Love my guardian angels

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Years ago I bought a large and I mean large toaster oven second hand. Its been a good helper. I've made many pies and cakes in the monster. About a month or so ago I could tell its element was not delivering as much heat as it said was. Tonight I assembled individual tuna pot pies- I always make pie dough from scratch. I put the two cute pies into the toaster oven, cranked up the heat. About twenty minutes later I touched one of the crust tops. Doughy. Uh oh. Ten minutes later. Doughy. Oh crud. Horrid dinner coming up. I caved and turned on the big oven. It works fine. What a relief: the pies baked in the big oven. Twenty minutes later, out came two pies that had flakey decent crust. Ooooo. I have made pot pies dozens of times so I am robotic about all the details but to have them ruined would have really been awful. Home milk gravy, boiled carrots and potatoes, sauted onion and mushrooms and yes, tuna. Grrrrrr. if that crust had come out soggy. I am grateful to you folks, you up there in those Biblical clouds. Very grateful to you.