Tefal Mini 19L Oven Optimo With Rotisserie, 120min Timer, 8 Cooking Functions, Up to 240 Degrees, Roasting, Baking, Stainless Steel, Black, 1380W, Students, Caravan OF445840

I love this oven. I live alone and have a bad back so I can't reach down anymore. This is amazing for one person. I don't think i'll use the rotisserie device because I prefer roast chicken in a bag as it comes ready prepared from the supermarket (where I live small chickens are 3 for £10). That was the first thing I cooked in it and it was lovely juicy evenly cooked to perfection. It's a fan assisted oven which surprised me for something so compact and of course TEFAL is a name you can trust. It's extremely well designed, I keep noticing little thoughtful features that show how much thought went into this item. For instance it has very small 'legs' with some sort of clever rubber feet that stop it sliding all over the place, this oven was designed to sit on a worktop and it won't scorch the surface it sits on, yet the door opens and rests on it's own handle at precisely the correct height to slide out the bottom tray directly onto the door - which is very helpful to slide out my chicken during cooking to test the temperature. This feature stops the whole oven tipping forward onto you which is a common problem with lesser models. Just buy it, you will be telling your friends about this oven I guarantee it.

.Nice oven, as I live on my own I was using the main oven just to cook 1 fish fillet, 1 bread roll etc.so thought I would give a mini oven a go. I am so pleased I did, looks good although the outside does get very hot, but cooks perfectly just adding a couple minutes extra to cooking time. The instructions could have been clearer showing just icons, I did figure out these but it is trial and error until you get used to it. I would recommend this oven for single people, no bending down and looks good on worktop. Yet to see if it saves on electricity.

Addition after 2 months use: the fact that there isnt an indication of when it has reached the desired temperature is really annoying.And it is impossible to clean with just a damp cloth. I use power paste and sponge to clean mine, but the first-time-use brown cooking marks between the glass panels, is - of course - impossible to clean.Original review after 1 week of use):I've had mini cooker problems. I bought (and returned) 2 mini cookers before this one. One of which only heated up to 180°, although the dial was at the top of the range, on an alleged 230°.This Tefal one on the other hand, seems to be fairly accurate, cooks faster than a conventional oven, and cooks evenly and well.So far I have cooked from scratch, pasties, rotisserie chicken, baked potatoes, and casserole. All turned out really well. I have also tried toast. It *does* make toast, but in the time it takes, you can drink 2 coffees.Like another reviewer said, on first time of use, there was a bit of cooking dirt in between the two glass panels on the door - nomway of cleaning that. Also there was some brown cooking stain on the frame the door fits into. Obeying the instructions on not using abrasive cleaners, I am unable to clean this off. I think i shall probably use my [brandname] power paste and accompanying sponge/scrubber to remove it.Also, like another reviewer said, it gets very hot on the external panels, but there is no good reason to touch these, (apart from stupidity on my part), and the handle does not get too hot to handle(!)The manual is possibly the worst I've ever seen. The info and instructions are wholly in images, and those images are hard to decipher. I got help on how to use it for cooking various things by watching independent YouTube videos.All in all, this is a very good product that out performs others in this price range. The only downside is you can't keep it clean if you follow tefal's guidance. If you have ocd behaviour for cleanliness, this is not the product for you.

Cook fast. Small chicken was cooked less than a hour. Enough for backing cakes. Get hot in the 3-4 minutes.

Bad points, almost entirely down to temperature regulation.I measured it's temperature quite a bit. On occasion it reached 270C, at which point I turned it off. On other occasions, after a 15 minute warm up at max (230C) it couldn't reach 190C - same oven.The final straw was attempting to follow the reheat instructs on an individual meat pie;Put in a preheated oven at 190C (fan) and cook for 25 minutes.Preheated (on max) for 15 minutes, still barely at 190C.Put in pieChecked at 30 minutes.Oven temp was 148CIf it can't reheat a pie........It did do a good job on cheap frozen pizzas, ignore pizza box instructions, use the ones in the manual and add 5 minutes. It's macaroni cheese was also very good, it's bread not good but acceptable. It's rotisserie chicken was perfectly okay, whilst it did take quite a bit longer than I expected it ended up okay.The basic problem was inconsistency, it was impossible to tell in advance what temperature it would heat to, even using exactly the same settings. Fine if all you want to do is cook frozen pizza, or for grilling, but for actual cooking it was pretty useless.I really wanted to like it, it was cheap, it was light, and it would fit in a cupboard when I needed the counter space back.But it's inconsistency, made it less than useful to me, for others that might not be as important, all depends on what you're hoping to use it for.

Cooks the food nicely and fits well in the kitchen