WIN! Cooking with a Conscience: Energy Efficient Appliances
If you’re like me, then you know there are some real energy hogs in our home: the heating/cooling system, the refrigerator, the washer/dryer and—without a doubt—the oven. Heating up a whole oven to just re-heat last night’s mac and cheese is a real waste of energy. The simple solution is to think compact and small: Like this Cooks Convection & Rotisserie Toaster Oven.
Baking, roasting and re-heating food in a countertop convection oven is a great eco no-compromise solution: it uses significantly less energy than a standard oven and you still get professional, even results in your cooking. Plus, you can chow down on your melty, gooey, mac and cheese in no time flat because this convection oven cooks food up to 30% faster. A built-in fan actually blows air around inside the unit. This ensures more even cooking temperatures and results in excellent cooking quality.
Cooking with a countertop convection oven saves energy and gives you better results. And to help one of you bake up a batch of homemade cookies, a creamy casserole or buttery biscuits, I’m giving a colorful Cooks Convection and Rotisseries Toaster Oven away to a lucky reader. To Win: Just leave a comment telling me: what’s the first thing you’d cook in your new convection oven? I’ll pick one delicious idea to win. Good luck!
-Danny Seo
PS-Check out the bright colors the oven comes in! So cool.
UPDATE: Congrats to Kristin on winning the oven. We used a random number generator to choose the winner. Kristin’s comment was: Traditional chocolate chip cookies. There’s nothing like that wonderful smell!
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I would say something fancy but probably the first thing I would make in this oven would be toast!
I never made kale chips before, but if they can be made at the lowest temperature in this oven, that’s what I would make. Otherwise, I’d bake an organic pizza. Thanks!
I’d bake cookies - I keep a batch of homemade (rolled into balls) in the freezer to make a small batch when we have unexpected guests, or if the mood hits!
I would try to make toast. We had a toaster oven that took waaay too long to make toast which was one of the main reasons for the purchase.
I’d try to make some buttermilk scones. There’s nothing like fresh baked scones!
I’d make a blueberry tart with fruit from my community supported agriculture group and the farmer’s market to share with friends at a dinner party!
OMG! A PINK toaster oven - that’s for me! I’m a jeweler and i fabricate jewelry out of argentium sterling silver - a non-tarnishing alloy - IF, and only IF, the pieces are heated gently at very low heat for an hour in…………a pink toaster oven! Really! (OK, it doesn’t HAVE to be pink:)
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I’ll make a yummy little individual pita pizza for my little boy with all of his favorite toppings! YUM!
I would almost definitely warm up some leftover pizza first…microwaves tend to make the crust chewy (and in a bad way!)…whereas toaster/convection ovens keep it tasting fresh and crispy. =)
Veggie pizza made on french bread with olive oil, pine nuts, spinach, cheese, and artichokes
scones made with fresh blackberries from my cabin