BOV800XL Smart Oven Countertop Convection, Brushed Stainless Steel

As a chef, I love all kinds of kitchen gadgets but I ditched my toaster oven in the 90s and never looked back. GIVES YOU A FASTER SPARE OVEN FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND PARTIES OR THE ONLY OVEN YOU WILL NEED: Recently some folks began talking about their toaster ovens and it made sense--they preheat in no time at all so you not only save electricity, but loads of time if you cook a bunch, they cook faster so ditto; I got one and discovered how they have changed in the years since I thought I didn't need one...Some may think they are just for the person who rarely cooks because it's just simpler and easy to clean but for someone who cooks a bunch this is really fantastic because you not only have an extra oven in your house for things like the holidays when you want more than a couple items cooking at once or you want items cooking at variable temps, but it also has a warming setting so that you can pre-make something and keep it warm for your guests or your honey who has to work late at the office and still wants a hot plate. Because it's convection, it also won't dry out the items as a normal oven would when you have it on warm. Even though I cook daily, I find myself now almost exclusively only using this one due to the time savings and the results. Because there is no large family here, it's perfect for almost everything I do and in many cases far better than my fancy-pants old school oven. It heats up so fast I have pretty much broken up with my oven and microwave. PLATE WARMER: And speaking of hot plates, the top of this one is a built-in plate warmer. So, like a restaurant that does not serve you a hot dish on a cold plate since that equals a tepid dish very quickly, put your ceramic or glass plate on top while you cook your dish and your plate is warm to the touch when serving. CONVECTION OVEN: So let's talk convection oven. Regular ovens heat by the heating elements whereas convection ovens also blow the heated air around the oven cabin to result in faster cooking with more even results and a crisp outside while retaining all moisture inside. That's great if you eat meat, but there is no better oven for baking because you get perfect crumb and crust like you just can't get in any regular oven that's not convection. Breads are moist and springy and perfect inside (perfect crumb) with a great crust outside. Cookies are tender yet have a bit of a crisp on the outside. True pro cooking. Because convection ovens also speed up cooking time, I often also lower the recipe directions by 25 degrees. The convection setting is optional. It's default for some cooking settings but if for some reason you want to ride out the baking time old-school cooking, just press the "convection" button and you can turn that on or off. TOASTER HEAVEN: I ditched the toaster. If you take 2 pieces of toast and make a sandwich you get a very dry sandwich. However, you can put the entire sandwich in here and get melty cheese, hot insides, the most perfect crisping on the outside that I have seen in ages, and still not have it dry on the inside. This has become my addiction--fancy Sammys. There is a reason Subway uses toaster ovens for their hot sandwiches. You can't melt cheese in your toaster. AUTOMATIC SHUT-OFF: There are several pre-programmed settings but no matter what you set it on, it turns off automatically for you when it's done. Your regular oven can't do that trick. So if you want to go about your business and go upstairs and vacuum or do laundry and are away from the oven--no worries, when the timer goes off or the automatic cooking time goes off, so does your oven. Of course, if you want more time, you can just hit the start button again if something takes longer to cook but this is a safety and convenience feature. COOKING IQ: If you are not aware of this part, and you are testing your oven temp, you might do it wrong. First, I want to point out that you have to leave an oven thermometer in for 30 minutes to get an accurate reading. As a chef I frequently check my ovens for accuracy both at home and work and this one never fails...always accurate. So back to IQ. What is it? It does things to ensure what you are baking exceeds expectations so if you do your part, you'll get great results. For example, on the toast setting it asks you how many pieces. If you input one you'll get the heating elements just in the center of the oven. Put in 4 and you get the whole oven but it pulses the heat in order to not overdry out your bread while toasting. Really the best toast ever. On toast it does this on the top and bottom of the oven, whereas you can put a bagel or English muffin in on the bagel setting and you get less toasting on the bagel bottom where it's already cooked so it does not dry out. Smart, huh? CELSIUS RECIPE CONVERSION: Set this up wrong and you will always wonder why your oven is the wrong temperature. It has F and C cooking. What's great about that is that you can use any recipe you find online even if it's from another country and written all in Celsius. Push the button and all the temps are C. Push again and back to Fahrenheit . So it's an instant recipe converter. But if you feel your oven is running wrong temp, look for the F after the number and be sure you didn't push the button. FROZEN FOODS BUTTON: Are you cooking from one of the pre-set easy settings but your items is frozen? For example, if you want to pull a bagel out of the freezer to toast it? Just push the "frozen" button first and it automatically warms up the item and adds the extra time to your toaster setting so you don't get crispy outside and frozen middle or undercooked or undertoasted. You can add this to any setting like the pizza setting. RACK PLACEMENT SMARTS: The outside of the oven door tells you where to position the rack for proper cooking. For example, if you are broiling, you will want a different setting than if you are toasting. It is easy to forget this on regular toaster ovens and get poor results because of it. Just look at the small guages on the right of the glass and you will never make a mistake. Top rack height position is for broil, middle rack is for toast, bagel, pizza, and cookie functions. The bottom rack height is for bake, roast, reheat and warm functions REHEAT FOODS WITHOUT DRYING OUT: Got leftovers but don't want to dry them out while cooking again? You don't have to. Choose the "reheat" setting. It will reheat your foods but will not brown the top since that has already been done. MAGNETIC AUTO-EJECT RACK: Why didn't all oven manufacturers think of that? There are two magnets on the back side of the oven door, when you open the door, the magnets automatically pull the oven rack out for you so you don't have to REACH IN and grab your hot food or cheese toast. Really great if you have kids on the go grabbing something--safety first and no more burns and I usually don't even need an oven mitt if juts grabbing my toast or sandwich. CUSTOMIZED TOAST BROWNING: Pick how many slices and how brown you want your toast and it will automatically return to that setting the next time and display it. Should you vary the number of slices often, just one turn of the dial will give you a new number so it's easy to change that up as you cook. The pulsing ensures you simply can't get better toasting. BAGEL FUNCTION: Top and bottom elements cycle on and off but you'll get a tad more browning on top where the bagel is totally uncooked with a perfectly crisped base where it's already browned. All other toast options are the same as the toast options as far as auto-memory etc. BAKE: It will default for cooking convection 325 for 30 minutes. It should be noted that that's 350 in a regular oven. The hot air circulates the heat so you get faster cooking so adjust all recipes by 25 degrees. You will far prefer the results of convection baking to a regular oven but that is why it defaults to 325 rather than 350. To increase temp or time, just one roll of the top and bottom knob does that. You can also turn off the convection baking if you want. Just push the "convection" button. I never turn that off while in the baking mode. Regular baking can't do what convection can as far as better results. ROAST FUNCTION: Top and bottom elements cycle on and off to get the correct temp overall but middle element is off so as not to dry out. It is suggested the max weight to roast be 4.5 lbs for best results. Also, many like to roast poultry in juices that contain lemon. Citric acid damages broiling pans of toaster ovens so line yours in foil if you use anything with citric acid or lemon juice. BROIL: While the top rack is suggested, this is a guide. You can also brown the tops of casseroles by having the wire rack lower. It still works. You can melt cheese on your sandwiches on broil, or crisp something up. You can even broil seatood, meats, and veggies. On this setting you want to use the broil rack. That's the rack that sits inside the baking pan that came with it. Use them both. It has slats in it but is not as open as your wire rack. This way, melting cheese, oil, etc that you have won't drip onto the base of the oven but air will circulate through those vents in the rack. PIZZA: It does a really great pizza and I highly recommend the pizza stone that's an option for this oven. To use a pizza stone, don't ever wash it. It will wind up getting seasoned (black from cooking on it) in time but the high temp kills off bacteria...always scrape it after use, don't wash a pizza stone. The seasoning will make it non-stick eventually but until then, just throw a little cornstarch on it. You want to heat the pizza stone up WITH the oven. Don't put it in the oven cold with the pizza. It won't work. The point of a pizza stone is to crisp up the crust and so heating it up as you preheat the oven makes it do that. I have a pizza oven so I never thought I'd use my toaster oven for that. I thought I might use it for frozen pizza now and again so I bought the stone. But now I love it! You can put it on the "fresh" setting and use dough or your can put it on the "frozen" setting for store bought frozen pizzas. It asks you the approximate size in order to use it's smart technology to heat perfectly. I do recommend the pizza's suggested temperature of 450 at convection for great results. You can just pop it in and put the size and it will automatically tell you how long it thinks you should cook it at that temp., Of course you can always change that. COOKIE FUNCTION: Use the convection on this one. It comes on as default but you can't get better cookies than your convection oven. It also does perfect biscuits, cinnamon rolls, croissants, etc. You can cook from frozen cookie dough simply by pushing the "frozen" button. I recommend getting some silicone baking sheets. You can cut them to any size you want and then your cookies never stick to the baking pans you use and you need no grease. I use them whether I make cookies in the oven or in the toaster oven but it's nice for the toaster oven since you need small pans and they often are not as well made so you get flawless non-stick from them. EASY CLEAN-UP: The bottom pan pulls out so you don't have to do the cleaning by reaching into the oven. You can also line that with the non-stick foil but I have not found the need to as it cleans up easily. I throw the racks in the dishwasher for anything that drips onto those. You are not supposed to put the broiler pan in the dishwasher though. I handwash the cookie sheet because I want it to build up non-stick seasoning. It may be dishwasher safe though; I just know never to put any cookie pan in the dishwasher if you want it non-stick. KEEP WARM: When I am having a dinner party I use this often. I can bake a loaf of bread or a side dish and have it done while I begin other dishes. I set it in the toaster oven on the warming setting and the heat cycles on and off with convection air That means it does not dry out the dish, but it keeps it hot until I am ready to serve it. I made jalapeño bread for a recent Tex/Mex party and the bread was in there a couple hours until I was ready to serve it. It came out hot and fresh and moist and perfect as though I'd just taken it out of the oven. You never have to worry about perfect timing again. Of course, this also means that you can cook dinner for the kids when your spouse works late, and keep their meal hot until they arrive home and everyone eats happy with hot fresh dinners. That's my recap having been using mine for some time now. I had no idea how toaster ovens had changed and how invaluable one would wind up being to me. Cooking time is reduced considerably as is clean up and during the holidays I have a full extra oven for that casserole so all my foods are timed perfectly no matter what is in the other oven. I thought I'd use it some but I have rarely used my pro full-size oven since and I actually have nearly broken up with my microwave. I can preheat the whole oven in a couple minutes and since it's convection, everything cooks better so I now only use my regular oven for large baking for parties. Everything else is done in this one. Including meals I used to microwave. Easy clean up, great features, this one is simply a winner.

This is the second one of these we have owned. We received one for a gift about 8 years ago and we used it multiple times daily. We did all our toasting and a good share of our baking in this oven and were impressed from the start. We abused the oven, it did not get cleaned and cared for the way it should and we used it for baking large roasts and other messy items. The convection feature is a big selling point and for a small oven it bakes/toasts/cooks very consistently. When our friend gave us one he told us that he had done a bunch of research on it and America’s Test Kitchens rated it as the best small oven. They were right. After 8 years of use/abuse the convection fan stopped working and the backlight on the controls was wonky. My wife asked me if we could get a new one for Christmas, even though this one still worked okay I agreed it would be nice to replace it with a shiny new one. For the price it is well worth it. I think for a small oven we put it to more work than it was ever designed for and it performed flawlessly. This new model seems to be every bit as well made as the one we got 8 or so years ago. The light is a light blue compared to the Amber that old one had and i prefer this color not that it makes a difference on the ability of the oven to cook/bake/toast. Bottom line, you can save a bunch of money and buy a Black and Decker or Cuisinart toaster oven and probably get by for making a bagel or heating a frozen dinner or pizza (oh, this has a pizza function AND it comes with a pizza pan) and you would do okay with one of those lesser ovens, but it probably won’t last long and you likely won’t use it to roast a chicken or prime rib roast. But if you want to save money in the long run by not having to fire up your electric range or in our case LP Gas range, and utilize this oven that heats up quickly, you will have one that will last years. Our old one got put in a box and into storage, someday we may need an extra for something and I am sure it would still work minus the convection function. Spend the extra few dollars and buy the right oven. Breville is the best for the money.

Es un horno estupendo. Tengo dos semanas con él. Amazon entregó en tiempo y forma. Es una pequeña gran inversión y vale la pena. Las indicaciones en español, la conversión de grados F a C, el sistema de convección que lo caracteriza, funciona muy bien... Me gustaría complementar con otra rejilla para poder sacar más provecho a todo el horno.

My Smart Oven just arrived today. Firstly, I need to clarify that this is the first time I ever bought anything from Amazon.ca. The whole process was a breeze. I placed the order last Thursday and by the following Tuesday, I received everything, wrapped tightly in big boxes. The oven is beautiful, sturdy and looks "smart". I made naan bread to try out the intensity of the heat (bought a 13" pizza stone that fits perfectly in it). Since it is brand new and it will take me a few trials to get to the right temperature, I did not think my pizza stone was hot enough to give my naan the baking it required. However, I can definitely see the potential this oven offers. The features are very easy to use and the makers have really taken a lot of the guessing out of the way. Like many reviewers have previously mentioned, the oven does get excessively hot so you need to be extra careful when handling the oven door (I place a small towel on the handle and I don't think it will be a problem). The crumb plate at the bottom will be super easy to clean I suspect (as long it is crumb and not major sticky, oily stuff). I cannot vouch about anything else right now as it is still too early. I will provide an update in a few months after I have had a chance to use it and judge its efficiency/reliability in greater depth. EDIT: I have now had my oven for a month and I love using it to toast my bread. Always well done as I like them, unlike the old one that consistently under toasted my bread.

Seleccionamos el articulo, ya que estaba a muy buen precio y la marca ya la conocemos por otros electrodomesticos, excelente producto

Great product overall. Heats up quickly and easy to clean up with the non-stick interior. The XL is actually not overly large like the name suggest. It sits quite low compared to some of the other larger toaster ovens. I tried making fresh pizza using this oven and with the supplied non-stick pizza pan; pizza turned out perfect using the preset setting! Crust came out golden in colour! I also tried the roast setting to roast up some marinated chicken thighs. Again, skin was crisp and chicken was juicy after about 30 minutes. The only negative so far is the knobs. It definitely doesn't feel very solid like some of the reviewers had mentioned; it's feels quite loose. Kinda odd they would leave it like that considering how everything else is pretty solid. The supplied pans and roasting rack and pan is actually very high quality, not flimsy like some of the cheaper brands. I've bought other cheaper toaster ovens before and they pans are always very cheap and thin. These are actually very stiff and sturdy. Great product overall! Would've been a five star rating had it not been for the knobs.

Excelente producto lo mejor en hornos