Sanyo SK-VF7S Stainless-Steel Digital Convection Oven | 
| Brand: Sanyo
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $79.99
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Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 177
Color: Stainless
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11.3
Dimensions (in): 17.3 x 14.3 x 11.5
MPN: SK-VF7S
Model: SK-VF7S
UPC: 086483050428
EAN: 0086483050428
ASIN: B000260JLC
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 1350-watt 4-slice digital convection oven cooks, bakes, toasts, and reheats | | • | Full-width top and bottom quartz heaters and twin convection inlets for even heating | | • | 5 temperature settings; adjustable toast-shade control; 40-minute timer | | • | Removable easy-to-clean oven rack and non-stick crumb tray | | • | Measures 15-3/4 by 9 by 12-1/2 inches |
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Product Description
Sanyo's convection oven combines the best of powerful convection cooking, baking and toasting with a stylish, stainless steel design. The convection oven features full-width heaters on top and bottom and twin convection inlets for rapid and even heat distribution. It keeps track of the cooking progress with its 40-minute digital timer and lighted countdown indicators. Use it to cook meat and poultry dishes, bake pies and casseroles, toast up to four slices of bread at once and reheat leftovers. The width of the opening is 10-in. wide - large enough to hold a 10-in. pizza or a 9-in. pie. The panel on front offers one-touch toasting for heating one, two or three-to-four slices of bread for perfect browning every time. It even allows for bread that's frozen. The temperature ranges from 180- to 470-degrees F for precise baking. For easier access to hot baking sheets or pie pans, the oven's rack automatically slides out when the door is opened; remove the oven rack completely for easy cleaning. Included with your Sanyo convection oven is a nonstick oven tray and crumb tray and an English/Spanish instruction manual with recipes.
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 Excellent little convection toaster oven December 28, 2004
Grouchy Grunt (Seattle, WA.)
328 out of 329 found this review helpful
I wanted to get a toaster oven for years after our previous one gave up the spirit a few years ago. But I just could not justify spending $30-40 for the usual low budget half-made-of-plastic affairs that are designed to fall apart in a year. This one seemed to be better made, and the convection feature appeared to make sense, so I took a chance. I never owned any kitchen appliances made by Sanyo before.
I was afraid the stainless steel finish would not be very convincing, but this device actually looks quite stylish, much better than the run of the mill white appliances in my kitchen. It is compact, both inside and out. You will not be roasting a whole chicken in this one. Two cornish hens would be about the max you could stuff in it.
It does make good toasts, and since all it takes is to push a button, the process is very simple. It is great for baking smaller amounts of food, like fish sticks, chicken breast fillets, french fries etc. without having to resort to our full size oven. Coupled with the fact that it heats up a lot faster also, you can save about 30-35 percent off the cooking time, which is nice.
I was somewhat confused by the controls at first, because they advertise this as a digitally controlled oven, and yet there is a prominent "timer wheel" on the control panel. This almost made me not order it, because I have had plenty of negative experiences with clock mechanism based timers that were difficult to set, would make a constant annoying ticking sound, and would be almost impossible to reset or stop before the time was up. They also tended to break fairly easily. This oven does have a digital control, only it does not consist of the usual timer display. You set the timer wheel to the length of time desired, and then push the start button. The timer will begin counting down, and small led lights will start to count down the time remaining around the timing wheel, but the wheel itself does not move. It is a very ingenious system. I love it. If you need to stop it you can just hit cancel and it is off immediately. Cooking temperatures can be changed on the fly, and you get 5 choices: 180F, 250F, 320F, 400F, 470F. These seem like a restriction, but in fact are perfectly appropriate for my purposes.
This oven is also quite quiet. I expected that the convection fan will make it somewhat noisy, as I read about that problem in several other brand's toaster reviews. This one is only making a very discreet humming sound, just barely alerting you that it is on and working. Quality of design and fit and finish is very satisfactory. Read the reviews on Delonghi to find out about doors that won't close, warping heating elements etc. This puppy is a swiss watch compared to most of what's out there. It was easily worth the $50 spent.
Update 8-17-06: After over a year and a half of intense use, the Sanyo is working almost as good as ever. The right hand side of the heaters seems to heat better than the left, but the difference is really minor.This is one excellent kitchen appliance.
 HGM February 3, 2005
H. Merten (California)
139 out of 144 found this review helpful
After 15 years our old Delongi toaster oven gave up. We wanted something of higher quality and after much searching settled on the Sanyo SK-VF75. I searched to find one at $50 like some of the previous reviewers, but could not find one and ended up paying $79 plus shipping.
The unit we received had a factory assembly defect, the right side panel had not been properly installed. A bump or kink was clearly visible along the top right edge and the crimping to the back pannel was all mangled. In addition to that the left side of the door handle was pushed in causing a misalignmnet of the door which protruded about 1/8 inch above the top panel. Inspite of these problems my wife still liked the oven and we are returning it for an undamaged one.
Although I had seen some close-ups of this oven, there was one feature that was not discernible. About half way into the oven, the top inside surface breaks down at a 45 degree angle to accomodate some of the convection features. This will severely resrict what you can put in it and still close the door. True, a 10 inch pizza will fit, but if it is a deep dish pizza or any other dish that is more than 1/2 inch high at the back edge, it will bump into the slanted inside back panel and not allow you to close the door.
A great little toaster oven!! October 9, 2004
mixed-berry (USA)
114 out of 118 found this review helpful
I recently purcahsed this oven...not from Amazon....but from an online auction website. This is a great toaster oven. It is not the biggest but is great if you need a space saver and want to toast something more than a slice of bread.
The instructions are easy to follow. Now when it says that the first time you use the oven smoke may appear and that the unit may emit an odor. I was expecting something huge but the odor was slight and no smoke appeared. And the odor did not fill up the entire kitchen.
The first thing I made was a Mrs Smith's small cobbler and it turned out great. It cooked about the time it said on the box and turned a nice golden brown. I like the door handle. It pulls down from the top and stays there. Its a nice way to let your food cool before taking it to the table, shelf, etc. The baking tray and rack are easy to take out. As for cleaning a little of the filling came out onto the tray and came off very easily.
I would recommend this oven to anyone who wants a quality oven thats not going to fall apart after the first use. Its stainless steel look is quite stylish and is better than any of the plastic ones I've seen in the stores.
All that being said, I got mine for $50. I wouldn't pay $89 for it but that's just me. For $89 I think it should be bigger.
Good, but not great July 7, 2007
That's Me (San Francisco, CA USA)
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
We've owned this toaster oven for a year, and we use it as a real oven in a small office of gourmet cooks. We do everything from baking bread and muffins in it, to making casseroles, to frozen pizzas to bagels. It isn't perfect, but it's better than most.
Advantages: 1) it's insanely small. If you only have the amount of space it takes up, you won't be disappointed. Not only is it not very wide, it isn't very tall. So it will fit in some very tight spaces, which is a limitation we have; 2) it's well built 3) it has an automatic shutoff, so if someone is using it and forgets about it, it will shut itself off, which for us is a necessary safety feature; 4) it's very easy to use. Turn the timer knob, press the button until the desired temperature (it just cycles through the 5 available temps with each press of the button) shows up on the display and it starts and stops on its own; 5) the tray slides out when you open the door - for both convenience and safety; 6) It doesn't use much power: with only 1350 watts instead of the usual 1600, we can run the microwave and this oven on the same circuit and it never blows the breaker.
Now for the negatives: 1) the small size means it won't hold very much - a trade off we're willing to make, and it heats up relatively fast for the limited power it draws, again because if it's small size; 2) the diagonally down sloping top means it doesn't heat evenly - one side will burn while the other side is undercooked. You have to keep turning the food or put foil over the bread; 3) one way they got it so small was to not use very much insulation: it gets very hot, again, a trade off we are OK with; but 4) the highest temperature it gets to is 350. That's when we set it to 470 degrees and turn it on for ten minutes - after that much time, the temp stops rising. I used an oven thermometer that registers precisely what my professional range at home is set to, so I don't think it is the thermometer. I think a lot of toaster-sized ovens have this problem, but I wasn't expecting quite this difference in a mid-priced oven. I figured it would get to the lower 400s, not 350 when set to its highest temperature range of 470; 4) there is no control over the burners: either they both come on or they both are off. Most units have separate bake and broil settings that either use the lower or upper burner, but not this one, it's just on or its off; 5) there is only one single row burner on each of the top and bottom, which creates hot spots because the heat is not evenly distributed.
If I had the space, I'd go for the larger and far more expensive Krups FBC4-12 6-Slice Convection Digital Toaster Oven with Preset Cooking Functions, but in a small space, and in this price range, this is probably as good as it gets. I think we got a good value, but we certainly didn't get the best oven out there.
The Best Toaster Oven February 3, 2005
Montpelier Reader (Montpelier, Vermont United States)
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
The Sanyo Sk-VF7S toaster oven is a great kitchen appliance. When my wife and I decided to throw out our old Black & Decker toaster oven, we had no idea how difficult it would be to find a good replacement. Our old toaster oven was ugly and utilitarian, but it had lasted years and made adequate toast. For a new toaster over, all we wanted was something that would look better and make decent toast (and also warm up a few pizza slices). But it turned out that finding a good toaster oven was truly awful. We ended up buying and returning three different toaster ovens, each of which was really disappointing in its own way. We also used the internet, searching for reviews thta might help. But we found from the reviews that most buyers had gripes about the toaster oven they had purchased and/or they just felt lukewarm about what they had gotten. The common complaints: uneven toasting, shattering glass doors,the timer ticking too loudly, too small, too big, too hot on the outside, too expensive, etc. We literally looked at dozens of websites and read way too many reviews that left me wondering if there really was a decent, simple toaster oven out there. Somehow, I eventually stumbled on two reviews on Amazon for the Sanyo. Both reviews were effusive and straight-forward. They both praised the Sanyo. Neither one had a disappointed tone to it. Thanks for that. We bought the Sanyo from Amazon for $49, with free shipping. We received it in three days. Right out of the box, we saw that the Sanyo was nicely designed and attractive in appearance. We found the Sanyo also was simple and easy to use. Push a button to start the toaster and adjust the doneness to your liking with a small dial. The Sanyo is digital, so there is no loud ticking. The convection oven is virtually silent. The oven temperature gauge is easy to set, as is the timer. Everything on the Sanyo has worked flawlessly for us. We love the looks: slightly retro, but sleek. In short, its a great machine. Easy to use, good form and function, and it seems to be substantial and well made. We recommend the Sanyo without reservation. You will not find anything at $49 that will match it. Even at $78, it is still not overpriced, compared to the other junk that is in the marketplace. If you can, wait a bit and try to get the Sanyo for $50 or less. Then you'll really feel like you got a terrific deal on a great kitchen appliance. Final thought: buy this toaster oven, you won't be sorry!
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