Dualit 2-Slice Toaster, Chrome : Reviews, Cheap, Discount Kitchenware, Kitchen Dualit 2-Slice Toaster, Chrome

Average Rating: 3.92 out of 5 stars

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- I love the smell of toast in the morning
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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- A functional design icon - what more could an appliance offe
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.

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- I wish all the home appliences are made like this!
I purchased Dualit two slice toater when it was special sale with $99- at Amazon without paying S&H and I am very happy. A week before the purchse, I got Cuisnart toaster CPT180 and I was totally unhappy with that flashy looking tin can of stainless brushed finish. I was alittle worried about the lack of thickness adjustment of Dualit but it does not bother as much as I feared. The intensity of the heat is enough to do the quick job that seems to seal the moisture in. In other words, toasts come out crispy outside and moist inside. This toaster reminds me of 90's Volvo 240DL and MBS SL that the factories spent so much money for besic structures and invisible foundation. Nothing fancy yet very honestly and massively made while it did not offer fancy looking or features. But there is a quality you can see and feel when you touch as the time goes by. I tend to appreciate that kind of sane build quality instead of number of features. (I enjoy hi-end 2 channel stereo sound a lot more than 6.1 channel surround. I paid several times more for the products but hey! being just normal is very expensive! That is the way it is!) The simple old fashioned ticking timer of Dualit works perfectly so much more than the electronic sensors. It does not offer the bells and whistles that cost less for manufactureres to make. This it very sane, normal product, built with conscience, and built to last. Too bad some people do not see the value of it. I like the product very much.