Question

Know of a double oven with toast feature?

Answer 1

answer:I’m trying to visualize how they would do that. You would need a heat element (high temp) on the bottom of the oven – high temp like a broiler – just like there is on the top of the oven (where there already is a high temp element. I think that the main issue is distance. The reason the toaster oven does so well on toasting is that the bread is only 2–3” from the element on either side. The heat doesn’t have time to dissipate by the time it gets to the bread. In a (real) oven, the opening (distance between heating elements) is likely to be 18” or more. (After all, the oven has to be big enough to do turkeys and roasts and such.) WHich means that if you put the toast in the center, there’s a 9” distance to the break from the burner. I think that you lose far too much heat over that distance. The other factor is energy consumption. A toaster oven is maybe 5” x 10” x 8” deep. So you are heating up 400 cubic inches. Pretty efficient. A real oven is 18×24 x 24 or so, or almost 11,000 cubic inches. So you would be wasting a tremendous amount of energy heating a cavernous oven for a couple pieces of toast.—if they heat the toast at all (see previous paragraph). Bottom line – you won’t find them because they don’t work well and would waste energy.