Dualit Classic 2-Slice Toaster, Chrome
by Dualit

List Price: $280.00
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Product Summary

• Extra-wide, 28-mm slots accommodate a variety of bread products
• Award-winning ProHeat elements increase toasting efficiency and element longevity
• Ejector system keeps toast warm until the ejector lever is pushed up
• Removable crumb tray; adjustable rear foot
• Switch-system controls the degree of browning

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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Dualit Classic 2-Slice Toaster, Chrome

Customer Review: Looks great, works well, beautifully designed
Summary: 5 Stars

The Dualit toaster manages to combine form and function quite brilliantly. It is robust, easy to use and fast. In fact it can manage around 120 slices per hour, enough even for the most demanding of breakfast guests (and their ravenous families). Each slice will be beautiful done, elegantly dispatched and delivered with a minimum of fuss. In that way it is very North European. You can see why the Germans or the British would love this machine. It's functional. I guess that's why you see it in sandwich shops all over Europe, toasting away beside industrial looking espresso machines left over from an age before Starbucks.

My Dualit however sits proudly among an array of kitchen goodies - deserving of the ultimate accolade - a socket from which it is never unplugged. Cappuccino machines may be there for display only, kettles may be plugged in and out but few are the appliances that are given their own `personal' socket. It looks great. Retro 50s chrome with just a hint of Italy about its styling, just a touch of Latin eccentricity around its lock and load mechanism. If this were a car it would be a classic Alfa Romeo - neat, good to look at fast, fast and surprisingly practical come the weekend.

Features - well there are a few. I went for the 28mm slots - which basically means it takes the thick wedges of bread that cut for myself every day and swallows them with a reassuring thunk. I didn't go for the energy saving `black heat' option - mainly because black and toast sit together badly in my breakfast vocabulary. I'm sure it works though. There's no `pop up' to terrify my somewhat skittish cats either. The toast stays in the machine until you decide to take it out. Great for those who like to use the two minute toasting time to do something else - whatever that may be. Perhaps I'm odd but I tend to find myself out of the kitchen whenever toast is ready. Maybe the designers had the same problem.

Rather a long review for rather a simple item then - but I do love it in a way that perhaps too strong. It looks great, is a model of reliability and serves up comfort food whenever the rain lashes at the windows and a DVD flickers into life on my TV. It's a great toaster - you should have one.

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