Breville Smart Oven Air

[Laurentius]

9 hours ago, ElsieD said:

I used to have a Black and Decker toaster.  It made fine toast. 

Compared to a toaster oven, sure.

 

Let's put it another way: any toaster generally will make better toast than will a toaster oven.  This for the simple reason that the elements are closer to the bread, making for a faster toast with a moister center.  Better toasters have more "turns" in their resistive wire.

 

The T-20 and successors judged darkness and shutoff via an early but effective IR sensor.  Most toasters before and after have used a variant of the crude thermal spring.

Edited July 4 by Laurentius
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[rotuts]

'  any toaster generally will make better toast than will a toaster oven '

 

simply not true .

 

CSO makes the best toast ive ever made .

 

taste in toast differ 

 

it also does variable thicknesses 

 

its not perfect .  I think # 7 is the highest setting .  some toast need a bit longer

 

it beats out the revile two ways , for my taste :

 

The Breville used some sort of program  to vary the intensity of the heating elements

 

CSO does not .  shy turn down the  heating elements ?   leave them on high

 

]and then time the toast to your doneness liking.

 

and I prefer the results of a sealed toaster to and open toaster

 

before the CSO , never knew there would be such a difference.

 

on the other hand , some don't care for the results in a sealed over.

 

toast in an actual toaster might e better that breville toast simply because the heating elements dont

 

adjust in a stand alone toaster .

 

but ion the end , you have to like the results of any toaster based on your toasty preferences.

[Laurentius]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

CSO makes the best toast ive ever made .

 

Again, I hope I'm wrong; I'd love to try toast in a CSO.  But the further away the bread is from the elements, the poorer the general toast outcome, IME.

 

You're right about individual tastes varying.  Although, there's a large cohort out there that's never toasted in a real toaster.