Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven, Metallic
Product Description
Two-in-one appliances for toasting, baking and more
The Hamilton Beach Easy Reach Toaster Oven can help you in countless ways around the kitchen - all while saving space and time. Toast, bake, broil or roast, and you'll be thrilled with the results, as well as the way these convenient ovens suit your busy lifestyle.
Product Feature Benefits:
- The ideal toaster oven for all your toasting, heating and small baking needs
- Unique roll-top door provides easy access to your food and removes for fast cleanup
- Easily fits 4 slices of bread, a 9-inch pizza, chicken nuggets or after-school snacks
- Cook with the convenient 30-minute cooking timer or use the stay-on mode
- Includes removable crumb tray, bake pan and broil rack
- Bake, Broil and Toast Settings so you can prepare a variety of foods
Easy Access, Easy Reach, Easy Cleanup
Toaster ovens are incredibly convenient appliances and are great for toasting, reheating and baking. Unfortunately, most of them do not have enough interior space, are hard to clean and make it difficult to reach the food inside. Until now. The Easy Reach Toaster Oven from Hamilton Beach solves all these problems with a unique roll-top door. It frees up working space on your counter because it lifts up, not down, making it easy to reach inside to remove hot food. Best of all, the roll-top door is completely removable, so you can easily clean up messes inside the oven or on the door itself.
Perfect for Toast, Snacks and Meals
With a spacious interior, the Easy Reach Toaster Oven can accommodate the foods your family makes most: after-school snacks, toast, frozen pizzas or homemade meals. With bake, broil and toast settings, a 30-minute timer, and two rack position settings, you can make whatever you like, from French fries to dinner rolls. The Easy Reach Toaster Oven easily holds four slices of bread, so you can make toast multiple slices at once. The crumb tray slides out from the front for easy removal and cleanup.
CUSTOMER REVIEW
Vine Customer Review of Free Product (What's this?) The "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven, Metallic" is a compact, multi-purpose small appliance that may prove useful in your kitchen. Having a footprint that is no larger than the Kitchenaid KMT400 toaster, it should fit into most appliance garages as well as into standard kitchen cabinets having higher shelves.
With the rolling door closed, the "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven" measures approximately 16 ½" wide X 8 ¾" high X 11 ¾" deep. With the rolling door opened, this small appliance measures approximately 16 ½" wide X 10 ½" high X 10" deep.
The door that rolls up, rather than swinging down or out, makes this small appliance well suited for more narrow countertops. Easy removal for cleaning is another plus.
The "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven" does a very nice job toasting whole grain, artisan breads. The interior - approximately 10 ½" X 9" - easily accommodates odd sizes and thicknesses of breads and rolls. The description states this toaster oven will accommodate four slices. It seems those slices would have to be smaller than average or would have to touch each other in order for four to fit. The darkness indicator dial is small and somewhat difficult to read; it would improve this product if it were clearer and more precise.
Baking in the "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven" is a somewhat hit-or-miss proposition. The lack of precision on the timer and temperature controls has an impact on both baking time and product appearance. You will have to experiment to determine the appropriate time and temperature settings in order to produce acceptable results.
If you have only a small item to brown, the broiling function may be useful. However, you will want to watch your food carefully to prevent burning - another downside of the less than precise control knobs.
All three functions on the "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven" cause this small appliance's exterior to become extremely hot. Air temperature around the unit went from 77.5 degrees to 88 degrees when I toasted bread. The surface temperature went from 77.5 degrees to 285 degrees! I used a Thermapen Instant Read Thermometer to measure the temperatures. The sides as well as the top might easily burn one's skin. Should anyone, particularly children and the elderly, who both have delicate skin, accidentally touch the exterior after the unit has been on they could easily sustain a severe burn.
The "Hamilton Beach 31334 Easy Reach Toaster Oven" might be suitable for some seeking a compact toaster oven. However, individuals, who desire an appliance having more accurate controls and better insulation, would do well to look at other models of toaster oven.
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