Customer Reviews for Black & Decker TRO651 Toast-R-Oven, White

Black & Decker TRO651 Toast-R-Oven, White

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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Black & Decker TRO651 Toast-R-Oven, White

Customer Review: 4 minutes 14 seconds for warm bread?
Summary: 1 Stars

My wife and I couldn't believe how long it took to "toast" bread with this machine. So, in the interest of making this review accurate, we timed it. We set the "toast" dial to medium, and four minutes and fourteen seconds of loud ticking noises later, we had warm bread. It had started to brown in the middle, but the bread was still not warm enough to keep me from comfortably picking it up with my hand immediately after the timer went off.

We can't comment on the other functions of this toaster oven, but since we planned to use it 75% or more for toasting bread, muffins, bagels, etc., it's horrid performance on this task was enough for us to decide that it only merits one star.

Customer Review: After 3 years, stopped working
Summary: 1 Stars

Bought this Black and Decker Model TRO651 Toast-R-Oven June 2007 to replace an old toaster oven that I've had for 20 years. The old one worked, but the paint was rubbing off, so why not get a new shiny one! But the new one started having an intermittent problem with the top Toast/Bake/Broil temperature control after 6 months, and recently the oven timer clock would stop after a few minutes and get hung up at around the 20 minute time. Sometimes the oven or toaster would not work, but after moving the top dial back and forth a couple of times, the unit would work OK for months. Then the problem would return, and could be "fixed" again by rotating the knob back and forth several times. Yesterday 1/26/2011 it would not heat at all. I took it apart this morning and after diagnosing with an electrical meter, discovered that the top control had totally failed. A new part with shipping costs half as much as buying a new one.

My suggestion: Buy a different model number.

Customer Review: Bad bad toaster oven...
Summary: 1 Stars

I have had a *few* problems with this toaster oven...

Problem #1: after cleaning the toaster oven the first time, almost all of the numbers and markings rubbed off

Problem # 2: the door handle detached from the glass door within 2 weeks

Problem #3: the toaster oven and the sides of the handle get quite hot (which, aside from posing a fire hazard, is a big deal when the handle falls off when you are checking on food--you have to put it back on...)

Problem #4: there have been at least 2 fires inside the toaster

Problem #5: the baking mechanism broke so I can only toast (the blue indicator light does not light up when the oven is on bake & the toaster does not bake)

Problem #6: the toaster alternates between taking forever to toast a piece of toast and quickly burning it

Problem #7: the toaster toasts unevenly (I flipped my bread over half way through the cycle to make sure the sides got toasted more evenly)

Problem #8: the baking mechanism did not work if the timer was not off (the blue light will not even go on)

Problem #9 (more of an annoyance): if your toaster is unplugged & you turn the toaster knob on, the toaster will make the toasting sound (so you come back thinking you will have toast but in fact, the oven was never on)

Well, I just ordered a new toaster because it is *difficult* (to say the least) to use this toaster, seeing as it has no numbers, markings, baking mechanism, and has a hot handle that falls off... not to mention the little fires it starts and the fire hazard it obviously poses.

I figure Black & Decker knows about the fire hazard because the door has instructions of what to do if there is a fire inside the toaster (it says to close the toaster door & unplug it... it omits the important step of turn toaster off before unplugging--all consumers need is also the threat of electricution when using this defective product).

After just 3 or 4 months in my possesion, this Black & Decker toaster will be let to rest/thrown away (3-4 months after it should have been). Please do not donate this toaster to Goodwill or to the needy if (I mean, when) you have problems with it--throw it away, it's quite useless & a hazard.

Customer Review: Buyer Beware!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars

This is the worst appliance I have ever purchased. The toaster stinks, the ovgen is inconsistent, and after five months completely died- The advice from B & D was to buy another one. Evidently this happens all of the time. I will buy another, but it certainly won't be Black and Decker!!!!!!!!!