Honestly the moment the toast didn't go all the way down on its own was an absolute deal breaker for me. If you're expecting £350 and you haven't even perfected one of the most simple aspects of the device, what else have you cut corners on?
For £350, I expect the Wallace and Gromit wakeup machine that wakes me up, drops me at my table, puts on my slippers, and puts jam on my toast in front of me!
For £350 it should do so much more, needs to have an alarm to make me toast in the morning automatically, needs to fit 4 slices, needs to be able to toast sandwiches, so much more!!!
@kebeightyfour5717 I'm not saying it's a bad thing at all. Just never thought that when my husband asked what I was watching, that would be my reply 😂
As an electronics engineer, this thing is an absolute nightmare to me. I design and build products all day, and the second I see a screen near heat I cringe a little. Unless it's incredibly well insulated that's just begging to die. I'm with y'all on this, give me a switch and a slider or knob.
17:24 - Jamie sums it up PERFECTLY. If I spend a lot of money on something that's usually not that expensive, the least I expect from it is to do its job well.
If i spend 350 pounds on a toaster, it better be like kush walks into my kitchen every morning with a blowtorch in hand and somehow still gets it perfect
@@senpaipugs if I spend 350 pounds on a toaster, it better have my toast ready automatically when I wake up, and in addition it should give me head at least 4 times a week
@@senpaipugs Kush is a chef, so knows how to watch food cooking, and he would have complete control over the heat source. So that would be prefect. And! he could also whip up some eggs too.
Exactly, my toaster has that issue but it was very cheap! I can get round it by putting most things in sideways though and doing panini in two goes (flip for second toasting).
For something to cost 15x more than the average toaster, it should at least be consistent with the actual toasting. Jamie and Barry were nice to keep going for an appliance that was burning the food.
Fun episode. If you have a normal toaster and want to improve the quality of your toast, try preheating it by running it empty for a toast cycle, before you put your first slice of bread in (assuming you have the time to wait). You'll get a much more consistent product. Cheers.
Good god. Why have I never thought of this, it’s so simple. Thank you! Preheating an oven is obvious to preheat the entire cavity, but preheating the toaster element to make sure it’s uniformly hot makes brilliantly simple sense.
The Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster, sold from 1949 all the way through the late ‘80s was 70 years ahead of the times. This toaster automatically raised and lowered the bread and would do fresh or frozen bread. It used a sensor that checked the temperature of the bread and not the heating element and sold for $22.50 which was expensive at the time.
I got a 4 slot toaster that had a broken temp gauge but you could still work it out based on position. I paid $2 for some cleaning product to clean it as it was going in the bin otherwise. 5 years later and it still makes better looking toast than the £300 toaster here
When I was a kid, we had a cast iron "toaster" that you put on top of a stove burner and lay the bread against the four tilted sides, flipping it halfway through.
Lol, this episode demonstrates the gameness of the lads, no matter what is put in front of them At 7:02 Jaime starts taking about the toaster's algorithm detecting moisture, Barry giving him a look of B.S., and Jaime reprimanding " don't look at me that way!" They gave it a fair chance but politely convinced it's a pos. Wonderful!
Honestly, the fact it only has two slots is one of the biggest dealbreakers for me. If you're paying that much and you can't even use it to make a club sandwich, that's a problem.
@@masansr 3 slices of bread it has a slice in the middle to split it into 2 sections (normally a salad section and a meat section). edit: all 3 should be toasted
Club sandwich trick, put two slices in one side and the club on the other. It toasts the outsides or insides (preference) of the top and bottom and both sides of the club.
This has a Kickstarter written all over it. Propose a product promising high tech, take the donations, use half of the donation to make a product that is, frankly, easy to deliver, and keep the other half as "salary". No-one needs this, but in the early hours after a bevvy or three, it sounds amazing.
I spent £40 on a deep slot toaster that takes even longer than a normal toaster to make toast, but I'd still choose it over this as it perfectly browns the entire slice of toast every time. You can also fit pretty much any bread product in it as the slots are also extra wide. That is my one desire for a toaster, just toast the entire thing evenly all over in one go.
Frankly i don't understand this time thing to save 30 sec 1 min at best for exorbitant price. Unless it take half and hour to make toast what does it matter how long in take?
Man my grandma would have rolled her eyes so hard at some of these new tech toasters. “I’ve been toasting bread for 90 years and never needed anything more than a flame”
My mother would have said "this was invented by a man who didn't spend any time making breakfast". One thing we didn't see ... what happens when a piece of bread gets stuck inside? How easy is it to extract charred remains?
When I was a kid in Scouts, I used to have a triangular metal folding contraption that held a piece of bread on each side and could be set on a grill over a fire. When it was brown on one side, you flipped the bread by hand. Was it fast? No. Did it toast bread? Yeah. I mean, the concept is pretty simple. The expensive toaster doesn't change that concept, and I don't know that the micro-refinements are worth the price.
I really love that it's not a app driven smart device. And that's where anything I love about it ends It sucks at everything you two noted - consistency across the bread type item - "Smartness" with regard to those fairly normal looking frozen waffles - whatever that technical issue was that, I bet, required a reboot... Also I'm with Baz, my 15 year old toaster has a bagel setting, does them perfectly. And it does it in a smarter way. It only turns on the outer most elements. That way the top and bottom of the bagel are heated with radiant heat and the insides are well toasted. The only toaster over a normal one I've even come close to considering so far, is that Mitsubishi 1 slice at a time one. Just because I want to know what makes the toast from it so "perfect" 13:23 fully agree with this statement entirely
@@jestucker2268 Arguably the press you get for the toaster could perform the same function. It'd be a thicker or less conductive material that would slow down the rate at which it heats up giving time for the sandwich to heat up.
Just use a toaster oven. You can preheat it, so it doesn't dry out the bread. Plus, you can see through the glass door to know precisely when to take something out. I've been using toaster ovens exclusively for at least 10 years and they're excellent convection ovens. The only thing they can't do is roast a turkey, but you can just get a cheap roasting oven for that.
I definitely agree with Barry on this one. The one and only impressive thing about this machine seems to be how quickly it heats up. The smart interface clearly gives you no actual guidance on how dark your bread will turn out, so you'd have to use trial and error, and even then sometimes the bread comes out either burnt or under-toasted. Which is what you have to deal with on a cheap toaster, but now the "fancy" elements blast your bread with more heat so you have less margins for error. On top of that the machine seems to toast super unevenly, regular-size bread didn't even fully fit in it, and you had to poke it down. If this machine was a quarter of the price they're charging it would still be a waste of money.
I had an odd thought while they were reading the spiel - what if, hear me out here, they just used the new alloy for the element and then made a basic toaster? No bells and whistles, just a toaster that heats up faster. Crazy talk, I know :P
@@MrGrimsmith I wish they had done that, that would literally be better than this piece of junk. My guess is they didn't because "a toaster, but faster" isn't really as fancy or marketable, so they'd have to charge reasonable prices for it.
I’m really glad you have reviewed this toaster as I was considering purchasing one (but now will not bother). Have the manufacturers addressed any of the issues raised in your review. I would certainly be interested in a follow up video. As a viewer, I can’t believe a product could have so many inherent design and operational faults.
I’ve seen a few other videos over the years talking about smart toasters like that and the number one complaint after several months was the screen dies rather quickly and the inconsistent toasting. Which is a bummer for 350£. I hadn't also realized that it wouldn't toast the entire bread! Ouff. Great video guys! I do enjoy these types of videos!🖤
yeah - computer electronics and touchscreens do not like large amounts of heat... and toasters go up to heat in the hundreds of °C ... even with shielding, thats gonna slowly toast the electronics
Touchscreen tech does NOT handle high heat. Even something like say, the hot interior of a vehicle will muck up a touchscreen. Being a couple centimeters away from red hot heating elements? No shot.
@@SharienGaming I was almost going to comment this, saying I expected it to degrade within a year, then I thought better of it and assumed they'd thought of a solution for 350 quid I uh... I guess not. They failed one of the most basic QA tests
Love this. I wash surprised at its flaws, especially the really uneven toasting on just standard bread. It's the kind of thing I'd love to have for a week to play with, but then it would end up in a cupboard and I's go back to my regular toaster
Toaster ovens are the way to go! So much more multipurpose than a vertical toaster and can fit some many larger foods and are more multifunctional. My toaster oven can make toast, cookies, roast veggies and meat, and has a built in air fryer.
@@MustBeM Toaster ovens shine at making quick items, the toaster oven heats up quickly and won't warm up your entire house. Good for making things like garlic bread on a spaghetti night.
@@MustBeM If you already have a convention oven and a classic toaster, is a toaster oven necessary? No. But is it great for small baking jobs and things that are too messy for a toaster? Yes. You could make just a few cookies at a time. Or you can bake or reheat a personal pizza or just a slice. It’s crispy and better than any microwave would do without heating a full size oven. Im currently renting a 1 bedroom apartment with a two burner electric stove and no oven. My toaster oven has proved itself a workhorse in my small kitchen.
You observed my greatest issue with toasters in general, bread is no longer a single size standard loaf, and modern toasters have not adapted. Being able to toast the entire slice from edge to edge in one cycle is almost impossible if you have a good sourdough boule or even a good number of store loaves.
I'm quite liking my toaster oven and I got a cheap one. Plenty of room for whatever size bread I want. I made bacon in it. I reheat fried chicken in it. There are toast, bake, and broil settings that run the heating elements in different ways if I want to adjust my results. Huge improvement on a standard toaster for the same price.
I think that would call for a specific type of toaster that is made for your larger artisan breads. Otherwise I think that the standard sandwich slice actually has remained the same size but since toasters are trying to also accommodate the larger and odd shaped breads their performance for the normal stuff also suffers.
they do make long slot toasters for those larger or odd shaped pieces of bread. i've had a dash clear view toaster for a few years and it's pretty good
I have a $9 Hamiltonbeach toaster. It has a frozen and bagel setting. It actually makes perfect toast. And it's performed perfectly well for 22 years. By the way, it has those 1800's coils. To be honest, I prefer those museum coils. Especially for the price. I could get 38 crap toasters that never give me a hint of trouble. (Note, I have another toaster that works well, that belonged to my parents that I keep for sentimental value (56 years old) the only reason I dont use it more is its a 4 slot.
I do love these product review/comparison episodes 😊 And I’m baffled time and again how certain appliances can be so pricey and simply not deliver... (unlike the £200 pepper mill, apparently 😜).
I think it would be great to do a comparison between these smart, high-tech appliances and the industrial ones you find in most kitchens. After working in a kitchen for years, there's a restaurant supply store near me where i get most of my kitchen appliances, because I know they're usually sturdier, easier to clean and will last a lot longer.
This actually reminds me of the development of the British SA80 rifle. The engineers got too caught up in the details that didn't matter even as they still had outstanding issues with basic functions and durability. I wonder if H&K can be paid enough to fix a toaster?
A single toaster should not cost more than all my kitchen appliances combined. My current toaster was 20€ and has 2 settings: On and Off. And it has never failed to do the thing it is designed to do.
I like my toast toasted all the way across the slice. Long slot toasters took care of that no matter the bread. Now I think they are just selling gimmicks rather than an appliance that adds something new. I am with Barry on this one when it comes to the touch screen too. I think a far better option would be the countertop oven style toasters that did actually do more than burn waffles and bagels! Better yet, buy a decent toaster for your quick breakfast and use your grill for everything else.
Exactly! it was expensive, but that's fine if they actually make it better than the cheaper options and let you do things you otherwise couldn't. I saw it a few months ago, and it still maintains an amazing rating. 4 stats in price, 5 stars in every other aspect. This thing is just gimmicky garbage.
I'd love to see a review of a vintage toaster. The 'Sunbeam radiant control' toaster now that you have done three of these super expensive machines. There are already some indepth videos but your take on it vs these modern ones would be a lot of fun to hear.
I got my toaster from a Sue Ryder shop for a fiver eighteen months ago. I use it at least once a day. It's very quick and it's red which, as we all know, is the fastest colour.
That's the story you'd hear with most toasters. You buy some random, cheap one, and it just continues to work and works well. It's one of those devices that is so simple it absolutely does not need anything added to it. The more crap you give it, the more likely it breaks. That's why I would never buy a "smart toaster", even if it costed the same amount of money as a regular one. Why add more points of failure to something that does not need them? I used two toasters my entire life. One at my parent's apartment, which was there for like 15 years and worked great, and one I bought myself when I moved out, some random no-name thing from a supermarket for cheap and it has been there for 5 years now, still work perfectly.
I’ll share my bagel technique, I put the whole bagel into the toaster, I have a toaster oven, but if you can handle thick bread then you can put a whole bagel in the toaster let it toast the outside. Then carefully remove and while it’s still at least warm, but preferably hot, Carefully cut the bagel in half, I find that using either a serrated knife, or one of the meat carving knives is the best way to do this. The inside will be extremely steamy, put your butter in right away on both sides close it back up and let the steam melt the butter, or cream cheese. Assemble whatever you’re going to make your bagel. This makes the outside crispy, but the interior is soft and warm and lovely.
To round this toaster journey would be great if you could check out the vintage sunbeam radiant toaster. It's crazy what a late 1940s toaster is capable off.
As ive seen said, the problem is not all breads the same size, thickness, ingredients. For a smart toaster, it should allow for you to setup specific instructions and presets for heat curves, time, side temperatures, could find the perfect balance for your bread and then repeat it each time. The waffles being a good example, you could have little waffle and boogie waffle settings youve tested and made Then you get to that point barry said of stick thing in, beep boop, see you in a couple minutes, perfect
I still use my almost 50 years old Siemens toaster. It works fine. I have replaced the power cord twice because it became brittle and since it fell to the ground several times during the last 5 decades some plastic parts are cracked or missing. But this doesn't affect the function at all. It is still doing what it is supposed to do: making good toast (at all 5 settings, from just warmed up to almost charcoal). I am sure it will work well for the next 5 decades.
i love having you guys on for some company while i eat my dinner. food can be scary when you have a chronic illness but i feel so much happier eating my toasty while watching you two rage trying to make your own. i hope you all know how much support you all are at sorted, you don’t know me but it feels like we are friends sharing a meal every time i press play :) xxxxxx
I've got an old toaster from the 70's that toasts my bread perfectly. Doesn't make one large crouton like the newer toasters do and I love it. It may have a broken leg and sits at an angle but can't find one that works better.
I think that for the price you are spending, it should be able to fit a large piece of bread, waffle or what have you. You could also just learn to use the tools that you have at hand. You could also just get a toaster that has a begel option as well.
My 9 year old $8 pos Is next to the sink, where the plug is. It can do bagels. If it gets wet, I leave it alone 20 min. Is the screen waterproof? Plus I'm fairly sure etsy or amazon has a toaster panini add-on, $15-30.
couldn't agree more with you guys, the moment you put a screen on something you have to take in to account that it will introduce new elements to fail, like screen, the touch pad, and all the other inside components.
we have a 4 slice, does 2 slices on each push-down-lever. Could absolutely just put one slice on each side, and start them slightly apart and get this lol
Or even keep both slices down for making say scrambled eggs on toast - it's difficult to time eggs cooking and toasting popping, so one or the other is usually cold.
I had to replace my Dualit toaster after decades of use when a friend put crumpets in and then damaged the heating elements getting them out. The replacement is a Sage toaster that has a bagel and crumpet setting plus settings for white, brown, seeded etc bread. It's excellent and at a small fraction of the cost of the Hi-Tech toaster.
The moment Barry just yelled "stop", I felt that on a personal level because that is exactly what I sound like, when my friends want to do something ridiculous.. say like buy a toaster for £350. If I were to buy a toaster for that much money, I would very much like this toaster to help me study for my finals because I feel like it should be able to do that for THAT amount of money xD
I can't speak to the panini because I don't have a press, but my oven-style air fryer does the exact same thing this "revolutionary" toaster does and I think it cost about $100 US. I don't remember exactly because it's been over 5 years since I bought it. That crisp toasted exterior with the fluffy center is a lovely experience, but save your money on that contraption and get an air fryer. It'll fry your chicken AND toast your waffle for you!😆
@@scottcampbell96 It gets you 20 normal toasters. If anything breaks you can just throw it out and get a new one. Buying into an expensive machine is sunk cost with little benefit.
I think industry equipment for industry purposes can't be bought at the regular markets like eBay or high street stores. You need a contract with an industry seller, which does price items way higher. I might be mistaken but I think it's about insurance and liability. It's the same equipment that in many regular shops but more expensive. In my experience basic industry equipment is the same but with no bells and whistles that could break and need expensive repair. Unless you're charging hideous amount for a toast, you won't be paying hideous money for a smart toaster, as a business. You buy basic and get your staff to learn what setting is best and it works great.
I grew up in a small country town as a kid, and one day we went and stayed in a hotel in the city, and it had this conveyor belt toaster that as I kid I thought was the coolest thing in the world, you could queue up about 8 slices of bread and they would travel through the toaster slowly and come out toasted on the other side. I don't think I have ever eaten so much toast in my life. Of course as an adult I see the thing as a giant energy hog sitting there turned on all morning whether its toasting or not but still...
It's funny, for me the museum toast that was toasted through would definitely top toast that still has a fluffy middle. If I want crunchy bread I want it really crunchy 😅
Agreed! I'm also puzzled by the bagel setting - I want my bagel crispy on both sides. But then I'm a weirdo who will sometimes let toast sit until it cools down and is a little chewy, so I suppose I shouldn't question the normals.
I agree! Sometimes I will toast bread when I am making burgers but don't have burger rolls. The toasted bread being "dry" through makes it take longer to get soggy from the burger.
I’ve seen this online and have been curious if it worked. Every time I see it, I think, “I was to see Sorted’s review.” Thank you for the entertainment and for saving me money by not purchasing an overly priced toaster.
Part of the fun of a toaster is to figure out each one's inconsistencies and perfect your timing game. Then again the best toaster I've ever had was something my mom picked up for about $20 10+ years ago that's still going strong, bagel setting included.
For people with more money than sense who like touch screens…. and charcoal briquettes. I still use a 23 year old Russell Hobbs stainless steel 2 slot toaster, it’s that old that it was made in the UK. It fully toasts standard very thick bread and for taller slices you just put them in sideways. It has separate settings for frozen, crumpets and bagels. It has mechanical shutters that close on the top that keeps the heat in and makes lovely crisp yet fluffy toast. It also has similar toastie baskets that as long as you don’t overfill or put fillings in that are too wet, the toastie won’t leak. I have never had any spillages. I recall it being about £10 more than a standard plastic model at the time. It will be a very sad day indeed when it finally breaks.
I think if the more economical option was pre-heated, it would likely have a more similar result to the smart one. I have a 40y/o waffle iron (it was my parents' wedding gift) that makes waffles that are perfect for freezing and toasting. I use a multi-function toaster oven because it's less stress.
That's not a bad idea actually. What if you just turned it on without any bread and put the bread in on the second go? I don't see any reason it wouldn't be able to work...
I can make great toasts and grilled cheeses on my old 1850 cast iron plate with cast iron press on top, it costs me nothing since it's been in the family for ages, my wife loves when I grill some sandwiches with it, they come out always perfect because I decide when to take them off. :)
I’ve been super sick for nearly a week now and haven’t been able to even get out of bed since Tuesday. I’ve only eaten toast and soup in that time and had to have my family come round and cook that for me, so right now I’d settle on a toaster that can cook the food for me fully. Like I press a remote and it makes the toast and delivers it to me wherever I am in the house! On the topic of this toaster, why didn’t this company design it around the size of average slices of bread. Even fresh baked, bakery bread is rectangular? Seems like a massive oversight there?
We’re so sorry to hear that you’re still sick Alex! Get better soon, and yes they should have thought about a lot of things when designing this toaster.
@@SortedFoodthanks guys, yes my desire for this toaster has lessened rather quickly throughout this video. Touch screens are often much easier for many disabled people to use, in place of knobs and buttons (pushing the knob of a normal toaster with my fingers can dislocate them quite easily, so I push down with the side of my hand for example) so I like the idea of the touch screen aspect, but will stick with my £30 toaster that whilst it doesn’t have a touch screen, actually toasts my bread etc evenly! Hopefully more touch screen toasters will come onto the market, that actually do the job
So I got a $200 Ninja Air fryer, oven, toaster thing made to fit a 12" pizza as well. It's made some of the most incredible toast I've ever had. It is just knobs and buttons. No digital screen except the numbers for timer and degrees. I think it's the ultimate in all these things.
As someone who uses a literal museum exhibit toaster, an early 1920s Universal electric toaster myself, antique toasters are much quicker than modern pop-up toasters, I'd love to see it go up against an actual antique.
@@Hybris51129 It's usually the other way around, make thing that does the job, then rules come around and changes have to be made, and sometimes it's businessses keeping parents, like the radiant toasters from the 40s-80s
$200 Smeg toaster with two for $45 sandwich racks: effing brilliant! I make what I call “folditas”: a flour tortilla folded in half and then half again to create two pockets, then cheese in one side and beans in the other (with a lil sriracha), then into the sandwich rack…so dang good! Not to mention PERFECT grilled cheese sandwiches (aka cheese toasties).
I'm gonna weigh in here. I don't have a toaster in my house. After being disappointed too many times, I use the simpler option.... a pan. For me specifically, a cast iron pan. In my opinion, if you cook with it a lot anyway, it lives on your stove, will last you a lifetime, and can do more than just toast.
I went the middle way and bought myself a toastie grill. that is cast iron with it's own heating with in. for now I only have tested it with toasties and plaint toast. but I can see it is also useful as just a grill for fish/meat vegetables. Where the gas stove might be a bit to much.
Old school Dualit toaster every time for me. Mechanical timer, lever to push the toast up. You get to know the right time and set it instinctively… if you want to check, just press the lever and lift the toast out for a second without interrupting the cook. No fuss.
I forget who said it but a very good design is how intuitive it is. So having Jamie and Baz not read the instructions is a pretty good test for the toaster's design. The thing I hate about most modern appliances is navigating an overly complicated series of menus to do the same simple task every time you need to do it.
We spent $200 (Australian) on Red Kitchenaid 4 slice toaster many years ago purely so it can match with the red stand mixer. It was close to double what we had spent previously on a toaster. Tt has the auto down and up via buttom (no slider), and a screen, but has a knob to change the darkness setting. To my suprise, it actually toasts really well. The toast comes out nice and even and doesnt have any hot spots and minimal lines from the grate inside. At the time I thought the price was absurd, but now that I have my own place, and my own nice but regular toaster, I am always disappointed because it doesnt produce the same results as that kitchenaid one. We have a "crumpet" setting which sounds the same as the bagel setting, and we use it on crumpets, bagels and burger buns. Its a must have feature IMO.
You guys are quickly becoming some of my favourite toaster reviewers on RUclips. You should really branch out with the channel, see what other kind of videos you could make.
Back in the 1970's my family had a very basic nichrome toaster that made toast evenly. That is all I ever really cared about. Eventually the heating elements fail, as those always do, and since then I have never found one of any tech that did so. Those old nichrome ones were unsafe and they started adding safety features that affected how well they worked and nothing else has ever come close until these extremely expensive models started appearing. But realistically I'm not spending $300 just to have my morning toast.
70s 2 slots used a full 1500 watts for 2 instead of the modern 750 watts for 2 that most use. This means its doing what this one does and cooks a lot quicker and hotter so the outside is crisper and the inside of soft.
@@Falcodrin 1500 watts would be pushing the limits of a lot of household circuits in the US so I can see how that could be a problem. However it seems to me the solution would be to drop to something like 1200W not 750 but maybe I'm missing something. All I really know is I want a decent slice of toast and do not want to start a house fire.
@@KenS1267 1500 is a pretty common wattage especially for modern personal electric heaters. Outlets are typically 15-20 amps which at 20 would allow up to 2400 watts to be drawn but obviously no one wants to make a product that could potentially set older homes on fire.
@@KenS1267 and the reason for 750 is that newer 4 slots are a thing now and max at 1500 so brands want their devices to be roughly equivalent in how you use them. It's consistency thing and also because if 2 slots were normally over twice as fast they might sell fewer of the more expensive 4 slot ones.
Technology Connections (love Alec so much!) has such a great video on those old "simple" toasters, how they work, and why they were often much better. Definitely recommend!
😂 I couldn't stop thinking of Red Dwarf and the talkie toaster... "Lister: That's what caused the accident in the first place. Kryten: What accident? Lister: The accident involving me, the toaster, the waste disposal and a fourteen-pound lump hammer." Cheers guys, entertaining as always!
Give me a standard 4-slot toaster any day. The one I have produces perfect toast or crumpets every time, and that's all I want from it. Things like the Revolution are proof that just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
Honestly, any kitchen machine with a touch screen is a hard sell for me. I like my oven with a simply screen and buttons that feel real and don't wear out, my toaster with a handle, and my microwave with buttons. I like techy stuff usually, but in the kitchen just feels wrong.
Same, same as any kind of internet connected fridge, juicing machine etc. I like simple do everything machines that are reliable with nice feeling tactile switches. The old Bamix is a good example, I was most disappointed when they changed that nice big clicky switch to those silly spongy buttons.
glad you've finally reviewed an overly expensive toaster i don't want. i'm not a big fan of the touch screen because of the exact reason jamie said: if the touch screen dies, there's no way to use it. it looks cool, but it seems like it works so poorly.
Ive never clicked so fast, excited to see you guys test this out! I’ll update after ive watched the video ahaha Update: this is one of the most disappointing gadgets yet. For that amount of money, this is not even able to do the simplest things correctly. Makes no sense, seems like a scam at this point tbh.
350 and A) Bread doesn't go down all the way, B) inconsistency with cook levels/area coverage C) it only has 2 slots? (at least 4 if not 6-8 for that cost) Three strikes, you're out pal. Nice showoff though boys, thanks for the vid!
Honestly the moment the toast didn't go all the way down on its own was an absolute deal breaker for me. If you're expecting £350 and you haven't even perfected one of the most simple aspects of the device, what else have you cut corners on?
Exactly.
it had one job
@@beggar6042I’m sure there are plenty of questionable gadgets that let the toaster do AT LEAST three or four jobs
Yeah that was actually absurd.
Not only did it have to be helped down into the slot, it left a ⅓ of the bread un-toasted. It has one job! Yet it needs assistance.
For £350, I expect the Wallace and Gromit wakeup machine that wakes me up, drops me at my table, puts on my slippers, and puts jam on my toast in front of me!
For £350 it should do so much more, needs to have an alarm to make me toast in the morning automatically, needs to fit 4 slices, needs to be able to toast sandwiches, so much more!!!
It needs all of these things!
@@SortedFoodawesome 😊😊😊❤❤❤
Oh I'd love that. Put a sandwich in so everything could fall out of it when its vertical and land in the bottom of the toaster.
For the price, the fact its only a 2 slice is borderline criminal
Barry > I am smarter than that toaster
I love your non-ad series for stuff like this. I'm just still blown away that it doesn't do the MOST BASIC THING of ensuring the entire bread is in!
This is still an Ad even if they are honest and unbias
Never in my life thought I'd watch 2 grown men make toast for 20 minutes 😂
And here you are 😂😂😂
Valid point. However, I watched the whole video and wish now it was longer.
@@SortedFoodyou should get ebbers to cook a whole meal just using the smart toaster. But don't tell him, just watch him get more and more annoyed 😂
@kebeightyfour5717 I'm not saying it's a bad thing at all. Just never thought that when my husband asked what I was watching, that would be my reply 😂
first time, huh?
As an electronics engineer, this thing is an absolute nightmare to me. I design and build products all day, and the second I see a screen near heat I cringe a little. Unless it's incredibly well insulated that's just begging to die. I'm with y'all on this, give me a switch and a slider or knob.
17:24 - Jamie sums it up PERFECTLY. If I spend a lot of money on something that's usually not that expensive, the least I expect from it is to do its job well.
If i spend 350 pounds on a toaster, it better be like kush walks into my kitchen every morning with a blowtorch in hand and somehow still gets it perfect
@@senpaipugs if I spend 350 pounds on a toaster, it better have my toast ready automatically when I wake up, and in addition it should give me head at least 4 times a week
TRUTH!
At least the Balmuda toaster oven they tested earlier does what does really well for its huge pricetag.
@@senpaipugs Kush is a chef, so knows how to watch food cooking, and he would have complete control over the heat source. So that would be prefect. And! he could also whip up some eggs too.
The beginning where the bread didn’t even completely fit in was a deal breaker already for me 😂
Exactly, my toaster has that issue but it was very cheap! I can get round it by putting most things in sideways though and doing panini in two goes (flip for second toasting).
For something to cost 15x more than the average toaster, it should at least be consistent with the actual toasting. Jamie and Barry were nice to keep going for an appliance that was burning the food.
Well, I mean, they paid £350 on it. What were they going to do, not make the rest of the video?
Fun episode. If you have a normal toaster and want to improve the quality of your toast, try preheating it by running it empty for a toast cycle, before you put your first slice of bread in (assuming you have the time to wait). You'll get a much more consistent product. Cheers.
omg, that is the simplest thing. I have never ever thought of that XD
Good god. Why have I never thought of this, it’s so simple. Thank you! Preheating an oven is obvious to preheat the entire cavity, but preheating the toaster element to make sure it’s uniformly hot makes brilliantly simple sense.
Careful that can damage the toaster. So only do that for 10seconds or so. Your toaster could burn out otherwise
@@CapraObscurageeeez Capra, Keep your pants on
The Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster, sold from 1949 all the way through the late ‘80s was 70 years ahead of the times. This toaster automatically raised and lowered the bread and would do fresh or frozen bread. It used a sensor that checked the temperature of the bread and not the heating element and sold for $22.50 which was expensive at the time.
but that one comes with a guy that will talk endlessly about heat pumps.
@@sirBrouwerthat’s a feature, not a bug.
I saw that one on Technology Connections! Great feature!
@@sirBrouwer Hahaha!!!
❤ I came here to talk about that toaster. Such an innovative toaster and from 1949!! I want one!
People are selling them for around $100
I got a 4 slot toaster that had a broken temp gauge but you could still work it out based on position. I paid $2 for some cleaning product to clean it as it was going in the bin otherwise. 5 years later and it still makes better looking toast than the £300 toaster here
When I was a kid, we had a cast iron "toaster" that you put on top of a stove burner and lay the bread against the four tilted sides, flipping it halfway through.
I wouldn't say this toaster is a waste of money, only because it gave me great entertainment value watching you guys toast it.
It was pretty entertaining for us too 😂
I feel like it helps that it's not our money? Cuz I would probably not pay for a $350 concert ticket for the Two Guys Make Toast live stage show
Lol, this episode demonstrates the gameness of the lads, no matter what is put in front of them At 7:02 Jaime starts taking about the toaster's algorithm detecting moisture, Barry giving him a look of B.S., and Jaime reprimanding " don't look at me that way!" They gave it a fair chance but politely convinced it's a pos. Wonderful!
I love that immediately after this, the toaster burns the waffle. No smoke detecting algorithm, sadly.
Honestly, the fact it only has two slots is one of the biggest dealbreakers for me. If you're paying that much and you can't even use it to make a club sandwich, that's a problem.
It toasts so quickly, by the time you have assembled the sandwich, the top may be done? But yeah it's junk.
Do you toast all four breads for a club sandwich? Genuinely, 'cause I've never made one.
@@masansr 3 slices of bread it has a slice in the middle to split it into 2 sections (normally a salad section and a meat section). edit: all 3 should be toasted
Club sandwich trick, put two slices in one side and the club on the other. It toasts the outsides or insides (preference) of the top and bottom and both sides of the club.
@@TheRealWilliamWhite ooh nice ide i think i'll use that next time i make a BLT
This has a Kickstarter written all over it. Propose a product promising high tech, take the donations, use half of the donation to make a product that is, frankly, easy to deliver, and keep the other half as "salary". No-one needs this, but in the early hours after a bevvy or three, it sounds amazing.
I spent £40 on a deep slot toaster that takes even longer than a normal toaster to make toast, but I'd still choose it over this as it perfectly browns the entire slice of toast every time. You can also fit pretty much any bread product in it as the slots are also extra wide. That is my one desire for a toaster, just toast the entire thing evenly all over in one go.
I must know the name of this toaster. Please. My family.
I too must know! Please tell us ❤
Sounds like you've found a fab toaster there!
Is it called the grill?
Frankly i don't understand this time thing to save 30 sec 1 min at best for exorbitant price. Unless it take half and hour to make toast what does it matter how long in take?
The Japanese one is definitely the one I'd pay for if I were to buy a really expensive toaster.
I can't even gluten, but I have dreams about that Mitsubishi toaster.
Which one? Balmuda and Mitsubishi are both in Tokyo.
@@joa8593 The mitsubishi one. It was glorious. I really want one, but I definitely don't need one.
Right? It certainly deserved the amount of the money and excelled at it.
Man my grandma would have rolled her eyes so hard at some of these new tech toasters. “I’ve been toasting bread for 90 years and never needed anything more than a flame”
Exactly huh 😆
@@SortedFood😂😂😂😂
My mother would have said "this was invented by a man who didn't spend any time making breakfast". One thing we didn't see ... what happens when a piece of bread gets stuck inside? How easy is it to extract charred remains?
When I was a kid in Scouts, I used to have a triangular metal folding contraption that held a piece of bread on each side and could be set on a grill over a fire. When it was brown on one side, you flipped the bread by hand. Was it fast? No. Did it toast bread? Yeah. I mean, the concept is pretty simple. The expensive toaster doesn't change that concept, and I don't know that the micro-refinements are worth the price.
Fr who needs a toaster. It's one more gadget limiting imagination.
I really love that it's not a app driven smart device.
And that's where anything I love about it ends
It sucks at everything you two noted
- consistency across the bread type item
- "Smartness" with regard to those fairly normal looking frozen waffles
- whatever that technical issue was that, I bet, required a reboot...
Also I'm with Baz, my 15 year old toaster has a bagel setting, does them perfectly. And it does it in a smarter way. It only turns on the outer most elements. That way the top and bottom of the bagel are heated with radiant heat and the insides are well toasted.
The only toaster over a normal one I've even come close to considering so far, is that Mitsubishi 1 slice at a time one. Just because I want to know what makes the toast from it so "perfect"
13:23 fully agree with this statement entirely
I think it being so quick and high heat actually makes the Panini mode worse, not as much time for the heat to penetrate and melt the inside
YES
A pannini press heats slower so that the sandwich heats throughout and the cheese gets gooey/melty
Our thoughts too!
@@jestucker2268 Arguably the press you get for the toaster could perform the same function. It'd be a thicker or less conductive material that would slow down the rate at which it heats up giving time for the sandwich to heat up.
Turns out it's not smart after all.
@@jestucker2268 pannini (double "n") means little pieces of cloth.
Just use a toaster oven. You can preheat it, so it doesn't dry out the bread. Plus, you can see through the glass door to know precisely when to take something out. I've been using toaster ovens exclusively for at least 10 years and they're excellent convection ovens. The only thing they can't do is roast a turkey, but you can just get a cheap roasting oven for that.
I definitely agree with Barry on this one. The one and only impressive thing about this machine seems to be how quickly it heats up. The smart interface clearly gives you no actual guidance on how dark your bread will turn out, so you'd have to use trial and error, and even then sometimes the bread comes out either burnt or under-toasted. Which is what you have to deal with on a cheap toaster, but now the "fancy" elements blast your bread with more heat so you have less margins for error. On top of that the machine seems to toast super unevenly, regular-size bread didn't even fully fit in it, and you had to poke it down. If this machine was a quarter of the price they're charging it would still be a waste of money.
I had an odd thought while they were reading the spiel - what if, hear me out here, they just used the new alloy for the element and then made a basic toaster? No bells and whistles, just a toaster that heats up faster. Crazy talk, I know :P
@@MrGrimsmith I wish they had done that, that would literally be better than this piece of junk. My guess is they didn't because "a toaster, but faster" isn't really as fancy or marketable, so they'd have to charge reasonable prices for it.
@@SaltExarch hopefully the tech they used to make the 'instant heat' heating element becomes more popular and starts getting used for ALL toasters.
I’m really glad you have reviewed this toaster as I was considering purchasing one (but now will not bother). Have the manufacturers addressed any of the issues raised in your review. I would certainly be interested in a follow up video.
As a viewer, I can’t believe a product could have so many inherent design and operational faults.
I’ve seen a few other videos over the years talking about smart toasters like that and the number one complaint after several months was the screen dies rather quickly and the inconsistent toasting. Which is a bummer for 350£. I hadn't also realized that it wouldn't toast the entire bread! Ouff.
Great video guys! I do enjoy these types of videos!🖤
Yup, definitely not worth the £350 😂
yeah - computer electronics and touchscreens do not like large amounts of heat... and toasters go up to heat in the hundreds of °C ... even with shielding, thats gonna slowly toast the electronics
Touchscreen tech does NOT handle high heat. Even something like say, the hot interior of a vehicle will muck up a touchscreen. Being a couple centimeters away from red hot heating elements? No shot.
@@SharienGaming I was almost going to comment this, saying I expected it to degrade within a year, then I thought better of it and assumed they'd thought of a solution for 350 quid
I uh... I guess not. They failed one of the most basic QA tests
Love this. I wash surprised at its flaws, especially the really uneven toasting on just standard bread. It's the kind of thing I'd love to have for a week to play with, but then it would end up in a cupboard and I's go back to my regular toaster
Toaster ovens are the way to go! So much more multipurpose than a vertical toaster and can fit some many larger foods and are more multifunctional. My toaster oven can make toast, cookies, roast veggies and meat, and has a built in air fryer.
I tend to agree, even though every toaster oven I have had kind of "bakes" the toast as it toasts it, so it is too well done on the inside.
As a Brit who doesn’t really know toaster ovens. Is it still helpful if you have a convection oven and a classic toaster?
@@MustBeM yep, the best toast from a toaster oven comes from convection mode.
@@MustBeM Toaster ovens shine at making quick items, the toaster oven heats up quickly and won't warm up your entire house. Good for making things like garlic bread on a spaghetti night.
@@MustBeM If you already have a convention oven and a classic toaster, is a toaster oven necessary? No. But is it great for small baking jobs and things that are too messy for a toaster? Yes. You could make just a few cookies at a time. Or you can bake or reheat a personal pizza or just a slice. It’s crispy and better than any microwave would do without heating a full size oven.
Im currently renting a 1 bedroom apartment with a two burner electric stove and no oven. My toaster oven has proved itself a workhorse in my small kitchen.
Thank you for your service in testing this absolute turnip toaster ❤
You observed my greatest issue with toasters in general, bread is no longer a single size standard loaf, and modern toasters have not adapted. Being able to toast the entire slice from edge to edge in one cycle is almost impossible if you have a good sourdough boule or even a good number of store loaves.
I'm quite liking my toaster oven and I got a cheap one. Plenty of room for whatever size bread I want. I made bacon in it. I reheat fried chicken in it. There are toast, bake, and broil settings that run the heating elements in different ways if I want to adjust my results. Huge improvement on a standard toaster for the same price.
I think that would call for a specific type of toaster that is made for your larger artisan breads. Otherwise I think that the standard sandwich slice actually has remained the same size but since toasters are trying to also accommodate the larger and odd shaped breads their performance for the normal stuff also suffers.
they do make long slot toasters for those larger or odd shaped pieces of bread. i've had a dash clear view toaster for a few years and it's pretty good
0:55 the fact that the image for an English muffin is actually a crumpet is criminal for the price of the toaster!
I have a $9 Hamiltonbeach toaster. It has a frozen and bagel setting. It actually makes perfect toast. And it's performed perfectly well for 22 years. By the way, it has those 1800's coils. To be honest, I prefer those museum coils. Especially for the price. I could get 38 crap toasters that never give me a hint of trouble. (Note, I have another toaster that works well, that belonged to my parents that I keep for sentimental value (56 years old) the only reason I dont use it more is its a 4 slot.
Do not throw out that toaster if it breaks, get it repaired. New ones just don't work as well
@@adde9506 I know. Those old fashioned coils can be repaired. You can properly fix a toaster with one flathead screwdriver.
I do love these product review/comparison episodes 😊
And I’m baffled time and again how certain appliances can be so pricey and simply not deliver... (unlike the £200 pepper mill, apparently 😜).
I think it would be great to do a comparison between these smart, high-tech appliances and the industrial ones you find in most kitchens. After working in a kitchen for years, there's a restaurant supply store near me where i get most of my kitchen appliances, because I know they're usually sturdier, easier to clean and will last a lot longer.
Longevity is a big factor when purchasing an appliance too!
they are also more friendly to let you open them for maintaining them.
This actually reminds me of the development of the British SA80 rifle. The engineers got too caught up in the details that didn't matter even as they still had outstanding issues with basic functions and durability. I wonder if H&K can be paid enough to fix a toaster?
A single toaster should not cost more than all my kitchen appliances combined. My current toaster was 20€ and has 2 settings: On and Off. And it has never failed to do the thing it is designed to do.
I like my toast toasted all the way across the slice. Long slot toasters took care of that no matter the bread. Now I think they are just selling gimmicks rather than an appliance that adds something new. I am with Barry on this one when it comes to the touch screen too. I think a far better option would be the countertop oven style toasters that did actually do more than burn waffles and bagels! Better yet, buy a decent toaster for your quick breakfast and use your grill for everything else.
When a toaster needs a touchscreen, it has gone full ridiculous.
That Japanese toaster you reviewed a few years ago is by far the best! i bet it made all after it look lacking!.
Yep, that was super expensive, but it was a great toaster. It did what it said on the tin 👍
@@SortedFoodAmén to that!🎉🎉🎉❤❤
That is exactly the toaster I thought of when I saw the video
Exactly! it was expensive, but that's fine if they actually make it better than the cheaper options and let you do things you otherwise couldn't. I saw it a few months ago, and it still maintains an amazing rating. 4 stats in price, 5 stars in every other aspect. This thing is just gimmicky garbage.
I'd love to see a review of a vintage toaster. The 'Sunbeam radiant control' toaster now that you have done three of these super expensive machines. There are already some indepth videos but your take on it vs these modern ones would be a lot of fun to hear.
They did have one of the chefs look at a vintage toaster in a vintage gadget episode.
I never get annoyed by gadgets but this one has gotten a reaction out of me 😅
I paid £4.95 for my toaster from ASDA and I've had it for 12 years and the bread fits in perfectly, it also makes toast.
I got my toaster from a Sue Ryder shop for a fiver eighteen months ago. I use it at least once a day. It's very quick and it's red which, as we all know, is the fastest colour.
That's the story you'd hear with most toasters. You buy some random, cheap one, and it just continues to work and works well. It's one of those devices that is so simple it absolutely does not need anything added to it. The more crap you give it, the more likely it breaks. That's why I would never buy a "smart toaster", even if it costed the same amount of money as a regular one. Why add more points of failure to something that does not need them?
I used two toasters my entire life. One at my parent's apartment, which was there for like 15 years and worked great, and one I bought myself when I moved out, some random no-name thing from a supermarket for cheap and it has been there for 5 years now, still work perfectly.
I've just looked at the label under the toaster and it's actually from a supermarket range from Tesco@@RiskOfBaer
I’ll share my bagel technique, I put the whole bagel into the toaster, I have a toaster oven, but if you can handle thick bread then you can put a whole bagel in the toaster let it toast the outside.
Then carefully remove and while it’s still at least warm, but preferably hot, Carefully cut the bagel in half, I find that using either a serrated knife, or one of the meat carving knives is the best way to do this. The inside will be extremely steamy, put your butter in right away on both sides close it back up and let the steam melt the butter, or cream cheese. Assemble whatever you’re going to make your bagel.
This makes the outside crispy, but the interior is soft and warm and lovely.
To round this toaster journey would be great if you could check out the vintage sunbeam radiant toaster. It's crazy what a late 1940s toaster is capable off.
Seconded
We had a Sunbeam radiant toaster growing up. It made the best toast! It was a sad day when it finally died.
As ive seen said, the problem is not all breads the same size, thickness, ingredients.
For a smart toaster, it should allow for you to setup specific instructions and presets for heat curves, time, side temperatures, could find the perfect balance for your bread and then repeat it each time.
The waffles being a good example, you could have little waffle and boogie waffle settings youve tested and made
Then you get to that point barry said of stick thing in, beep boop, see you in a couple minutes, perfect
Or the toaster could just weigh the bread and use short range radar to getthe dimensions.
For that price it may as well be overengineered.
I still use my almost 50 years old Siemens toaster. It works fine. I have replaced the power cord twice because it became brittle and since it fell to the ground several times during the last 5 decades some plastic parts are cracked or missing. But this doesn't affect the function at all. It is still doing what it is supposed to do: making good toast (at all 5 settings, from just warmed up to almost charcoal). I am sure it will work well for the next 5 decades.
Siemens… say no more. Proper German engineering, before the Germans became complacent.
Thanks for the honest review guys, its hard to find a channel that isnt afraid to bash a product that is being reviewed
i love having you guys on for some company while i eat my dinner. food can be scary when you have a chronic illness but i feel so much happier eating my toasty while watching you two rage trying to make your own. i hope you all know how much support you all are at sorted, you don’t know me but it feels like we are friends sharing a meal every time i press play :) xxxxxx
rage-toasting is the new fave TV show lol
This is a really sweet comment. You're awesome.
I love this video so much! Love that they boys live in the real world. I’m with them!
I've got an old toaster from the 70's that toasts my bread perfectly. Doesn't make one large crouton like the newer toasters do and I love it. It may have a broken leg and sits at an angle but can't find one that works better.
Gotta love an honest review. I use a toaster oven almost daily. Combine it with a microwave and you get hot and crispy in a few minutes
I think that for the price you are spending, it should be able to fit a large piece of bread, waffle or what have you. You could also just learn to use the tools that you have at hand. You could also just get a toaster that has a begel option as well.
My 9 year old $8 pos Is next to the sink, where the plug is. It can do bagels. If it gets wet, I leave it alone 20 min. Is the screen waterproof? Plus I'm fairly sure etsy or amazon has a toaster panini add-on, $15-30.
Begel???
couldn't agree more with you guys, the moment you put a screen on something you have to take in to account that it will introduce new elements to fail, like screen, the touch pad, and all the other inside components.
The write-up sounded good, but the results show me, that I should stick with my $12 Wally world toaster. Actually I spent $5 at the second hand store.
Barry with the Sickos shirt made my day love that channel glad to see its merch popping up in unexpected places
I've always wanted a toaster that delays popping up on one side so it keeps it warm while you butter/jam one side an/or eat before doing the other.
we have a 4 slice, does 2 slices on each push-down-lever. Could absolutely just put one slice on each side, and start them slightly apart and get this lol
Or even keep both slices down for making say scrambled eggs on toast - it's difficult to time eggs cooking and toasting popping, so one or the other is usually cold.
I had to replace my Dualit toaster after decades of use when a friend put crumpets in and then damaged the heating elements getting them out. The replacement is a Sage toaster that has a bagel and crumpet setting plus settings for white, brown, seeded etc bread. It's excellent and at a small fraction of the cost of the Hi-Tech toaster.
With the regular priced toasters that dry out the bread, that's what butter is for.🤤
Long story short: if you're going to spend $400 on a toaster, save $200 and get yourself a toaster oven that can do more.
The moment Barry just yelled "stop", I felt that on a personal level because that is exactly what I sound like, when my friends want to do something ridiculous.. say like buy a toaster for £350.
If I were to buy a toaster for that much money, I would very much like this toaster to help me study for my finals because I feel like it should be able to do that for THAT amount of money xD
Yup, it needs to do a lot more than it currently does, and toast bread properly too 😆
I can't speak to the panini because I don't have a press, but my oven-style air fryer does the exact same thing this "revolutionary" toaster does and I think it cost about $100 US. I don't remember exactly because it's been over 5 years since I bought it. That crisp toasted exterior with the fluffy center is a lovely experience, but save your money on that contraption and get an air fryer. It'll fry your chicken AND toast your waffle for you!😆
It'd be interesting to compare to a professional/industry toaster. The one we have at work is a beast of a toaster!
As long as they are reviewing £350 toasters, they should definitely show us what that money gets you for professional kitchen equipment.
@@scottcampbell96 It gets you 20 normal toasters. If anything breaks you can just throw it out and get a new one. Buying into an expensive machine is sunk cost with little benefit.
I think industry equipment for industry purposes can't be bought at the regular markets like eBay or high street stores. You need a contract with an industry seller, which does price items way higher. I might be mistaken but I think it's about insurance and liability. It's the same equipment that in many regular shops but more expensive.
In my experience basic industry equipment is the same but with no bells and whistles that could break and need expensive repair. Unless you're charging hideous amount for a toast, you won't be paying hideous money for a smart toaster, as a business. You buy basic and get your staff to learn what setting is best and it works great.
@@scottcampbell96 I think for 350 dollars you could get yourself a conveyor belt toaster that can pump out like 300 slices an hour
I grew up in a small country town as a kid, and one day we went and stayed in a hotel in the city, and it had this conveyor belt toaster that as I kid I thought was the coolest thing in the world, you could queue up about 8 slices of bread and they would travel through the toaster slowly and come out toasted on the other side. I don't think I have ever eaten so much toast in my life. Of course as an adult I see the thing as a giant energy hog sitting there turned on all morning whether its toasting or not but still...
It's funny, for me the museum toast that was toasted through would definitely top toast that still has a fluffy middle. If I want crunchy bread I want it really crunchy 😅
Agreed! I'm also puzzled by the bagel setting - I want my bagel crispy on both sides.
But then I'm a weirdo who will sometimes let toast sit until it cools down and is a little chewy, so I suppose I shouldn't question the normals.
I agree! Sometimes I will toast bread when I am making burgers but don't have burger rolls. The toasted bread being "dry" through makes it take longer to get soggy from the burger.
I’ve seen this online and have been curious if it worked. Every time I see it, I think, “I was to see Sorted’s review.” Thank you for the entertainment and for saving me money by not purchasing an overly priced toaster.
lovin' the shade thrown by Baz.
Part of the fun of a toaster is to figure out each one's inconsistencies and perfect your timing game. Then again the best toaster I've ever had was something my mom picked up for about $20 10+ years ago that's still going strong, bagel setting included.
"Fun with Toasters" is not a thing I was expecting.
@@burtbacarach5034 Sounds like a chapter in a Bill Bryson book, ending with him saying that he's not allowed to use toasters anymore.
For people with more money than sense who like touch screens…. and charcoal briquettes.
I still use a 23 year old Russell Hobbs stainless steel 2 slot toaster, it’s that old that it was made in the UK. It fully toasts standard very thick bread and for taller slices you just put them in sideways. It has separate settings for frozen, crumpets and bagels. It has mechanical shutters that close on the top that keeps the heat in and makes lovely crisp yet fluffy toast. It also has similar toastie baskets that as long as you don’t overfill or put fillings in that are too wet, the toastie won’t leak. I have never had any spillages. I recall it being about £10 more than a standard plastic model at the time. It will be a very sad day indeed when it finally breaks.
I think if the more economical option was pre-heated, it would likely have a more similar result to the smart one.
I have a 40y/o waffle iron (it was my parents' wedding gift) that makes waffles that are perfect for freezing and toasting. I use a multi-function toaster oven because it's less stress.
That's not a bad idea actually. What if you just turned it on without any bread and put the bread in on the second go? I don't see any reason it wouldn't be able to work...
I can make great toasts and grilled cheeses on my old 1850 cast iron plate with cast iron press on top, it costs me nothing since it's been in the family for ages, my wife loves when I grill some sandwiches with it, they come out always perfect because I decide when to take them off. :)
I’ve been super sick for nearly a week now and haven’t been able to even get out of bed since Tuesday. I’ve only eaten toast and soup in that time and had to have my family come round and cook that for me, so right now I’d settle on a toaster that can cook the food for me fully. Like I press a remote and it makes the toast and delivers it to me wherever I am in the house!
On the topic of this toaster, why didn’t this company design it around the size of average slices of bread. Even fresh baked, bakery bread is rectangular? Seems like a massive oversight there?
We’re so sorry to hear that you’re still sick Alex! Get better soon, and yes they should have thought about a lot of things when designing this toaster.
@@SortedFoodSame guys😊😊😊😊
@@SortedFoodthanks guys, yes my desire for this toaster has lessened rather quickly throughout this video. Touch screens are often much easier for many disabled people to use, in place of knobs and buttons (pushing the knob of a normal toaster with my fingers can dislocate them quite easily, so I push down with the side of my hand for example) so I like the idea of the touch screen aspect, but will stick with my £30 toaster that whilst it doesn’t have a touch screen, actually toasts my bread etc evenly! Hopefully more touch screen toasters will come onto the market, that actually do the job
So I got a $200 Ninja Air fryer, oven, toaster thing made to fit a 12" pizza as well. It's made some of the most incredible toast I've ever had. It is just knobs and buttons. No digital screen except the numbers for timer and degrees. I think it's the ultimate in all these things.
As someone who uses a literal museum exhibit toaster, an early 1920s Universal electric toaster myself, antique toasters are much quicker than modern pop-up toasters, I'd love to see it go up against an actual antique.
I wonder how much of that is "To hell with safety standards, make great toast!" design philosophy.
@@Hybris51129 It's usually the other way around, make thing that does the job, then rules come around and changes have to be made, and sometimes it's businessses keeping parents, like the radiant toasters from the 40s-80s
$200 Smeg toaster with two for $45 sandwich racks: effing brilliant! I make what I call “folditas”: a flour tortilla folded in half and then half again to create two pockets, then cheese in one side and beans in the other (with a lil sriracha), then into the sandwich rack…so dang good! Not to mention PERFECT grilled cheese sandwiches (aka cheese toasties).
I'd love to see a comparison with the old sunbeam toasters that I keep hearing about!
I bet the Sunbeam blows this out of the water. It also detects how brown the toast is, every other toaster in the world is just time based.
This was priceless, thank you so much for it. Love the honest reviews!
I'm gonna weigh in here. I don't have a toaster in my house. After being disappointed too many times, I use the simpler option.... a pan. For me specifically, a cast iron pan. In my opinion, if you cook with it a lot anyway, it lives on your stove, will last you a lifetime, and can do more than just toast.
I went the middle way and bought myself a toastie grill. that is cast iron with it's own heating with in. for now I only have tested it with toasties and plaint toast. but I can see it is also useful as just a grill for fish/meat vegetables. Where the gas stove might be a bit to much.
Having watched the LTT review already I couldn't wait for this
Ahh, a toaster video. Gives me that warm, crispy sensation..
Oh yes 😆
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Old school Dualit toaster every time for me.
Mechanical timer, lever to push the toast up. You get to know the right time and set it instinctively… if you want to check, just press the lever and lift the toast out for a second without interrupting the cook. No fuss.
I forget who said it but a very good design is how intuitive it is. So having Jamie and Baz not read the instructions is a pretty good test for the toaster's design. The thing I hate about most modern appliances is navigating an overly complicated series of menus to do the same simple task every time you need to do it.
If you still have the old toasters - especially the Mitsubishi - around, a head to head to head would be great!
I mean, we know this one loses.
i was thinking the same
My granny used to throw bread under the grill & just toast one side of it …
Still the best toast I’ve ever had ..
Missed you guys on friday but this makes up for it!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
We spent $200 (Australian) on Red Kitchenaid 4 slice toaster many years ago purely so it can match with the red stand mixer. It was close to double what we had spent previously on a toaster. Tt has the auto down and up via buttom (no slider), and a screen, but has a knob to change the darkness setting. To my suprise, it actually toasts really well. The toast comes out nice and even and doesnt have any hot spots and minimal lines from the grate inside. At the time I thought the price was absurd, but now that I have my own place, and my own nice but regular toaster, I am always disappointed because it doesnt produce the same results as that kitchenaid one.
We have a "crumpet" setting which sounds the same as the bagel setting, and we use it on crumpets, bagels and burger buns. Its a must have feature IMO.
You guys are quickly becoming some of my favourite toaster reviewers on RUclips. You should really branch out with the channel, see what other kind of videos you could make.
Watched the Mitsubishi toaster this morning. Even forced to use Google translate... it was beautiful
Back in the 1970's my family had a very basic nichrome toaster that made toast evenly. That is all I ever really cared about. Eventually the heating elements fail, as those always do, and since then I have never found one of any tech that did so. Those old nichrome ones were unsafe and they started adding safety features that affected how well they worked and nothing else has ever come close until these extremely expensive models started appearing. But realistically I'm not spending $300 just to have my morning toast.
70s 2 slots used a full 1500 watts for 2 instead of the modern 750 watts for 2 that most use. This means its doing what this one does and cooks a lot quicker and hotter so the outside is crisper and the inside of soft.
@@Falcodrin 1500 watts would be pushing the limits of a lot of household circuits in the US so I can see how that could be a problem. However it seems to me the solution would be to drop to something like 1200W not 750 but maybe I'm missing something.
All I really know is I want a decent slice of toast and do not want to start a house fire.
@@KenS1267 1500 is a pretty common wattage especially for modern personal electric heaters. Outlets are typically 15-20 amps which at 20 would allow up to 2400 watts to be drawn but obviously no one wants to make a product that could potentially set older homes on fire.
@@KenS1267 and the reason for 750 is that newer 4 slots are a thing now and max at 1500 so brands want their devices to be roughly equivalent in how you use them. It's consistency thing and also because if 2 slots were normally over twice as fast they might sell fewer of the more expensive 4 slot ones.
Technology Connections (love Alec so much!) has such a great video on those old "simple" toasters, how they work, and why they were often much better. Definitely recommend!
1:50 Steam frozen (or dry bread) to refresh it before toasting it, and its like freshly baked!
😂 I couldn't stop thinking of Red Dwarf and the talkie toaster...
"Lister: That's what caused the accident in the first place.
Kryten: What accident?
Lister: The accident involving me, the toaster, the waste disposal and a fourteen-pound lump hammer."
Cheers guys, entertaining as always!
All that smeg and it doesn’t even say “Would you like some toast?"
Give me a standard 4-slot toaster any day. The one I have produces perfect toast or crumpets every time, and that's all I want from it. Things like the Revolution are proof that just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
Honestly, any kitchen machine with a touch screen is a hard sell for me.
I like my oven with a simply screen and buttons that feel real and don't wear out, my toaster with a handle, and my microwave with buttons.
I like techy stuff usually, but in the kitchen just feels wrong.
Yep, the moment you have slightly greasy or wet hands the touchscreen will not work properly, which happens quite a lot while cooking
Same, same as any kind of internet connected fridge, juicing machine etc. I like simple do everything machines that are reliable with nice feeling tactile switches. The old Bamix is a good example, I was most disappointed when they changed that nice big clicky switch to those silly spongy buttons.
I've just realized I spent 20 minutes watching a toaster 😅 and really enjoyed watching it
£350 and it only cooks half the slice? I’ll stick with my £20 Morphy Richards thanks! 🤣
Wise decision!
Yes who doesn't want crispy toast. Toasters do not need to be computerised.
glad you've finally reviewed an overly expensive toaster i don't want. i'm not a big fan of the touch screen because of the exact reason jamie said: if the touch screen dies, there's no way to use it. it looks cool, but it seems like it works so poorly.
Is there a chance Mike said it cost $300 but actually bought himself a $250 gift and a toaster with the leftovers? 😂
Nope, and the toaster they show here is actually the cheaper of the two options
@@hughjass1976 it was a teensy bit of humour, or an attempt at it, at least.. I am fairly certain Mike isn't swindling his company ;)
The best toast (and toasted bagels) comes out of an air fryer
multi-use appliances for the win
Ive never clicked so fast, excited to see you guys test this out! I’ll update after ive watched the video ahaha
Update: this is one of the most disappointing gadgets yet. For that amount of money, this is not even able to do the simplest things correctly. Makes no sense, seems like a scam at this point tbh.
This is why you just get a toaster oven. You can have so many more functions than just toasting something. Especially when it's this inconsistent 😂
Have a look at the sunbeam radiant toaster from the 1940s...
Lets just say it's everything this toaster should have been.
My $20 toaster toasts fine, and has a bagel button. Works great for me.
350 and A) Bread doesn't go down all the way, B) inconsistency with cook levels/area coverage C) it only has 2 slots? (at least 4 if not 6-8 for that cost)
Three strikes, you're out pal. Nice showoff though boys, thanks for the vid!
I want to see a showdown of all the ultra-modern toasters and an old sunbeam automatic toaster.
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