 Great little oven |
| Review Date: February 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Doodlebug, Los Angeles, CA |
This oven looks great and cooks great. Toast is done to perfection. If I could, I would add one other thing to it. Presently it only times food set on toast. It would be great if there was also a timer for bake and broil.
The oven holds a lot, and the items I baked in it (salmon, chicken) were cooked to perfection. |
I love this toaster oven
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| Review Date: February 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Sabrina Huang, San Jose, CA United States |
We entertain at home a lot but we only have one oven with a small cheap toaster. When the small toaster died on us, it's time for us to look for a replacement. We were looking for something that can be a second oven used for baking, toasting and broiling for small size or small amounts of food. When we compared several different brands and types of toaster ovens, we fell in love with Cuisinart Brick Oven.
First, this toaster oven keeps food warm longer because it has bricks built into the side of the toaster; moreover, this toaster comes with a removable pizza baking stone.
Second, it is easy to use. It has 3 dials to control temperature, cooking function and toast shade level with 2 buttons for start and stop.
Third, it is so beautiful to look at - clean, minimal and simple. It looks like it fits together with my other stainless appliances.
Fourth, it is much smaller than a regular oven but a lot bigger than a regular toaster; however, it is very powerful - capacity of 0.90 cu. ft. 1700 watts of power and 500 degrees F Brick, you can fit in a 12 inch pizza. I use this brick oven more often than the big one I have because it does most of the jobs that I need.
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Great oven for artisan bread bakers (you know who you are)
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| Review Date: December 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Hearth, Darnestown, Maryland USA |
I bought this oven as part of my quest to bake really excellent artisan bread. I must say that the bread I am making now beats anything we have been able to get at the artisan bakeries (except the specialized places in NYC - but I'm working on it). The oven provides the radiant heat environment needed for that great crust. I use the overnight rise method, scoop out some dough when I get home from work and set up some rolls. Pop them in the oven before dinner and have very happy folks around the table.
We have used it for toast, etc., and all comes out well. |
one hot brick
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| Review Date: August 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Thomas M. Shery, |
| We purchased this oven as a replacement for a toaster oven and aree very pleased. The only flaw, which is easily circumvented is trying to cook a frozen pizza directly on the stone. The instructions on the box say to place on a grill. By wrapping the stone in aluminum foil the problem of the pizza sticking to the stone (again) is averted. |
Great Oven
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| Review Date: February 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: hillarymiller, Boca Raton, Florida |
| I wanted something smaller to use for cooking and this is the product. Not only does it cook great but looks great on my countertop. Cooking and/or baking is great with this product and I highly recommend it. Thanks again Amazon! |
Handy
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| Review Date: June 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Pariji, San Fransisco |
| I love it. For summer,turning on the big oven is too much heat in the house, plus, takes so long to even get to the baking temp set. This little oven sits perfectly on my counter top (don't have to bend over), heats up fast. I'd almost say, watch what you're cooking in each cooking type first, until you get used to how quick it is. Read the instructions carefully and follow them exactly so you don't make a mess or don't get the right results; it's a bit different than a big oven and a toaster ect.. For toasting: while some might prefer a reg toaster, I like this because nothing is getting stuck that I have to crumble to remove. I've put a tortilla w cheese on top on the toast cycle, excellant. I made an 11 inch pizza (standard grocery store frozen) and it was the best frigin pizza I've ever had at home! I made a chicken and vegetable dinner on bake, in 12inch by 9inch casserole dish, it cooked fast and was so good! The chicken was juicy and the broth...kitchen didn't get all hot. This is a convenient quick way to cook and cleaning is simple because it's up on the counter and such a small area to clean. Love it! |
Lovely oven
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| Review Date: January 15, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Margaret V. Palmer, Oneonta, New York |
| I love this oven. It was to be a replacement for our toaster oven, but it is more economical to keep the toaster for making toast. This oven however makes incredible quiches and breads. The results are picture perfect. |
The art of Cuisinart
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| Review Date: May 29, 2008 |
| Reviewer: SouthEasternUS, Mobile, AL USA |
| You might think it is pricey, but it is well worth it. We love Cuisinart products - well engineered and well built and a great brushed S.S. finish. |
Great little oven
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| Review Date: January 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Douglas L. Morrison, rochester, ny |
This replaced out toaster oven. works great except it is missing a timer function. The toasting function is timed, but nothing for baking. Bummer.
The included baking stone does a great job with pizzas. the included pizza dough recipes came out great.
The unit does wobble out of the box, you have to adjust the one leg by twisting it to the proper length. Rock solid and level now! |
nice product
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| Review Date: April 9, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Dan, Annapolis, Md. |
| I guess I just didn't read the description closely. I found this product listed as a convection oven, which it is not. In fact I found it listed today as a convection oven. However that does not detract from its performance as a countertop oven. I used it to bake potatoes and broil tenderloin for the same meal and it did both quite well. |
Cuisinart Oven
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| Review Date: February 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: M. Jordan, |
| The Cuisinart Oven BRK-100 is very useful as a way to cook small amounts with less electricity. It accommodates a square baking pan easily. However, I would have prefered a convection oven in retrospect, and the toaster is not very efficient or effective. The brick lined walls and bottom are very good features for baking pizza crust. |
Limited control
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| Review Date: March 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Elizabeth P. Barber, Chesapeake, VA |
| The oven is very handy, but I find it hard to control the temperature. Perhaps it's the size of the oven. Food tends to be over-cooked at the suggested temp. |
Great - But....
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| Review Date: February 10, 2008 |
| Reviewer: P. DURGIN, United States |
The good:
For making pizza or for baking small items, this works really well. If you want it just as a replacement for your toaster, then you'll be pounding a nail with a sledge hammer... Get it if you need both functions.
The not so good:
1) The printing on the function buttons (on - off) wore off after about a month or so. Not a big problem since we knew what the buttons were for by then.
2) It runs hot for baking, etc, so plan to run it ~ 25F lower than your recipe (also not too big of a problem, once we figured it out).
3) After about 3 mos, the top heating elements failed (big problem).
I just called Cuisinart's customer service. They will be shipping me a new unit (7-10 days), and I'll have to return the old one back to them (along with $20 for shipping both ways). Still, their response was definitely hassle-free. I'll post a few months from now to update... |
Overheats, Hard To Clean & No Replacement Crumb Trays
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| Review Date: November 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: John Rausch, Oregonia, Ohio, USA |
I actually bought the BRK-300, which is the same as the BRK-200, but with a rotisserie. For almost a year, the oven was used for little most than toasting and warming on the toast setting and it did a pretty good job. But ...
1. Maybe not an issue for you, but these ovens are HUGE. Check out the dimensions. The 300 has an additional two-plus inches of motor housing sticking out the back. On a 25-inch counter, it will come very near the front edge of your counter. The huge handles on both sides take up another two inches each -- maybe to keep stuff away so it won't melt! And cleaning the crumb tray requires that you turn the oven completely around to slide it out the back through a slit so narrow that any crumb larger than a pin head gets scraped off and stays inside the oven.
2. The controls are poorly made and the dot on the knob does not line up with the setting on the oven, so I had to count "clicks" to know where is was set.
3. After using it with food that created slight splattering (like heating a piece of pizza with sausage on it), the "brick" walls (actually about 40% of the left and right walls) on the insides of the oven are impossible to clean.
4. It seriously overheats on the bake setting and might not ever shut off. I don't know, I turned it off because the area around it was so hot.
5. I kept the crumb tray clean at all times, especially after anything that dripped on it might burn. This was generally very easy. But recently, some grease from a pizza was fairly firm and you cannot clean the tray with anything abrasive. It was not burned on, just gummy and somewhat hardened. So, I soaked it in some water with Dawn detergent. In the morning, the tray was covered with blisters that had dark black spots under them. I tried to order a new crumb tray and Cuisinart does not have them! Not for the 300, the 200 or the 100. I wonder why? Crumb tray problem, Cuisinart?
After waiting for more than a month after this problem was "escalated to corporate", I called back and they offered to send me a BRK-200 as a replacement, but I had to pay to ship the 300 back to Cuisinart. At first I accepted, but then I turned them down. This toaster oven has been discontinued after only one year and Cuisinart is selling off the BRK-200 and maybe sme BRK-100s if there are any of those still around, but beware, you will never buy a replacement crumb tray! I don't want it or a lesser replacement oven in my house!
The customer service representative was in no way sympathetic to these problems and about as rude as he could get away with. I hate to waste my time writing stuff like this and letters to Cuisinart, but be forewarned, this is not an oven you will be happy with. |
Real Junk
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| Review Date: July 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Dennis Leri, |
| We bought the unit for the Cuisinart name. In just a few days the printed settings (bake, broil, toast) disappeared so you don't know what it's doing. The temperature fluctuates so you have to stay near the unit. When the tray is set to the lower placement it tips easily and we've gotten burned. It's very difficult to clean. The time settings on the toaster setting are a joke. Do not consider this made in China piece of junk. |
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