Toaster Suggestions - Best Toast Maker?

Recommend me a kettle. Proper BIFL one but electric, not hob.

Does that actually exist? I mean, is one electric kettle any better than another? I'm sure we've all seen dirt cheap kettles in workshops/offices that have been used 30 times daily for decades. FWIW we've had no problem with this in the roughly 6 years we've used it. Living in a hard water area, the integrated filter is useful especially since I can transfer filtered water from it to my espresso machine.

Some kettles are much faster than others. Also if you are a tea snob having one with accurate temperature control can be really useful.

Or you can just have your coffee machine on and have boiling water on tap.

Yeah, our house warming one is still going strong. I broke the lid but the thing still works fine. 11 years old. Expensive kettles are just form > function and in some cases where they just waste power boiling all the time, they're worse. Fucking planet fuckers.

I mean, is one electric kettle any better than another?

Yes. We've just got rid of a Bosch one (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9311192) - bad pourer (to the point that whatever mug you were using was always sitting in a puddle), and the lid failed closed after less than two years of use. Previously we'd got about 6 or 7 years each out of two Philips ones, bought because they were double wall so a bit cooler on the outside: switches failed on those.

Just gone to a Russell Hobbs Luna (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7249046) and although the 'quiet boil' boast is overblown, it pours better than either the Philips or Bosch ones did.

Had this a while now and it’s been great.

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Dredge… (I knew there was a thread for everything)

What’s the forum-approved, not shit, good lifetime, can fit proper bread toaster? Ours is kaput after a decade. Two or four slot fine.

Asked this elsewhere here after replacing a 4-slot Dualit timer again (again (again)) and was recommended Rowlett.
What’s to say: It’s sturdy and toasts and will outlive me. Only complaints are that the dial needs to have an ‘11’ setting for gnarlier breads and the white enamel is weirdly fluorescent - but maybe that just means everything else in the kitchen is toooo beeeeige.

I had a bit of a reset recently and stayed in a place that had a 'Milantoast' toaster

https://www.milantoast.com/en/products/toaster/

It was decent and robust and sorted out the main complain of our Dualit 2 slice, in that it took decent wedges of loaf/crumpets/hotcross buns. The cages are sprung, parts look readily available and the all important matchymatchy kitchen colours available.

edit. Sorry should have replied @c00ps

Ta. Will look at both. (but 300+ beans is a lot more than I was expecting to pay)

Agreed on the excessive clams for a bloody toaster. But look, there's a catering supplies place up the road that resells from salvage which is where I would usually be a fly on shit, to false-economy the hell out of this (because I just can't have nice new things, but I still want something a bit special). Glad I broke that habit. But yeah. It's just a bloody toaster ffs.

Dualit toaster for two years here and timer has gone once. Cheap and easy to replace though. BUT..extracting Scotch pancakes has always been a high stakes game of Operation. I mean, real risk of damaging the pcake.

I thought for big bucks you would go for one of those new Japanese toasters.

is that sous vide toast?

Some kind of steamed outside crispy inside fluffy sorcery.

Sorry to interupt, but has the timer been sticking?

Second hand dualit, quite a few are changed as they no longer match the kitchen or timer issues.

Rowlett - not yet! (why?)

Was asking about the dualit.

Dualit.

Simple kit, all parts can be replaced. Design Classic.

hmmm.

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anyone have a sage toaster? I quite like the look of them, and they have a crumpet mode, and a probably rather useful 'a bit more' button.
too much tech = more likely to go wrong though?

Crumpet mode great, fruit loaf mode great, faders instead of rotary knobs is a source of tactile joy every time I use it.

‘Bit more button’ doesn’t often give quite enough more, I tend to just put it on again at lowest setting.

I take your point about electronics - Sage customer service/warranty is reputedly v good though. Ours has been fine for 3 years or so, but appreciate thats a blink in the eye of toaster life spans.

I don’t have one anymore since the third timer stuck with four slots burning away unattended*

*you’re not supposed to leave them unattended

Toasters that don't pop can get in the sea. My opinion hasn't changed on this.

The toaster I was going to replace in this thread hasn't died yet.

nice! I might have to treat myself at the weekend