Hamilton Beach 2 Slice Toaster with Extra-Wide Slots

Excellent

It tilt to the front when I push the lever. If the bread isn’t just right, I can’t put it back down again right away, I need to wait 15 seconds or so. Very not practical when making breakfast for 2-3 people.

Bagel button doesn’t seem to do anything.

the 2 pros: it looks nice in my opinion, and the frozen button works like a charm.

My other toaster died and I needed a new one. I have a fractured tibia so isn’t really convenient to go out shopping. So my shopping is on Amazon. I bought this to bagels are great. But the bread doesn’t taste one side is pretty much off-white and the other side. The top half of the other side of the bread is brown the perfect color, while Bottom on that side is much lighter than the top half of that side. I would return it, but since I can’t drive that isn’t convenient either. So I just toast the bread several times to make a good slice of toast.

This is a 4.5 star review – it would have been 5 stars except for one issue.

The good: Firstly, this toaster has a proper bagel setting unlike many other toasters. The bagel setting on this toaster just does one side – so ideal for bagels, buns, english muffins and the like. I prefer these items to have a toasted inside and warmed but untoasted outside – exactly what this toaster does. The bagel setting on many other toasters, including a different one I recently purchased (and then replaced with this one), simply adds extra time when on the bagel setting, with all burners lit up. That’s not what I want.

The toaster works well, it is nicely sized (not too big), has reasonably wide slots, an extra lift to get items out of the toaster and is easy to clean.

The Bad: As other reviewers have pointed out, a design flaw is that the toaster reverts to its 4 setting every time. So if you like a 5 darkness to your toast, you have to manually change to to 5 each time – it will not remember that setting. I personally don’t find it an issue since the 4 setting is normally fine, or I just pop it back down for a bit of extra toasting – but for some this could be really annoying. Hopefully this problem will be fixed by the manufacturer in future models of this toaster.

This replaced a very old 4-slice toaster that was taking up a lot of room on my counter. I thought I was making good toast with my old toaster, but I found a setting with this toaster that gives me perfect toast every time. I am very happy with this item. (Be sure to run it through a couple of cycles on high setting before first toasting to get rid of the smell on the wires.)

This has been a very solid toaster. With consistent use, it finally is on its last leg – one of the heating elements somehow got displaced and is dangling. My parents always buy super deluxe toasters and I swear they have a sad story about why they had to get the “new” one every two years. In looking for a replacement, Amazon reminded me that I purchased this previously. Four years with no complaints seems pretty reasonable and I’m replacing it with the same thing.

The Amazon suggested 4 year warranty? Pass.

This is my second one of these, I repeated because of easy care, durable, easy to clean, simple setting, browns well, accommodates large bagels.