Your best bet might be to let it preheat completely before putting anything inside. It hit 572 degrees after five minutes when set at 450, but then it kept the temperature pretty consistent once it got back to 450. The Black + Decker heated up really quickly in our tests, but the secret behind that seems to be that it cranks the heat really high and then lets it cool down to the target temperature. Cleaning is also easy, with removable racks and crumb tray. That doesn't affect performance, though, as we got impressive, even results with toast, cookies, and broiled cheese on toast. There are three knobs: one for temperature, one for a 30-minute timer/toast color selector, and one for cooking mode (bake, broil, toast, or keep warm). The controls on this toaster are very simple, which is to say they probably haven't changed much since the 1980s. Its small capacity makes the whole unit quite compact, though it has space for a 9-inch pizza, with a pizza oven–like domed shape to help it cook hot and evenly. This is pretty much exactly what you want a toaster to do. This Spartan toaster might not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it's quite affordable and performed extremely well at the exact thing that's in its name: toasting four slices of bread. (Washing by hand is recommended, however.) You can use only a damp cloth to wipe the inside of the oven itself, but it also has a nonstick coating, which is very helpful for removing the occasional spatter or burn mark. The nonstick rack, baking pan, and drip/crumb tray at the bottom are all removable and dishwasher-safe. When it comes to cleanup, the KitchenAid makes things pretty easy. They actually would recommend setting your toast doneness a little lighter than you're looking for to avoid overcooking. None of this was serious enough to really interfere with cooking, though-it was the most consistent of the toast that we tested. (The oven's internal thermometer said it was preheated after four minutes, at 315 degrees by our measurement.) And when toasting six slices at once, the pieces closest to the back corners of the machine were a bit lighter than the rest. At the highest setting of 450 degrees, it only managed to get to 432 on our oven thermometer. If there were any issues with this model, it was that the temperature control was a little off. The large LED display and nine built-in functions were easy to use, especially paired with the extremely detailed and thorough instruction manual.
A half-dozen cookies baked beautifully and evenly, and broiling evenly melted a slice of cheese, toasting the bread beneath without burning either one. It toasted a single slice to evenly browned perfection in less than two minutes, and six slices-with plenty of space between them-in less than four minutes. With this oven's performance-plus the famed KitchenAid brand name-we did not expect its price to be so reasonable.
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