I am officially old.
Not because I had a birthday in December, but because I got a toaster oven for Christmas and was thrilled!
It isn’t just any toaster oven, it is super sized! With French doors! And I feel powerful enough to bake or roast or even toast in this puppy.
Yeah. I’m old. Small appliances shouldn’t make anyone this giddy!
Last night, I cautiously approached the mega oven bearing a pork roast with sauerkraut. I love this New Years meal because traditionally it is supposed to bring a good year. I was entrusting my luck for the entire new year to the new kid on the kitchen block with highest hopes. I even dug out a digital meat thermometer with dual probes that I had bought awhile ago. None of the old appliances were deemed worthy of the dual probed beauty…until the toaster oven.
Preheating the hotbox, I probed the pork roast find the ultimate location for thermal detection. At the sound of the ding, I opened the doors and gingerly slid the roast and my hopes and dreams into the oven.
Now they say “a watched pot never boils” but luckily a watched toaster oven does cook. I did watch the roast through the spacious french door windows as the heat did its thing. This is sort of testament to not only the level of wonderment I have with a new appliance, but to the television program available during the holidays.
After an hour or so, the numbers on the Thermoprobe crept toward the goal of a wonderful dinner. The beeper sounded off and the time for reckoning was upon us. I removed the pan bearing dinner and placed the roast on the platter to rest from its heat induced challenge.
A well placed slide of my razor edged slicing knife revealed a delectable, moist pork roast that any chef would be proud of. My pork, sauerkraut, and mashed potato dinner assures me a happy and successful 2020 all thanks to the new bit of toasty real estate in my kitchen. Thank you, toaster oven!
It will be a happy new year!