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I'm sick of mine bought it recently and it's an abomination. It toasts bread really slowly so you end up with proper dusty, fall apart, French style toast.
I'm after a fast browning toaster that makes proper chewy toast. Any recommendations please?
This is STW, so I'm expecting a few Dualits, Graefs and other toasters over £300...
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Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
Lister: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Toaster: How 'bout a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins. Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Toaster: Aah, so you're a waffle man.
Buy cheap, pay twice. Wife and I flashed the cash on a Dualit and it's been awesome for the five years it's been in use.
We had a four slice one at work and that got a lot of toast-related abuse from the whole floor (40-odd techies that like toast) and lasted for about six years before it needed a service. And yes, you can service them.
I haven't got a toaster
Yay! 😉
I believe what you need is a log burner 😉
Idly browsing Ebay the other day i noticed that CNC machine parts and small lasers have got a lot cheaper recently.
CNC Laser toaster anyone??
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I've got a morphy richards one, it toasts bread to the standard I expect, which is, if I'm honest, warm, slightly dry bread.
Longevity and so forth are not of massive importance to me, I just want a toaster that delivers steaky toast, seared outsides warm middle - I like my toast rare!
Stainless steel kenwood Most important feature is its 4 slice end to end which means it takes plain bread and pitta breads without only toasting half at a time.
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Its more than 10 years old as i bought it when i was still at school.....
I've had a breville 4 slice one for about 7 years. It works fine. My girlfriend also had one before we moved in together and hers stood up to four years of shared houses and is still going strong at one of her friends house.
It looks like this but covered in welded on jam and kitchen grime:
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edit: and according to this link it's also a VTT model, appropriately for here.
Mine toasts a Wallace and Gromit picture onto one side of each slice. And it's bright orange.
Works for me!
Got kids? Perfect.
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we got a dualit for a wedding gift, and it's still going strong after 13 years. Much like the 'how often are you getting it' thread I put this down to a bit of TLC when needed, i regularly give it a clean, ensure there aren't any crumbs or sticky substances trapped in any of the slots, and the old girl's more than happy to accept my piece and work her magic on it before popping it out 90 seconds later when it's done*
* This bit's a lie, Dualit's have a manual popup, and you have to watch it like a hawk. The process is more like:
cold bread
watching
coldbread
watching
slightly warm bread
watching
slightly warmer bread
still watching
warm bread
still watching
warm bread
tiniest distraction
burnt to a crisp.
[edit] and don't start me on those hotel conveyor belt toasters, where the heat / speed setting has been adjusted to be deliberately difficult
£300 toaster and it doesn't even pop up???? FFS.
Big windows on that shop, lad.
Turn on grill, put toast on grill pan, watch toast turn over when done to your satisfaction.
Dualit here, over priced rubbish. Never again.
£300 toaster and it doesn't even pop up???? FFS.
Do you like cold toast ? The point with the Dualit being that the toast stays nice and well, toasty, inside the toaster until you eject it, rather than popping up and cooling down.
What I like about the Dualits is that if the toaster was made after some point in the 1950's then you can get replacement elements for it. Sturdy, hard wearing, unfussy - they are the toaster world's version of the IBM PS2 keyboard.
Asda one here. I use it on 7 but it goes up to 10!
Amazing.
Buy cheap, pay twice.
I could buy about 20 normal toasters for the price of a Dualit. At the current rate of consumption they would last me around 200 years.
And they would all pop up automatically.
What I like about the Dualits is that if the toaster was made after some point in the 1950's then you can get replacement elements for it.
Normal toasters use nichrome wire which is £1.09 for 5 metres on ebay...
I LOVE cold toast, at least comparative to burnt toast.
Ahhh, the old ibm ps2 eh? Summer evenings, wandering through the barley, laughing and singing, watching the sun set over the abbatoir*, what days, what days.
Ninja edit: abbatoir (noun) where abba goes to die
Breville 4 slice job, £50 when new...15 years ago, still makes toast
5 mins on the george for toast, 8 for toasties.
Added bonus if you haven't been arsed to clean it after whatever meat has been on there is that all the fat goes onto the toast.
manfood!
I like my toast the same as the OP
I tried a few expensive ones (Dualit, Magimix and another I can't remember).
They were rubbish.
Bought a £4.99 one from tesco/sainsbury (can't remember which) and it's equally rubbish (but no worse).
I can just about get them all to play ball, if I pre-heat the toaster before manually dropping my bread in.
What I really want is my mum's old cannon gas grill that I gave away when I moved to this house (sob sob).
We've got a Phillips one that we bought as a set - matching kettle & toaster.
The LEDs (yep, the buttons have blue LEDs!) on one side stopped working after a stupidly short amount of time. But it still works fine.
It's actually a great toaster - doesn't take too long drying the bread to a dusty crisp, doesn't nuke the bread so it's always burnt, and the knob that controls how brown it ends up seems to have enough adjustment to actually work. We've had previous toasters where 1-4 all did the same level of toasting (not enough), then 5-10 all did the same level of toasting (burnt to a crisp) leaving barely any actual adjustment.
It's these two:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4234030.htm
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4228792.htm
I got a dualit architect from costco a few months ago when they were £45 , much better than the tefal one it replaced.
It does lovely consistent toast from the first slice and pops up!
was given one of a few months back. Works very well.
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We got one of these Dualits for free in return for test driving a Honda. 🙂
It's a bit more plasticy than the classic looking ones but it does pop up, and has lasted longer than any other toaster we've owned. Only annoying thing is if you do two rounds the second one toasts quicker/more.
A Rowlett here ( if spelt correctly). Cost about £160 12 years ago still going strong. If it goes for another 4 years or so it will have been a sound investment 😆
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We have one of these. Works great unless your bread is unevenly cut / frozen unflat / fat in which case you'll be unable to use the lever to get it out and it will burn. So basically, wonderful for perfectly cut bread, otherwise...
Cheap Asda Toaster here - £15 - does a simple job well. £300 is just silly!
I wish...
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Where did the £300 thing come from!? The Dualits are £115 for a 2-slice and £149 for a 4-slice.
Actually, a big ambition of mine is to have one of those glorious hotel conveyor belt jobs. I can spend hours playing with one at a hotel buffet style breakfast.
For some reason I now have a massive craving for crappy hotel buffet breakfast! It's been a while...
My vote goes to magimix. Really solidly made, takes chunky bread and dings when it's done
Dualit are a design classic, spare parts easy to come by, but they only take skinny square bread, and because it doesn't pop I find I walk off and forget, and by the time I remember it's gone cold!
Do you like cold toast ? The point with the Dualit being that the toast stays nice and well, toasty, inside the toaster until you eject it, rather than popping up and cooling down
LOL!
Really, that's the best thing?
We've got a four slice stainless steel Kenwood jobby, 3 years old. Toasts bread.
OP is it not the type of bread that's giving your crappy toast?
Woody - Member
was given one of a few months back. Works very well.
Looks like a right smug git, that toaster 🙂
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Another Rowlett owner here too, its like a more exclusive version of a Dualit.
On a technical level it works no better than a £7 Asda toaster from Taiwan.
But with the stainless steel and polished ally tis a thing of beauty, plus being fully rebuildable will go on forever.
Its a shame I don't eat as much toasted bread any more.
I so regret not buying this toaster a couple of months ago:
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I don't know who's to blame for this (the bread makers or the toaster makers): Toast that has a 1" strip that doesn't get toasted unless I turn the bread around half-way through toasting.
surely the only requirement is that it matches the kettle?