There is exactly one good use for a toaster oven
<p>The kitchen in my house has a toaster oven tucked into one corner just under the wall cabinets.  It gathered dust unused for years, because toaster ovens were a silly 1970s fad that disintegrated in the face of inexpensive microwave ovens.   But I&#8217;ve found exactly one use for it that a microwave doesn&#8217;t emulate well.</p>
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<p>Improvised garlic bread:</p>
<p>Your main prerequisite for this is a loaf of Italian or French bread.  Works best if the loaf is more or less baguette-shaped so you can cut the bread into relatively small rounds surrounded by crust.</p>
<p>(1) cut the bread into thick slices,</p>
<p>(2) shave thin slices of butter off a stick of it and lay them on the bread slices until they roughly cover each one</p>
<p>(3) sprinkle garlic powder liberally on top of the butter</p>
<p>(4) place on tinfoil in toaster oven</p>
<p>(5) toast for 2 minutes.</p>
<p>Notably, this works OK even if the bread is a bit old, as the butter moistens it nicely.</p>
<p>Total prep time about 5 minutes.  Results:  Om nom nom.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
