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24 Feb, 2018
It burns food--a pain in the neck.
Like several other similar mini-ovens--this one is clearly based on the same design as the (fairly similar, and same size, watts etc) ) years-old Shef model which it replaced in our kitchen. BUT (a) it has no interior light; (b) no interior fan. So be it, but (c) far, far worse, its heating elements (encased in stainless steel, I think) get so hot (unlike our old Shef, which had the oldfashioned closely-wound elements encased in glass tubes) ) that almost any use of the upper pair burns any burnable food below--croissants or buns, for instance. To use it for such things, I now have to (a) switch on top-and-bottom first, to hot the oven up; then, after a minute or two (b) switch off top, and go to bottom-elements-only. And even then the buns or croissants may well get blackened, unless you watch the whole time, What a rigmarole !
The only thing you can say for this Parana version is that it's cheaper than the virtually identical rivals that come with fancy English-sounding trade names (names otherwise unheard-of by me, but that may be my ignorance).
The Shef was no great shakes, but tolerable. In contrast, I wouldn't buy this mini-oven again at any price. And I've no reason to think its costlier rivals are any better.