been using them for the last 30 year,elements sometimes go, 10 minute job to change em, pop up bit sometimes busts, but its all nuts and bolts in there,dead easy to maintain. nowt like em for churning out toast!
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Dualit toasters...are they all that?
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Posted 9 months ago #
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We have a dualit toaster which looks nice and is all shiny and says " I am expensive"... Does it do toast very well ?.....not particularly no. It tends to cook one side of bread faster than the other and always has done.
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Eggbox - Member
We have a dualit toaster which looks nice and is all shiny and says " I am expensive"... Does it do toast very well ?.....not particularly no. It tends to cook one side of bread faster than the other and always has done.I've seen similar comments by a few people during my "toaster research", but are you sure yours isn't a bun toaster? They're designed to heat more on one side than the other, but seem to look dangerously similar to their regular toaster!
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Seems to be the standard NHS toater in my umpteen wards experience. The timer is a bit unreliable and you have to remember to put timer on a bit less for each subsequent round when you are making toast for 30! You need to watch it if you are at all fussy about the brown-ness of your toast, which put me off as I like to put the toaster on and have a wander.
One of my pet hate mis-spendings of public money. They don't get fixed by hospitals so much as the internal marketisation nhs trusts means it is often cheaper to buy a new one than to pay full rrp and then some for the spares, and pay estates department to fix it. And lord knows how much a fire callout costs: seen a good couple of dozen unnecessary fire alarms at work from dualit toasters over my 13 NHS years, which at our local general hospital was 3 appliances and a ladder platform thingy every time!
They are pretty to look at and easy to keep clean and shiny though.
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No. One element worked intermittantly and the timer was duff in the first year of operation. Now works...OK.
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Question:
Why do most toasters have slots not large enough for standard sized bread?
How come setting 3 = warm bread, 3.5 = warm bread, 3.9 = hugely undercooked toast, 4 = charcoal
And if it burns on setting 4, what the hell is setting 6 for? Starting a bread-fusion reaction?
These are questions i want answers to
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I used to own a cafe which i sold in 1998 - we had 3 dualits
I liberated one of the dualit toasters when i sold up and it is still in our kitchen today. Its probably about 15 years old now and i have only replaced one of the elements - about 6 years ago.
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we've had one of their basic 2 slice models for 6 years without a hitch.
their kettles are ace too.
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Dualitt was a bit too common so we have a "Rowlett Rutland Esprit"
Its pretty much exactly the same as a Dualitt though even the elements are compatible with one and other.
Costly as already said but the Rowlett is British made(which is always a good thing) and rebuildable so in theory should go on forever,plus they just look so much better.
Plus if you really like your toast and your pockets are deep enough they will build you one of these
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Have a duality bought for gf now wife 15 years ago, you do have to remember to turn it for slightly less time after each go, but does great toast.
we eat a lot of toast in the family and just can't stand ones with magnetic release as it was always this bit that broke on cheaper toasters
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