Re: gas toaster oven?bob prohaska's usenet account <bp@www .zefox,net > wrote:
> Does anybody make a gas-fired toaster oven? By "toaster oven"
> I mean a physically small, fast response oven that provides
> simultaneous top and bottom browning of dry foods and the ability
> to provide uniform heating and top browningf
I am not aware of anything that specific.
> I've become fond of cooking outside on the porch, for which
> propane-fired stoves and grills excell. Gas grills don't
> make good ovens and I've not seen any appliance that burns
> gas and can simultaneously toast both sides of a piece of
> bread, vertical or horizontal (horizontal preferred)..
Viking makes an outdoor gas oven, but that's just a regular
gas oven built for outdoor use.
> Any thoughts appreciated, right now the best answer seems
> to be a portable generator, which is somewhat lacking in
> finesse.
You could get one of those campfire toasters which clamps
the bread between two wire panels and you hold it over the
fire (grill) and rotate it as needed.
Some grills have an infrared burner mounted vertically at the
back to use for rotiserie cooking, but I'm not sure that's
real helpful, just different. I found one kind of expensive
outdoor gas pizza oven, but that's not really what you want.
If you go with the portable generator, Honda's seem to be
especially quiet and unobtrusive.
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.