Toasters

[panthera]

the trouble with UK toasters

Is getting parts/repairs.

It's next to impossible in the US.

 

There are commercial toaster with wide slots, I'd go down that route. BOSCH is no longer BOSCH made, so you're paying German engineering and getting Chineseum.

 

I wish modern appliance were better built.

 

[sudsmaster]

Self lowering toasters

Enter and Arize...



I've got one stashed away. The only hitch with it is that it only works with standard bread slices; it relies on very uniform bread thickness.

But it is entertaining.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I have a Chefman, capable of toasting four slices of bread, that I got from my late-brother-in-law... In addition to my two-slice Cuisinart that we got for our wedding... (And I like to keep that because it still works & doesn't take up as much space, as I find myself swapping each appliance, from time to time...)

 

I have no idea how to remove the crumb tray--the owner's book makes it seem easy as you press on something, in which case I think it's the nameplate that gives me the impression that it's spring-loaded and will make the crumb tray underneath pop out, but that doesn't seem to work...  Doing that, theoretically, it will still not release...

 

Without my brother-in-law to help us, (even though he had just bought that toaster & it looked like it had been just taken out of the box, and seems to have not ever used before that first cleaning), I'm left to just shake the crumbs out through the slots...

 

 

-- Dave

[this post was last edited: 4/2/2017-03:32]

 

[petek]

I have one of those B&D Arize toasters as well. Got it on sale years ago..  It's a big fire risk. If you put in bread any much thicker than Wonder, or slice your own bread unevenly it has a tendency to catch on fire.. That's why we quit using it.  But it's novel.   Lots of negative reviews about the fire issue on amazon. 

 

[retro-man]

Since we are talking toasters here, I have noticed that putting the bread in upside down into the slots and toasting that way that I am getting a more even toasting of the bread. If placed in the normal way, flat end down it does not come out evenly toasted or the bottom area is much lighter than the rest. This just started in the past month or so. All elements are on and I have cleaned it out. One is a Waring 4 slice and a BD 4 slice and both are doing it. Bread does come out of the freezer then into toaster. Don't know if this makes a difference.

Jon

 

[sudsmaster]

I've probably said it before, but the main issue with toasters in America is the lower voltage in American homes. This is not a big issue with two slice toasters, but when people started demanding four slice versions, the total number of watts available compromised the heat available to each of the four slices. And that reduced wattage is the same whether you try to toast one slice or four (unless for some reason the mfg has some way of detecting how many slices have been inserted).

About 20 years ago I got a pretty good toaster - Krups, I think - that heated not with glowing resistance wire, but with quartz tubes in front of parabolic reflectors. This was the one long slot design, but it worked. I remember buying one for my mom and she later remarked how well it worked.

That said, I tend to like lightly browned toast, and have found the KA four slice number to work well enough for my purposes. It's usually tasked to warm up burger buns, not much else.

 

[kevin313]

Sam -
For what it's worth, I bought the Cosumer Reports "Best Buy" toaster from a couple of years ago. It's a stainless steel exterior Hamilton Beach two-slice model. Got it at Costco for $20. It's not fancy or sophisticated in design, but it toasts evenly and quickly, accommodates large slices of bread and bagels and is fairly easy to clean. Whenever it decides to stop working I'll toss it out and get another, but after three years it's still performing well.

 

[revvinkevin]

I'm not a heavy (toaster) user...

 

 

I wish I still had the toaster I found in it's original box in my moms attic years ago (a never used wedding gift).  It was a late 50's/early 60's Toastmaster.  It was beautiful, heavy, very solid, worked great and was much faster than the one we had been using!   I currently have a Black & Decker cool touch(?) that I've had at least 10, if not 15 years now.   It has recently started to act up, occasionally not popping up.

 

I have friends that use their toaster every day.  They said over the last 20 years they have only been able to get 2 to 3 years max out of any toaster.   Doesn't matter of it's a cheapo $20 model or high-end $200+ Dualit, 2 plus years is about it.  However they are currently using a $23 T-Fal toaster they bought at Target and it's a trouper, going 3+ years so far.

 

Kevin 

 

 

 

 

[yogitunes]

I have this Cuisinart version.....best thing of all, its quick!

found it at a thrift store for 10.00......its been well over a year since I got it, still works great......would get another just like it should it ever give out on me....their still available

we toast a lot.....daily!

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[yogitunes]

had to look twice at this, this is a built in unit.....wonder if Matt would be looking for another to fit in his space?....

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[circlew]

The Toastmaster commercial TP424 toaster is rated at 2600 watts. This of course requires a 15 amp. 240 volt circuit.

 

[mattl]

Yogi -- that's what I had in the space.  I'm actually happier with the current setup, the Modern Maid worked well, but not bagel friendly, nor does it handle longer slices of bread like I now make.  But got 25 years or so of use out of it.