Monday, August 25, 2008
Dirge
Well, it’s Sunday night (you didn’t really think I wrote all those 8:00 AM posts that early did you?!) and I’m still tired and cranky.
Despite a long nap on Saturday and sleeping in on Sunday.
Not sure what this means for work on Monday (or today when you’re reading this) but I doubt it’s good. if it wasn’t so hot I’d go make some cookies, but it’s almost 9:00 PM and it’s 79 F outside, which means it’s really too hot to turn on the oven. I spent all summer looking at countertop toaster/convection ovens, and think I’d really like one, but we spent enough this summer that I couldn’t justify the expense.
But I think I will get one before next summer, because it would be really nice to be able to make a single batch of cookies without heating up the entire house. Especially since I tend to keep frozen cookie dough balls in the freezer. So if anyone has one or has any recommendations, let me know.
Now I think I’m going to curl up and think of all the chocolate baked desserts I’m going to make once it gets cooler.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Ook!
Good morning.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:43 am
We got this one two years ago, and are really happy with it. It really cuts down on the heat in the summer. It is a convection model, so you’ll have to experiment with baking a bit to get the times right for your baked goods.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I thought you wrote them at 7 AM.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Our toaster oven gets horrible reviews but I love it. It’s a large capacity Euro-Pro with a curved back so it can hold a 12 inch pizza (though we’ve never used it for one that large). Ours isn’t convection, and we still need to play with temps and times, I think because the heating elements are closer to the food (I think it dries the food out faster). Lowering the temps for some things by about 25 degrees seems to help. That doesn’t really help you pick one though — as I said apparently other people have a lot of problems with this brand.