what do you cook with a toaster oven

[nmeadows0101]

I have been wanting one and it would be easy to take on trips and hopefully easy around the home too.
I thought they would be handy to cook things --- instead of using the stove which can run up a powerbill, and with it warm now the house heats to to much.

What do you cook with a toaster oven?
Meals, snacks, etc.

[hbaqueen]

For the first year of my marriage everything was cooked in the toaster oven or on a counter top griddle or electric skillet b/c we didnt have a stove. So pretty much everything.

The one thing I think its great for is hot sandwhiches like pizza breads, hot ham n cheese, ect without heating up the oven. Small pizzas, biscuits, mexican pizzas or tortillas that you want crunchy and melted cheese, chicken nuggets, fries, hmm okay now Im starting to see why Ive gained so much weight LOL

[nmeadows0101]

how do you fix these in the toaster oven(mexican pizzas) ?
There are alot of things that I have not even thought about since I don't have one yet, but I am on the hunt now.
I wonder if the goodwills or other places would have them? I could get one now pretty cheap and let the guys know I want one for the holidays that are coming up.

[Lurkergirl]

For a while I used one because we didn't have a stove .
I cooked biscuits ,and place and bake cookies .The pizza rolls .garlic bread the sliced kind . Just almost anything it will say if you can't .I think you can't do pot pies .

[TheWoman]

Toaster ovens are really handy if you are cooking for 1 or 2 people. If you are cooking for several you will find it too small for most things. One really nice thing about a toaster oven is that you can stick it outside or in the garage on really hot days and then you don't heat the house at all while you cook.

[tmsmalley]

Top Chef has done the toaster oven thing a couple of times. Here's a couple links about it. This first one is about Thanksgiving dinner for 60 in a toaster oven, microwave and hot plate.

Top Chef - Blogs - Lee Anne Wong - "I Heart Dave Grohl" - Bravo TV Official Site

This is about Top Chef Masters that did it recently too:

Toaster Oven Top Chef*-*oneforthetable.com

You should be able to find recipes and video clips of how they did it on the Bravo site too. Check your power though. I remember when I was living in the toaster oven, electric fry pan, microwave world while my oven was out at one point. Every time they cycled together (they all go on and off to keep the right temps), I'd blow the fuse.

Tess

[pedspeech]

I use mine all the time, pretty much anything that fits can be cooked in there.

[Cynthiabutterfly]

It's really great for browning and crisping things- I use mine in the summer alot, so I don't heat up the whole kichen. Refrigerated dough works great in them, frozen pizzas, fish sticks or chicken nuggets, reheating leftovers (so they don't get soggy in the micro), stuff the kids eat alot of.

I don't know why I never thought to put it in the garage, it's right next to the kitchen - although DH will never remember to use it there...

[anaj06]

We use ours mostly for cheese toast.

[sbp]

We used to have a small toaster oven that we won at a company picnic. Since our kitchen counter was so tiny, we put our regular toaster away and just used the oven.

Great for small pizzas, small amounts of french fries, tater tots and reheating leftover. I also used to make up cookie dough and freeze in smaller portions and whenever I had a cookie craving I'd just defrost one of the portions and bake away.