My toaster oven has died, is there a better choice ?

[bmiller]

Has anyone been using a regular kitchen range? Looking for something bigger.

[RP]

A fellow down the road from me is using range elements in a home made box like a big oven to bake his stuff in so a reg range should be fine I would think. I say it is the same as a toaster oven just bigger.

[Markbo]

I just got a used toaster oven off Ebay for $10.

[bmiller]

Well, I ran to Walmart early this morning. I have a 3-gun match this weekend, and I need bullets. I sprung for the $99 Oster with digital controls. So far, this has been great. Warms the bullets up rapidly, and according to my non contact thermometer, temp control is spot on. Very happy so far.

[bangerjim]

You did right! Cheap is not always cheap.

banger

[Freightman]

bought a Oster at Good Will for $5 and the temp is right and been using it for over a year

[bangerjim]

But when you need one......you need it! Sounds like he could not afford to hunt and peck around junk stores for something that might work....and probably does not. People give things away for a good reason! I throw things in the garbage when they do not work. Most people try to get a tax donation for it, even though it is it pure trash.

I too have stories of buying real nice stuff at junk stores for just a few dollars, but those stories are few and far between, and I did not need the stuff "right now" when I bought it.

I usually buy everything new anyway. I have been burned too many times and wasted far more than new would have cost on used electrical junk from stereo receivers to BluRay players to toaster ovens and cameras.

Just not worth it.

But good luck if you can find what you want..............when you want and need it! AND..........it actually works.

banger

[jameslovesjammie]

You may want to take the cover off your toaster oven before you toss it. There may be an internal fuse. Then you've got two ovens...twice the production rate!

[bmiller]

I will tear it apart before I junk it. The lower elements were working intermittently. The old one just had simple dials, and the temp control was not that precise. I think the new one already has me spoiled. I was happy to get it out of the house before my wife requisitioned it! She said to me this morning it was much nicer that what we have in the kitchen. I had an old heat treat oven before the toaster oven. The temp control stunk! Last time I used it I had 800 bullets coated and it got too hot and ruined the batch. I was sick.

[Beagle333]

Wire that baby up straight and hook a PID to it!

[bmiller]

Good idea!

[el34]

Wire that baby up straight and hook a PID to it!

Frozone unit! Blast from the past.

[leadman]

I started with an old B&D that I stole from the kitchen, needed a new one in there anyway. I bought one from Goodwill for $10 and it worked great but had a resistance temp control. I then bought a digital oven for $4 from a thrift shop that someone had melted a plastic bag on but otherwise was about new. I built 2 pid units for the other ovens and now they work fine.

Doesn't hurt when you have time to fix your old oven if possible or buy another as a spare from a thrift store, etc.

[smokesahoy]

If you want new and have an Aldi near you, they are selling connection ovens for like 30 bucks