Oh, the frustration one feels when a piece of toast chars in the toaster. How disgusting! That’s when you know for sure that it’s time for a new toasting machine.
Picking and buying a toaster can be a boring task. It’s dull and doesn’t allow for much creativity. The only problem is that ‘whatever’ is not a good toaster maker. So if you really want to keep it to the boring task it should be, instead of a continuous source of massive frustration, stick to a few easy guidelines when buying a new toaster.
The toast maker is the appliance you use every morning, or every other morning, so it’s a sound idea to pick a good one and be done with it for a long time.
The price is always a sensitive spot when picking up a new tool for the kitchen. While simple toasters can be had for $30, you can easily spend $130 on a toaster by Kitchen Aid.
It’s always something for something. In this case more money buys you quality, durability and more dependability.
The capacity of your toaster depends on your needs and personal preference. If the heaviest workload is going to be a pair of toasts every morning, you’re probably better off with a single or a double slot model.
A Dualit four slice toaster costs around $200 and it’s reported that it will churn out 130 slices of bread in an hour. Not that you will normally need that much! If you’re feeding guests of a wedding, this is your weapon of choice. Otherwise I’d suggest you save on costs and go for a two slotter.
The durability cannot be told just by looking at the box, and that’s why you’re going to take some time to read through some online debates or reviews.
Another method to ‘assume’ quality is to find a toaster with longer warranty. Warranty periods are calculated in a way that they cover the intended life-span of a device, and as such it isn’t designed to make the company lose money. In other words, you can safely assume that the appliance in question will live for at least the period the warranty covers.
Buying a toaster is not the most intriguing activity ever, but you should do it properly the first time around. Otherwise it’d spawn random nuisances and sources of frustration. Not something you’d like to deal with for the long run. And you won’t have to either since bad toasters give up in a timely fashion.