Black & Decker TRO210 Toast-R-Oven, White

My wife and I put a white Toast-R-Oven from Black & Decker on our wedding registry, thinking it'd make a solid addition to our kitchen. Within the 1-yr warranty, our toaster oven stopped working. The button for making toast had ceased to depress and hold, requiring us to manually push down the button if we wanted to make toast. B&D had us snip the electrical cord and mail it back to them (I suppose to make sure we weren't just asking for another unit while keeping our current one).

We received the replacement a few weeks later, but this one also broke. Unfortunately for us, the 1-yr warranty had just expired. This time, the problem was the heating element on the roof of the unit. One of the elements (a rod-like tube that goes lengthwise along the toaster) started giving off sparks and then collapsed. Instead of staying pressed against the top of the unit, one of the rods had partially fallen down, bending at an angle. You might think this was a case of user-error,...Read more

Very disappointed and finally too nervous to ever use it again.

Not long after our warranty period expired the toaster button was getting harder and harder to use. Even on the "light" setting for toast it would turn quite black before shutting off. Eventually, we couldn't trust it enough without standing right next to it -- It simply stopped turning off using the toasting function.

The final straw was when we got distracted just long enough for my "medium" piece of toast to turn into a flaming chunk of charcoal-bread.

IF you buy, we strongly suggest a "Purchase with Caution" and certainly be sure to watch it like hawk at ALL times!

The toaster oven failed after a half year's use. The product was still under warrantee. The manufacturer, Applica/Black & Decker, offered to replace the unit, or let me choose another B&D product in place of the toaster oven. I am looking for something I want or need.

Even before the TRO210 stopped working, my wife and I were dissatisfied with it. The quartz heating elements are slow and take a long time to heat up the oven. When they are on at full power, the food is burned. My wife did not like the oven pan and replaced it with an old one she had saved from another unit.

Unfortunately, most other toaster ovens on the market today have the same heating systems. Check for quartz heating elements that are about 1/2" in diameter, and stay away.

After the TRO210 failed, my wife bought a slightly more expensive toaster oven that has the old, reliable calrod heating elements, and electromechanical controls. So far, after only a week's use, we are...Read more