Tesco toaster - good grief.....
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Our toaster blew up on Saturday, and since I was out at footy early on Sunday my wife asked me to pick one up cheaply on my way back as a stop gap. The nearest convenient place was a Tesco 
, and so in I went. I found the electrical section, located a toaster (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) and went off to pay.
Got it home, plugged it in, tried to fit in two slices of toast only to find the bloody f
king slots are not long enough! Excuse my French.
Now forgive me, but is not the primary raison d'etre of a toaster to toast bread? Which brain-dead muppet therefore thinks it would be appropriate to put a toaster onto the market with slots which don't accommodate a slice of Britains best selling white loaf?
I know, it's my own fault for shopping at Tesco and for buying own-brand Tesco crap. Can anyone recommend a good toaster with appropriately sized slots?
, and so in I went. I found the electrical section, located a toaster (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) and went off to pay.Got it home, plugged it in, tried to fit in two slices of toast only to find the bloody f
king slots are not long enough! Excuse my French.Now forgive me, but is not the primary raison d'etre of a toaster to toast bread? Which brain-dead muppet therefore thinks it would be appropriate to put a toaster onto the market with slots which don't accommodate a slice of Britains best selling white loaf?
I know, it's my own fault for shopping at Tesco and for buying own-brand Tesco crap. Can anyone recommend a good toaster with appropriately sized slots?
salty pap 
I really want this toaster:
http://www.johnlewis.com/230670825/Product.aspx
However it strikes me as a lot of money for a toaster, but it looks amazing when it's working.
Which would be weekends only in my house...
http://www.johnlewis.com/230670825/Product.aspx
However it strikes me as a lot of money for a toaster, but it looks amazing when it's working.
Which would be weekends only in my house...
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
You need a Dualit in your life.
(Wife bought me the six slotter a few years ago. Looked like a fking Cadillac !! - Downgraded to a Four slotter. A mere Lincoln Town Car 
)
+1(Wife bought me the six slotter a few years ago. Looked like a f
king Cadillac !! - Downgraded to a Four slotter. A mere Lincoln Town Car )I've got the 4 slice jobby and it's great! If there was ever a piece of kitchen equipment that fits with the principles of PH its this. At no point does a toaster ever need this level of engineering put into it!
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
You need a Dualit in your life.
But you can't get anything big in them. We've got the non glass sided version of this http://www.johnlewis.com/230670825/Product.aspxIt's worked for more than a year which is saying something in our household and toasters.
theboyfold said:
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
You need a Dualit in your life.
(Wife bought me the six slotter a few years ago. Looked like a fking Cadillac !! - Downgraded to a Four slotter. A mere Lincoln Town Car )
+1(Wife bought me the six slotter a few years ago. Looked like a f
king Cadillac !! - Downgraded to a Four slotter. A mere Lincoln Town Car )I've got the 4 slice jobby and it's great! If there was ever a piece of kitchen equipment that fits with the principles of PH its this. At no point does a toaster ever need this level of engineering put into it!
though the clockwork timer is getting a bit temperamental lately, but only after toaster equivalent of taking your daily commuter wheels right round the clock a couple of times.
So tell me more about a Dualit, I'm intrigued as to why a toaster can be worth £100+
My present toaster (a De Longhi) is a four slice jobby and is underpowered, it stuggles to cook Warby's toasty from frozen. So I'd like a better one and being a PH type the Dualit appeals. For so much money the toast must surely be great. But is it? Or does it just like 'nice' in the kitchen?
My present toaster (a De Longhi) is a four slice jobby and is underpowered, it stuggles to cook Warby's toasty from frozen. So I'd like a better one and being a PH type the Dualit appeals. For so much money the toast must surely be great. But is it? Or does it just like 'nice' in the kitchen?
It is great. Here endeth the lesson 
In fairness it's well built together (not that a toaster needs that) but it does make great toast. Not sure why, but the stuff it produces is always really good.
I personally wouldn't pay over £100 for a toaster, but it was a wedding present from my brother. He's a big fan of them!
In fairness it's well built together (not that a toaster needs that) but it does make great toast. Not sure why, but the stuff it produces is always really good.
I personally wouldn't pay over £100 for a toaster, but it was a wedding present from my brother. He's a big fan of them!
What the boyfold said.
When my Mrs proposed buying a Dualit I just laughed when I saw how much it was, born in Yorkshire see, not tight - just careful.
Anyway she isn't known as She Who Must Be Obeyed for nothing so she got her way as we'd been through the run of middle of the road, then cheap Chinese crap and so on, and got fed up of toasting on the oven grill because the latest toaster was buggered.
Ace toast, fairly even, and apparently you can take 'em apart to fix if needed. Which it never has, though about to find out on the timer thing. Even though the timer is iffy, it still works and toasts as it always did, but just manual timing some days.
When my Mrs proposed buying a Dualit I just laughed when I saw how much it was, born in Yorkshire see, not tight - just careful.
Anyway she isn't known as She Who Must Be Obeyed for nothing so she got her way as we'd been through the run of middle of the road, then cheap Chinese crap and so on, and got fed up of toasting on the oven grill because the latest toaster was buggered.
Ace toast, fairly even, and apparently you can take 'em apart to fix if needed. Which it never has, though about to find out on the timer thing. Even though the timer is iffy, it still works and toasts as it always did, but just manual timing some days.
had ham said:
Our toaster blew up on Saturday, and since I was out at footy early on Sunday my wife asked me to pick one up cheaply on my way back as a stop gap. The nearest convenient place was a Tesco , and so in I went. I found the electrical section, located a toaster (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) and went off to pay.
Got it home, plugged it in, tried to fit in two slices of toast only to find the bloody fking slots are not long enough! Excuse my French.
Now forgive me, but is not the primary raison d'etre of a toaster to toast bread? Which brain-dead muppet therefore thinks it would be appropriate to put a toaster onto the market with slots which don't accommodate a slice of Britains best selling white loaf?
I know, it's my own fault for shopping at Tesco and for buying own-brand Tesco crap. Can anyone recommend a good toaster with appropriately sized slots?
Take it back to the shop within 28 days, with receipt and packaging, you are still inside tesco's refund policy, and so in I went. I found the electrical section, located a toaster (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) and went off to pay.Got it home, plugged it in, tried to fit in two slices of toast only to find the bloody f
king slots are not long enough! Excuse my French.Now forgive me, but is not the primary raison d'etre of a toaster to toast bread? Which brain-dead muppet therefore thinks it would be appropriate to put a toaster onto the market with slots which don't accommodate a slice of Britains best selling white loaf?
I know, it's my own fault for shopping at Tesco and for buying own-brand Tesco crap. Can anyone recommend a good toaster with appropriately sized slots?
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
oh - they are pretty bomb proof. and you can get spare 'parts' for them such as the elements etc.
Its not long before it becomes a piece of furniture, not a white good !
I picked up a 2-slice one a couple of montsh back as SWMBO wanted one and got it say, it is very well made, looks good, great toast and as Paddy said, you can replace the elements if they break, unlike any other toaster I know of.Its not long before it becomes a piece of furniture, not a white good !
It's buy cheap by twice, I couldn't believe it cost so much, but I reckon we'll have it 10 times longer than the cheap rubbish we had before.
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