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I love Pickles. Our paper doesn't publish on Sunday but I managed to find it on-line. Thaks for drawing attention to it.

Today the Instant pot mini 7-in-1 is on sale at Amazon.com for $51.99 and Amazon.ca for $67.99. This is a Public Service Announcement!

Instant pot mini 7-in-1 on sale today. Amazon.com has it for $51.99 and Amazon.ca for $67.99.

It looks liken it although they call it Air Fryer Convection not toaster oven.

I went to the Cuisinart site and they show the CSO and no mention they are being discontinued. I did see a new product, called the Air Fryer Convection.

I made some French dough in the bread machine and then shaped it into small baguettes. I had put a quarter sheet pan on the bottom rack and let it heat up along with the oven. When i put the bread in the oven, i put some ice cubes on the bottom pan. I checked back 10 or so minutes later and was very impressed with the oven spring. Thought you would like to know.

How were they?

@suzilightning you didn't miss much. I am referring to the IP segment. You can watch it on-line at CBS.com

Well, dang, I guess I missed it.

What is this show?

I just read this again. They fail to mention the size of the jar to be used.

That is freaking amazing. I wonder if an eGulleter will attempt this? Maybe someone from the preserving crowd?

From the look of the meals you post, I'd say you flap rather well!

My thought would be to take the veggie bits off and heat them on a panini grill and then add the veggie bits back. But then, I've never reheated a bank mi.

Assuming you live in that neck of the woods, i surely will!

Speaking as one who hardly ever gets out of Costco with "just what's on the list" CostcoGrocery could save me money. That is, if I'm still alive when and if it makes it to Canada.

I kept meaning to post this but I kept forgetting.......a note to my fellow Canadians. I was recently in Bulk Barn and spotted white whole wheat flour. I saw this after I had loaded up with the stuff in Ogdensburg so did not buy any and can't attest to the quality.

There are recommended rack placements when using the Air. The bake position is one up from the lowest position. I just checked and you can put a 1/4 sheet pan between the lowest setting and the rack in the bake position. You could aways pour some very hot water into it or preheat the sheet pan when preheating the oven and throw some ice cubes in there when the bread goes in.

Thanks, @rotuts mine will get shipped to my niece's house in Syracuse but I should have it by Christmas. You will likely get yours before me so I'll be eagerly awaiting to hear what you have to say about it. Hope it's good. I just thought of something. Depending on when she gets it, and the weather, a trip to Syracuse may be in order. I could likely squeeze in a trip to Trader Joe's!

Has anyone heard anything more about this?

@rotuts I forgot to answer the last question. Yes, I bake bread in the Breville. Here are a couple of pictures of the bread baked in it. The first one is a harvest grains, the second brioche buns and the third some rather poorly shaped Kouign Amman.

@rotuts the picture below shows you where my Breville sits. I just pre-heated it to 325F and was able to quickly touch one side of the oven without burning myself. The other side was hotter. I have a cutting board on top of my Breville and have no problems with the cupboard above it. I always cover my dough when proofing, i have not thought to do so otherwise. It is also what the manual recommends. The temperature has been factory set at 85F, but can be adjusted to anywhere between 80 and 100. I have checked the temperature with an oven thermometer and it is accurate. The air fry basket was easy to clean. I just use soap and water, but then I haven't used that function much.

@rotuts a posted a little review on the Breville Smart Oven Air topic, link above.

I just made us some grilled cheese and ham sandwiches using the "Air Fryer" setting. I often use it for these sandwiches as I like my bread on these sandwiches nice and crunchy. You may not. Other than that, i have used the air fryer setting for frozen sweet potato fries and chicken wings. The fries were fine, nice and crispy. The wings were good too, although you have to move them around a bit. That, as near as I can recall, is the total of my experience with this setting. I did not use extra oil with either the fries or wings. I dehydrated some tomatoes which seemed to work well. They are in the freezer and have yet to use them so I can't comment further. One thing I love about this oven is the proof function. It works perfectly. It has a slow cook feature which I haven't used, and has settings for both high and low. Several of the functions work using "super convection". Not sure what that means exactly, but the fan makes considerably more noise. It also has an interior light that will go on when you open the oven door and stays on for 10 seconds after you close it. The one thing that is rather useless is the second rack for things like baking cookies. The top rack browns, while the cookies on the bottom rack do not. This is solved by switching the racks but on a 15 minute bake you need to do this more than once. A but of a pain. All in all, I'm pretty happy with this oven. I rarely use the big oven but that was also true of the BSO. This oven as with the BSO, still sucks at making toast.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/154613-breville-smart-oven-air/ This was the original thread on the Breville Smart Oven Air. I'll post my comments on it there.