Reasonably priced toaster for full sized slices

[ZXSpectrum]

We got this just so I or the kids when I'm gone can buy spare parts to fix it. No It's not cheap but it will last.
https://www.dualit.com/products/4-slice-newgen?variant=45452773163319

My friend bought one of these 20+ years ago and its still going strong. British made quality and will probably work after the nukes drop. Admittedly eye watering price but if you take into consideration how much use it has between him, his wife and kids(Not so much now) then it has probably cost him about a tenner a year.

I need to sort a new toaster. I had a breville 4 slot one for about 10 years and one half has stopped working. I do like ones with decent length so i can toast pita bread.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

On the subject of toasters virtually every time I go on holiday I have conveyor toaster wars with people who keep the huge toaster to themselves and won't allow anybody to put a couple of slices in behind them.
Yesterday I had to use another kitchen at the hospital because our boiler broke down, I was gobsmacked to see a conveyor toaster that only took one piece of bread at a time.
Four of my colleagues thought I was joking because none of us have ever seen one of these out of a holiday setting so they went down to look.
We've still had alarms going off all over the hospital 30 times so far this year because of toasters, it's mainly staff putting bread in a normal toaster and then being called away and forgetting what they have just done, this toaster would solve that problem

Anyway, it was similar to this -

 

[Ad_Augendae]

Dualit take the mickey royally. £220 and it doesn't even pop up automatically!

Nope, but you can do 1 full plus another one side toast with just No1 selcted

 

[Ad_Augendae]

We got this just so I or the kids when I'm gone can buy spare parts to fix it. No It's not cheap but it will last.
https://www.dualit.com/products/4-slice-newgen?variant=45452773163319

My friend bought one of these 20+ years ago and its still going strong. British made quality and will probably work after the nukes drop. Admittedly eye watering price but if you take into consideration how much use it has between him, his wife and kids(Not so much now) then it has probably cost him about a tenner a year.

I need to sort a new toaster. I had a breville 4 slot one for about 10 years and one half has stopped working. I do like ones with decent length so i can toast pita bread.

Yeah, they do long toasters etc, but I like that one, we even have the toastie cages which are very slim on my model but it works ok with thin slices. i'll admit they do take a bit of getting used to. But I'll say again, when it breaks I can buy spare parts!

 

[pepp77]

I only buy this bread https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-thick-sliced-tiger-bloomer-507041011 and it fits perfectly in my toaster and on a 4 toasts it perfectly evenly on both sides. Before these two things came together I was like you OP disappointed. Oh and my current toaster was bought from George (this but different colour - https://direct.asda.com/george/elec...c&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=georgehome)

 

[Tysonator]

This is a great thread, as I love my toaster for muffins, crumpets, thick toast !!!

 

[dave28]

Dualit take the mickey royally. £220 and it doesn't even pop up automatically!

High end toasters or ones intended for the catering industry tend to be very basic and simple designs as far as I know.

The Rowlett I have is £265 in shops ( I paid £110 and it had extra elements and accessories thrown in )

Its a ridiculously basic design, there is no defrost, no temp adjust, no auto popping, you dont even get the bread guards that self adjust to keep the bread straight.

Literally all you can do is turn it on and turn a very old fashioned timer.

But its the only toaster that I have ever owned that just keeps working perfectly year after year.
All the other are in the skip.

 

[Ad_Augendae]

High end toasters or ones intended for the catering industry tend to be very basic and simple designs as far as I know.

The Rowlett I have is £265 in shops ( I paid £110 and it had extra elements and accessories thrown in )

Its a ridiculously basic design, there is no defrost, no temp adjust, no auto popping, you dont even get the bread guards that self adjust to keep the bread straight.

Literally all you can do is turn it on and turn a very old fashioned timer.

But its the only toaster that I have ever owned that just keeps working perfectly year after year.
All the other are in the skip.

I was gutted when Dualit released their kettle with encapsulated ellement, it's like all the rest, it just doesn't work!
Even worse you have to send the kettle back for repair.