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Wait, that one weird toaster from the Charlie Brown movie exists in real life?
Seems like you’re ranking stuff low that’s built for different use cases. Like one of those is explicitly for making toast over a campfire, which is really handy if you’re camping.
all those are weak sauce.
behold. the best toaster that toasts toast.
used to throw half baguettes in for meatball subs.
long is far superior to short bread sized slots.
the F tier needs to be only for Internet-of-shit smart toasters with led screens.
Toaster ovens are S tier. This is whack af.
Toaster ovens are multifunctional devices which are good for many cooking tasks. You can do a lot with one, but this flexibility means making compromises.
When it comes to the very specific task of quickly and efficiently making toast, they are not the most optimised tool.
Maybe not, but i like looking through the little window and watching the bread change color to toast.
afraid not. nothing beats the simplicity of bread in, button down, toast out.
No single long slot toaster is a disappointment. Both sides are always equally toasted, and you can fit wide bread slices without having to cut them
Sorry to have disappointed you. I will do better next time.
/r/toasterovenclub does not forget
Excuse me, am I in the right place? I’m looking for somewhere to rant about toasters that beep, and toasters with a motorised lift system.
They feel fancy and then sometimes they try to short circuit your house and then the replacement electrocutes the electrician. cough Breville cough
No Sunbeam radiant control toaster. This list is a farce.
God tier toaster
Came here to say this, also “hello, fellow Technology Connections watcher!”
There’s dozens of us!
Way more than dozens, certainly
We’re most of lemmy I’d bet
Only made possible through the magic of buying two of them
Toaster ovens can toast way thicker and larger slices than a standard toaster, and can also be used as a mini oven.
Toaster oven master race
/r/toasterovenclub was a thing.
I do miss the breadth (heh) of reddit.
if i wanted a mini oven, id use an air frier. but otherwise I should probably get one
Many toaster overs are air friers (often called convection ovens). They are S tier for a wide variety of reasons!
And air fryer is just a toaster oven with a fan
My toaster oven is an air fryer as well, and a good one. Most modern ones are basically toasters/convection ovens/air fryers/dehydrators/etc.
They are so useful if you have space for them.
I have one of those two-in-one pressure cooker/air fryer things. I love the pressure cooker but I find the top loaded air fryer cumbersome to use. Maybe one day I will just get a normal air fryer.
This list is missing the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster, which is utterly unique, and, imo, absolutely S-Tier.
I don’t need to click that link to know what channel it is.
I was beyond belief that such a tier list could exist without it.
As I said, no change requests will be accepted. Thank you for your cooperation.
(It would be B tier anyway. It doesn’t work with thicker slices and it’s unique features are not enough to take it to A)
You’re objectively wrong, but I appreciate your conviction.
Thank you.
Is there a tier class above S for the most advanced toaster ever made?
where the frying pan?
What the hell is going on with the F tier?
If you prefer to avoid single-purpose kitchen appliances, then you will prefer toaster ovens to toasters. (Also, a normal oven can do.)
A toaster oven is also the superior appliance for making toast as it can toast bread that has already been loaded up with things like butter or peanut butter.
I think I see one toaster oven in the list, listed as D tier, which makes sense for that one because it has a built-in coffee maker.
But where’s the normal toaster oven in this list? That would be S-tier.
Beg to differ, I traded my S tier standard toaster for my dad’s toaster oven because he liked mine so much when I stayed with him during COVID times. The toaster oven is top notch but the added utility of preloaded toppings is offset by the counter top footprint. It also only really toasts one side properly.
The kicker is, most of the best applications are better done on a real oven. That’s how I do garlic bread, for instance. The only advantage is if I want to make something quick and sad, such as a pretend grilled cheese sandwich for the kids while I’m sick, I can slab cheese on each slice of bread and put them together at the end. Luckily little kids have no taste, so they don’t mind.
Toaster oven is superior. I don’t mind the counter top space because it is a superior appliance.
Mine toast both sides, as there is a top and bottom heating element. It’s was better for reheating pizza than a microwave (takes longer, but the end result is way better). It’s really handy to have a smaller secondary oven when cooking big meals. I roasted a turkey breast in mine last year, while the stuffing cooked at a different temp in the oven.
reheating pizza
Blasphemy!
Cold pizza is the world’s greatest food and this is a hill that I am willing to die on!
Well, go die on it without screaming your preference for culinary perversions at the rest of us.
Cold pizza only works for veggie light slices. If you go hard on the green peppers/onions/etc, reheating is key.
I’ll concede it’s good at pizza reheats. We don’t do that often but it’s much better than microwave and about the same quality but faster than oven.
Depending on the size, it might not be that useful for secondary dishes but that’s mostly cause mines just slightly too small for my standard casserole dish. At some point it’s just a mini convection oven, which I have used before for Thanksgiving and it’s admittedly a godsend (although I’d only borrow it. I very much do not have the space for one).
Mines also both sides heat, but I think it’s a little different still as only one side will have hot metal pressed against the bread. You get a little different taste/texture with both sides pressed against the hot metal. I suspect it’s also more energy efficient, too. Suffice to say it’ll still be S tier for the standard toast case.
All toaster ovens are D because of the size, slower heat-up time and more complicated access (it’s all hot and you need to put your hands inside. in other toasters the bread is easier to grab). All ovens can be used as toasters, yes, but it’s an overkill to use them to toast a single slice of bread. As such, they are very good and useful appliance but not the best toaster.
When I open the door on my personal toaster oven, it automatically pulls a rack partially out of the oven (using a little hook on the door), so there is no need to put my hands inside the appliance. Knowing this, I position the food items toward the front of the rack so that they will come out easier.
You might have to be careful when removing things that have toppings or whatever, but since a normal toaster can only produce dry toast, it would be unfair to leave those items in the comparison criteria. So, we should just stick to dry toast.
With a toaster oven, you can always just grab dry toast from the top edges, and your hand, which we’ve already established doesn’t need to actually enter the toaster oven if it has a feature like mine, doesn’t even have any chance of coming into contact with the rack, either.
I also don’t think a toaster oven is necessarily slower than a toaster. It simply depends on the heating elements. Even among toasters, some are faster than others.
I will admit that subjectively, it probably feels like toaster ovens are slower due to a difference you didn’t mention, which is their more complicated controls and mechanisms. But since my recommendation was predicated on not needing overly specialized tools, I think a lot of specialized tools are simpler to use than general use tools. And this difference becomes smaller and often irrelevant as you get used to the tool.
Interesting. I may do some extra research in the future. For now the tier list is final.
