Sunbeam Fresh Start 4 Slice Toaster - Stainless Steel

After the first use I was not impressed by the overall finish on my toast. After a month more than half of the heating wires had ceased to work so had to toast twice each time. The best thing about it was purchasing from the Good Guys. I took it back and they replaced it for me with no hassle. So far the second one is doing ok but only time will tell on its longevity.

I spent a ridicously long time researching toasters, before finally selecting this one. So let me simplify the world of toasters for you. A large part of it is really how much you are interested in the way a particular one will look in your kitchen. You then move to two functions that seem to have been added since I last bought a toaster (to be frank, I am in my fifties and I never remember having bought a toaster before). One is the ability to use the lever to lift whatever you have put in the toaster a bit higher to help you remove things you may have once been tempted to use other implements for. This is actually handy. The second is the ability to lift whatever you are toasting up, using the lever, while it is toasting, to check that you haven't gone past the ... MoreI spent a ridicously long time researching toasters, before finally selecting this one. So let me simplify the world of toasters for you. A large part of it is really how much you are interested in the way a particular one will look in your kitchen. You then move to two functions that seem to have been added since I last bought a toaster (to be frank, I am in my fifties and I never remember having bought a toaster before). One is the ability to use the lever to lift whatever you have put in the toaster a bit higher to help you remove things you may have once been tempted to use other implements for. This is actually handy. The second is the ability to lift whatever you are toasting up, using the lever, while it is toasting, to check that you haven't gone past the point of no return or, if you are hungry enough, the point at which you will have everything except the receptacle you were aiming for covered in burnt whatever it was you were toasting. Again, a function that is actually handy have, particularly when you are toasting something that veers from whatever it is you normally toast. After that, you can look at options which allow you to warm items by placing them on a rack that sits above the toaster after which you then press the lever down, as you normally would, to generate the heat to warm the item. There are also ones that actually allow you to intentionally toast a single side of something, as opposed to the ones that just do that for you after you have owned it for a while. After that, there are a few toasters which give you the ability to make all sorts of selections according to the item you are toasting and the temperature it was at when you put it in the toaster (i.e. really, this comes down to frozen versus room temperature and how long it takes to adequately brown the different things you might choose to put in the toaster). As far as I could tell, anything beyond the lift to check function and the lift to remove function, none of the other options really seems to have become overly popular, which leads to an obvious conclusion. Based on the obsession I developed and the time it drove me to spend researching toasters, I would strongly suggest you, just pick up one of these and get on with things you like doing or must do. That is, don't be like me.

If you want to toast a slice of raisin bread, go ahead. It will work. If you want to toast wholemeal or white bread, you will have mixed results. You can have a mixture of not toasted at all and a burnt edge or not toasted evenly after repeated attempts. Not happy and I don't enjoy toast anymore.