I cant believe I have finally found a GREAT TOASTER. For the past three years, I have purchased and returned just about every brand of toaster sold on the US market and have drawn blanks with each and every purchaseand this is no exaggerated statement. From the simplest and least expensive sold on and other retailers to the most expensive four/slice British handmade toaster brand costing over 300.00 for the toaster, I have purchased more than a dozen toasters and all have failed my minimum standard I look for in a toasterto toast a piece of bread evenly across the whole piece of bread from top to bottom and left to right or as the grandson of a friend of mine said, from north to south and east to west on the slice of bread. Is that asking too much from a toasterany toasterto perform the very job each one they were made to do. Until now!
This four/slice toaster has done it. First, it toasts both sides of the bread. Believe it or not, several of the other toasters would not even toast both sides of the bread. It was insane and unbelievable. The toasted both sides without any stripes going up and down on each side of the bread or toast. Each piece of toast looks as if I held one big toasting element in front of each side of the bread until it was toasted instead of several rows of heating elements which do usually cause striping on the toast. Now this was something I knew I had to live with simply because of the way the heating elements are placed in the toaster except for the expensive toaster made in England and costs about 300.00 for each toaster. Their heating elements numbers are nearly three or four times the number of all other toasters on the market today. So how the got their toaster not to toast without these stripes is simply short of a miracle. But however they did it is their own secret and should remain just thata secret. But I swear I dont want to know because then I cant be forced to tell. And this from a 70.00 toaster. OK, I am not in heaven, but it feels as if I am.
The has no buttons to push. Every function is done by a touch panel. Whether its a desire to toast a little more (30 seconds in this case) or to choose to to toast a bagel, or to toast something that is frozen, or other function, all you have to do is to touch the panel and a flurry of lights appear showing you that it has been selected and thats it. There are six toasting levels. You I choose which level (how light or dark) you want your toast to be, touch the number on the touch panel and to the side of that number is an array of lights come on. While your bread is toasting from 5 (very dark) for example, those lights climb down the ladder which allows you to watch the toasting level of the toaster go from 5 to 4 to 3 etc down to off. At any time, if you think you have toasted the bread too much you can cancel the toasting function and the toast will rise up ending the toasting.
One function this toaster does not have that all other toasters I have owned or owned and returned is the ability to lift the push lever up a little bit which helps you take out the hot toast from the toaster to prevent your burning of the fingers. So why has not given the toaster this option? Simplebecause it lowers the toast less than other toasters so that the toast sits higher in the toast chamber so that when you go to remove the toast its as high as when with other toaster you lift the push lever up just a little bit. Does that make sense? In other words, when it raises the toast after toasting is completed it puts it at a height as if you have raised the toast so to not burn your fingers when removing the toast from the chamber. No need to lift the push lever up. The toast is already at that same level.
After toasting the bread you might find one side is toasted as you like it and the other side slightly lighter or at least that is what I found, but that is the only flaw I noticed with this toaster. Its better to have one side lighter that to have one side burned or darker.
All the other functions are the same as with other toasters. The difference is that you hit a touch panel with your finger rather than depressing a button to do so. On the four/slice toaster, the offers dual controls so that you can toast slots one and two independently from slots three and four. The toaster I had before this one had only one set of controls for all four slots and that toaster cost twice as much as this one. Bravo to the toaster.
As I said before, the best toaster out of 12+ toasters I have owned over the last two and one/half years and lots of kudos to ! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
The Best Toaster Ever
I cant believe I have finally found a GREAT TOASTER. For the past three years, I have purchased and returned just about every brand of toaster sold on the US market and have drawn blanks with each and every purchaseand this is no exaggerated statement. From the simplest and least expensive sold on and other retailers to the most expensive four/slice British handmade toaster brand costing over 300.00 for the toaster, I have purchased more than a dozen toasters and all have failed my minimum standard I look for in a toasterto toast a piece of bread evenly across the whole piece of bread from top to bottom and left to right or as the grandson of a friend of mine said, from north to south and east to west on the slice of bread. Is that asking too much from a toasterany toasterto perform the very job each one they were made to do. Until now! This four/slice toaster has done it. First, it toasts both sides of the bread. Believe it or not, several of the other toasters would not even toast both sides of the bread. It was insane and unbelievable. The toasted both sides without any stripes going up and down on each side of the bread or toast. Each piece of toast looks as if I held one big toasting element in front of each side of the bread until it was toasted instead of several rows of heating elements which do usually cause striping on the toast. Now this was something I knew I had to live with simply because of the way the heating elements are placed in the toaster except for the expensive toaster made in England and costs about 300.00 for each toaster. Their heating elements numbers are nearly three or four times the number of all other toasters on the market today. So how the got their toaster not to toast without these stripes is simply short of a miracle. But however they did it is their own secret and should remain just thata secret. But I swear I dont want to know because then I cant be forced to tell. And this from a 70.00 toaster. OK, I am not in heaven, but it feels as if I am. The has no buttons to push. Every function is done by a touch panel. Whether its a desire to toast a little more (30 seconds in this case) or to choose to to toast a bagel, or to toast something that is frozen, or other function, all you have to do is to touch the panel and a flurry of lights appear showing you that it has been selected and thats it. There are six toasting levels. You I choose which level (how light or dark) you want your toast to be, touch the number on the touch panel and to the side of that number is an array of lights come on. While your bread is toasting from 5 (very dark) for example, those lights climb down the ladder which allows you to watch the toasting level of the toaster go from 5 to 4 to 3 etc down to off. At any time, if you think you have toasted the bread too much you can cancel the toasting function and the toast will rise up ending the toasting. One function this toaster does not have that all other toasters I have owned or owned and returned is the ability to lift the push lever up a little bit which helps you take out the hot toast from the toaster to prevent your burning of the fingers. So why has not given the toaster this option? Simplebecause it lowers the toast less than other toasters so that the toast sits higher in the toast chamber so that when you go to remove the toast its as high as when with other toaster you lift the push lever up just a little bit. Does that make sense? In other words, when it raises the toast after toasting is completed it puts it at a height as if you have raised the toast so to not burn your fingers when removing the toast from the chamber. No need to lift the push lever up. The toast is already at that same level. After toasting the bread you might find one side is toasted as you like it and the other side slightly lighter or at least that is what I found, but that is the only flaw I noticed with this toaster. Its better to have one side lighter that to have one side burned or darker. All the other functions are the same as with other toasters. The difference is that you hit a touch panel with your finger rather than depressing a button to do so. On the four/slice toaster, the offers dual controls so that you can toast slots one and two independently from slots three and four. The toaster I had before this one had only one set of controls for all four slots and that toaster cost twice as much as this one. Bravo to the toaster. As I said before, the best toaster out of 12+ toasters I have owned over the last two and one/half years and lots of kudos to ! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!