Cuisinart BRK-100 Brick Oven Classic, Stainless Steel | 
 enlarge | Brand: Cuisinart
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $360.00
Buy New: $172.37
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Rating:  39 reviews
Color: Stainless Steel
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: Brick Oven
Shipping Weight (lbs): 31.6
Dimensions (in): 15.5 x 17.5 x 11.5
MPN: BRK-100
Model: BRK-100
UPC: 086279016416
EAN: 0086279016416
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: WE CAN NOT SHIP TO THE FOLLOWING DESTINATIONS, P.O.B, AK, PR, HI, or MILITARY DESTINATIONS
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| Features:
| • | 1700 watts of power and 500 degree F with industrial styled stainless steel housing. | | • | 0.90 cubic feet with brick inserts permanently built into the sides of the oven PLUS a removable baking stone to intensify brick oven cooking | | • | Bake, boil, toast with broiling pan and baking tray plus 2 wire racks for multi-level cooking | | • | Nonstick coating covers the interior where there are no bricks, to make cleaning easy and quick | | • | Tinted glass oven door with silver and black handles |
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Product Description
Cuisinart brings a classic approach to modern cooking with a revolutionary new countertop Brick Oven. Genuine bricks inside this restaurant - quality oven allow traditional brick-oven cooking in the comfort of home. Industrial styling and three cooking options make this multifunctional countertop oven a valuable additional to any kitchen. Pizza parlor perfection. This spacious oven cooks or reheats pizza - both fresh and frozen - with two brick inserts and a pizza stone to retain heat for crisp crusts, hot cheese and delicious toppings. Three-year limited warranty. Model BRK-100.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Mostly a great oven December 1, 2008
Edward Dicesare (Chester County PA)
Just purchased this to replace a Toastmaster digital unit that quit 3 weeks before Thanksgiving.
First the good points: this oven heats food evenly, comes up to temperature fairly fast and has a very quiet convection fan. The compartment has a bright light, a real plus. Although it lacks a temperature readout, I was able to "calibrate" the dial on mine with an oven thermometer. It pretty consistently heated to the correct temperature if the pointer was set to the left digit on the dial (e.g. if you want 350 degrees set the pointer to the "3" in "350" etc.)
The middle shelf position has stops to prevent the rack from tipping under a heavy load as it is pulled forward.
The baking stone works very well on pizzas.
Now the stuff that needs improvement:
The drip pan that comes with the oven twists and distorts shape when heated. This is a real nuisance. The gauge of the metal used is pretty thin, and should be better quality.
Unless I missed something in the owner's manual there's no easy way to replace a burned out bulb in the oven's interior. I can take the unit apart and would do so when the bulb quit but for the average user this might be a bit daunting.
Exterior of the unit gets HOT, although the manual warns about this. More a caution than a complaint.
Overall I was very pleased with the quality of everything baked in this oven so far: casseroles, stuffed fish, potatoes, pizza etc. The convection setting was much quieter, and browned faster and more evenly and than my two previous units (Toastmaster and DeLonghi).
 Cuisinart BRK-200 September 4, 2008
Mr. Richard D. Watman (Monroe, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We love this product. It heats quickly and evenly, and is large enough for almost everything we make. This is ideal for the two-person home.
fantastic August 23, 2008
Everyday Cook (Peoria IL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't believe how well this oven works. Make my Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day without the hassle of adding water for steam. Love,love ,love it. Once considered buying a clay insert for my regular oven, but this does that job and more. Cannot believe how well it works for a 2 person family. Only had this a short time, so I imagine loving it more as I use it!!!!!
 Loved mine until... August 13, 2008
W. Day
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I cook a lot but there are only two of us in the house, so I was really excited to have a nice oven that wouldn't heat up the whole kitchen every time I needed to bake something. I loved this oven for the first two or three months; it cooked everything so beautifully. Then I noticed things started burning. I tried adjusting rack levels and ingredients, thinking somehow I was in fault. Finally, I decided to check the temperature of the oven. I stuck an oven thermometer inside and was shocked... the oven was set at 350, but the thermometer showed that the temperature was actually reading hotter than the max temp. on my thermometer.
This might be just this particular oven, but I'm very disappointed. I called customer service (long, long wait) and was told the only thing I could do was ship it in and pay for the shipping to get it fixed. That is not an option for us, as it would be much too expensive (it is a heavy unit). I tried to look for a way to calibrate the oven myself, but it isn't available like in a conventional oven. All it does for us now is toast the occasional bagel and take up counter space (at least it's nice looking).
I Bought This For Baking Pizzas August 12, 2008
L. C. Jones (Alabama)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I first ordered the Cuisinart BRK200 through one of Amazon's 3rd party suppliers. The oven arrived and I discovered the bottom element didn't come on. I took it up with Cuisinart - I paid to ship the one I had back to them and they quickly shipped me a new oven at their expense.
I live in a rural area and can't find good pizzas anywhere in the town close to me, so I mainly got this to cook pizzas at home. I can get a Wal-Mart Sams Choice fresh pizza, add my own toppings plus extra cheese - and I get a really good pizza with a nice pastry like crisp crust. I can also reheat cold pizza slices in the oven (always preheat for at least 20 minutes to get the brick hot) and they turn out as good as the pizza did the first time I baked it (and I always put on a little more mozarella at the second baking/reheating). For it's excellence at approximating the best pizza I could get in a good Pizza Joint - I give this oven 5 stars.
Before I purchased the BRK200 I came to Amazon and read all the reviews. Several people complained that there was not a light that indicated when the oven was preheated. Well, I say to them "Duh!" This oven operates differently than a standard oven so that kind of preheat light would not apply. The reason you preheat this oven for 20 to 30 minutes (I always preheat for 30 if doing pizza) is so the brick inlay and brick sides absorb the heat and come up to temperature along with the elements heating of the oven. Of course this process by which the bricks absorb and retain heat happens at a different rate than when the oven first reaches the temperature you set on the dial. The longer you preheat the oven, the more stable the overall temperature because of the heated brick and then the less the elements have to switch on and off to maintain set temperature. It didn't take me long to figure this out. I too had wondered why there wasn't a preheat light until I realized how this oven operates with the brick sides and plate. The hotter they are the less the elements come on and off.
There are also ways of getting creative with this oven. I always use parchment paper on top of the brick because when I didn't the pizza stuck and the brick insert is not that easy to clean when it gets gooey with cheese. And it should go without saying that you would not put the parchment paper in the oven until it is preheated and you are ready to put your food on top of it and bake. Once you do this you'll be amazed at what you can do - preheat the brick and you can make splendid Quesadillas, Grilled Ham and Cheese sandwiches, frozen egg rolls, etc. So in a way you can turn this into a sandwich grill. Also certain frozen foods like Country Fried Steaks or Frozen Breaded Chicken patties turn out crispy (like they were fried) and delicious when placed directly on the parchment paper over the preheated brick.
I haven't done much conventional baking yet. I did bake some breaded chicken breasts (A recipe called Chicken Divine) on the convection setting and they were wonderfully moist and tender.
Here are the few negatives - not enough to ruin the 5 star rating. I've seen the bottom element come on when using the Broil function. I don't think that this should happen. The listing tells you this comes with a baking tray but it doesn't. It does have a drip tray which you can use as a baking tray - but I called Quisinart and they have told me it is not a baking tray. Semantics I guess! I thought the recipe booklet could have been much better than it was. It just doesn't maximize the cooking potentials of this oven.
Overall, I'm very, very pleased with this purchase. Besides being an oven, it can reheat foods with a much better quality than a microwave. Just remember to always preheat the brick!
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