Toaster Recommendation

[AlanHo]

We are fortunate in having 200 yards from our house a small independent bakery which makes and sells on the premises superb bread - some quite old fashioned.

 

We buy their granary bread which is excellent - but it rises out of the tin it is cooked in and the slices are therefore much bigger than mass produced bread and toasters that can accommodate are as rare as hens teeth.

 

I have two slices of toast every morning for my breakfast - at home and when we are away from home. A full English breakfast for me is is a fading memory.

 

Over the past 10 years we have several toasters - from the stables of Bosch, Dualit, Delonghi, and Breville but none lived up to my expectations in terms of uniformity of toasting, toasting speed and bread size capacity.

 

Some were so slow that even the freshest bread was dried through before the surface was toasted, none of then have uniformly toasted the whole slice and none could accommodate a slice of the local granary bread. Hence they have either suffered the indignity of being sold on Ebay or have been passed down the family - gratis.

 

However - at long last we have a toaster that can accept the local bread in its two longer than standard slots, is fast (1.4 minutes) and produces uniformly golden toast over both sides of each slice. It is the cheapest toaster we have ever had costing just under £25 and by far the best. I take my hat off to Russell Hobbs for their Colours Plus 2 Slice Toaster.

 

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[Irene]

Sounds and looks good, Alan.  

[-pops-]

I've had numerous toasting machines over the years and always found them disappointing in some way or other. I always resort to using a grill for my toast - no restriction on the size of the slice or on its thickness (you can always adjust the position of the grill pan). The only thing is that it takes a bit longer as you can only do one side at a time but, who is that short of time, eh?

 

By far the best way of doing toast, though, is on a toasting fork in front of the fire (you can even do it with a gas fire). Fire-done toast has a completely different character and flavour compared to the frequently bland machine cooked stuff. Same applies to crumpets and pyclets (pikelets as my spill chucker insists).

[Belatucadrus]

Heston Blumenthal demonstrates his new Toaster available in selected Waitrose stores.