Toaster recommendation

I use a tefal one it takes thick slices and muffins but the thing I love most is the very efficient crumb tray

I've always been disappointed with cheap toasters. The ones with only two slots and where any larger sized slice is burnt on one end and untoasted on the other.

That said, I wouldn't have much use for a super-dooper one, either. I like a middle of the road, four slice toaster without a bunch of bells and whistles.

right, hands up, how many people have never emptied the crumb tray.
how many have discovered it ?

I don't have any trouble finding the crumb tray but the crumbs do! They get everywhere. Until there is so much in there that it becomes a fire hazard. No amount of turning the thing upside down over the sink and walloping it will remove all those little black devils.

Dualit ones have an easily accessible crumb tray.

I have a Dualit kettle, which has a copper handle and trim, and am wondering whether to replace my old Dualit toaster with the matching copper one. It seems very extravagant, as it is still working, but I would Freecycle it, and a new toaster every 23 years is perhaps excusable.

Has anyone ever noticed that most toasters are a bit too short and a slice of bread doesn't fit properly. There's always a bit that doesn't get done. I remember Ken Bruce mentioning this once. My toaster is a Bosch btw.

I empty the very accessible and simple to remove crumb tray every week.

I think toasters, whether cheap or expensive, all have the same toasting filaments.

My theory is that the filaments are manufactured en masse and distributed to different manufacturers and all toast more on one side than the other.

Thank you all for your recommendations, who would think buying a toaster could be so diffiult. Am just off to have a look at them all. Decisions, decisions.

Hope you find your new toaster soon travelnan
We had a Dualit, 2 slice toaster, way back in 1997, when our kitchen was re-fitted. I like the way it 'ticked' as it toasted.
But, it didn't take thick slices or long slices. Eventually we had the element replaced, and I now have a Breville 4 slice.
The Dualit is still in one of the kitchen cupboards, as I cannot bear to part with it.
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