This review is from ( Hamilton Beach 31197 Countertop Oven with Convection and Rotisserie
Actual rating four 1/2 stars. A half point deduction for door misalignment. The door doesn't seal like it is suppose to. It is not a seal but a much larger gap than allowed. Either the the frame or the door is slightly warped. A minor error, however, as it still bakes near perfectly and I didn't detected any actual heat escaping. I still think about the build of the oven excellent.
I tested all features and they work excellent. Convection is excellent and cooks much faster and is calm. Much more calm than the Toastmaster convection which was very noisy! This feature is also handy for speedy warm-ups or making bread rise. The rotisserie also works excellent. You must tie the the chicken up well, however.
The timer does not exactly cease on zero. It seems to go on two minutes or more. Again, a minor thing. compensate for this. It could be because the timer is also the on\off switch.
Using a drugstore temperature gauge I found the reading between the gauge and the oven off by about 25-50 degrees. However, everything cooks excellent using the oven degree markings. No undercooked items. In fact, this thing cooks much faster than recommended time in most recipes, sometimes much faster. For example, on its rotisserie feature I found a three 1/2 pound chicken could of been completed about 15 minutes or more earlier than the recommended two hours. A roll recipe I found bakes about 25% faster than the recipe called for and I didn't even use the convection feature for either! (Note: The oven degree reading and the pharmacy temp gauge reading were the same when using the convection feature.)
caveat: I did find the the broil feature slightly weak for red meats, (it more like bakes it) but it did cook the fish nicely (crisp skin) at near exact recommened times.
When using this oven over 400 degrees the sides and top of the oven gets hot, including the controls! I must note this oven has no insulation of any kind. It also has no oven light, but is not needed, but it would be nice.
Includes a leaflet type cookbook that is only a guide, but it does give sample recipes for every feature. to get you started on what it can. Includes racks, a roast pan with separate grill rack, and a aluminium pizza pan with tiny holes througout. For handy cleanups the bottom of the oven can be basically pulled out and washed.
To give you some idea of its size, it can handle a 12" pizza, in the event you have another of its pizza pan. (Though I never tried it). The rotisserie can handle up to a 5lb chicken. The oven a 7lb roast chicken. The oven interior is about 12" front to back (not including crooked glass door), about 13" side to side, and about 10" from top burner coil to bottom burner coil, with each coil about 1/4" to 1" away from the metal surface respectively. The roast pan that comes with it's an inside dimension (excluding the lips) of about 11 1/2" by 9 3/4".
Overall, an excellent tiny oven for the cost.
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