Hamilton Beach 32184 18-Quart Roaster Oven with Serving Lid and Buffet Pans, Black

This roaster is a very good buy. It is durable and very easy to use. It is big enough to cook almost anything and it is not extremely heavy. So anyone can use it without worry of portability. Once you realize how versitile it is, you will use it all the time... You can roast a turkey in it and even bake pies... Excellent cost to value. And the buffet pans bring in an even greater dimension of versitility for special events... You won't be sorry you've purchased this one! We use it all the time and it has made for great convenience.

This oven is a good value. We needed to cook a ham and a turkey for Christmas dinner and have just one oven. The turkey was 19 lbs and the lid wouldn't quite seat on the cooker even though the turkey was within the weight parameters for this roaster. I had to weight the lid down to keep it shut. It took the same amount of time to cook as the oven and the turkey came out browned and beautiful. I do wish it was okay to use a brown in bag but it isn't recommended. I do recommend this roaster oven over the Oster I used to have. Also, the bonus buffet pans were great for serving with our large crowd!

I bought this to keep foods ready for large family dinners. Today, Christmas I tried using it for mashed potatoes and gravies. I use the unit to warm canned gravy both turkey and beef, I planned to use the center bin for the potatoes. Well upon removing the center bin to put the potatoes in the one end bin fell into the unit and the pan from heating would no longer seat in the unit. upon inspection the other end pan was also in jeopardy of falling in as well. The unit is great but the buffet pans are a poor solution and not recommended.so we had no turkey gravy, used the beef gravy on everything.

Baking on holidays? If your oven isn't large enough for that turkey, the green bean casserole, and all of the other things you need to bake, this roaster can solve the problem. We used it for the first time on Thanksgiving and it solved the problem for us. It is easy to use, has more than enough room, is easy to clean and it works!In fact, it works so well, I have been using it instead of the oven--not just as an overflow appliance. I noticed on Amazon.com that it got higher reviews than some costlier alternatives I might have bought and am more than satisfied with this roaster.

Trying to get value by buying this package unit, backfired on me. However Amazon comes through and is having the defective, item picked up and giving me a full refund. Good reason to shop Amazon, they deliver and pickup at my front door.This unit just does did have quality workmanship. On assembling the unit the lift and closing knob on the lift open portion of the lid for serving came off the stem that it was attached to, it has no set screw just a brad that was not properly seated. I'm sure with no quality control inspection on the finished product, or this would have not passed a blind inspector. This item probably was not made by Hamilton Beach, it is a made in China with their name on the finished product. So I decided to try using it to bake see how it performs, it does bake but the cookwell which is enamel-on-steel turned into some wild coloring in odd shape patterns, now I question the quality of the coating on the cookwell and quality of the entire unit. I certainly do not want to cook or serve food from the cookwell or buffet pans with this this enamel coating. I called HB and they offered to send me out another lid, but then called Amazon and they said that was a defective part and if I wanted to return it for full credit they would send UPS by to pickup at no cost to me. I'm ordering a new replacement from Amazon today but not another H-B and the new one with a Porcelain coated cookwell.

It does not have a domed lid so it is not possible to cover a turkey of any size. Nice for the buffet but not for roasting turkeys

Works great and cooks evenly. Easy to clean and does not get to hot on the outside. Should have bought one sooner. Now can cook large amounts of food instead of using a tall pot. Great for preparing foods for canning purposes.

Very nice, large roaster. I've used it several times and it has performed beautifully. Although I haven't used the buffet pans, I do like the idea of using them at some point in the future. I cooked our brined Thanksgiving turkey in this little beauty and it worked like magic. I checked around for roasters prior to my purchase and chose this one--so glad I did.