Vintage GE Toaster Ovens?

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It's not really meant to be a "toaster" toaster. By toast they mean top browning toast. I've never tried it out actually  LOL 

Actually I've never roasted meats etc or broiled in any of these small toaster ovens because of the burned on greasy mess they leave . They get too messy and are a pain to clean. 
 
Yes thats what I find with them Pete

more trouble than they are worth. My Thermadore oven heats in 3 minutes and can be easily cleaned with the throw of a switch. And the broiler in the Thermadore is like a Salamander in a commercial grill can't beat it!

I do use my GE toaster oven for baked potatoes and broiling pita bread though.
 
Yes

The Munsey toaster is wonderful for toasting English muffins, or bagels, or making garlic toast, or big soup croutons....we had one, until my sister accidentally started a very small fire with ours. No damage to the kitchen or house, but the toaster itself was pretty gone.

They were still being made up until a few years ago, I saw one in the Vermont Country Store catalogue, but last time I was at their website, I didn't see it.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Laawrence/Maytagebear Munsey was bought out and quit making toasters in 2004 as offshore cheapos were flooding the market. The now make commerical waffle irons for resturants.

The flip toaster oven my folks had we used for baking pot pies or a tv dinner when I had to fend for myself.
 
Knapp Monarch Redi Oven..

My Aunt had this, bought it sometime in the early 60s, I burned my arm the worst burn I ever had! when I was about 8, I didnt know it was on and laid my wrist on it..YEOWEEE what a blister that made, she gave it to me several years ago, bakes biscuits like a champ!

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Flip Toaster Ovens

Have one found NIB at a thrift store, cannot recall the brand off hand but *think* it's vintage Farberware or some such.

Any who these sort of units were sold as "toaster-ovens-broilers". Rather than having two separate sets of heating elements (top and bottom) there is only the one. Elements on top ='s broiling and or toasting, bottom ='s baking. The hinged door is removable and you have to take it off and reinsert depending upon the function.

Consumer Reports rated these sort of ovens back in the 1980's or so and found the best when used for "toaster oven" functions were quite good. Broiling often left things to be desired with some but the better ones did an acceptable job with say small hamburgers or chops. Baking OTHO was universally poor.

Have tried doing the odd chops (two) or such in ours for broiling and whilst saving from heating up the entire kitchen with the broiler in the gas range, the results were adequate. I mean if one is hungry and doing dinner for one you'd eat anything wouldn't you?

Now rarely bother as use a small vintage aluminum broiler pan and the large oven anyway. It's faster, gives better results and the small pan is eaiser to clean than the large one from the oven.
 
Cool to see the Munsey made in Little Rock,  the Knapp Monacrch is a product from St. Louis, iirc ?  Nice ovens and pics thanks. alr
 
My grandmother had something similar to this, but I don't remember if it had the glass window or not. I remember making frozen pizzas and tv dinners in it. I remember her turning it upside down to broil, putting the element on top, and when you baked you turned it so the broiler was on the bottom. It was a great little oven, I got it after she passed way. I remember using the heck out of to make lunch and snacks in while mom was at work.

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Thanks to Paul who found it for me,

I finally got an early Toast-R-Oven model with the "START" button next to the "OPEN" button like I wanted. (I already have a few of the newer ones with the white and black "START" buttons moved at the top of the control panel and a red pilot light).

 

I contacted the owner last week and he met me closer to where I live to deliver it to me. Most of the other small appliances I got were from thrift stores but this one was advertised on Kijiji. 

 

I didn't have the time to clean it yet but it's in decent shape and I guess it's from around 1964 as the earlier models had "brown top side" instead of "top brown only" like mine has and slightly different printing on their control panel.

From the ads I've seen, it seems the late-1964 and later ones didn't have that "oven guide" lettering on the left to leave more space for the oven guide itself . The model is T51B (a Canadian model number) and I can't date it more precisely. 

 

See the link to an ad from late 1964 to compare. 

http://books.google.ca/books?id=olE...vXA4AOa8IHgBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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This is a picture showing the model number. Looks like Sunbeam toaster model numbers but it's a Canadian GE... 

[this post was last edited: 3/27/2013-14:17]

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This is the newest one I got, it's the US equivalent of Petek's toaster (without the Celsius graduation). 

[this post was last edited: 3/27/2013-14:29]

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This is probably a mid-seventies model I got at a thrift store for 2$ but it works perfectly. It's US made.  It has a white "START" knob and a white sliding knob for the oven temp and toaster setting. This one still has the early-style thinner Bakelite side panels with handles extending on each side.

 

The model number is A4T93B

[this post was last edited: 3/27/2013-14:35]

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