Do you use your big oven a lot?

I use my toaster oven almost every day. I use my regular oven once or twice a month.

I use my big oven all the time. I don’t have an air fryer, but I do occasionally make pizza. I also refuse to microwave my leftover pizza so it goes in the oven at 350° for 10 to 12 minutes depending on how thick it is, etc.

And every once in awhile I get in the mood to cook a roast. I used to like eye round roasts, but they’ve gotten so expensive and then even when you buy them, they seem like they’re so much smaller nowadays. But I really like cooking pork loin roasts. I cook them with lots of potatoes, carrots, and onions and they turn out totally delicious! I don’t know, maybe I’m too old to care about adapting to an air fryer or such but I like using my oven.

When my gas oven/stove quits working I will replace it with a countertop electric oven. I use my microwave for most of my cooking now.

Main over gets used about 5 days a week. Toaster gets used maybe about as frequently.

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I don’t have a toaster oven, air fryer or microwave. I have a wall oven and a toaster. I use the toaster for toast and sometimes frozen waffles I use the big wall oven for everything else, about once a day or every other day – reheating things, baking things, warming things up.

We have a double “big” oven. Top one is also a convection oven. We use them almost every day.

Really only use the microwave for popcorn and some defrosting.

We got an air fryer/convection counter top oven and liked it well enough, but it takes up too much counter space. Now it lives in the basement.

I bought a stove with a small oven on top of a bigger oven, both beneath the burners. It is gas. i use the top oven almost every day and the big oven a few times a year. In addition, I have a toaster in which I make toast.

Large oven gets used once a week on average, I cook a meal and we eat leftovers for three or four nights.

Wow. Interesting. The answers so far surprised me.

Use it a couple times a week

I have an electric oven with bake, broil, convection roast, convection bake and air fry settings. I use the broil, conv roast and conv bake settings most often. I prefer my bagels toasted under the broiler.

I use my big oven no more than twice a year.

I only use our big oven for baking cookies or frozen pizza. Just about everything else goes in the toaster oven. You can easily bake a couple chicken breasts or potatoes and it doesn’t heat the kitchen/house like the large oven does. This is a big deal during the warm summer months.

Recently our oven didn’t work for a year so I became comfortable with the ease and convenience of the toaster oven as a replacement. I only missed baking cookies.

A toaster oven big enough would take up too much counter space for me. I’m happy using the big oven most of the time. It heats fast, and does a better job than a smaller equivalent. A convection feature would be nice. Some large ovens have convection. Some wall units are double ovens now, also, with a smaller one for smaller jobs.

@jonsblond I even make frozen pizza in the toaster over a lot of the time, and I bake a small lasagna or stuffed shells, and almost everything. The toaster oven heats up in a couple of minutes and like you said doesn’t heat the whole kitchen, and I assume uses less electricity. I bake cookies and cakes in the toaster oven sometimes, but have to be careful not to burn them on top. I usually put aluminum foil over what I am baking for part of the time.

@Smashley There are toaster ovens that have convection also to maintain a more even heat. I think air fryers are convection at a faster air speed. I don’t use an air fryer, so I don’t know a lot about them, but I know a lot of people who use them regularly

@JLeslie – indeed. Air Fryer is like Instant Pot – just a new name for a new configuration of an old idea. I’m quite familiar with what toaster ovens can do; I used to cook a tapas menu for a wine bar using one of those exclusively. The trick is using the top of the oven, too!

Instapot is a pressure cooker.

This is what my stove looks like although it wasn’t that expensive when I bought it.

We eat salmon fillets twice or three times a month, start by frying fillet in olive oil. Then put frying pan with fillet in 350* F oven to finish.

@janbb: I have a very similar oven, by my two are even in terms of height.

@JLeslie – exactly

I use the big oven primarily on weekends for family meals and baked goods. Ditched the toaster oven. I do have Instapot and air fryer for specific thing’s.