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Costly cook's tool comes up short.(Up front: news / trends / advice)(HeartKit ceramic oven insert)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
HeartKit, a ceramic oven insert, seems like a holiday baker's dream: It's supposed to make a plain oven behave like a brick oven for baking crusty loaves of bread, nicely browned cookies, and crispy-crust pizza. In our tests, however, HearthKit's shortcomings far outweighed its benefits:
It eats a hole in your wallet. HearthKit costs $200.
It eats up oven space. It almost halves the capacity of a typical oven and, at 29 pounds, is ...
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