My toaster is utter garbage

Merlin5

Merlin5

Merlin5

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It never toasts evenly, I'm frankly better off using the grill. It's a Breville Stye 2 with 5 blue lights that disappear one by one as the bread gets toasted and ready to pop up. Or I should say, as it gets burnt and ready to pop up.

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Just found some rain forest reviews with the same comments:

"The toast remains brown at the top and pale at the bottom"

"The toaster does not toast evenly, in fact unless you keep turning the bread it will burn one side and just about be toasted the other."

"OK It's cheap, but if you don't like your toast burnt on one side and raw on the other, avoid its useless"

Glad it's not just me then.

Does a toaster need to be expensive to have good quality heating elements? Please can you spec me a 4 slice toaster that only needs pushing down once, and pops up evenly toasted bread with no charring? This one was a birthday present about 2 years ago I think, and since it's my birthday next month, I'll see if I can't get my mum to get me another one. A good one this time! :D
 
fez said:
I think that I have a cheap £10 plastic one that I have had for about 6 years now and it works fine. In my experience it is the bread that dictates how good the toast is in a lot of cases. The size difference between proper bakery bread and the pre sliced stuff is huge. I have to turn the bread over the toast the top and bottom evenly if I am using large slices but for the pre-sliced it seems fine without a turn.
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I wouldn't mind turning the bread as that's what I do now. It's the burning around the edges and sometimes further into the bread that's so annoying.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I love the look of that Dualit posted by Siliconslave. Two problems though.

Damn, they're expensive and I don't think I'd get it as a birthday present.
Also, I need a 4 slice toaster ideally with the controls on the right because of space as I have my kettle to the left of my current toaster.

I'll have to take a look in the shop that sounds like something similar to an asteroid and check out the Dualits and Krups.
 
I must admit, whenever I buy the thick sliced warburtons toastie, it doesn't burn and toasts quite well. Still, I'd like a toaster that isn't so picky on what it does and doesn't toast evenly.
 
I must say, I don't recall any bread not fitting inside mine properly. At the moment, I have a loaf with smaller than normal slices, but it still burned.
 
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