DASH Clear View Toaster – Compact Design with 7 Browning Ranges & Clear-View Window, Additional-Huge Slot Giant Toaster, 1-Contact Defrost, Reheat & Bagel Capabilities – Simple Clear Up Crumb Tray (Black)

We have only had this for 5 days
We have only had this for 5 days, but we love it. My 12 year old’s favorite food is toast. Y’all, I wish I was making this up, but I’m not, it really is his favorite food. He eats toast nearly everyday. Our old 4 slice toaster that we have had since before he was born finally had to be tossed. While said 12 year old wanted me to buy a touch screen toaster that was more than $300, I said no, and showed him this baby. He wasn’t impressed but liked that it had a window so that he could make sure his toast was the correct shade. With the approval of the toast kid, I bought it (I would have bought it regardless of his opinion.) Toast kid waited 2.5 days for a toaster, and surprisingly he was patient. Upon the big day of arrival, he shouted “The toaster comes today, I call being the first one to use it.” His siblings didn’t care if they were last, they do not share his same passion for toast. Our delivery came earlier than usual, at 10:30 am. My 10 year old brought it inside where I unpacked it and plugged it. The 12 year old toast dude came slinking out of his room upon hearing on the Alexa that a package has arrived. He grabbed a slice of bread, and toasted it, adjusting the knob to what he felt would be the right shade of toast. It wasn’t, so he pushed the lever back down and twisted the dial more while carefully watching the bread as it toasted through the window. It was finally to his satisfaction and he pushed the cancel button and delightedly yoinked his treasure out of the toaster slot. He proceeded to slather cream cheese and jam on it and happily eat his toast. Then he made another, and another and happily went through a loaf of bread by himself. He still hasn’t said whether he likes the toaster, but he ate an entire loaf of bread on the first day we got it, so I think that speaks loudly. He has used the toaster everyday, multiple times a day since. Other members of our family has also used it, my 10 year old likes it, and loves that the glass comes out easily to clean (I have weird kids.) My 15 and 17 year olds have used it, but they normally communicate in sarcasm and grunts. Nothing has been sarcastically said about the toaster and I have yet been able to decode their grunts. They use it though, so I would assume they like it well enough. I like the toaster, like my 10 year old, I like that the glass comes out for easy cleaning. The crumb tray is easy to clean too. The toaster is easy to use and self explainitory. It looks nice on the countertop, but is easy to store if you store yours. I like that I can easily toast a slice of sourdough bread without having to cut the slice in half to fit in the toaster.Update:It’s January 2025, the original review was in July 2023. The toaster is still doing great. Toast Kid hates it though. He doesn’t like that it doesn’t produce a consistant product every single time. I have explained that it won’t if you make 8 pieces of toast one right after the other, not allowing the toaster to cool. He tries to convince me to get a different toaster often.Toast kid’s opinion aside, it still works great. There is 1 caviot though, sometimes sourdough bread or homemade bread will break off in the toaster, but the broken off pieces will burn onto the heating element. It’s not easy to clean the heating element, but can be done. Honestly, I still don’t have any complaint with this toaster. I still recommend it. Oh and even though Toast kid “doesn’t like” this toaster he still uses it multiple times every single day.

Stylish – and it toasts
If you are like me and spent about 25 hours reading reviews and you tube videos on picking the right toaster you will understand that I inn the end just picked one, lol. I wanted one that was more narrow. This is NOT super thin, so I will let you know that. But narrow enough I suppose. I wanted to long as we tend to eat long pieces of sourdough bread and they can fit in this. – Now, I will tell you that it toasts unevenly. Seriously, that is it ONE JOB. To toast. But whatever. It toasts good enough, but if that is going to bug you that the top is not as toasty you have been notified. I also REALLY wish it had a warmer – that thin metal pieces that other toasters have pop up so you can warm up a croissant or the like. What I like about this a lot is it did not have that weird chemical smell. I returned another toaster due to the chemical smell. I just could not. This never had the smell. Also, it is pretty heavy. It feels at least like this will last for a long time. So overall I am happy I bought it.

Really Happy with This Toaster
When my old toaster died I did what I usually do for kitchen equipment – go to America’s Test Kitchen on PBS and YouTube to see what toasters they’ve tested and what their recommendations are based on testing. This toaster was a close second to a more expensive model but they said one thing that stopped it from taking first place was the pop up was a little too forceful, sometimes ejecting the bread completely. It may be that the manufacturer fixed this because I haven’t had the problem once.The controls are dead simple and everything I need. On medium setting it toasts in about 2.5 minutes, which is fine, and it toasts even a long slice evenly. I like the window view of how toasting is going, and I like that I wasn’t limited to metallic or black. This is the first long slot toaster I’ve owned and I love it. I bought a loaf of artisan bread just to try it out – the long, thick slice fit fine and 2 pieces of regular loaf bread fit side by side with room to spare.The toaster is no wider than a regular 2 slice toaster, but it is over half again as long, which may be a counter space issue for some. Also, since the controls and window are on one side instead of the end like most toasters, location on your counter may be an issue, meaning if you’re standing facing your counter and you put the toaster to your left, the window and controls are either going to face away from you or the pull down tab on the end for lowering the bread will be closer to the back of your counter, making it awkward to reach. This isn’t an issue if you put the toaster on your right, or at the back of your counter facing forward (which is what I did).Don’t get caught up on the window being overly useful for checking doneness. The bread is lit up by the heating elements, but you’re not going to be able to see how much toasting is occurring unless you like your toast pretty dark. Still, I think the window is a nice aesthetic touch. I like how it lets you see the light of the heating elements. My preference would be what some other toasters have, which is the ability to lift the toast up part of the way out of the slot to check doneness without having to stop the toasting cycle. While that would be nice, I’m not too bummed without it. Once you learn what settings you like for different breads, you can just trust them.As I haven’t owned it long, lifespan of the toaster remains to be seen.

I incorrectly assumed that being sold on amazon.co.uk, this would work okay here in Blighty, but no; 120v only. I don’t fancy using a bulky step down transformer in the kitchen and I don’t want to use it on a building site.Why list this in the UK and have it returned at your cost?

Excelente tostador, es nuy rápido y me gusto que tiene niveles para tostar