toasters

After going for a retro look in my kitchen, my new toaster is cream with duck egg blue stripes on it and "toast" in a burgundy colour wrote on it. I love it and it toasts very well. Very happy.

I use a small toaster oven and use it all the time! I don't bother heating up the big oven unless Im preparing a larger amount of food.

And wide slots if you want to toast anything other than slices of bread

look for one that is deep ! a lot of cheap ones £5+ are so shallow the top of the bread sticks out and half way through toasting you have to take it out and turn it upside down

I have come to the conclusion, after owning several toasters both cheap and expensive, that the elements in all of them are the same.

So far we haven't found one that toasts both sides evenly at the same rate.

Mine isn't in a cupboard so I have a toaster and kettle that match but it is no better than a cheap one we used to have in the caravan.

I have a cheap wide-slot Asda toaster which has performed perfectly for about 15 years. Value supermarket goods are usually good quality.

Get one with nice wide slots ggmarion mine will only take skinny (thin sliced) bread and everything else gets firmly stuck.

Do you want to toast frozen bread? I do so bought accordingly. I always try to buy a reasonably cheap one but I find that as I always want a plain white one, that dictates the price also.

The prices vary so much! I bought a decent one which was on promo, with loyalty points, at our supermarket - less than £20.
It takes 2 slices.
Then I saw in a Lakeland catalogue one for £89.99 and another for £189.99 (4 slices.)