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Breville Mini Smart Oven Silver

$79.99
$159.95 50% off Reference Price
Condition: Factory Reconditioned; Open Box
Style: Mini Smart Oven
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Top positive review
16 people found this helpful
Wonderful
By Arlington Anne on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2020
This is perfect for my two-person household. It does all the toaster oven things without trying to replace my big oven. What's fun is that it has two very useful buttons: snowflake, which tells the device that you are cooking something frozen, and which the device will take into account, and "A Bit More," which is fantastic. You can add a little time onto whatever you're cooking without having to reprogram it, and this morning I dialed up "reheat" and, instead of "start," pushed "A Bit More." It started heating up to temp without doing the whole preheat thing, which involves all heating elements on full. I had brought home breakfast from a restaurant and set it on the baking tray and put it in the oven while I made coffee and cleaned up, and it was nicely heated when we sat down to eat. I had some pancakes that I wanted to keep warm until we finished everything else, and I put them on a plate, loaded in some butter, covered the whole thing with aluminum foil, and put the plate in the oven on "bake" set at 120 degrees and 30 minutes after the first batch of food came out. The oven was already warm so preheating wasn't necessary. I took it out at about 25 minutes, and it was perfect - the pancakes were still hot, but the plate wasn't too hot to hold. Yesterday I put a frozen bagel in it on the bagel setting with the snowflake button pushed, and it came out hot and crusty on the outside and tender and chewy in the middle. I did split the bagel before I froze it - not sure it would have heated as well if it hadn't been cut. It's nicely small, but will be big enough for my needs. I put a baking rack on top of it and a cutting board on top of that, and the air gap allows me to stack my toaster oven trays and my oven mitts on top. The cutting board is 10 x 14 and is a nice fit. I love using this and highly recommend it. UPDATE: I got a silicone trivet from Joseph Joseph and replaced the baking rack with that. Much more secure because the silicone keeps it from slipping. Also have now tried all the cycles, and have made cookies for the first time in years without burning the bottoms. My favorite is the frozen Shepherd's Pie from Aldi, from solidly frozen to done, perfect, in the paper pan it came in, without heating up the big oven or the house.
Top critical review
Meh. So so toaster oven.
By Patty Bommarito on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2025
This oven has some annoying, less than good design features. It feels like something designed in a high school industrial arts class. It gets the basic job done, but misses some key features. The oven has a digital read out, timer, temperature control, etc. Why not a digital clock? Seems like a clock would be a reasonable feature on a toaster oven at this price The display continues to blink after the toast cycle has run. Why not have it revert to a clock like the microwave does? The crumb drawer doesn't quite close all the way. Because of this design, you have to pull it (the crumb drawer) open in order to completely open the oven door to remove what's in the oven. The look of the oven is nice, very industrial brushed steel. However it's basically a red hot metal box once you run it. It's fairly good sized, so I have to move everything that is close by and pull the oven away from the under cabinet and wall area (a fair distance) then let it completely cool before touching it and putting it back. My previous cheapo Black and Decker had some insulating features on the top and sides. Also annoying, featured on the front of the door is a plastic "guide" that aligns with where the racks should be inserted depending upon whether you're broiling, cooking toast, bagels, baking, etc. This guide looks like something you would remove. And I would if I could. It also appears to be made of some type of heat resistant plastic, the type that would be helpful on the sides or the top of the oven. All the instructions for where to place the shelves are included in the thick instructions manual. The thick instruction manual is thick because it has the same information in three languages. You can save storage space by using a box cutter to slice away the two thirds of this book you will not need. If Breville did what most appliances do, and offered the manual electronically, as a PDF file, they could save enough money on printing costs to include a digital clock on the unit. I guess if you're really looking for a small cumbersome oven and not a toaster that occasionally fills in as a small oven, this product might be for you. I don't recommend it.

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