Dualit 46025 Lite 4 Long Slot Toaster, Black

We were looking for a replacement that had wide, long slots and the Dualit certainly meets those criteria. The toaster works well, and the supplied heating rack is a handy add-on that allow you to warm a croissant or similar. Controls are fairly basic, but simple to operate and so far we have made toast from a variety of dirrent bread without any problems. Like any toaster you have to get the settings based on experience and personal taste.

We purchased this toaster in the belief that Dualits were the best, but our experience so far leads us to believe that it's no better (in fact, it's worse) at toasting than other, cheaper makes and therefore is poor value for money. We've tried all the various combinations and settings of the controls to produce an even toast but invariably whilst it toasts the crust edges of the bread the centre is not toasted properly. To achieve the centre of the bread toasted to an acceptable standard means the edges get burnt - and we have found this be the case with both frozen and unfrozen bread. Perhaps we are doing something wrong, but having tried all sorts of combinations of control settings, we don't think so.As an appliance rated at 1800w, the elements appear to be too ... MoreWe purchased this toaster in the belief that Dualits were the best, but our experience so far leads us to believe that it's no better (in fact, it's worse) at toasting than other, cheaper makes and therefore is poor value for money. We've tried all the various combinations and settings of the controls to produce an even toast but invariably whilst it toasts the crust edges of the bread the centre is not toasted properly. To achieve the centre of the bread toasted to an acceptable standard means the edges get burnt - and we have found this be the case with both frozen and unfrozen bread. Perhaps we are doing something wrong, but having tried all sorts of combinations of control settings, we don't think so.As an appliance rated at 1800w, the elements appear to be too powerful. Perhaps a toaster with a lower rating (say 1400w) would solve the problem, but whilst taking a little longer would produce a decent toast.Nowadays, many manufacturers of electrical appliances seem to go to great lengths to promote more powerful being better and faster and Dualit appears to have produced a toaster which may be faster, but not, in our experience, producing an acceptable toast. Didn't the Dualit design people discover this?The control switches and the operating lever are very good, being nice and robust.Would we recommend this toaster to others? Based on our experience - certainly not!

We've had the toaster for about a week now. For its main function (ie handling long slices of bread) it does fine.Given that you can put two normal slices of bread in each slot it's a shame that you have to use both slots, even if using only two slices of normal bread. It's like using all 4 slots of a toaster when only putting in two slices of bread :(It seems well made though, and has this "bagel" function to only toast the sliced part of the bagel, but we've not used that.