Hi, Donna here. I have belonged to this list off and on for years.
Have been away for a long time, and now I am back because I need some
advice from the voices of experience.
I bake all our bread, except in the summer when I cannot bear the
heat of the oven. I have a bread machine, an old Zojirushi bought
new many years ago through a member of this list. It is great and
still going strong. (However, I don't bake the bread in the machine
because the clean up is just too miserable and the pans wear out too
quickly. So, I make dough and bake in it the oven.
I am putting together a small arsenal of electric appliances for use
on the screened in porch, where any heat generated will stay out of
the house. A summer kitchen, so to speak.
My challenge is that I will have to purchase something sight unseen,
as I have no practical access to shopping, let alone comparison
shopping. And, I will have to have the product shipped. And I am in
Canada, which make shipping from US locations costly and complicated.
Sears is always a good bet for me, as they ship to their catalogue
locations free and are an honest company to deal with.
So here is the question:
Can anyone recommend a small portable electric unit to bake bread and
if my husband could do up a roast in it as well he would think he had
died and gone to heaven). I bake one large loaf at a time, in a
stainless steel bread pan, 5x9.5 inches and 2.5 inches deep but with
the risen bread it is often as deep 7 inches.
I have been looking at the Hamilton Beach 22 quart roaster oven at
Sears, but wonder if it is big enough to bake bread in.
Thanks,
Donna