My Cheap Reviews

I bought this model twice. Neither lasted more than nine months.
This is the second model of this toaster I have purchased. The first one lasted about nine months. This one only lasted only three months. What went wrong? The first toaster shorted out: it sparked one day when I plugged it in and that was it. It never worked again. This last one worked alright for about eight weeks until the right side stopped working. Just this week the left stopped working.

A great toaster for bagels & toast
I actually own the black model and was terrified when I bought it before reading the next review. They must have a defective model, because I find this to be a wonderful toaster. You need to be careful that it won't burn your toast. I won't set the dial further than halfway because it will give you very dark toast. I can't speak as to time, but I don't find it particularly slow. Be aware though that I used to use a toaster oven and that takes much longer to toast a bagel than this does. Overall I am very pleased with this toaster.

More of a warmer than toaster
This has to be by far the worst toaster ever built. With nearly half the heating elements of other toasters (including cheaper versions) this toaster takes 5 minutes to toast bread, 9 minutes to toast a bagel, and I am not brave enough to stick around and warm something frozen. It is a shame too, because this model has nice features such as the auto toast holders that keeps the toast in the middle. The dials have buttons to release the toast as well, but all for not as you will never find a need to pop the toast early with this machine. It will cost you more to rent space to this unit that it is worth. Better luck next time Toastmaster.