Calphalon - Quartz Heat Countertop Oven
Model: TSCLTRDG1
SKU: 6287385
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Customers praise the Quartz Heat Countertop Oven's fast heating speed and ease of use, highlighting its convenient size and high-quality construction. Many appreciate its versatile baking performance and attractive design, making it a valuable addition to their kitchens. A minor drawback mentioned was the limited timer functionality.
If looking for a full size oven replacement, look no further. This little countertop oven is fantastic. It’s way more capable than a toaster oven and, although larger, has a similar footprint. It makes a wonderful addition to any kitchen or a small limited space area like a dorm room. We've cooked a wide range of foods in this oven, many of which a normal toaster could never handle. We’ve baked seafood, game hens, vegetables, pizza, cakes, cookies, brownies, pasta dishes and more. There isn't much we haven't cooked in this yet. Food cooks nice and evenly and the convection feature works wonderfully for roasting when needed. The controls are very intuitive and easy to use. The high contrast LCD is bright and easy to read and all controls are well laid out. We really don’t use our full-size oven much these days unless it’s an event where we have to cook for a large amount of people like this past Thanksgiving. For day to day baking, this little oven handles just about all of our cooking needs, size permitting. The finish and design are attractive as well and it looks very nice on our counter top. It also fits nicely under the upper cabinets and leaves plenty of space above the top for heat to dissipate. This is the best and most useful addition to our kitchen in a while.
Posted by JMan
I have had a toaster oven for as long as I can remember, but it’s usage was a bit limited due to inconsistent behavior - but that has changed since I got this Calphalon Countertop oven. This oven has nearly a dozen built in settings, and has a granular level of control over time and temperature, that perform perfectly. It may take a little bit of playing with to learn the oven, and what settings prepare the food in the way you like it, but it cooks food the same way every time so you can really get the most out of this oven What I really loved about this unit was its flexibility - ; it has 11 built in settings: Bake, Pizza, broil, toast, bagel, roast, defrost, keep warm, reheat, cookies & dehydrate. Within each setting, there is a level of control on temp and time for cooking. The digital display is very easy to use, having default settings, as well as adjustable settings for things like 1-7 for toasting doneness. The manual settings take a bit of time to get used to. Most presets work perfectly, but there are always exceptions, in like figuring out what level is needed depending on thickness of bread and how dark you want your bread or bagel. Once you get the hang of the settings based upon your personal preference, you will get a consistent toast every time exactly how you want it. Despite it taking longer, I found myself using this for toasting bagels over a traditional toaster, because it easily out performed my toaster with a consistent even cook, no more burnt edges or over/under toasted bread. I like my toast just south of burned, where my wife likes hers barely toasted - and this oven makes that a breeze. It does take longer though on initial heat up, so a good toast will take 5 or 6 minutes over the 2 to 3 minutes of a normal toaster. Where this appliance really shines is with its cooking functions; I have had great success with pizzas, chicken fingers, fries, when cooking food for my children. It’s nice not to have to heat up the “big” oven just to warm something up. This oven though can cook just as well as your normal full size oven - we used it to make cookies, as well as roast and broil vegetables on Thanksgiving freeing up valuable oven space, and it performed perfectly. I found that the oven was large enough for anything I would want to use it for, keeping in mind that it is a counter top stove! After using this for cooking in every scenario possible, and being quite happy with its performance, I did decide to try the dehydrator. It seemed like a bit of a gimmick to me and I was skeptical of just how well it would work. I actually own a large dehydrator that I make jerky and dehydrated fruit in fairly often, and did not think a shelf top oven would be able to actually produce something I would like, but I was quite surprised how well it dried out fruit. I was able to make apple and strawberry chips that were great. It is a bit small of a unit though to do any real dehydrating in quantity, like meat, but it does work really well This really is more than a toaster oven and I see why they call it a Counter top Oven, it is like having a smaller second oven, that can do everything a full size oven can, just faster and in smaller quantities.
Posted by Tbeetles
If needing a secondary oven or if in a small apartment/dorm where space is limited and you need a multi-function unit - this will serve you well. Comes with a very skimpy manual. Oven itself is nicely constructed with 2 rack positions and nice large glass window for viewing cooking action. Comes with dehydration rack, baking pan, pizza pan and wire rack. Also has internal light which you can manually turn on from outside. Also bottom tray to catch any drippings, etc. is easily removed and washed. Nice large digital display and controls were easy to learn after a couple of uses and they are; Touch buttons used for light, start, cancel/off First rotary dial used to select food “function” which has time/temp presets for; Toast Bagel Bake Roast Broil Pizza Cookies Reheat Keep Warm Defrost Dehydrate 2nd rotary dial is used to change time/temp if needed. Has turbo/convection function which can be turned on/off. Anything we used it for came out great – rolls, pizza, toast (takes longer than toaster), small pork tenderloin, re-heating. Did not try de-hydrator but am looking forward to giving that function a try. Really nice is fact don’t have to heat a huge oven when you don’t need to. 3 year warranty Downsides; Preheat function is automatic with no timer count down. Turns itself off at end of timed cooking. Sure this is a much needed safety feature to insure you done forget about it. Its use is only limited by internal oven size. Which is mostly due to where the elements on top are located. This makes real usable interior space you can use for cooking smaller than it appears from the outside. This is disappointing as we were not able to cook some items (6 lb ham, whole chicken, etc.) due to this lack of interior volume. Outside gets pretty hot which I found a tad surprising. Make sure it is an area with ventilation and keep “little” hands away.
Posted by mkcar1
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