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hi I'm Megan Willerton for CNET and this is the Panasonic flash Express toaster oven what I really love about this toaster oven is the price and how well built it is for the price it's 150 bucks we found it for about 90 on Amazon and it's just super affordable it's one of the least expensive ones we tested and it just consistently outperformed or at least as good as the other ones it is a really well built machine but it also has some really wonky design that some people will love and some people will kind of hate so you know up here it has this strange sort of temperature gauge that's set for Fahrenheit and Celsius it looks kind of like one of those old AM FM tuners on your radio you have the Celsius down here and the Fahrenheit up here but it's actually calibrated just for Celsius another thing that's kind of wonky about this design is that it only goes up to 25 minutes on the timer so if you need to cook something for longer you have to come back and check and then bump up the time again the Panasonic flash Express is really really easy to use I particularly love the presets that they have because they work really consistently on usability something that might present a bit of a challenge is going off the presets so if you're not making toast frozen pizza frozen waffles because this isn't a convection oven or traditional toaster oven it actually uses double infrared heating so it cooks a lot faster if you have a box it says on the instructions to cook something for half an hour it might be closer to 22 minutes or maybe even less so you're going to have to kind of play around with it and see what works best for you let's talk a bit about performance now this toaster stacks up really well against the others as far as performance it consistently performed as well if not better than all of the other ones so overall this Panasonic flash Express toaster oven with double infrared heating is a complete winner consistently does a great job and it's cute and quirky at the same time so it's great for CNET I'm Megan Willerton and this is the Panasonic flash Express