For the life of me, I can’t find a decent toaster.
In the past, I’ve purchased toasters that, for some innate reason, only have two temperature settings. I can choose from lukewarm or burnt. Nothing in between.
The last toaster I owned apparently had only one setting – burnt on one side and raw on the other. Which made an order of morning wheat toast or morning toasted English muffins or morning toasted bagels a morning crapshoot.
So last week, I purchased a toaster oven. A Black & Decker model, to be precise.
I probably should have gone this route years ago. I know my Grandma Betty had a toaster oven, and my girlfriend has one (apparently she also owns a Black & Decker model).
I tested the unit yesterday. Two sliced English muffins in … two perfectly toasted English muffins came out.
Look … this might seem like the most insignificant blogging topic one can imagine … but toasting my own food and getting it right now opens up more cooking avenues for me. I don’t have to hover over a toaster and hope that the smoke coming out of it is either burning bread or burning breadcrumbs that I can’t fish out of the crumb tray.
And if I’m not toasting bread or bagels in the unit, apparently – and this is a new concept – I can use the toaster oven as a mini-oven. Baste a couple of chicken drumsticks with some sauce, pop them in at 325 degrees for an extended cooking time … and we now have a new option for bachelor cooking.
I’ll definitely have to investigate more into this.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. I could have invested in an air fryer or in one of those computer-generated heating ovens. But this is a blog that has a subcategory of Bachelor Cooking. You’re lucky I got this far in my life without a decent working toaster, you’re now expecting me to go full-on Ninja Foodie?
FTC NOTE: At no time did I receive compensation for, nor did I request compensation from, Black & Decker for the mention of their product on my blog. All product reviews and opinions are those of the author of this blog, and were not influenced in any way by Black & Decker or their associated companies or interests.
Chuck The Writer 
Is toast the theme for April? Or merely coincidental? (BTW I have a counter top oven as well as a toaster. The former is sort of a toaster oven on steroids. Not a big power saver, but better than heating the whole house for one baked potato. Especially in Summer.)
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My personal advice is to avoid the Ninja Foodie. Amelia and I had one for a short period of time; it always gave us problems, and only lasted a few months before something internal (which couldn’t be repaired) broke. By the way, Amelia and I don’t trust anything that is part of the Ninja product line. ๐ฆ
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