BLACK+DECKER 4-Slice Toaster Oven, TO1745SSG-1A, Even Toast, 4 Cooking Functions Bake, Broil, Toast and Keep Warm, Removable Crumb Tray, Timer

This works well, once I figured out that to bake anything you have to put the bottom dial to "stay on," and then set the temp above. To turn it off, just turn it up to the circle above it to the left. It doesn't require any kind of preheating, and it's a bit tricky to set it to 425, but overall I am pleased with it. This is my first one, and I'm glad to not have to turn the oven on during the summer. Warning though: buy the parchment paper liners, unless you're ok with the pan that comes with it having permanent brown/black stains. I'm so used to non-stick everything. Even Ajax won't take the brown stains off the pan, and I only cooked a small hash brown in the center of the tray, but somehow the entire pan is coated in a permanent brown.

This oven works great and I love it and I would recommend it.

Very powerful little toaster oven. Bought this as a replacement for the exact model we had for about 8 years. Perfect size for the countertop, very versatile & easy to keep clean. Unfortunately it arrived in the original box, beat up pretty bad. Two of its feet were knocked off & the side & top was dented due to the lack of packing. It was an Amazon wearhouse purchase asas the product still work we just found a way to reattach the feet and ignore the dents.

The unit works well and looks great on the counter. We have no issue with the oven and it does save us from having to use the larger stove oven.I recommend this product

This toaster toasts my toast to the perfect level of toastiness every time. Couldn’t ask for more!

I don't know but this unit seems a bit complex to use.To turn it on OR off you need to use the bottom knob. The bottom knob is multifunction, toast setting, timer set and oven on/off. So if you want to bake something at 350 you need to set the temp knob to 350 and turn the bottom knob to the leftmost position marked "Stay on". On my prior also simple 4 slice Black & Decker all I needed to do was turn the temp knob from off to whatever temp I wanted. And thus lowering the temp all the way down was off. On this you need to turn the knob to the position marked with a small circle to turn off the oven.Also on my last unit the heating elements were switched off as long as the door were open. Not on the new one. The heating just continues with the door open. Some might think this is a good feature but I don't. You must remember to turn the bottom knob off, to the position marked with a small circle, when you open the door if you don't want it to be on with the door open. So don't open door pull out food and walk away because the oven will still be on with the door open.Also the sides of the unit get HOT. On my old unit you could move the thing around a little with this unit you will sear if you touch the housing.Maybe this does not matter but the temp control only goes up to 450F. Then beyond that it is broil. I have these particular frozen dishes that require 500F for 50 minutes to come out perfect. Maybe they will cook properly at broil?This bottom knob is very difficult to turn to the "leave On" position. It is very smooth so you may need to use two hands if your hands or the knob are not clean and dry. For short heating it is easier to use the timer function to allow the bake, broil, warm functions.A note about Toast. You need to turn the middle knob to toast. I don't know how leaving the knob on bake or broil would effect the toast. Then you need to turn the bottom knob right past 10 minutes to activate toast then turn the same knob back to the desired toast light/dark setting. Since this is a 3 function knob the toast color range is jammed into only one 1/4 turn of the knob meaning it has to be difficult to fine tune. Then since you must turn this knob anytime you use the oven you can't leave the knob set on you favorite light/dark setting.Final gripe. When you open the door the tray does not automatically come partially out of the oven. Neither did my old toaster oven move the tray out but the ones I had before that all did.Some of these things seem to be common to all current toaster ovens.Now it seems from my search that most if not all the new ovens by all companies only provide temperature control to 450F. Why? I have no specific knowledge.Also I can't find any unit that partially pushes out the food rack when the door is open. Again Why?As far as the heating elements switching not off with the door open I have no idea about other units.About the controls they really don't seem intuitive. I am sure I will get used to them, as most will, but other people who need to cook in the kitchen sporadically will certainly be calling me for help periodically.Otherwise it seems to work fine and probably will cook food just fine. Maybe I am being harsh with 3 stars as once you get the hang of it it is mostly alright but I did not think I was going to have to read the instructions to turn it on or make toast. Only have to read them once. I won't need to keep instructions by the oven.So maybe if these are non-issues for you it is 5 stars since it does work and being stainless is probably relatively easy to keep looking clean.Also on the plus side the combination drip tray sits on top of the grill for baking etc. and can be suspended on the bottom of the grill to catch drips if whatever you are cooking on the grill drips.Finally the easily removable crumb tray is nice.Jay

This was just what my Mom was looking for after purchasing two others from competitors.

Purchased the toaster oven because I had owned a similar model from B+W for at least 10 years that worked flawlessly. I was hoping for the same kind of performance but unfortunately that wasn't the case.There's a couple major flaws in this thing but I'll cut to the chase, It lit a piece of toast on fire. Either the heating elements overheated, or the timer malfunctioned. I placed a piece of bread in the oven, turned the top knob to "Toast", turned the second knob to "Toast" and then turned the timer past 10 minutes and back to a medium darkness level. I walked away, came back to the smell of smoke, and found that the bread was literally on fire.As for the flaws (if you're still willing to purchase after the flaming toast) you can probably already tell that the knobs for various functions are annoying at best. The first time I used it, I just turned the timer knob to the medium toast setting and found that the heating elements didn't even turn on because I had forgotten to set the top timer to the "Toast" setting. It's probably a minor quibble, but it just doesn't make sense to me why I have to set 3 separate dials just to toast some bread. To toast on my old B+W oven, you'd set the doneness and push a switch down. When the toast was ready, the switch would pop back up, turning off the unit. I got over this quickly because it is easy to set the knobs to toast, and I would never forget again after screwing it up the first time.The bigger flaw in my mind is the analog timer. On most other toasters that I have used, its very easy to consistently set to a particular "doneness" or "darkness." Usually there's some preset number of settings that are easy to see and easy to set. The timer design on this toaster makes it extremely difficult to consistently get the same level of doneness. This is because the timer itself has very small doneness indicators, is analog which requires you to turn the knob past 10 minutes and back to your desired doneness, and is positioned at the bottom of the unit which requires you to bend down and squint as your try to match the desired position. The crux of the issue is that they tried to combine the timer for the oven with the timer for the toast, but because the timer for the oven goes up to 30 minutes, the range for the toast is very small on the left side of the dial. Considering I'd never really bother with the oven timer (I'd just use Stay-On, which it does have, and time my cooks elsewhere), this was really frustrating to me. When my two year old asks for a piece of toast, I'd *really* like to be able to know that I'm getting a reasonably cooked piece of bread, not a charred hockey puck. Instead I tended to lean more towards whiter, which left me with soggy uncooked bread.I can't even really comment on how well it bakes because I hadn't owned it long enough to find out before it almost started a fire in my kitchen.