I'm a damn mad toaster & I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!

[RossM]

Hi All,

I've HAD IT with electric toasters The cheap one fall to bits. The mid priced ones fry themselves. The expensive ones... well they are all looks & no substance.

I got fed up with all the electronics in the newer ones - you know, the machines that go PING and the flashy lights and the electrinic timers - all that stuff seems to last until the warrant expiers. Day after & it goes west.

The last machine I got, I looked for something that has actual screws so you can take it apart, repaceable elements, a lever to lft the toast (none of your whimpy springs & stupid motors that both seem to break & then you can't get the toast out), a real bell rather than an electronic siren, and a clockwork timer rather than some electronic thing that fries when you look at it. Ended up with a Kenwood model that was built like a brick dunny.


HOWEVER the idiots used some very cheap clockwork timing switch where the electrical contacts arc & then stop working when they become carbonised

I've taken the fiddly thing (timing switch) apart three times now to fix it.

So, what I want to know is, what is the BEST toaster available. I like quality hand tools - Lie Nielsen, Colen Clenton, HNT Gordon, Chris Vesper, Blue Spruce etc. I like quality power tools - Festool etc. I would like to have the space for quality stationary tools like SawStop, Felder and to on. I WANT a quality toaster!!!

The money in throwing the junk away would have paid for a rolled gold machine, I'm certain of that.

I'm guessing there is such a beast available & it will be some sort of industrial mahine that is used in the catering industry, cafes, hotels, restaraunts etc. Maybe Dualit, maybe Roband, don't know if Hobart make one. Anyway, come on guys - help me out - what is the bees knees in toaster please??

[ajw]

Give up now. It's the only sane option. Mankind seems to have lost the skills to build a device to toast bread evenly and repeatedly. Better off with a long fork and an open fire.

Our current toaster works OK for the first two slices (but it isnt' even on both sides...), but when you put the second lot of bread in, it gets darker. After three lots of bread, it's way too dark.

Don't get me started on crumpets or muffins. Useless at toasting either of those, so I use the grill.

In sympathy,

ajw

[RossM]

Give up now. It's the only sane option. Mankind seems to have lost the skills to build a device to toast bread evenly and repeatedly. Better off with a long fork and an open fire.

Our current toaster works OK for the first two slices (but it isnt' even on both sides...), but when you put the second lot of bread in, it gets darker. After three lots of bread, it's way too dark.

Don't get me started on crumpets or muffins. Useless at toasting either of those, so I use the grill.

In sympathy,

ajw

No, No, NO I refuse to give in to this!! There has to be something. There MUST be something!!

But thanks for the vote of sympathy.

[DJ’s Timber]

I just not all that long ago replace my 10 to 15 yr Russell Hobbs toaster with the same model again, new one works just as good as the old one did, when it gave up the ghost.

[RossM]

Thanks DJ -

The one before the Kenwood was a Russel Hobbs - the stupid electronic timer fried when we had a thunder storm.

[RossM]

Oh, I should mention that it can be done. My MOTHER (approaching 90) still has the Sunbeam fully automatic toaster she bought in 1952. This is the one where you drop in the toast & it automatically switches on & goes down by itself, then when done switches off & the taost slowly rises (like a ghoul from the grave ) It is used eavery day & still all shiny chrome & works properly.

[chrisb691]

A toasting fork and an open fire.......the combination never fails.

[jimbur]

A toasting fork and an open fire.......the combination never fails.

Sounds like the afterlife
The good thing about a toasting fork is that you don't have to force two pieces in together when you like only one side toasted.
cheers,
Jim

[RossM]

A toasting fork and an open fire.......the combination never fails.

OK - call me impatient - but when I want a piece of toast I want it today, preferably this morning, and better yet within 5 minutes. By the time I knock out the wall, build the fireplace, chop down the tree, collect the kindling, light the fire, wait for the coals & THEN use the fork - well - lets just say I'm going to be bl00dy hungry!

What I should have said was, I'm looking for advice about the best quality, most durable ELECTRIC toaster (and please, I don't want to know about any electricly powered toasting forks - its bad enough that Aldi are selling electricly powered extending tape measures this week

But thanks for the suggestion.

[chrisb691]

OK - call me impatient - but when I want a piece of toast I want it today, preferably this morning, and better yet within 5 minutes. By the time I knock out the wall, build the fireplace, chop down the tree, collect the kindling, light the fire, wait for the coals & THEN use the fork - well - lets just say I'm going to be bl00dy hungry!

What I should have said was, I'm looking for advice about the best quality, most durable ELECTRIC toaster (and please, I don't want to know about any electricly powered toasting forks - its bad enough that Aldi are selling electricly powered extending tape measures this week

But thanks for the suggestion.

[ajw]

Oh, I should mention that it can be done. My MOTHER (approaching 90) still has the Sunbeam fully automatic toaster she bought in 1952. This is the one where you drop in the toast & it automatically switches on & goes down by itself, then when done switches off & the taost slowly rises (like a ghoul from the grave ) It is used eavery day & still all shiny chrome & works properly.

The answer is obvious. Buy your mum a new toaster as a gift. She'll feel obliged to use it, so you can take her old toaster. Problem solved.

ajw

[RossM]

Tried that - no luck - "I've had this for over 50 years & it's going to see me out. Besides I like the shape. You can't get a shape like that anymore" And she is right.

[jmk89]

I bought a Dualit when I lived in England in the late 1990s - it is reliable and predictable (it has idiosyncracies, but they are the same all the time). And it can toast crumpets. And it is still going strong, 12 years later.

I reckon they are long term value for money. But it's best to pick one up in the UK and import it (and change the plug) - retail in Australia is a rip-off.

[ajw]

& it's going to see me out...

Perhaps a bit drastic, but the answer is still obvious.

ajw

[RossM]

OK - one vote for the Dualit

Thanks.