Product Description

Make a complete meal for your family right on your countertop with this unique convection toaster oven from De'Longhi. It's the best substitution for your conventional oven; it's large enough to make an entire meal while saving on energy by not having to fire up the oven for every meal. You can even make two 12" pizzas in a snap with the 8 pre-programmed pizza settings, time and temperature are preset for fresh or frozen pizza. The Durastone II enamel interior and slide out crumb tray make cleanup of any meal a breeze. Whether you're an avid baker or bake the occasional pre-made cookie dough, the smart cookie function bakes at the correct time and temperature to achieve the gooiest, yummiest cookies every time. There is also an interior light to help you monitor the cooking progress. And never worry about over-cooking or burning your food with the convenient 2-hour timer and automatic shut-off. This oven has user-friendly digital controls that allow you to easily control t he cooking program and temperature of whatever it is on your menu. Additional settings include bake, bake with convection, defrost, broil, toast (6-slice capacity) and keep warm for precise and convenient cooking.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11150 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Size: One Size
• Color: stainless steel
• Brand: DeLonghi
• Model: DO1289
• Dimensions: 11.80" h x 16.00" w x 20.30" l, 18.74 pounds

Features

• 0.5 cu. ft. capacity fits two 12 in. pizzas or 6 slices of toast
• 6 pre-programmed toast settings
• 7 setting toast color selector
• Convection cooking and Durastone II enamel interior
• Multiple cooking functions

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

242 of 243 people found the following review helpful.
Solid Choice
By Alexei H. Pfeffer-gillett
I have had the DO1289 for a month and overall I am very happy with it. The toaster is gorgeous and does a great job baking. I have cooked fish and steaks and everything has turned out perfectly. The convection fan is not too loud and does its job well. In terms of toasting, the oven is not spectacular, but certainly adequate. Getting a crispy slice of toast takes about 5 minutes. Though it takes a few clicks to do anything on the toaster, the controls and knobs are straightforward and well designed.

I spent a long time analyzing and breaking down the pros and cons of the different top quality toasters so hopefully this review can save you some time. Here are the other toasters I looked at seriously :

Cuisinart TOB-195: Generally well-reviewed, but I could not get past the fact that the toaster does not have automatic shut-off. This is a key safety feature that I was unwilling to sacrifice. The DO1289 does have auto shut-off and turns off after beepin g loudly 3 times. In addtion, the Cuisinart's crumb tray comes out the back, which seems totally stupid and impractical.

Krups FBC2: Looked like the perfect toaster, but again a safety feature got in the way. Apparently the Krups model has a poorly constructed door hinge and is prone to exploding. The DO1289's door is very smooth opening and seems well constructed. The Krups' quartz heating would have been nice, but still not worth it. I also suspect that the Delonghi has a little more overhead clearance than the Krups so I can roast a small chicken.

Breville Smart Oven: This oven has almost every feature and is the most powerful and spacious of the bunch, but $250 for a toaster is just absurd. I bought my Delonghi refurbished for $70, so it was no contest.

The Delonghi also has an oven light (which most others do not) and a bright permanently illuminated display--a nice feature at night for seeing the time. One other feature that doesn't get much attention, but was very important to me, is the Delonghi's Durastone enamel interior. This is great because, unlike toasters with traditional nonstick interiors, I can put metal and glass dishes in the oven, as well as aluminum foil (every one of the other aforementioned ovens advises against using glass or foil). Durastone is apparently nonstick so I can only hope that it has fewer chemicals or is safer than traditional nonstick (I would love it if someone knew the answer). Either way, it is a step up from the other high end toasters that I researched.

Based on my comparisons with other toaster ovens, I found that the Delonghi 1289 is the best designed and most practical. The Delonghi's performance is very good, though not spectacular, it has great features and, in my opinion, is the best choice for a high-end toaster oven.

UPDATE: After over a year owning the Delonghi DO-1289, I am still very happy and everything continues to work exactly as it should.

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
Satisfactory for an exacting application
By Ela Harrison Gordon
We live in a small cabin and a toaster oven is all the oven we have room for. I'm also a raw food enthusiast, as well as anxious to preserve our harvest from the short growing season here in Alaska, and was very interested in a toaster oven that could double as a dehydrator. I was also hoping to find something with enamel rather than teflon on the inside, due to concerns about toxins. I bought it to replace the old Cuisinart toaster oven that had been in the cabin from my husband's bachelor days, and was looking for an all-round oven to bake all kinds of things, not just toast!

I was very grateful for Alexei H. Pfeffer-gillett's review comparing other highly recommended models: it confirmed what I suspected from reading about them myself and helped me to decide that this was the closest thing to what I was looking for. Experience has me in agreement with his review, and there are a few things that I would like to add.

It is very important to make sur e that the oven is level: if it isn't, it can be very noisy in convection mode. Even when it is level, convection mode is not silent, and seems especially noisy when dehydrating, so if you're dehydrating overnight, you won't want to sleep in the same room (hard to accomplish in a 1 1/2-room cabin!) Another thing that may be particularly relevant to the small cabin context is that the digital display is so bright, it practically functions as a night light!

I would not recommend using the dehydrator function completely unmodified. It just consists of the convection fan with no heat, and for the initial dehydration time it is wise to have the circulating air at around 145 degrees to avoid proliferation of mold/bacteria. The 'defrost' function is a little warmer, so sometimes I'll run it like that first. Or start dehydrating right after baking, while the oven is still hot. It is by no means an ideal dehydrator, but it works as a compromise, and the manual clearly disa buses you of any expectations for it to be ideal in that regard.

It does a good job of baking and the fact that it turns itself off after a preset default 30 mins is a good safety feature: it is just important to remember to adjust to your needs. Especially so, because adjusting the temperature from the default 350 is a cumbersome process that you don't want to have to do over again in the middle. You just keep pressing the 'adjust' button, which is unidirectional, and each press accompanied by an annoying beep, so that if you want a temperature of 325 (just one click back from the preset 350 if it was bidirectional), you get to press (and get beeped) 8 times!

I have generally found that baked goods take _longer_ than the recipe stipulates, but this may be because a lot of the baking that I do is with alternative grains and other tweaks. I do bake regular sourdough bread for my husband and have never had a problem with it burning on the top or bottom, a s I did with the old oven: it really does a beautiful job with that. Being able to fit two loaf pans in side-by-side is also a plus, although the baking trays seem to bow a bit under that kind of weight, which is a concern when using heavier bakeware also. With cookies, pizza, etc, it is important to rotate trays and to turn them around, and the manual clearly states this.

Toasting is rather slow and adjusting is accomplished by the same unidirectional high-pitched beep process. Default is 4 pieces, which means that the largest number of clicks is for my husband's usual two pieces... Usually we just leave it on 4!

The door of the oven is very well designed to keep your hand away from the glass, and it is wonderful to be able to see what is going on inside, but I wish that the door, sides and top did not get quite so hot. It seems like better insulation would improve its energy efficiency (although it is definitely better than the old oven in that regard too). In terms of countertop footprint, it seems little bigger than the old oven and the same size trays fit it, but its internal capacity is impressively larger.

The cookie sheets are hard to clean and seem to stain. I have only used the pizza pan once and it worked wonderfully except that the crust stuck to it something fierce, even though I had greased it (and the holes in the tray made greasing a messy business). The broiler pan (which is black) warps alarmingly when used for broiling, but reverts to its proper shape when cooled down. I find this a bit scary. I really do appreciate the slide-out crumb tray.

Aside from these issues, I am pleased with it, but I also feel like the challenge is there for someone to come out with an oven that combines the good qualities of this one (large capacity in a small package, good baking quality, multiple functions, non-toxic materials) with better insulation, greater temperature range at the lower end (to fac ilitate dehydrating) and more user-friendly adjustability. Oh, and if there was any way that those beeps could be eliminated (or even made adjustable for sensitive ears), I would be so happy!

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Choice
By Jane Hayes
Our old toaster oven exploded, so we decided to upgrade with this purchase. Our son-in-law is a professional chef and he recommended the DeLonghi. It may seem like a minor feature, but the interior light was also a deciding factor in our purchase of this oven. We've had it about 2 months and it's great. I've actually cooked meals in it which I never did in my old toaster oven. I use my large ovens much less often now. I have not used the toaster feature, so I can't comment on that, but I'd recommend the oven without hesitation.