West Bend 78220 Quik Serve Toaster, White

Last year,I remodeled my kitchen and decided that my old toaster oven(which still worked great)needed to be replaced with something nicer looking. That is when I entered a nightmare of toaster shopping. I wanted a toaster oven because I love toast, especially the long slices of sheepherder's bread. Toaster don't accomodate the length of that bread. Also, sometimes I like melting cheese on top without cooking the whole sandwich in a microwave. I bought and returned numerous toaster ovens due to the fact that they have been upgraded to do so much more, that they have lost the ability to just make good toast! I mean, 5 minutes for toast? What is that? It would dry out the bread long before it looked like toast, making it only good for a doorstop!I then decided to forgo the melted cheese and to cut the slices of bread in half and get a toaster. Well, apparently over the years, toasters have lost their ability to make toast too! That's their only job! Some took too long, some didn't toast...Read more

I acquired this toaster by redeeming award points from my job. I'd be pretty miffed if I had spent money on this thing. As it is, I'm a little upset about wasting my earned awards on it.
Here's the bottom line. The ONLY benefit this thing gives over other toasters is the ability to toast long items such as rye bread slices or a slice of any elongated bread such as fresh from a bakery. This is also the only reason it earns two stars instead of just one.
Before I got this, I read reviews and descriptions, and was mistakenly under the impression that the bread moves gradually through the toaster until coming out toasted from the bottom; like a conveyor of sorts. It does not. It works exactly like any other toaster except the item being toasted falls through a pseudo-trapdoor instead of popping back up through the slot. The slot is no deeper than any other toaster, so if something sticks out the top of your existing toaster, it will in this one too.
The main problem I...Read more

My experience with this toaster certainly was different from the other review. Even on the lightest setting, one corner of the bread burned. Also, if you have a large slice of bread it sits above the toaster and doesn't get toasted. I've gone back to the toaster oven I was using before. It may take longer but it does a better job.