New Toaster Test

Feek said:
If it's Amazon then you absolutely can link it because OcUK don't sell toasters.
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Thought an array of the new Intel extreme 6 cores arrayed against a piece of bread could have been a contender. ?

seriously - the Breville type ones with the two wide slots where you can lay the bread down sideways, and rotate it at half time do a good job.
You also need reasonable bread with uniform moisture content, I find that homemade bread often comes up most uniform.

Quick google also shows a couple of transparant walled toaster to put on next years xmas list eg - one up on the daft transparent kettle idea ?
 
Merlin5 said:
Agreed. What I need is a toaster built by NASA.


And I used to get perfect toast under the grill when I had a separate grill and oven. The problem now is that the grill and oven is all in one in my Bosch oven and the grill element gets greasy from the oven cooking and takes ages to clean properly. So its not very nice for cooking toast.
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Yeah, when I was a kid we had one of those old style freestanding cookers where the grill was on top at about head height and you had a lift out tray with handles on it. That cooked toast to perfection.
 
Acme said:
Perhaps the delivery man sabotaged its even toasting capability? :p
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Now now.. :D



robfosters said:
Yeah, when I was a kid we had one of those old style freestanding cookers where the grill was on top at about head height and you had a lift out tray with handles on it. That cooked toast to perfection.
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Yep, that was exactly what I had! A gas free standing oven. No electric elements to get gunked up, I just cleaned the pull out tray and put bacofoil in it.
 
I think the main problem with toasters is bread standards. You can't expect a toaster to toast two different breads from different manufactures to the same standard.

On a side note, the second set of pictures you put up do look pretty good, a little to well done on one side for sure.

the Philips hd2647 seems to yield a very good even toasting for the cost.
 
harry5522 said:
I think the main problem with toasters is bread standards. You can't expect a toaster to toast two different breads from different manufactures to the same standard.
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Of course you can; toasting bread is hardly a difficult concept and we have a 'browning' control for different types of bread.

Where all the manufacturers seem to struggle is getting even results - either they cheap out on poor-quality heating elements or they are positioned too far apart, etc. And that's before you even start on toasters not being able to fit a 'standard' sliced loaf.

If a grill can toast a slice of bread to perfection, there's no reason why a slightly smaller and more compact grill (i.e. a toaster) shouldn't be able to do the same. It's poor design and cost-cutting that lets things down.
 
Acme said:
Probably cos it has 8 pack's name on it. :p
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I found with toasters the cheaper the better usually. Fancier ones have more that can go wrong and they usually do.

Also it will never be even on both sides as the inside will always get hotter due to the other side being on as well. So your getting the heat from 2 elements rather than 1. I suppose the only way to fix this would be if you had a toaster where each rack could be individually put down or a single rack toaster. But with that you could only use 1 rack at a time so defeats the purpose of having multiple racks.

Does it even matter? I mean it's never bothered me to care about it so much to post a thread.

I suppose you could use something like a george foreman / sandwich press but it would be overkill much like using a grill.
 
robfosters said:
Ooh! Burn!
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:D


hornetstinger said:
I want to spend my entire lifes savings on a toaster. Any recommendation?
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That's your second sarcastic post in this thread. I happen to be interested in getting a good toaster and I believe this is the correct forum to post about it. If you're not interested, then **** ***.

By the way, GD is that way >>
 
Merci Madame :) I'm probably not going to bother trying the £170 machine anyway. Unless I know I can return it if it's no better than the cheaper ones. The Dualit I just bought makes good toast if you turn it over and cook it some more, but I didn't spend £80 to do that. I want to push the levers down once and have ready toast with no messing around.
 
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