Two-slice toasters review

04.Product profiles

Profiles - What to buy

Breville Emporia CT25B

Price: $70

Good points

• Excellent cleaning score.
• Very good even-browning score.

Bad points

• Under-cooked frozen bread.

Russell Hobbs Reflections 10618

Price: $99

Good points

• Excellent cleaning score.
• Good controls, easy-to-read markings.
• Good even-browning score.

Bad points

• Poor handling of single slices.

# Tefal Avanti Deluxe TT7041

Price: $60

Good points

• Very good even-browning score.
• Easy-to-use levers.
• Toasts bread in 1 minute 50 seconds

Bad points

• The wire can grab the bread before it falls to the bottom of the toasting chambers.

# Bellini BTET300

Price: $45

Good points

• Very good even-browning score.
• Produced good single slices.

Bad points

• Control lights hardly visible.
• Bread slice tends to shoot out of toasting chambers when toasting a single slice or light bread.

 

Profiles - the rest

# DéLonghi CT021

Price: $59

Good points

• Good controls.
• Very good cleaning score.

Bad points

• Poor frozen bread score.

# Kenwood TT427

Price: $50

Good points

• Good cleaning score.
• Very good controls.

Bad points

• Poor frozen-bread score.
• Poor crumb-removal score.
• Difficult to remove smaller items such as crumpets.

# Modern Living 130502 

Price: $50

Good points

• Good cleaning score.
• Good controls.

Bad points

• Poor uniformity of browning.
• Poor frozen-bread and single-slice scores.

# Discontinued models, but may still be available in some shops.

Morphy Richards 44067 Accents Dove white

Price: $85

Good points

• Good single slice score.
• Excellent controls.

Bad points

• Poor frozen bread score.

Sunbeam TA6220 Toastum 2

Price: $60

Good points

• Good single-slice score.
• Good even-browning score.

Bad points

• Longest toasting time (3 mins 14 secs)

# Discontinued models.