To feel the rage with my toaster..?

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We bought a fairly expensive 4 slice toaster about a year ago and every time I use it it gives my the rage...

Although you would think a device designed solely for toasting BREAD would actually fit a slice of normal sliced bread in it..?!

But no..my Best of Both medium sliced bread comes out with 2cm of flabby white bread at one end...it's as if it thinks bread should be square

The only solution is to try and remember to toast for half the time, flip the bread over then retoast so both ends get some heat exposure. But I often end up with the toast being browner than I would like in the middle (my preference is for a lightly toasted pale brown slice) --or I end up forgetting to eject at the second toasting and end up with a charred mess

Please Mumsnetters help me with recommendations for a fit for purpose sleek looking toaster or I will have resort to sneaking a slice of bread into John Lewis to carry out my own consumer test!

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Hello. This thread is a little old now and some of the recommendations may be out of date. Take a look at our round-up of the best toasters - according to Mumsnetters - for more up-to-date suggestions. MNHQ.

We love our Dualit - the old fashioned mechanical type, rather than the cheaper newer ones - but tall bread doesn't fit in it. It's easy enough to turn over, though, as you can lever the bread cum toast up without turning it off.

If the hospital one was one of the old fashioned ones, it probably needed a new element. We've never replaced the elements in ours, which is 12 years old now (out previous toasters had all died within 18 months), but have replaced the timer, as it had started to jam.

I think some people's lives might be revolutionised by spending a couple of quid on these, btw
www.lakeland.co.uk/14236/Magnetic-Toast-Tongs?gclid=Cj0KEQiAhs3DBRDmu-rVkuif0N8BEiQAWuUJr9eYzZLTgx2iBTcbFDH4wlpWJKXNAIjD6tQSS-11FooaApm28P8HAQ&src=gpute&s_kwcid=AL!49!3!107981900291!e!!g!!toaster%20tongs&ef_id=Vxf2lwAAAKcFUGNA:20170109164247:s

It's times like this I really miss eye level grills from the 1980s. They were the best thing ever - why'd they stop making them?

Our (electric) oven is a main oven with a small one above it which is also the grill. The main oven is broken but the top one is good so I am lucky to have an eye level grill. However I suspect it was made in the 80's, it is dark green and not the sort of oven I have seen new for many years. What I miss are the really old gas cookers with the eye level grill, white solid enamelled cookers like you find in unmodernised houses where people have lived their entire life and died aged 100 or thereabouts.

We have the Breville Warburtons toast and sometimes Warburtons bread doesn't fit into the fucking toaster. And it toasts unevenly on different sides.

No better than any other toaster . It's not hard, we all know what toasters are used for. Just measure a standard slice of bread and make toaster slots where the toast is fully immersed so it toasts properly.

there is a small but active market in Cannon Foldaway (eyelevel gas) grills, and at least one person who reconditions and sells them.

I remember a relation had one with a rotating spit, and rotating skewers for kebabs. It was part of the gas cooker, but I think I heard you could get a separate version.

here we are

Ooo Yellowdraw that Delonghi might be the one for me! Fits the criteria of style and functionality plus £30 off on Amazon.

A lot of good reviews for some 2 slice : long slice toastersbut I have twins so really need a 4 slicer.

Loving the wooden toast tongs too...

Definitely the toaster market needs a good shake up! And I have noticed too that some toast I did for the kids recently has been even soggier than normal ,..to the pint of inedibility and my 4 year olds refusing to eat it. I must take note of brands / ingredients etc. We usually have 50:50 or best of both so not sure if was one of those?

Want to respond to lots more of you but need to make notes on the thread first ...who knew that toast could get so many hackles up.

Am actually drooling now thinking about my Grandma's Aga and the toasting "tennis racquet!"

M&s farmhouse white and golden wholemeal toast crunchy. And square.

Hovis has stayed fairly pure, too, just rather faddy and hard to get hold of.

Morphy or Murphy Richards (whichever it is) 4 slice toaster brilliant at toasting to the top, or lay sideways but don't always remember a little more than I'd normally spend on a toaster but worth it

Thanks Pickachew - off to buy some M&S golden and wholemeal! Is it sliced?