Which Slot Toaster Makes the Best Toast?
Equipment expert Adam Ried reviews toasters with host Bridget Lancaster.
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Testers tested toasters toasting toast
Great advice, very entertaining. I love Adam Ried!
uh what's so hard about setting a bagel sides pointing out to toast? easy enough to do. Also, the Magimix also has windows so…..
Yeah right lol, they say the Dash is good but look at Amazon reviews. It sucks, they are all paid to say things are the best just to boost sales..
holy crap, this looks like a late night infomercial. For 80 bucks, it better make coffee too.
Stumbled on this test by accident and just watched it out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised. Finally a review that's all about how the bread is toasted and not how the toaster looks. Don't know why, but in Europe the Breville toasters are sold under the name Sage. Bought mine (older model but with the same options and 2 normal slots) 3 or 4 years back and it hasn't disappointed me yet. Still working flawless and producing evenly toasted slices of toast. And I use it every day.
Does any longs slots have option to switch off one slot only to save power? Or both slots will switch on always?
Loved my breville. But it just failed after 2 years.
While this was very helpful, I like the format their Gear Heads segments used, where they go through test by test and showing what happens
I bought due to test kitchen recommendation. Unfortunately if you have a Pop Tart lover in your home not the toaster for you. Pop tarts fall though cradle to bottom of toaster 😟
Please tell me where I’m going wrong here. I purchased the Dash due to this review and others high ratings. It’s inconsistent. I make my toast and then my husband goes behind me and his does not brown as much as mine and has to be pushed back down then watched to keep from burning. I thought it was a faulty toaster because of such rave reviews so I got a replacement and it is the same way. You can not get a consistent brown when being used over and over. . What are we doing wrong?
Nope I'll never buy another Breville anything. I bought their "smart toaster oven" ( based on ATK's recommendation ) 3 years and $250 ago. I threw it away today. It stopped heating because Breville's BS fuse mechanism shorted. I don't have the patience or skills to fix it but I'll make damn sure I don't reward that kind of lazy engineering ever again.
Lionel cook
Your fergus accept it.
https://youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY
Cry me a river
Lionel who kills a man over a toaster ?
Lionel ritchie I swear to God your never getting a new toaster – billy idol
I wish I could find a f'ing toaster that just toasts evenly, and as dark or light as I like and doesn't cost $30 f'ing bucks or more. Like the toasters that we had when I was a kid! Jeez!
Breville, good toaster at first. Broke after one year. Lots of bad comments on shopping sites about the poor quality of this product
Why didn’t you include the Dualit classic toaster? It is probably the best toaster ever made and will virtually never break.
All this talk of toasters, didn't show the results of any. Also, reviews everywhere say that 1) the Breville works wonderfully well as mentioned, HOWEVER, 2) it also breaks, doesn't last; it's an unreliable product.
Way better than any of those is a Dualit Classic toaster, or any used American-made toaster
I don't think the toaster in your link is the winner. The link is to the narrow version. You need to switch over to the $99 version once you get to Amazon's page to buy the one reviewed.
Thanks for the toaster recommendation. I really appreciated your honest review
Smeg? is that short for smegma!
You know you searched for this
There is no such thing as a good toaster It's the worst inversion ever made. Always depends on the bread your using, every type of bread will give you different a different result
Omg since the addition of a sleek new air fryer I've been looking to get rid of my four slice toaster as to be honest it gets used 20 or less times a year, has a junk trap door that easily comes open versus a crumb tray. Purchased my first one on Amazon great reviews but would burn one side of the toast barely cook the other. Now just tested my second purchase it gets the job done but unevenly. Lol shouldn't have to spend over $200 on a two slice toaster but now I'm leaning on the Cuisinart CPT-T40 2 Slice Touchscreen Toaster.
After 22 years my cheap $15 Black & Decker bit the dust. As I have started using the longer slices of bread you can guess the type of toaster that I wanted. You seemed to hit on all of the concerns that I have especially the depth. That is something that manufacturers should definitely work on. Thank you for your honest discussion of the various toasters out there. Now I can make an informed decision.