shelleyinmi- Lets just STOP right here and clear something up first! When you say "My gas stove absolutely stinks when I heat it up", do you mean you don't like it, or does it smell bad!!! This is very important!

If the gas oven actually smells bad, you might have a "Gas Leak" witch could blow you and your home completely up!
I would rather make a mistake, than see you get killed, NOT kidding!!!!!!!!!!

If it actually smells bad when you turn it on, shut it off and get out of the house ASAP and go to a neighbors, dial 911 and explain to them!! This is no dam joke!

Shelley, I use my TO a lot because I don't like using the regular oven for something that is very small. I have made two large rolls from the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day basic recipe. and I certainly could have baked a loaf, on the stone or in a loaf pan. I have a small baking stone for my Cuisinart TO and I think you would want to bake on a stone, or a tile because it will even the heat. I think the biggest problem with TOs, is that they are small and the heat elements are very close to the food and things can brown before they cook. I got my stone at a kitchen discount store for about $3.00 or you could get a 12" unglazed floor tile. You might want to lower the temperature by 20 to 25 degrees to compensate for a small space around the bread. I did not use convection for the rolls and I checked the temperature with an instant read thermometer to be sure they were baked enough. I used the lower rack and baked on parchment on the stone. The purple at the bottom of the photo is the still red hot heating element in the oven so you can see that the rack with the stone was just above the element. I guess it photographed purple because of the Halogen lights in my kitchen - it was at night.

You might wonder why I baked just 2 rolls, well, I did it because I could, with the dough you can keep in fridge and use over a two week period. I just needed two for our dinner.

Good Luck and have fun playing.

Here's one of my rolls still in the open TO.

Lee

Hell, lady will you please answer, you're scaring the heck out of me!

changeling, it's OK!

I should have been more clear when I said it stinks. See, my house is actually an old cabin that was shut up for a long time after the homeowner died. It was really rough when I bought it, and some critters had been able to gain access to the inside of the structure.

When I said it stinks, I mean it stinks as if something had a nest in the insulation. So when the insulation heats up, it smells like a stinky, sweaty, slobbery dog on a hot humid summer day. Oh and throw in a couple of dirty hobo feet and a hefty helping of musty ick.

There is no gas leak, everything was inspected by the gas company before I bought the place, the pilot light is on so there's no freelancing gas coming out.

I'm too cheap to buy a new stove, and with just two of us, it seems like a waste to heat a whole oven.

Not knowing the size of your toaster oven or whether or not you can adjust the rack to accomodate a regular loaf pan, I would suggest you first try baking bread in a mini loaf pan or make small free form rolls as Lee has shown above.

I have baked bread and homemade pizza in my Cuisinart toaster oven, but it has been so long ago that I can't remember what size loaves I baked.

You can get unglazed quarry tiles at your local home store and set them on your rack to bake your bread and pizza directly on the hot tiles. This works very well for me, but the oven needs to be cranked up as high as it will go - 450 or 500 degrees.

Teresa

I am able to fit a regular size loaf pan in the oven once the rack is moved to the bottom. I think I will make some mini bread loaves, it seems to make better sense. The cinnamon bread rolls I made last night turned out pretty well, though the recipe was a bit off and I didn't cut them as big as I should have!

I'll just have to experiment like you say, hopefully without wasting too many ingredients, haha