Using A $329 Toaster For 30 Days

Hello everyone, this is inca, as some of you know, I really love bread, we are the best for this occasion. I eat bread basically every day, but I don't have a

toaster

and I usually eat fresh bread or toast it. a frying pan on the stove that I feel gives me a similar result, but some time ago I heard about this very special

toaster

that apparently makes better toast in a way that you can actually tell the difference and it's also very, very expensively priced . 300, which is crazy, that's a lot of money for a toaster, but I really wanted to see for myself if that was true, so I brought him home to spend some time with him and get to know each other a little better to see if they're a good match. combination.

I also want to say that this is not an advertisement, it was not a gift. I bought this toaster because I wanted to test it and make a video about it. It's been a little over a month since my relationship with this special and expensive toaster before I explain how it's been so far, I feel like I should at least try to explain a little why it's so expensive so you know how often when you use toasters The bread is crunchy, but it is friendly. of drying it, a specific toaster prevents that when

using

the steam cooking method where you are going to pour water like in this little slot at the top that then goes into the toaster oven, the heat creates this steam that helps seal in the moisture and the flavor of the bread before making it crispy with additional heat, so as a result you get this beautiful golden brown color on the outside and a very soft and fluffy texture on the inside, so it's all very scientific, although I will say when I unpack What really caught my attention was just its design.

He looked so cute. It also comes with this little cup that you use to pour the water. I was very worried about losing her. It also came with this manual that kind of explains what each setting is, but even if you miss this, the instructions are actually on the oven. I also love these little symbols around the dial here, each one of them represents a different type of mode, someone who lives in New York and has a relatively small kitchen didn't have enough counter space so what I did was put it on top from my mobile table.

It gets a little hot to the touch in here so I made sure it had its own personal space, the first thing you'd think to make is toast as that's what it's known for, but no, I think I got too excited and decided to make a croque monsieur, it doesn't make any sense, but I think I had all the ingredients at home and I bought them like a rye bread from my favorite bakery, so I made it together with a slice of bread, a little sauce, a little ham, some cheese, I doubled that layer and put it in the oven on pizza mode because that's the mode you're supposed to use for toast with toppings.

I also really love the sound the rotating dial makes, like the little clock ticking, and then the little thing at the end when the bread is ready. I can also hear it from my room which is really nice so I know when to come get my bread and you know what it turned out pretty good the cheese was bubbling on top it was all melted and sticky the bread wasn't as crispy as I wanted but I think that's It's also because it was very ambitious in terms of everything else. I was very happy that it was really cool to be able to experiment from the beginning with a kind of open-faced sandwich situation.

This is like the first of the 30-something items I've tried in the toaster, so it's pretty eh. It's going to be quite a journey after being super adventurous on my first try. I decided to explore the sandwich bread mode a little more. Sandwich bread mode is basically toast mode. Average sandwich bread, the first two slices of sandwich bread I toasted. actually frozen, specifically a frozen sourdough loaf, that's how I usually store fresh bread. Preheating these frozen bread slices is actually part of my morning routine. This is what I eat for breakfast. It was very exciting to see the difference when I toasted them in the toaster oven the bread had that sponginess that I missed when I toasted it on the pan, it was definitely moister, the texture was chewy too.

I also experimented with a type of bread more similar to a country bread that I toasted at the artisan. bread mode which actually gives it an even crispier exterior so you can see it browning on the edges, I think I actually burned it a little at first, I think it stayed there for a long time but less alert it didn't do it again , but oddly enough, no matter how crispy the outside gets, the inside will always be just as soft and fluffy, which I really appreciated and I really enjoyed these first two slices with the usual things, avocado, ricotta and honey or, you know , just crispy butter on the outside.

The mouthfeel was very good, but I think the most fascinating thing is how the lights flicker on and off and on and off. I think that's the kind of precise heat control they're known for and also the steam, how it spreads slowly. on the other side of the window and it was like working its magic, that was great, it's like free entertainment right there for me, I could just watch it, I also tried trying two pieces of toast at the same time, I don't think there's a big difference between toasting a slice at a time and toast two slices, so it was great because from now on I could make sandwiches and toast them both at the same time, but then I also toasted some Danish cheesecake and babka cheesecake, both of which are very cake-like. butter and I should have used them in pastry mode, but I actually ended up toasting them like in sandwich bread mode, which is why you'll see rounding on the edges, but because of the moisture from the steam, I have to say the babka.

It was almost like, you know, when you become fresh, like a brioche bun, with a buttery softness and I mean the vodka had been in my refrigerator for about three or four

days

and it really resurrected it, I think the Danish got a bit. A little burned, that's when I learned the hard way that

using

the right settings for the right type of bread really matters because, while trying to figure it out, I toasted an old baguette and a chocolate croissant in sandwich bread mode instead of bread mode. cake shop. I don't know what I was thinking, they both ended up badly burned.

No, I still ate them anyway after scraping off the top, but yes, the right setup really matters. Also if the bread or dough is too tall it will burn because too close to the heat source, I only saw later that apparently it can't be taller than 2.2 inches. However, I turned my burnt bagel into a burnt bagel sandwich and it was very good even though the outside is crispy and the burnt inside is still chewy. soft, which I thought was just amazing. I also tried toasting a waffle, a frozen waffle. I ended up toasting this waffle twice because I felt like it didn't have enough color, but I actually think once was enough in the end it wasn't as soft as I normally like to enjoy, but yeah, I think for toasted waffles the difference wasn't that big. for me, but before I continue, of course, I finally bought bread with milk and when I tell you that it was possibly the best toast, I have ever tasted, there is no exaggeration, it was actually just perfection, I think this is what I think of when I think of the perfect toast because although normal toasters give the bread a sort of crispy texture on the outside, giving it a crunchy texture. it removes some of that moisture so the bread dries out a little bit more, whereas this toaster oven actually tries to preserve that kind of springiness so that it really has that beautiful crispy golden color on the outside and then that soft, slightly chewy springiness on the inside. inside.

I added butter here for b-roll, but honestly, for the ones I ate afterwards, the many pieces of bread I ate afterwards, I just ate them straight, I just can't toast my bread in a pan again, so right now. In my journey too, I have already experimented with many things. I just wanted to clean the toaster oven a little because the crumbs were starting to accumulate. One thing I feared about owning a toaster was not knowing how to clean it properly. It's actually a very simple thing: there's a tray at the bottom where the crumbs collect, which you can just take out, brush the crumbs off, clean it, and then just slide it back into the little parts inside, some of them are also removable , which makes it very easy for me to go in with a small damp cloth to clean it.

I'm glad I can keep it clean now that I've started to get used to the sandwich bread mode and the artisan bread mode. I decided to delve a little deeper into rush mode since I've obviously been neglecting it when I should have used it, so I bought a really nice croissant from a French bakery and ate some that day, but then wanted to reheat it the next day. This is probably one of the things I was most looking forward to because this toaster is famous for reheating croissants in a way that makes them taste like they just came out of the oven.

They weren't lying. You know, when it's one day, it firms up a little bit and when I took it out of the toaster oven it was so flaky and so buttery and smelled so good that I think it was probably one of the closest eyes. -opening moments for me because I feel like we usually have a hard time reheating croissants that are crispy on the outside and buttery on the inside, that for me was a moment where I thought okay, now I get it, but part of me was also like how much of this is down to the croissant itself, so I went ahead and bought a regular croissant like the one from my local supermarket and honestly the results were just as mind-blowing so I really think it's not too hard to say that.

This toaster oven has the ability to make even a regular croissant taste very expensive. Also, I found out that pastry mode is the mode you're supposed to use to reheat baguettes, of course I have to put that to the test because baguettes are my favorite. type of bread and the only reason I had leftover baguettes was because I bought two the day before and finished one in one day, what I really wanted to try with the baguettes was the three different types of methods they have specified for each of these . It has a very different texture, the one that is block cut, is crispy on the outside but is much softer on the inside compared to the other two, while for the cross cut they are very very crunchy and still a little chewy on the inside.

A lengthwise slice for me was the most interesting because it was crispy but almost also airy in a way that's not like a hard crisp but more of a chewy crisp. I still don't know which one I prefer, I think it depends on what. I want to enjoy something different from the croissant. Toasted baguette really can't compare to fresh out of the oven. However, I must clarify that this baguette was two

days

old, so it was a little stale and just hard. like a rock, so that difference alone I think is very impressive once I realized how amazing this pastry mode was, I went a little crazy and started heating everything up, a blueberry scone that was dry and hard when I put it in, but it was soft and crumbly when I took it out, oh my goodness, it smells so good, it smells like a bakery, I also heated up some danish banana bread so good, so flaky, I also heated up some cookies and that one was, I think, one of the best decisions he made. soft, it's warm and when I broke it the chocolate was like melted goo with a slight chew, you know, that feeling you get when someone mentions hot cookies fresh out of the oven at grandma's house, that was the feeling I had as part of what the pastry shop does.

The mode is so cool that it's almost comparable to a microwave oven in terms of similar efficiency and how quickly it can heat things up, you don't need to preheat it and while the microwave tends to dry out, the pastry mode combined with Steam technology still exists. That moisture warms the bread and doesn't brown it, but in the end it really adds a little bit of that crunchy texture. This is why I decided to use this 300 toaster oven to reheat my leftover deodorized chicken nuggets. because I really wanted chicken nuggets the night before and I bought the box of 20 pieces, so I had some left over the next day and I decided to experiment a little, these nuggets turned out as if I had just bought them, they were crispy.

On the outside the meat was tender on the inside. Wow, it makes me want to experiment a lot more with fried foods, so it's definitely on the agenda for the future. The other mode that I was really excited about was the pizza mode. I really wanted to see if this toaster could reheat leftover pizza better than we normally would, so I bought a slice from Joe's Pizza, which is one of my go-tos here. The only problem is choosing the pizza slices that are really big. This toaster oven is not that big so I ended up having to cut it into a smaller slice and I was looking at it through the window the whole time watching the cheese melt the sausage and the pepperoni get crispy, it really felt like another timeI would have brought out the fresh pizza.

Came out of the oven and when I tried to fold the pizza a little you can hear how crispy the crust is and when I bit into it almost everything was perfect from the crust to the toppings to the cheese I really don't believe it. I've never had leftover pizza this good. I also reheated some bagels and they turned out perfectly, a perfect golden color. I made some open-face sandwiches like this ham and cheese one, as well as this egg and cheese one with some peppers for garnish. In both cases, the bread was still so fluffy and so tender underneath, I was really surprised at how good that balance was now that I've dabbled in the four specific modes this toaster has.

I wanted to experiment a little with the oven mode and honestly I thought, oh, I don't know if I'll use this as much because I have my conventional oven, but I wanted to write. to compare a little and see if there was a difference. I baked and roasted a couple of different things, like roasted cauliflower, which is a pretty standard vegetable for me, it actually came out pretty decent. I don't think there is a big difference. I filled the baking sheet, the quantity is limited, which is what happened when I tried to bake some scallops, which again turned out quite well, the only thing was that I couldn't bake too many at the same time, I also baked a few ready. made puff pastry, this was a frozen chocolate croissant, I think it was a little firmer than I expected, the inside was just as good, so not bad, but since last week I was making some chocolate chip cookies chocolate to take them to my friend's apartment, I decided To do a little side-by-side comparison on how to bake the same dough, the first thing I'll say is that even though the toaster oven only has three heat settings for oven mode, I needed to bake my cookies at a lower temperature, 325, so I ended up just baking. them at 350.

Cookies baked in the conventional oven have more extension, while the toaster oven is almost smaller and taller. Cookies baked in the toaster oven are also crispier compared to the soft chewiness of conventional oven cookies. which has to do with the difference in heat temperature, I personally prefer the texture that the conventional oven gives me, so I think this is the part where the toaster oven fell short, so at this point I have played with all different ones. types of modes, so I decided to experiment a little and try different things. Many of you asked me if you could make grilled cheese with this.

The answer is yes, you can. It's actually in the back of this instruction manual. here I buttered both sides of the bread and shaved some truffle gouda because truffle gouda was on sale, one side definitely turned out browner than the other, the side facing up on the right you can see it's very crispy, while the other side I don't see it browning much, so I think the best way to make grilled cheese in this toaster oven specifically might be to flip it halfway through, even though it's crispy to the point of burning on the outside , the inside is still fluffy as always, you just can't go wrong all the way, you will always be halfway there, so I made some roast beef, which is actually a recipe provided by the brand itself, you cook it in pastry mode , so after browning the meat on all sides.

I toasted it in the toaster oven for 10 minutes. I don't even know if toast is the right word, but I'm basically heating it up and then letting it sit in the toaster oven for another 10 minutes without turning the oven. I heated it up and honestly I was really surprised how it turned out when I cut it, it was tender, the color was beautiful, so this is one of the unexpected finds I had. I never would have known I could make barbecue. Beef in this toaster oven in pastry mode no less, I also made some pasta, put some mozzarella cheese on top and decided to use the pizza mode instead of the normal oven mode to melt the cheese because I remembered that the mode pizza has that stronger heat. fountain on top almost like a cauldron, it melted it beautifully I got that beautiful pool of cheese and I was delighted with the result.

That's what gave me the idea of ​​boiling fish in the toaster oven. Boiling fish is actually one of my favorites. ways to make fish currently i put my fish in, let it cook for about 10 minutes and i have to say this is one of those things that turned out even better than roasting it in a traditional oven. I think the steam really helped the fish stay tender and As someone who grew up eating steamed fish, I really enjoyed that texture because steamed fish has this kind of bounce that you can't replicate with many other methods and I guess because to this function combined with steam and crisp, I got the best of both worlds, so yes, that's my 30 days with this wonderful toaster and, thinking again, you know why it's so expensive, the steam function by On its own is something that I think really makes it stand out, it delivers on a promise and also for me personally I really enjoyed the pastry mode function.

It really is capable of doing something that other alternatives cannot achieve. You are limited in the amount you can do. You can't bake like a batch of cookies and again it is. a very high price, but if you are like me and love bread a lot, good bread really brings me a lot of joy, then I think it could be a good option. I don't know if I need a 300 toaster in my life. but this is something I want, it's given me a lot of happiness in the past month now that I have it, you'll probably see it in a lot more videos from now on.

I hope this was helpful to some of you if you've been I'm thinking about getting one but otherwise I'll see you next time, bye.