegan, so it's a lot of non-cooking and then what we do cook is all done in a skillet or a soup pot. A lot of soups, some pasta, tofu scrambles, wraps, beans, etc. Very rarely do we use the oven, except for a treat of frozen pizza every now and then.

Crock pot or bust.

Not Cool Bro wrote:

Can He wrote: I have never owned a Microwave and don't think anyone should.

Why shouldn't we own one?

I cannot really answer this, but I would love to know why people own microwaves. I am not anti-microwave, but I have never seen the need for them. When I got married, my wife had one and it sat on our counter and never got used. So we gave it to Goodwill when we moved and never bought a new one.

I am not a particularly great eater, but I don't eat microwave dinners. Heating stuff in a toaster over or on the stove is easy and quick and I would assume it tastes better. The only leftovers we ever have are typically pieces of pizza, and a toaster over is so much better for pizza. A microwave just makes it chewy and wet.

Don't get me wrong, I have used them in the past. If it works out best, great, but I cannot imagine a scenario where a mic is better than a toaster oven.

I agree that a microwave oven is relatively useless but it is good for heating up soups and sauces and relatively faster than the stove top.

I am also thinking of getting a solar oven. I heard they are great for slow cooking. Just throw some food in it before work, come back after and you have a slow cooked tender meal.

I use a microwave every morning to heat water for my coffee using a French Press. I also use it for... well, I guess that's about it.

Toaster ovens, and crockpots especially, are inefficient and use high amounts of electricity.

I never use those, and never use an oven either.

Energy use wrote:

Toaster ovens, and crockpots especially, are inefficient and use high amounts of electricity.

I never use those, and never use an oven either.

LOL. Idiot.

[quote]Can He wrote:

I have never owned a Microwave and don't think anyone should.

Microwave ovens cook very evenly without scalding or burning, if you program the timer properly so it shuts off at the right time.

You can not really cook anything liquid or semi-liquid in a toaster oven.

Microwave is Best way to cook vegetables. potatoes. soup.

Also Best way to cook popcorn. NOT in a pre packaged pouch. Throw regular popcorn in a microwave safe container with a lid, add a little butter, 4 min.

Very handy for quick hot sandwiches, make your own burrito, etc.