De'Longhi CT04A Toaster, 4 Slice (Blue)
from Delonghi
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 Category: Kitchen & Home
Model No: CTO4E
Index: Kitchen & Housewares
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Kitchen Shopper Price: N/A
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pretty good!  Sent: 23 April 2008
had this for a year and works well so far. Yes the other reviewers have a point. It is sold openly as not being cold walled. It toasts things fine and looks fab! Maybe i have lower expectations of my toaster! Other toasters i have had have broken down fairly quickly. so fingers crossed....
Not quite perfection  Sent: 22 August 2006
For looks it should get five stars.
For toasting it should get two stars (more later).
It looks fabulous; the texture of the coating (non-marking)is quite tactile; the dials are easy to use and the re-heat and frozen button are a bonus. Word of warning though. This is NOT a cool-wall toaster, the outer skin gets very hot during use so I would not advise buying this if you have children who are going to use it.
As good as it looks the innards let it down badly. The bread I buy will not fit in unless I cut about an inch off (batch loaf), and the toasting is not even - either on both sides or in all four slots. About a third of the elements do not heat up enough to glow until more than half way through the timer.
As for the 'high-lift' facility - it doesn't work on crumpets! Even if you are able to lift the crumpets without them getting wedged in the guide rails, they are still not lifted high enough to get them out without sticking fingers inside. I found the safest (if most comical) way to retrieve lost crumpets was to hit the lift lever hard enough to fling the crumpets out of the top and try to catch them before the toaster reclaimed them.
I only wanted to give this toaster two stars (for it's toasting ability), but I couldn't bring myself to do that. I have given it 3 - mainly for its looks.
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Associated kitchen categories: Toasters Four-slice toaster, bread, Kitchen Appliances, Toasters, Four-slice, Metal |
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