Tech Issue Electric Toaster Oven Power Requirement?

if the power is that unreliable.. then how about something like this:
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Maybe something like the RONCO 4000?



Basic quartz heating elements and mechanical timer; so it could care less about having pure electricity coming in.

I so dislike toaster ovens. In college one of the roommates would have it on fire once a week. Food never seemed to come out right even if not completely charred.

Fast forward and DW wants a toaster oven. I tell her for two decades NO. Eventually she gets a gift of a new one that is a few years old still sealed in the box. I relented and let her set it up but warned about the hazard. Within ONE minute of turning on, the heating element's ceramic explodes. White dust everywhere in the kitchen. Huge mess to clean up. Door on the unit was blown open and would not close. I threw it out on the concrete patio to cool off and in the trash it went.

No toaster ovens for me, EVER. I hope you enjoyed my true life story ;)

A little pricey those PSW. A whole cluck-cluck can take longer than an hour. I am doing this to avoid SALT and SUGAR which is all but unavoidable in Mexican cooking. The juice in one take out chicken is like equal to two weeks of salt. 1,120 mg of sodium in one small package of chorizo a Mexican sausage.

I can test hop a connection by firing the oven empty. If voltage is ridiculous then the oven is nixxed for the meal. It may seem strange but I really like infra-red toasty cooked vegetables.

And a convection oven would heat the rig a small fraction of what a stove oven would. Home baked sourdough and dill rye is excellent and the ingredients stay fresh for months.

I can purchase turkey thighs and breasts.

I guess a lot of folks think "Someone stole the cork out of my breakfast" is the norm down here --- maybe for tourists.

If the wall juice is flakey, can’t you just run it through a PSW UPS?

My Crusinart TOB155 takes a 12" X 12" tray with 5" of clearance above it. Rated wattage is 1500 watts, although in use it draws slightly less. No temperature probe, but i have baked pies & cooked small chickens & roasts in it. I don't believe they are still making them, but they have an equivalent - maybe the TOB 195?

The temp probe is aftermarket. Cooking by selectricity in Mexico is miss miss hit miss miss miss, without instrumentation. Microwave heating is another venture straight from the bottom of the rabbit hole. But campground AC connections are sure death for appliance circuit boards. Low voltage flickering say, 40-90 volts is not uncommon.

I doubt you'll find any that are truly 1800 watts, outside of a commercial device, due to NEC continuous duty de-rate on branch circuits. I think it's 85%, so a 15 amp is de-rated to 13 for continuous duty ... which means manufacturers are limited to 1500 watts.

Not a smart oven but has a wireless temperature probe? Those sound like mutually exclusive options.

Big enough to hold a hen? Something like the NuWave convection cooker comes to mind. (1500 watts)