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Cuisinart TOB-165 Convection Toaster Oven Broiler with Exact Heat Sensor | 
| Brand: Cuisinart
Category: Kitchen
Buy: $123.89 - $188.13 (On sale from $260.00)
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Rating:  4 reviews
MPN: TOB-165
ASIN: B000P18KHY
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Product Description
Cuisinart TOB-165 Convection Toaster Oven Broiler with Exact Heat Sensor
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| Customer Reviews:
 Does not toast both sides! August 21, 2008
R. Littlehale (Malden, MA)
If you want to toast bread this oven will not hold up. The first oven work for about two months and then would only toast the top side of the bread. Thankfully Amazon replaced the oven. The first thing I did was to toast bread. It worked. So I packed the old one and shipped it back. The next day I went to toast bread. Guess what, it only toasted on the top side of the bread! (I checked the serial numbers and did indeed send back the first defective unit). I tried every rack position and the only way I was able to get results was to toast the bread one side at a time! Regrettably I let myself be too heavily influenced by the reviews for this oven on Amazon. Other website were not quite so favorable. I'll know better next time. I hope my old toaster still works!
Paint finish cracking and peeling. August 15, 2008
Ka3ak
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this model in December 2006. Just a little after one year of daily use, the paint at the top left and right edges started cracking and flaking off. Also, the paint around the door has turned from white to brown and cannot be cleaned. The toaster was not abused in any way - no overheating or fires inside, no harsh cleaners, etc. This defect alone condemns the product, and overshadows anything good that could be said about it, especially for a model in its price range, so it gets only the one star. In other words - DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
There are other problems already well documented in these reviews so I won't waste time detailing them also.
Cuisinart has joined my DO NOT BUY list of other manufacturers that once made quality products but have since chosen the "Made in China very poorly" path.
Don't buy a white TOB, buy black, --needs improvements!! June 22, 2008
Steve Jobs (Chicago)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Don't even think of buying a white Cuisinart TOB-165! I bought mine from Amazon on December 7, 2003 (so I have years and years of use on mine) and it started to show yellowish burn marks in the white housing at the top edge soon thereafter. Even if you have an all-white kitchen, go with black! That will disguise the heat marks that eventually mar the white finish at the top upper lip of the front edge. That is complaint number one, but read on, because I have two more huge complaints about the idiot designers of this model Cuisinart TOB (Toaster-Oven-Broiler), and the complaints affect all models.
Complaint Number Two: the idiot who designed the door hinge which swings open from the top and hinges on the bottom traps all kinds of crumbs at the bottom inbetween the glass and edge, and there is no easy way to clean those crumbs out (sure, you can drizzle water from a wet paper towel to try to flush them out, but then you get the control panel wet)! Let's hear some feedback from all these "bought and paid for" glowing reviews about that!! Okay, you read that, correct? Crumbs at the bottom of the hinged door, and no easy way to clean them out, and you can't remove the door for easy cleaning, so expect crumbs to accumulate there and good luck keeping it spotlessly clean and clear of crumbs! Get it? You can't do it! I've suffered years and years of crumbs down there and this review is my testimony to all you unaware buyers to be aware!
Complaint Number Three: the idiot designer has the beeper go off at the end of a timed cooking setting, but the oven doesn't turn off, and the terribly loud peircing beeping goes on and on until you have to manually turn it off and you wake up the household with what sounds like a smoke detector going off it is so dang loud! Can't the idiot designer program the oven to turn off, and the beep to be a nice, adjustable piano chord, or at least some pleasant sound that is quieter? Does it have to be a loud freakin' beep like a smoke detector when all it is alerting you to is that the time is up? Do we have to send the Cuisinart engineers to Apple Computer to teach them how to design a nice experience for the user?
Complaint Number "extra": The front plastic control panel on mine started to have hairline cracks just after the three year warranty was up. I read other reviews here with the same problem. Expect it to happen to you, too. My control panel has a crack in the center at the top and one at the bottom off to the right side. Why? Cheap plastic and bad design, that's why.
So, why did I buy this TOB and what do I like about it? The digital timing feature is major reason. I like to time all my cooking to the second, and I like accurate temperature sensors, etc. This TOB has that. It makes perfect toast, because it is a digital timer. Why can't Cuisinart contact me on how to improve this oven? I'd give them a piece of my mind and improve it considerably.
 5 stars for performance, 3 stars for durability June 21, 2008
Carma (Arizona, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this oven for about 4 years and it has worked wonderfully the whole time. Slight drawbacks are (1)the crumb tray empties from the rear; (2) the way the door opens, the lower edge can't really be reached to clean; (3) and toast in the middle gets done slightly faster than the edge. The BIG drawback is that the housing is not sturdy. I never moved mine, except occasionally pulling out to clean the tray or wipe underneath, and yet one of the handles broke off, the housing cracked, and a crack also appeared on the plastic of the control panel as well. This in no way affected the performance of the unit, however! I used it frequently in lieu of my regular oven, whenever what I was cooking would fit in it, and it never failed to produce a well-cooked item.
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