Breville 2-Slice Toaster the Perfect Fit for Warburtons with High Lift, Polished Stainless Steel [VTT570]

The toaster arrived yesterday and looks more like one you’d see in a café than the home of one person. One reviewer described it as big as a microwave and it is almost . I realised looking at it that if a toaster is to cope with the full height of a slice of bread the toaster is going to have to be taller than average and of course this one has four slots.If I have a meal as against a snack of something on toast I want four slices but with my old toaster by the time the second two slices were done the first were cold . This is why I wanted four slots.The slots are wide. If you look inside each slot you with find a metal frame that proves to expand or narrow around whatever you put in the slot be it a crumpet, ordinary slice bread or the end of piece of a toastie loaf. Each of the four frames work independent of each other. Even thin slices of bread stand upright and don't flop over so don't touch the element also all parts of what you are toasting are kept the same distance from the elements so you should get even heat to your slice or whatever. .I plugged the toaster in and popped four slices of a Sainsbury’s Toastie loaf in. These slices did not have their edges cut at all.The toaster started to heat up and a red light came on. This light tells you the toaster is operating.I could see some elements were red before others so wondered how the sides of the toast would appear with the setting just past 2 but both sides of all slices were evenly browned ALL OVER.I used the very useful “checking” facility in which you can lift one lever to check two slices (both sides) and lower the lever without disturbing the heat sequence. (ie. Toaster timer does not go back the beginning). If you do want to turn a piece of bread around you have to use both hands as when you let the handle go down the toast goes back in the toaster. You see none of my bread slices peep out of the toaster while it is working so you cannot turn any of the slices without raising the handle.I removed my toast before the end of the sequence as it was the the way l like it. I then pressed the red light and it went out so the toaster was off.Last night I did two pieces of toastie thick bread and experimentally the two end pieces of the loaf. I kept an eye on the toast and realised that one side of both end pieces were not toasting. I thus turned these two pieces around to brown the white sides.I think if a very thick piece of bread or a crumpet etc., is in one slot the frame in that slot widens and the element on one one side goes off. Worried about this I later put four toastie slices of bread in the toaster and all four pieces were beautifully evenly browned all over.I think I’ll just have to be ready to turn thick items around half way through the sequence.In all this on toastie thick bread all four slots are working well and the bread is evenly ALL OVER.More about the slots - I found I could put the slices of a Sainsburys Toastie loaf in the slots sideways - yes the length of the slices fitted with widths of the slots too.I don’t remember the size of a Warburtons toastie slice but a quick visit to a Sainsbury’s and comparison between their toastie loaf and a Warburtons. Remember the slot fits a Sainsbury’s slice both ways with no bread sticking out at the top while toasting.The toaster seems expensive but really you are actually buying the capability of two toasters. The price I paid for this toaster is LESS than the cost of two x two slot toasters.I just hope the toaster continues to work for a few years as well as it has over two days.I just love the way you can raise the slices (two at a time) to check how brown they are without stopping and restarting the heat.The instructions explain how the toaster can be used with frozen bread and how the Reheat button works.Do check the foot print size of the toaster because it takes up a lot of worktop and I think it is too cumbersome though not too heavy to be continually taken out of a cupboard and raised to worktop level. Also the power cable could do with being longer.I am still glad I chose this one.

Firstly I am writing this review after owning this toaster for less than a day, so I can't comment on it's reliability, efficiency etc etc. However, I am so impressed with how it toasted it's first 2 slices I felt I had to leave a review straight away (basically if I don't do it now I never will).We use hovis thick sliced bread, not warburtons, but it is a very similar size to warburtons toastie bread. Amazingly this toaster fits the bread perfectly - no edges sticking out the top. The first too slices were toasted on 2 1/2 setting because my son prefers his bread lightly toasted. The bread was fairly fresh, from the middle of the pack and quite moist (useful to know since every slice will toast slightly differently depending on it's moisture levels etc). The bread popped up with a really even toast on both sides all the way to the edges. I was amazed since every toaster we have had, I always have to turn the bread over and put it back down again.Previously we were using a Brevill 4 slice long toaster, just so that we could get our thick sliced hovis bread completely covered (i.e. putting the bread down in landscape mode so to speak!). However, we needed a more compact toaster to save surface space in the kitchen so when I saw this Breville Toaster claiming to be deeper than normal I decided to give it a go. And we love it. It looks fantastic too! I love the slighly retro feel to it and the stainless steel is really smart.I've given it 5 stars because it really does do what it claims to do, however I do have a few niggles. Firstly it doesn't have a very long lead for the plug (although easily solved if you use an extension lead). Secondly it is not a cool-touch toaster, but then again it doesn't claim to be. The sides near the bottom only get slightly warm but the top could burn little curious fingers, or careless adult fingers. So my children have been told to stay away from the toaster in order to prevent any burns (they are too young to use it anyway, but it's always good to warn them about things in the kitchen they should stay away from). However, it does have a very useful high lift function which means you can lift the toast out a bit further so you can avoid the hot surface.My son who's staple diet is toast, loves it too but was rather disappointed that the toast didn't come out with the "Toast to the Top" logo on the bread!Lastly, worth noting that we did follow the instructions and use it for the first time without any bread so that the normal first use odour could dissipate. We put it in setting 3 for the first use with zero bread and that seemed to do the trick.

This toaster is perfect for the most common sizes of sliced bread in the UK.If, like me, you find that you have been popping your toast up half way through toasting so you can ensure the whole of the slice of bread is toasted then this is the answer. You don't need to do that with this toaster as it toasts the whole of the bread in one go.Other positives -It has an easily removable tray to catch crumbs.Easy to clean.Looks nice.Made a good job of toasting the bread.Frozen bread setting (I haven't tried it yet)InexpensiveYou can pop the toast up for a look then let it continue toasting from where you left off - no need to re-set a timer.You can remove the toast easily when it is finished - lever allows you to pop toast out if too far down in the slot.Could be better - took a bit of trial and error to get the toast perfectly browned at first - the dial on the toaster doesn't really give much indication of how well done it will be so we burned a few slices at first. I wouldn't let that put you off though as you get to know the toaster.Neutral - only does two slices. I don't mind this as it takes up less space on the worktop compared to a 4 slot toaster. It is fairly simple - not a lot of fancy functions that you may not use.I would have given it a 5 but only marked it down slightly on the initial difficulty in working out timing control.I recommend it.

This toaster is still working really well after purchase in 2017. Also, use with an Amazon purchase of toaster cage to make cheese toasters. Following seeing similar use with a more expensive designer toaster.

This product was deep enough to toast all my bread evenly and didn't leave any untoasted crusts