{"id":3749,"date":"2011-09-21T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2011-09-22T03:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:26:28","slug":"there-is-exactly-one-good-use-for-a-toaster-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"There is exactly one good use for a toaster oven"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Improvised garlic bread:<\/p>\n<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>\n<p>(1) cut the bread into thick slices,<\/p>\n<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>\n<p>(3) sprinkle garlic powder liberally on top of the butter<\/p>\n<p>(4) place on tinfoil in toaster oven<\/p>\n<p>(5) toast for 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, this works OK even if the bread is a bit old, as the butter moistens it nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Total prep time about 5 minutes.  Results:  Om nom nom.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}