Thanks for these general ideas. As far as timing, I'll usually use a separate timer. Be it on my iPhone or a manual tactile dial crank that's marked every 2 and one half minutes or so that I bought at ILA many moons ago. But mostly, it's just the iPhone. I do have the dials on my toaster oven marked where needed, but as far as the timer, I think it's max one hour. My sighted wife used dymo tape for every ten minutes for me, but even then, I find it easier to just crank it to the left and do the digital timer. When I'm done, I’ll just turn it to off to stop the heating element.
-----Original Message----- From: Jan via Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Jan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] Toast in the toaster oven I set a timer for three minutes, a regular timer, not in my toaster oven dial. It's hard to be that accurate with it, even when I have someone mark it. -----Original Message----- From: Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Pamela Fairchild Subject: Re: [CnD] Toast in the toaster oven Put your toaster oven on the toast setting. Place the bread on the oven rack. Turn the temperature dial as high as it goes, and set the oven's timer for 3 minutes. Your unit may ding when the timer finishes, and the spring action that makes the ding also shuts the unit off. Make sure the unit is off, see if your toast is ready. If not, give it another minute and check again. The most important thing is to reset your unit to the settings you usually use when you are finished. It isn't too bad to attempt to make your toast when set to bake, and at a low temperature, but if you accidentally try to heat your tortillas on the toast setting at the high temperature at which toast is made, you have a disaster waiting to happen. I have burned up more than one set of taco shells. You can save money by using your toaster oven for toast, but at our house we like our pop up toaster well enough to want both units available in our kitchen. Pamela Fairchild <[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: Cristóbal via Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Cristóbal Subject: [CnD] Toast in the toaster oven Hello list, My toaster seems to be giving up the ghost. Toasting unevenly or not enough or outright carbonating the bread. And because I’m cheap and don’t feel like buying another toaster, I thought I’d try out my toaster oven that I already have instead… So, my question is, how does one toast bread/eggos in the toaster oven? I know each toaster oven can be different, but in general terms? I would assume you use the toast option on the dial and what? Put it to 400º? Generally how long do you leave the bread in? Five, six or seven minutes? I know I can experiment, but I thought I’d ask around to get a basic idea before maybe unnecessarily going through God knows how many slices of bread or waffles. Thanks, _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
