Toastmaster Cool Touch Bagel Perfect-White/Chrome

I decided to buy this Toastmaster since the Hamilton Beach toaster I had bit the dust after only a couple of months. The price for the Toastmaster was very reasonable and I thought, "Hmmm, it must be a cheap product." Because it seems like now you have to buy a 60 dollar toaster to get it to work OK. Well, I was shocked to find out it works great! It has a cancel button, reheat, bagels fit fine too. Large slots fit most breads. It doesn't toast the very top of tall breads and you have to turn back the heat, when it pops up, turn it over and toast again.

It cooks quick, nice and fine for me. I am not picky, just want a decent slice of brown toast. You do have to turn down the settings for additional slices going into the toaster, because it gets hotter each time, and will burn the next slices you put in, if you don't turn back the settings some. I like the large handle, that you push the bread down with, since it is large and easy to use. I looked at another brand much...Read more

Gee...what did I expect from a toaster for under $30? A bit more than this.
This is an awful toaster unless you like toast that is custom done...burned top edges, barely warm at the bottom and just about every degree of "done-ness" in between those two extremes....and all on one single slice of bread!
The interior is designed to push the bread from one side towards the hot coil on the other side, at an angle with the top crust sitting almost on top of the coil and the bottom crust needing a walkie talkie to communicate with the heat source.
The bread slots were very clearly designed to do something OTHER than hold whole slices of bread in place, evenly spaced from heating coils, and out of the crumb tray. Lots of bread slices are too thin to stay put in this toaster yet are too large to rationally retrieve when they fall below to hug the crumb tray or become jammed between the heat coil and the wire stand intended to support them during their downward journey. I...Read more