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hi I'm Megan Willerton for CNET and this is the Frigidaire Professional six sliced toaster oven as far as design goes the Frigidaire looks professional it has the stainless steel it has an LCD display it's its overall really nice to look at as far as its looks its kind of comparable with the Breville Smart Oven which is about two hundred and fifty dollars and this guy is only about 180 so as far as style you're getting kind of a bargain also it's really easy to use it has a lot of features that are just simple you just turn the different dials to adjust temperature and and you're good to go the Frigidaire also has a lot of the same features as the more expensive Breville and Cuisinart toaster ovens and the frigidaire even came with a pizza pan that can cook pizzas up to 12 inches so I had really high hopes for it very unfortunately the Frigidaire consistently underperformed on almost every test we conducted for the toast setting it worked really really well for both light and medium but for the dark toast setting it toasted for 12 or 13 minutes and after about the eighth minute of toasting it actually started smoking and filling up the whole room with smoke so much so that we had to open the doors and kind of get our fan going so we didn't shut off the smoke detectors and it produced this we also tried toasting frozen waffles on the dark toast setting and got this so not even a frozen waffle or probably frozen bread would need to bake for 13 minutes in a toaster oven and most of the other food we tested had kind of a similar result the pizza was soggy the chicken wasn't great it just kind of overall underperformed on most of our tests so I can't say that I would recommend the frigidaire to anyone if you're shopping in this price range I would really suggest the Panasonic flash express instead it's about a hundred and fifty bucks and it performs way better or if you want something with similar specs that kind of the same has the same classy look I would suggest the Breville Smart Oven it's gonna be a bit more pricey at around 250 but definitely worth it I'm Megan mullet in 4c net and this is the Frigidaire Professional 6 slice toaster oven