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Cuisinart Brick Oven | 
 enlarge | Brand: Cuisinart
List Price: $450.00
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Rating:  38 reviews
Country: CHINA
MPN: BRK-200
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Product Description
Radiant heat bakes beautifully and is ideal for cooking meats and vegetables. Built with nonstick-coated bricks to deliver restaurant-quality results. Includes two cooking racks, tinted glass window, baking tray, broiler pan, and recipes. Convection model bakes up to 30% faster with air heating that draws out moisture for perfectly crisp pizza crusts. Int.: 12 3/4"L x 13 1/4"D x 6 3/4"H. Ext.: 18 1/2"L x 17 1/2"D x 11 1/2"H.
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 Cuisinart BRK-200 September 4, 2008
Mr. Richard D. Watman (Monroe, WI USA)
We love this product. It heats quickly and evenly, and is large enough for almost everything we make. This is ideal for the two-person home.
fantastic August 23, 2008
Everyday Cook (Peoria IL USA)
I can't believe how well this oven works. Make my Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day without the hassle of adding water for steam. Love,love ,love it. Once considered buying a clay insert for my regular oven, but this does that job and more. Cannot believe how well it works for a 2 person family. Only had this a short time, so I imagine loving it more as I use it!!!!!
 Loved mine until... August 13, 2008
W. Day
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I cook a lot but there are only two of us in the house, so I was really excited to have a nice oven that wouldn't heat up the whole kitchen every time I needed to bake something. I loved this oven for the first two or three months; it cooked everything so beautifully. Then I noticed things started burning. I tried adjusting rack levels and ingredients, thinking somehow I was in fault. Finally, I decided to check the temperature of the oven. I stuck an oven thermometer inside and was shocked... the oven was set at 350, but the thermometer showed that the temperature was actually reading hotter than the max temp. on my thermometer.
This might be just this particular oven, but I'm very disappointed. I called customer service (long, long wait) and was told the only thing I could do was ship it in and pay for the shipping to get it fixed. That is not an option for us, as it would be much too expensive (it is a heavy unit). I tried to look for a way to calibrate the oven myself, but it isn't available like in a conventional oven. All it does for us now is toast the occasional bagel and take up counter space (at least it's nice looking).
I Bought This For Baking Pizzas August 12, 2008
L. C. Jones (Alabama)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first ordered the Cuisinart BRK200 through one of Amazon's 3rd party suppliers. The oven arrived and I discovered the bottom element didn't come on. I took it up with Cuisinart - I paid to ship the one I had back to them and they quickly shipped me a new oven at their expense.
I live in a rural area and can't find good pizzas anywhere in the town close to me, so I mainly got this to cook pizzas at home. I can get a Wal-Mart Sams Choice fresh pizza, add my own toppings plus extra cheese - and I get a really good pizza with a nice pastry like crisp crust. I can also reheat cold pizza slices in the oven (always preheat for at least 20 minutes to get the brick hot) and they turn out as good as the pizza did the first time I baked it (and I always put on a little more mozarella at the second baking/reheating). For it's excellence at approximating the best pizza I could get in a good Pizza Joint - I give this oven 5 stars.
Before I purchased the BRK200 I came to Amazon and read all the reviews. Several people complained that there was not a light that indicated when the oven was preheated. Well, I say to them "Duh!" This oven operates differently than a standard oven so that kind of preheat light would not apply. The reason you preheat this oven for 20 to 30 minutes (I always preheat for 30 if doing pizza) is so the brick inlay and brick sides absorb the heat and come up to temperature along with the elements heating of the oven. Of course this process by which the bricks absorb and retain heat happens at a different rate than when the oven first reaches the temperature you set on the dial. The longer you preheat the oven, the more stable the overall temperature because of the heated brick and then the less the elements have to switch on and off to maintain set temperature. It didn't take me long to figure this out. I too had wondered why there wasn't a preheat light until I realized how this oven operates with the brick sides and plate. The hotter they are the less the elements come on and off.
There are also ways of getting creative with this oven. I always use parchment paper on top of the brick because when I didn't the pizza stuck and the brick insert is not that easy to clean when it gets gooey with cheese. And it should go without saying that you would not put the parchment paper in the oven until it is preheated and you are ready to put your food on top of it and bake. Once you do this you'll be amazed at what you can do - preheat the brick and you can make splendid Quesadillas, Grilled Ham and Cheese sandwiches, frozen egg rolls, etc. So in a way you can turn this into a sandwich grill. Also certain frozen foods like Country Fried Steaks or Frozen Breaded Chicken patties turn out crispy (like they were fried) and delicious when placed directly on the parchment paper over the preheated brick.
I haven't done much conventional baking yet. I did bake some breaded chicken breasts (A recipe called Chicken Divine) on the convection setting and they were wonderfully moist and tender.
Here are the few negatives - not enough to ruin the 5 star rating. I've seen the bottom element come on when using the Broil function. I don't think that this should happen. The listing tells you this comes with a baking tray but it doesn't. It does have a drip tray which you can use as a baking tray - but I called Quisinart and they have told me it is not a baking tray. Semantics I guess! I thought the recipe booklet could have been much better than it was. It just doesn't maximize the cooking potentials of this oven.
Overall, I'm very, very pleased with this purchase. Besides being an oven, it can reheat foods with a much better quality than a microwave. Just remember to always preheat the brick!
Great little oven August 8, 2008
E P
I love my little BRK-300. Sure it is small, but with only two of us it is perfect. It performs just as well as my full size oven. This little gem bakes up a perfect, crispy thin crust pizza, something I was never able to accomplish with my full size oven. I love the convecton feature and it roasts chicken like nobodys business. I can actually bake boneless, skinless chicken breasts in it without them drying up. I also love the fact that I don't have to heat up my whole kitchen with my full-size oven during the hot Summer months.
The only gripes that I have with it are as follows: 1) The oven is just too small to cook a decent sized chicken using the rotisserie function. Chickens these days are enormous- even fryers. 2) After a few months my unit started beeping continually soon after turning it on. I contacted Cuisinart customer service and they promptly sent out a brand new oven to me. No problem. 3) The print around one of the dials on my first oven started rubbing off. It was hard to see which setting I was using, luckily I had the positions memorized. Once again, this problem was solved when Cuisinart sent me a new oven. 4) It does take a while to make toast in, but I didn't buy it for that purpose, so it's all good.
Overall, I love it and would definitely reccommend.
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