Why is it impossible to find a decent toaster ?

[Gandahar]

All toast should be cooked in your oven to get equally baked bread.

If you need something on your worktop then

Magimix clear

It's a design icon and you can watch your toast go brown. Dogs bks

We have one, gets one up on your bread toasting neighbours.

If speed is an issue then Nisbets do this bad boy

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Waring-Conveyor-Toaster-C...

which is a slice of toast every 4 seconds.

[GayBidet]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Dalit Toaster makes cracking toast.

I'm not touching that one.

[Patch1875]

Frybywire said:

I have this one.

http://www.johnlewis.com/graef-4-slice-long-slot-t...

Toasts the bread very evenly across the slice.

That's a nice looking toaster but reading the reviews the kettle doesn't match!

[Hoonigan]

Gandahar said:

All toast should be cooked in your oven to get equally baked bread.

If you need something on your worktop then

Magimix clear

It's a design icon and you can watch your toast go brown. Dogs bks

We have one, gets one up on your bread toasting neighbours.

If speed is an issue then Nisbets do this bad boy

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Waring-Conveyor-Toaster-C...

which is a slice of toast every 4 seconds.

Magi mix clear ordered . Have had £75.00 of vouchers sat unused for ages, job done and toasty goodness for me tomorrow

http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Magimix+Vision+Toas...

Edited by Hoonigan on Friday 25th March 09:04

[dazco]

Gandahar said:

All toast should be cooked in your oven to get equally baked bread.

If you need something on your worktop then

Magimix clear

It's a design icon and you can watch your toast go brown. Dogs bks

We have one, gets one up on your bread toasting neighbours.

If speed is an issue then Nisbets do this bad boy

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Waring-Conveyor-Toaster-C...

which is a slice of toast every 4 seconds.

But if you put your bread in the oven you are baking it, not toasting it.

[AnotherClarkey]

GayBidet said:

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Dalit Toaster makes cracking toast.

I'm not touching that one.

[LeadFarmer]

Pints said:

I wouldn't mind waiting a bit longer but finding a 4-slice toaster which toasts the whole slice is like looking for a unicorn. They all seem to leave the top of the slice undone.

AB said:

More annoying is most toasters that won't fit a slice of Warburtons in due to it being longer than 'normal'.

Thread revival, as I have just bought a Cookworks Pyramid 4 slice toaster (£39.99 Argos) that accepts slices of Warburtons Toastie bread, both vertical and horizontally.
The bread does stick out a little when placed vertically, but horizontally has that covered..




Vertical...




Horizontal...

Edited by LeadFarmer on Friday 26th February 14:45

[Bacon Is Proof]

That's all well and good, but nothing beats taking a large loaf, cutting a massive slice off lengthways and sticking it under your open gas grill, just because you can.
You can have starter/main/dessert (butter/marmite/jam) all on one colossal piece of toast!

[joshleb]

I've never understood toast bread, is it actually different to normal bread?

[Bacon Is Proof]

You can taste the extra marketing.

[dapprman]

joshleb said:

I've never understood toast bread, is it actually different to normal bread?

Thought it had a square cross section so it would fit in most toasters with no problems - issue I found on my previous toaster was that Hovis White was too tall for it and when it died most of the options were a similar size. Toaster bread is meant to get round this - probably a US invention

[RizzoTheRat]

Bacon Is Proof said:

That's all well and good, but nothing beats taking a large loaf, cutting a massive slice off lengthways and sticking it under your open gas grill, just because you can.
You can have starter/main/dessert (butter/marmite/jam) all on one colossal piece of toast!

Why have I never tried this? Now I just need to try and get to my local supermarket early enough to intercept a loaf before the slice it. What is their obsession with slicing every single bloody loaf?

I've yet to find a toaster to beat a cheap supermarket own brand long slot thick and thin toaster. Long slots mean you can actually fit a slice of bread in it, and the thick an thin adjusters mean you can have proper chunky toast not ridiculously thin sliced rubbish....if you can find a shop that doesn't insist on slicing every bloody loaf! Disadvantage of being back in the office, I could make a nice fresh loaf for lunch when I was WFH.

[PrinceRupert]

RizzoTheRat said:

Why have I never tried this? Now I just need to try and get to my local supermarket early enough to intercept a loaf before the slice it. What is their obsession with slicing every single bloody loaf?

I've yet to find a toaster to beat a cheap supermarket own brand long slot thick and thin toaster. Long slots mean you can actually fit a slice of bread in it, and the thick an thin adjusters mean you can have proper chunky toast not ridiculously thin sliced rubbish....if you can find a shop that doesn't insist on slicing every bloody loaf! Disadvantage of being back in the office, I could make a nice fresh loaf for lunch when I was WFH.

Find a local bakery, ours is so good it has a massive queue every single weekend, but it moves quickly. The bread is divine.

[RizzoTheRat]

To be fair we have actually got a couple of decent local bakeries, but they close before I could get there on a week day and I keep forgetting to go on a Saturday. I've been trying to get in to the habit of WFH on Thursdays as that's our local market day and a stand there does a very nice spelt sourdough loaf, although I struggle to not also buy an unnecessary quantity of muffins/pastries/cakes/cookies from them, and never manage to get past the 2 cheese stands with my wallet unscathed in order to get to the bakery stand.

[HRL]

LeadFarmer said:

Thread revival, as I have just bought a Cookworks Pyramid 4 slice toaster (£39.99 Argos) that accepts slices of Warburtons Toast bread, both vertical and horizontally.
The bread does stick out a little when placed vertically, but horizontally has that covered..




Vertical...




Horizontal...

Only on PH.

We got the before and during photos, but no finished product?!?

[craigjm]

Warbutons toastie fits in my Kitchen Aid toaster no problem

[WCZ]

I bought the sage heston one because of this thread 5 years ago, has there been any toasting technology improvements since?

[LeadFarmer]

joshleb said:

I've never understood toast bread, is it actually different to normal bread?

The Warburtons Toastie loaf is just normal bread, it just happened to be called Toastie for some reason.

[LeadFarmer]

HRL said:

Only on PH.

We got the before and during photos, but no finished product?!?

It didn't spend long enough on the plate to take a photo, the Lurpak and Philadelphia almost jumped straight on by themselves and then it all went immediately into my belly.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Does the new toaster allow you to "Lift &. Look" function that allows you to check whatever you are toasting midway through, without having to stop the toaster, check, then restart (and end up burning you toast if you forget to turn the dial down).