by pots and pans on May 3, 2009
Farberware FSTO400R 4 Slice Toaster Oven
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4 slice large capacity toaster oven Holds up to a 9.5″ x 9.5″ baking tray 30 minute timer Auto shut-off with bell signal Detachable Rack Easy to clean
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Not a toaster oven!
This is a toaster only, and works fine as such. Mine arrived several days after the scheduled date, and with a large dent on the top.
5 Stars Perfect RED
I bought this toaster oven because I wanted RED, and not a big one. This is a pretty red that matches my Fiesta dinnerware and the accents in my kitchen. It is clean and simple in appearance, without a lot of “bells & whistles”. It has one timer (dial) to turn it on and start the timer. You need to watch the toast (or item) so you get it to the color you want for the first few times. Then you will know where to set the timer. It’s way simple, not like a microwave or vcr. I haven’t had it long enuf’ to say how it will last, but Farberware has been around for a long time, so I’m confidant.
4 Stars Works fine
This toaster oven is a good oven for the right price. It’s black and it works just fine. It does have an annoying bell that bings when the timer is up, but that is not too bad. It’s only dial is a timer, that lets you heat for a set amount of time. There is no temperature gauge or anything else. So it’s not high on features, but it is low on price. 
4 Stars cute, but lacking just a bit in functionality
First, let me say that this is a reasonably priced toaster over and it is absolutely adorable. The color is great and it adds a lot of personality to my blah kitchen. However it isn’t as versatile as other toaster ovens I’ve owned in the past. When I ordered this product, there wasn’t a detailed decription of the features so I wasn’t aware that there isn’t a temperature selection dial. This means that the only control you have is time. So it’s great for toasting but doesn’t broil or allow you to choose other temperatures to heat other foods. So it’s more of a toaster oven style toaster than a true toaster oven in my opinion. Very cute though.
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by pots and pans on April 24, 2009
Shur Line 12400 Teflon Metal Paint Tray
9″, Teflon Coated Steel Paint Tray.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Dries paint too fast, not an easy cleanup
As other reviewers have mentioned, in the time it takes to paint your walls the paint in the tray has already started drying. When you do one coat it seems to be fine, as long as you work in a timely manner. When you come back for the second coat the paint has already started to dry in the tray, and you end up getting globs of paint on your roller and on the wall. When you let the paint dry before peeling it off, if it’s not thick enough it comes off in little sections. Then you end up having to scrape the rest off with your finger, basically. If you leave it on too thick it takes forever to dry and when you think the layer has dried you go to pick it off and end up with a glop of wet paint on your hands. Also, as I can be a sloppy painter I get it over the side, and then it gets stuck in the little screws that hold the thing together and that doesn’t come off. It will NOT peel off in one sheet, and i’ve used mine over and over and just dealt with the old dried paint crusted onto the tray. My last paint job I just gave up and bought a plastic liner for the tray, and it didn’t fit right in it because it has kind of an awkward shape. So basically just save your money and buy a cheap disposable one. It’s a nice concept but it’d make a better baking tray than anything else!
1 Star Good Marketing, poor results
As others have indicated, the ‘peel away’ feature of this pan works ONLY if you leave a thick layer of paint in the pan– and who would waste paint in that manner! If you leave a thin layer of paint to dry in the pan, you’ll have to scrape the paint off with a scraper– which took 20 minutes. With that said, this metal pan does rinse out better than any other paint tray I’ve used– as long as the paint is wet. Nice marketing idea, poor execution, and poor results.
1 Star Non stick coating works too good!!
The teflon coating works too good. I found that as you are painting, the paint in the tray begins to dry, especially the part where you roll out the excess paint. The problem is that this dry paint starts to peel off the tray onto your roller and then onto your wall, so that you start getting globs of semi dry paint on the wall. I had to try and scoops these globs off with a brush, set up a new roller and paint tray to finish the job. The paint does peel off the tray very easily but the mess that you end up with on the walls makes this tray a piece useless junk. Maybe you can use it to bake brownies in?
2 Stars teflon isn’t useful for real application
The teflon coating allows the paint to be peeled up only if the paint is thick enough, as shown in the illustration on the packaging. Because paint trays are designed for rolling out paint into a thin layer and for using up as much as possible of what is poured into the trough, the teflon feature is useless for real-world application. I found I had to scrape the paint out of the bottom with a thumbnail, which over time will mar the teflon finish, which will eventually lead to the tray being even more useless. The claim of “no need for a tray liner” is true only if you want to waste time meticulously peeling–probably easier to wash the tray, as you would do with a cheaper, standard non-teflon tray.
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