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grumpyduck

(6,198 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 06:36 PM Dec 2022

Remedial help with a toaster oven please.

We have an Oster toaster oven from when we cleaned out a deceased friend's house a few years ago. It was brand-new, still in the box. Yesterday I decided to give it a try toasting some Thomas' Toaster Cakes, so I read the instructions such as they were.

They told me what buttons to push to toast something, but there was nothing on whether the thing turns itself off, like a microwave, after a given amount of time, or if you have to stop it manually. All I could do was check it now and then and stop it when I thought the things were done (and before burning down the house).

Can anyone here give me some remedial help?

These gol-danged modern contraptions, geez!



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Remedial help with a toaster oven please. (Original Post) grumpyduck Dec 2022 OP
what is the model number of the toaster oven? IcyPeas Dec 2022 #1
I'll have to look up the model number. grumpyduck Dec 2022 #6
I'm sorry to say Effete Snob Dec 2022 #2
Thank you. We appreciate that. grumpyduck Dec 2022 #7
check out these youtube videos - may help depending on what model you have IcyPeas Dec 2022 #3
Whups, was answering the OP. UTUSN Dec 2022 #4
Thanks, will do. grumpyduck Dec 2022 #8
On my clunker, yes can set the minutes on a dial & it counts down to turn off UTUSN Dec 2022 #5
Yeah, I was wondering if it only toasts on the top. grumpyduck Dec 2022 #9

IcyPeas

(21,740 posts)
1. what is the model number of the toaster oven?
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 06:46 PM
Dec 2022

I have a Cuisinart toaster oven and there is a button for "Toast" and you can adjust it for more or less minutes depending on how dark you want your toast.

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On another note I used to love Thomas' Toaster Cakes.... the corn ones. They do not sell them in California. Isn't that a weird! I grew up in NY and they have them there..... as well as Entenmann's cakes. (we get Entenmann's donuts and a couple of other things but not those good pecan rings or raspberry danish things).

grumpyduck

(6,198 posts)
6. I'll have to look up the model number.
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 08:28 PM
Dec 2022

It's probably on the back somewhere.

As far as the Toaster Cakes, yeah. A friend in NY sent them to us in CA.

 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
2. I'm sorry to say
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 06:46 PM
Dec 2022

That even if you manage to toast the muffins, it won't really replace your friend.

I'm sorry for your loss.

UTUSN

(70,496 posts)
5. On my clunker, yes can set the minutes on a dial & it counts down to turn off
Wed Dec 21, 2022, 07:48 PM
Dec 2022

with a bell at the end. And can turn the dial back while it's running to turn it off manually.

My problem was that it's an on the job experiment guessing the time. And it toasts on the top side only. I make do by buttering the underside.

It's got 3 dials - one for function (baking, toast), one for baking temperature, one for toasting time.





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