Check out it -- superstar chef Eric Ripert has an ongoing video series of him cooking in a *toaster oven.* True, it's a fancy-schmancy Cuisinart oven (they're one of the sponsors), but who cares? He's making some very tasty-looking, elegant but super easy things, like butterflied garlic shrimp and mini toad-in-the-hole using quail eggs and smoked salmon. All in the toaster oven. On the site, he says he started cooking in the toaster oven because it was the easiest way to prepare meals for his five-year-old son. Awww. How cute is that?

Watch the videos here; the recipes look great, and are fast and easy. Now I'm just waiting for Thomas Keller to release some vids of him cooking in an Easy-Bake Oven.