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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Useful Addition for Small Households
The EO1251 is particularly useful for 1-2 person households, as it is a terrific little oven and an adequate toaster. I can't give it 5 stars until the designers improve the setting knobs, which are stiff and provide too small a finger grip for turning, and add a second rack to provide more placement options. To get the most reliable toast results, one needs first to warmed up the toaster settings. While the Cuisinart convection oven gets the higher ratings, some users I know have complained of the need to vet the equipment thoroughly, as it gives off an unpleasant chemical smell on initial usages. Fortunately, the DeLonghi has no such drawback. I also appreciate the simplicity of its settings; it's easier just to turn a knob in the morning than have to face the Cuisinart's digital pad. | 4 | 786 days ago | Better than advertised
Before I list the things I adore about this little oven, I want to clarify what "40% faster" means. A previous reviewer stated that the convection oven does not cook in 40% less *time*, but the product description never made that claim. It said that the oven cooks 40% *faster*. "Faster" refers to speed (like MPH); that's different from time.
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<br />My bottom line on the oven's speed: This oven consistently cooks 50% faster for me than my gas oven does. Concrete example: a squash dish that takes 1 hour to cook in my gas oven cooks in 40 minutes when I use the toaster oven's Bake & Fan. So, I've gone from a cooking speed of 1 dish per hour to 1.5 dishes per hour. That's 50% faster. (If we talk time change instead, 20 minutes off of a 60 minute time would be a 33% reduction in time.) When we look at what the product description actually says, this toaster oven has performed better than advertised for me.
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<br />Okay, pardon the math lesson! Here's what I really like about this oven: I took this easy-to-carry oven to my brother's house to heat up the Squash Madeira I made for Thanksgiving. Ahhh! The dish tasted much better than it had in previous years when I had warmed it up in the microwave after baking it at home. The Bake & Fan created a more comforting kind of heat and made a nice thin crusty toast on top. My signature dish went from good to awesome, and I'm not really a cook. I've had similar results in re-heating frozen rice and beans. The Bake & Fan (convection) heat brought out the flavors in a wonderful way and again added that nice toasty texture on top. If you need to cook from the bottom up and avoid browning the top of a dish, the Slow Bake and the Bake settings work well for that. BTW, with the Bake & Fan, I can cook a frozen pizza, start to finish, no pre-heating, in 10 minutes. I don't preheat unless I'm making a fussy dish that truly requires it; pre-heating just adds an extra step, plus I try to do the right thing | 5 | 786 days ago | Pricey yet a great performer
First, let's get the bad out of the way. This is a bit pricey for a countertop toaster/convection oven. Second is that the interior dimensions listed previously were wrong! The maximum width is 12 inches. Thus a standard muffin pan or 13x9" pan WILL NOT FIT!
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<br />Now for all the good news. This is a great performer in all modes. Have toasted 4 slices of bread or 2 bagels perfectly. Have used the convection mode for macaroni and cheese. Used the slow bake mode for a Dutch apple bundt cake and then switched to convection mode for the final 5 minutes and the cake was perfectly browned and cooked in 5-10 minutes less then my full size oven.
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<br />The build quality appears to be very good. The elements are installed flush with the bottom and top of the oven and they cover most of the area. The crumb tray is easily removed for cleaning and has a coating that is slick (not non-stick). The sides are a black plastic composite, but the rest of the oven is metal with an easy-to-clean coating. It also has that silver and black thing going and looks cool on the countertop.
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<br />Conclusion: this is a serious convection/slow-bake/toaster oven that will fit right in with a gourmet kitchen. Just remember that although it lists .5 cubic feet of space, the maximum usable width is only 12 inches. I am now on the lookout for muffin tins and cookie sheets that will fit...
<br /> | 4 | 786 days ago | Delonghi EO1251 - Convection Oven
Great toaster....browns nicely and a good convection oven. Also a good size and does not take a lot of room in the kitchen. Would highly recommend so far very impressed. | 5 | 786 days ago | Good, but not as advertised.
This appliance works quite well both as an oven as well as a toaster but does not really cut cooking times by 40%. For example, the manual states 50 minutes for a baked potato. In actual experience that's about how long it took but it's also about the same amount of time as it takes in my conventional oven. That option uses more electricity, however, so it's a better value to use this one for small meals. The same thing goes for taquitos, pies, and similar snacks. They take a little less time than a conventional oven but nowhere near 40% less, though the convection cooking does make things a bit crisper when you're looking for that feature.
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<br />The smaller oven gets up to heat much faster than a full size one does, of course, saving some electricity that way too. It seems to have a cold spot near the glass door which is particularly noticable when cooking pies (which, by the way, are the only thing that seems to cook ~30% faster than normal). Rotating them about halfway through the cooking process resolves that problem for the most part.
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<br />The advertising states that it comes with a non-stick bake pan and a non-stick broil tray. The pan and tray are included but they are not non-stick. The interior coating, however, is except for the crumb tray. The variable temperature goes up to 450 which is sufficient for most applications. It broils well, toasts okay, and has a very quite and efficient convection motor.
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<br />The dial controls are cheap plastic so I'm not sure how long they'll last. I've only had it for a few weeks at this point and they're doing okay but I'm conscious about delicacy in handling them. It comes with two racks yet it's so small inside I've yet to find a combination of anything other than toast that allows me to use both of them. The advertising/picture makes it look much larger than it really is.
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<br />All in all I'm happy with the unit and at the Amazon discount/free shipping with the price too. There's no way I' | 4 | 786 days ago |
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