With its .5 ft³ cavity which can bake two 12″ pizzas or toast 6 bread slices, the stainless steel convection oven, DeLonghi DO1279 allows you to feed the entire family at once. You can also broil, convection fan/bake, keep warm and defrost with the oven user-friendly digital controls and LCD display. The thermostat lets you choose the exact temperature and lets monitor current temperature during the heating process. And with convenient 2-hour timer with auto shut-off, you just set it and forget it. Several preprogrammed settings for baking and toasting make you life much easier. End-of-cycle signal alerts you when toast is hot and ready to eat. Special Durastone enamel interior distributes heat evenly for maximum consistency of cooking results. Such an interior and stainless steel exterior assure that this convection oven is quite easy to clean.
The oven also saves time since the convection cooking uses fan-circulated hot air to distribute heat faster and more evenly, the food cooks almost 40% faster. And result is always a perfectly browned outside and moist, juicy inside. Comes with interior light, slide out crumb tray, Durastone low profile bake pan, broil tray and 2 cookie sheets. [...]
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The average U.S. home sees peak water consumption during the summer, as Americans turn on the taps and spigots more frequently to do things like water their lawns and flower beds and fill their swimming pools.
Since summer is also the time when droughts peak and municipalities nationwide impose water restrictions, you’ll want to watch your water use. Our latest reports on toilets and showerheads (available to subscribers) can help you find products that not only are water misers but also work well and look sharp. The map shows the latest U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook from the National Weather Service.
A Environmental Protection Agency-commissioned study by Aquacraft, a water-engineering-and- management firm, showed that toilet flushing accounted for almost 30 percent of water use in a typical home. Toilets installed before 1995 are water hogs, using 3.5 gallons or more per flush. But installing a 1.28-gpf toilet that meets the EPA’s WaterSense program’s limit would save you more than 4,000 gallons of water per year.
The savings were even greater when [...]
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You can cook without a hood or a vent, but moisture, grease, odors, and heat from cooking on a cooktop can damage the rest of your kitchen.
Also, steam from cooking condenses on windows and walls, and in some cases carbon monoxide from the burning of gas can build up.
A range or cooktop hood or vent will remove most if not all of the above problems.
Hood Styles
Hood choices range from basic ductless wall-mount units, to systems with lights, timers, and easy-clean surfaces.
You can buy hidden slim-line hood designs which are concealed under cabinets which slide out when in use. Another kind can be used as a shelf for microwaves with the venting fans underneath. Yet another kind can incorporate a wall-mounted microwave above the range.
Hoods come in many styles, stainless steel, tile, or paneling that matches the cabinetry, for example.
The hood or vent should be at least as wide as the range top.
Hood components
Most hoods have a fan which moves stale air from inside the hood to the outside through ducts. There are two types of fans; axial, which have blades similar to ordinary fans, and centrifugal, which look like a wheel and can move more air [...]
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