Toaster Woes

Sometimes life is just not fair: This morning my spendy Dualit toaster declared itself no longer capable of toasting. It’s still a child at 5 years old. For now, I’m back in the dark ages using a grill for my giant granary bloomers so hoping that someone here has a toaster recommendation.

Dualit have spare parts for repair I believe. At least I thought that was part of their attraction

toaster declared itself no longer capable of toasting

No toast?

What about muffins, teacakes, buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, croissants, crumpets, pancakes, potato cakes  hot-cross buns or flapjacks.

This ^^^ times many. If you cn find what went wrong, get the spares. I miss my Dualit and would be lost without a toaster. THe one I have is a cheapy from the Tesco equivalent here, but just keeps working, so it keeps getting used.

I think I use it more than anything else to make lunch, which says a lot about how bad I am at eating lunch.

I’ve numerous years into my (silly priced) Sage toaster and it’s going strong. It replaced one of the plastic sided dualits where the plastic had cracked (despite never moving or being dropped), the toasting elements were patchy at best. I wanted to love it and repair it and keep it going, but it was just crap. The Sage on the other hand has electronics that it doesn’t need, is mostly button operated rather than switch/lever and toasts excellently, the ‘a bit more’ button is genius.

I have replaced the elements on my Dualit and the timer. Easy job and decades old. Trigger’s broom springs to mind. IMO the elements and timer are wear and tear items. Go for it OP.

I was very surprised a month ago when my dualit, probably only about two,  borked itself.  The timer suddenly sized and it got hotter and hotter. Wife noted the strange smell and then managed to switch it off at the plug before we had a fire but the crumb tray handles had melted off and the internal trip still hadn’t tripped.  I got a new timer for not too much,  about £12 iirc.  Fitting was simple and it’s working again although strangely the flat on the shaft must be 180⁰ out so my knob is now upside down.

Overall a bit peeved it needed a part so quickly but easy to get the spare and fit it at least.

No toast?

Let them eat cake.

What about muffins, teacakes, buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, croissants, crumpets, pancakes, potato cakes  hot-cross buns or flapjacks.

No thanks, I’m a waffle man.

The future dualit

Well decided to get a Morphy Richards as I no longer trust Dualit. As i watched it sail into the small item recycling bin i know tomorrow i’ll have toast.

Realistically the only things that stop a [clsssic] Dualit toaster from completely working are the fuse blowing or the timer dying – one is fixed at little cost in less than 5 minutes and the other one is changing the fuse.

Good luck with your new purchase anyway.

Ours died months ago and we’ve been using a very cheap sandwich toaster since. Works fine… But you have to monitor it.

Dualit are a conundrum – if spares are cheap, the toasters pure simplicity with no circuit boards etc., and they’re really easy to mend – why are they so ruddy expensive!!!

Middle class tax at it’s finest! 🙂

Deleted. I was beaten to it

Hand built in Crawley – the classic ones it’s not a cheap place to manufacture and marketing says you charge a premium to attract the premium based customer or somebody prepared to pay for something that can be fixed and does the job.

There are comparable products in many markets but few that really do it so well

And now they look like us!

Has the OP really replaced a Dualit with a morphy Richards?

most Dualits are easily repairable. https://www.dualit.com/collections/toaster-spares

after 25 years hard use one of the elements on my 4 slot classic went kaput so changed out all of them at once. 20 min job, but hopefully guaranteed another 25 years trouble free.

My father has a classic cream coloured Dualit of about 30 years age. It’s going to be the topic of an argument when he dies – sister, brother and I all want it….

thing is,  if Caher didn’t have a classic but one of the newer designs,  they aren’t so easily repaired.

Quite possibly/probably, and that’s the problem….. the newer ones are “cheaper” models to attract buyers who want a Dualit but don’t want to spend on a classic – unfortunately they’re about as repairable as just about any other cheap toaster.

Spend more and you get the easy repairs.

I realise that not buying another Dualit will shut me out of certain societal events but hey ho I’ll have toast.

Is it just me or is that beach photo up there ^^^ only the right footprint? Has someone been hopping along the beach?

This is a pretty good video… toasters tested properly.

One caviat though, it’s American, and thier domestic mains is 120v and they have lower amperage brakers on the fuse box, so take the electrics/toasting time side of the discussion accordingly.

Spolier: A 25 dollar toaster won the group test convincingly.

Written review here: https://www.rtings.com/toaster/learn/research/launch-article

Written review here..

DC Rainmaker would be proud of those tests.

I realise that not buying another Dualit will shut me out of certain societal events but hey ho I’ll have toast.

…. for now!

[Winking smiley here]