Swan 4 Slice Toaster, Grey, Variable Browning Control and Extra Long Slot: 25mm x 250mm, 1200W-1400W, ST10091GRYN

This is the best toaster I have found for breadmaker bread, two slices fit in perfectly horizontally with no missed bits, so I'm pleased with it, toasts evenly and is very quick. The only thing I'm not keen on is the colour it's rather a drab grey but I'm being picky overall a very good buy.Update 20th FebruaryThe toaster I was so pleased with has failed, part of the element at the front of the toaster isn't working properly so the toast isn't toasted all over. I am returning it to Amazon, but have reordered a replacement as when it worked as it should have it was very good.

Looks fab, nice and slimline, only thing is you can’t have very thick bread to toast.

After reading some of the reviews i was a bit unsure whether to buy this toaster,however i did and its great.it toasts perfectly and it looks good and is easy to clean.although its a long toaster it is slim and fits easily on my small worktop.i would recommend this toaster as the bread (hovis) fits in and so does uncut soardough bread however thick or thin you slice it.

At 20-odd quid I was not expecting miracles and this is very much a cheap toaster build quality & design wise.Talkie toaster would be appalled... no bagels, crumpets or waffles will fit in the really narrow slots (don't be like me and try and jam a crumpet in, yes it technically fits but getting it back out once it's fused itself to the guide rail things.... not worth the effort.The thing needs watching like a hawk, it'll happily crucify one side of the bread while not really cooking the other, this replaced an also cheap toaster from ASDA that was taken out by the cats and it performs poorly in comparison.The buttons on the front of the toaster (cancel, reheat and defrost) feel like they have been made out of re-purposed yogurt pots, they are woefully flimsy and get hot during use.Positive points, it's cheap but possibly not cheap enough to justify it's existence, if all you do is toast supermarket sliced bread and don't mind flipping it half way through it's ok, if you live in the north or like a variety of bread products - avoid.

Good value for money and works well

Whether you put the bread upright or sideways, no matter how lightly the rest of the slice is toasted it always seems to burn the top edge - see photo of two fresh wholemeal seeded slices done at 2-3 on the browning scale. Anything above a 3 and your bread is totally carbonized, though I suppose this might be ok for frozen slices. The problem is worse with thicker slices, eg of homemade loaf or buns, but thin slices are at risk of leaning against the element and getting scorched on one side while remaining under done on the other. And if the bread is stale, even on level 1 the crust will be cinders. I guess they expect you to stand over the toaster watching it like my gran used to with her pre-war flip-side toaster and hit the 'eject' button as soon as you smell it burning, or in my case, when the fire alarm goes off in the hall.... Basic sliced bread, pittas, crumpets and halved bagels just about fit, but the slots are not wide enough for doorstops, halved teacakes or hot cross buns, which get jammed in and start to char almost instantly, or long enough to do more than two at a time.TBH I am unimpressed with this toaster. Although it looks great, the pleasing aesthetic in no way compensates for the lack of features. I bought it to replace a 27-yr old long-slice toaster, also a Swan, which had1) an 'eco' option to heat only one rather than both slots for one slice of toast2) wider slots with wire supports inside each slot that closed around the bread and held it equidistant from the heating elements3) longer slots that could fit, for example, three halved hot cross buns side by side without getting stuck4) a lift-up and look feature, so you could check while toasting, rather than eject and reset5) separate crumb trays for each slot, recessed into the casing so there was no little stick-out handleSwan designers, take note.How hard should it be to find a toaster anywhere near as good as the same budget brand from the 90s?Well, the answer is - impossible. I would send it back, except I only bought this one after scouring the entire internet including twenty pages of toasters on Amazon, right up to the fancy £400+ items, and not a single one has the eco option anymore. When I posted a question about this on another page where the listing was unclear, in fact, I had dozens of replies suggesting this was a weird and unreasonable thing to demand and no one in the whole world has ever heard of such a thing before, like a Mandela effect or something. Why??? Long story short, everything was better in the 90s, even toasters.

Good toaster. Looks good on my counter top

ONLY THINLY SLICED BREAD FITS AND EVEN THEN TOAST UNEVENLY. VERY LIGHT FLIMSY CONSTRUCTION. SENT BACK FOR A REFUND.