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Black & Decker Toast-R-Oven

Ashley of Greensboro, NC November 17, 2009

Purchased Black & Decker TRO490W in 9/09 and it has caught fire twice and burned food at least 5 other times overt the past month & a half. Tonight it was a serious fire. Target should recall this product ASAP before someone dies.

Ericha of MEdway, MA November 14, 2009

Black and Decker Toaster Oven TRO964 needs to be recalled. It is a fire hazard. I had my previous toaster oven by this company for 15 years - no problems. REplaced it with this one, and cannot use it as an oven. If I do, the food burns. Tonight, I was warming up some taco shells and they burst into flames. We had to quickly extinguish the fire, and throw it out in the backyard. Terrible design and very dangerous. I am throwing it away!

Ron of Richmond, CA November 6, 2009

This Black & Decker Toaster oven model CT06305 Type 1 is only a few years old. I purchased this top-of-the-line, well-known brand name appliance hoping to get many years of service from it. Have had too much trouble and near-disasters from ovens with electromechanical controls, so this model with electronic controls seemed like just what I was looking for.

Initial complaints are that the display is very hard to read, and that the beep is way too loud. Not showstoppers, however. Now, less than two years after purchase, it simply goes dead! If I unplug it for a while, it may start working again, but only for a while, quitting in mid-cycle most of the time.

American corporations have lost my trust and business for the most part. B & D is on my D0-Not-Buy list now, for anything they make or have made under their label.

Maureen of Palm Beach Gardens, FL November 4, 2009

I purchased a Black & Decker Toaster Oven, Model TRO 620 on May 30, 2009 at Taget in Lake Park Florida. This weekend I attempted to make toast and the oven went on fire. A large white flame erupted inside the toaster. Thinking something may have dripped inside, I let the toaster cool and I then scrubbed the inside carefully. I just tried to turn the Toaster Oven on and it began to smell like buring wires and another white flame erupted. I cannot/am afraid to use this item again. As it is only 6 months old (my prior toaster oven lasted 40 years)I believe this to be an inferior, unsafe product.

Darryl of Chapel Hill, NC October 6, 2009

I have owned two Black & Decker Series CTO650 Toaster-R-Ovens. The first oven (purchased in 2007) lasted about 11 months and stopped working (no clear cause); I contacted B&D and they replaced it (I had to pay for shipping and mail in the cut end of the plug). The replacement oven was a little over a year old when it suddenly exploded while my wife was heating up egg rolls. I was amazed that the glass isn't shatterproof. Fortunately, none of the children or animals were hurt. I have pictures of the oven after the explosure... quite shocking.

I was surprised to see hundreds of reports of hazards associated with B&D ovens. They need to recall this oven... it simply isn't safe. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. But this is an accident waiting to happen.

Cindy of Oceanside, CA September 22, 2009

Black & Decker TRO964 Toaster Oven caught fire the 1st time I used it, its going back to the store tomorrow but these need to be recalled !!!!

Loretta of Massapequa, NY August 12, 2009

I was making toast the other day and unfortunately, due to the poor design, I thought I turned the lower knob to the off position as the toast was becoming too brown, but the oven continuted to toast. The knob that you need to turn the oven off, does NOT have a stop position and if you go just a fraction beyond the line, the oven continues to cook!!! The toast burst into flames and as luck would have it, my kitchen door was open and my husband was able to carrying the flaming oven to our back yard where we extinguished the fire. If we had left the kitchen for any period of time, I am not sure that we would have had such a happy ending, as the flames were very intense and the kitchen filled with black smoke. The design should definitely be changed to include an off button that has a specific stop.

Carlota of Houston, TX July 26, 2009

First toaster oven TR0700S after 11.5 months made the circuit breaker turn off/blow up when set to 'oven' and neither the oven or convection fan would work. Put a complaint to fox-international.com and they replaced the unit with another of the same. Six months later the oven stopped working, so did the convection button.

Paid to mail the plug back in order to receive the first replacement oven and bought another toaster oven of a different brand to replace it.

chris of swampscott, MA July 24, 2009

We purchased this product new to replace a well served older model a few months ago. Right away it felt poorly designed and very hot just a few minutes into toasting toast and was not sealed tight at the top. not only did it not toast bread well or evenly the picture shows some big roast in the unit. that is so unlikely due to so many limitations it has from lack of adjustable rack to the simple fact that it is not that big inside. The final and most concerning is the the fire we had inside tonight when we were just toasting some tiny pinenuts laying flat in the provided pan. It flared up so fast and created such heat that a fire broke out and that thick black smoke that smells of burned plastic is in every fiber of our house. This was not due to a build up of grease as the unit has barely been used. Never wrote a review before on a website but felt I neededd to warn others.

Keith of New Athens, IL July 10, 2009

Smoke and the smell of burning electrical wires comes out of the temp dial on my TRO 4070 B and D toaster oven.

It is a fire hazard of immense proportions. We need a recall.

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