Toaster Oven

Cooking is different in Japan. Not only is it harder to find the ingredients we would normally use to cook with, but the means of cooking is different. They don’t use ovens here, so we can’t really bake anything the way we would bake home. We don’t have a microwave, so it’s hard to heat up leftovers, but something we were very happy to see when we moved in was a brand-new toaster oven. I love toaster ovens. They are great for toasting a sandwich, making quesadillas, homemade french-fries, etc, etc. This toaster oven measures heat in Celsius, so we weren’t quite sure how high to put it when we wanted to make baked potatoes. Luckily, there were helpful hints on the front!



There are these little pictures along the bottom of the toaster oven telling you the heat and time to cook certain items.







Toast, a dinner roll, au gratin potatoes,




pizza, a person, and cookies.