After reading all the oven/baking threads here (insightful, thanks!) we recently bought a Toshiba ER-XD3000 countertop combioven.
Feeling pretty ambivalent about the purchase so far — seems to bake well but I kind of miss the simplicity of toaster oven + separate microwave. However, what I’m finding particularly annoying is the long, noisy cooling cycle that happens after any baking. Run the oven for a minute or two… that’s 10 minutes of cooling fan noise. Run it for 20-30 minutes and settle in for 25-30 minutes of fan noise afterwards… not ideal when it’s right behind you while you’re trying to enjoy dinner 😅
I guess this is pretty normal for this kind of product (?) but I’m curious if anyone has a similar countertop oven that bakes well but *doesn’t* have these lengthy cooling cycles. Does such a thing exist? Or should I keep investigating sticking the oven in the laundry/bathroom where I can at least shut the door? 😂
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You mean IHs? Most of them do that. My resolution is pullIng the f.king plug out after done using it l, because it’s too annoying.
Leaving oven door open turns off cooling cycling for my cheap oven, if I remember correctly.
Yes, it’s normal. I don’t think you’ll find one that doesn’t do this.
I’ve had a sharp and a balmuda oven and they both have noisy cooling cycles.
Maybe you could use a パナソニック ダイアルタイマー and set the off-time to the ovens run time. If it can handle 300 deg C while in use, it’ll be fine letting it cool by ambient temperature as well.
I only own a toaster oven but I use the timer to turn off an ebike charger that happens to make a coil buzzing noise while in use.
Have you looked into convection ovens? IMO they are the best. Super cheap and simple, no noise, but bakes very well. Cake, bread, pizza, anything. I have ¥7000 one from Iris Oyama with a pizza stone, and I’d highly recommend it.
Edit: It does have the tick tack sound though.
What did you expect? That it was just going to sit there and bask in all that excess heat until you needed it to microwave some popcorn?
If it bothers you that much, just crack the door and unplug it.
Don’t cry to me when it breaks after the warrantee period, though…