If you like seedy bread as I do, the setting has to be nearly as far as it can go to toast the bread in one try

I have used it with bagel , wide pan bread slices and simple white bread and it toasts to my desired color without burning the bread

It toasts the bread darker on one side than another.

gluten free bread setting (just toast it how you want it), large toast slots, too many options

It is random how long your bread toasts for so no matter what the setting is you will get warm bread one day and burnt toast the next on the same settings with the same bread.

Makes excellent evenly toasted bread.

The bread does not pop up well either

This takes five minutes and it gives you warm white bread.

It's pretty good at warming bread, but it rarely produces toast.

it either never pops up and burns the toast or prematurely pops up leaving me with untoasted warm bread

If you like burnt toast or warmed bread then this is the toaster for you!

I guess I was hoping for something similar to the old chrome toasters from years ago that lasted forever and did a great job toasting bread with the temperature controls.

Did not make toast, just warmed the bread

Even on the darkest setting, the bread often only gets warm and you have to "toast" it twice to get it to look like toast.

But like I said, it does a good job toasting bread.

After using a terrible Hamilton Beach toaster for the longest time; that would burn my bread on the lowest setting, I don't see how I can poorly review this thing.

First, one of the two slots does not keep the bread slice centered, rather the bread lays against one of the heating elements resulting in one side being almost burned and the other not toasted at all

It is random how long your bread toasts for so no matter what the setting is you will get warm bread one day and burnt toast the next on the same settings with the same bread.

It has wider heating element spacing similar to our old Cuisinart and does produce more evenly-toasted bread than other modern toasters.

Makes the bread nice and warm, but if you like your toast browned don't buy this toaster.

If you like seedy bread as I do, the setting has to be nearly as far as it can go to toast the bread in one try

Mine toasts regular bread well at the 3 setting and does a good job with thicker bagels

Bought this one to replace the old one that burned bread

If you would prefer your bread warmed, rather than toasted, then this is the toaster for you

The slot is too short for my favorite Italian bread.

I, for one, do not care to pay so much for a piece of equipment built to perform a very simple task of warming my bread , if I have to replace it every other year, so be it

Doesn't toast evenly, bread isn't hot when it comes out

I got rid of my old toaster because it was toasting unevenly and occasional burning my bread

Well... the top few coils do not toast a normal slice of bread as well as the lower coils... so the bread and bagels only get toasted halfway up... very strange and a pain to have to turn them over and do a second toast to get complete coverage

It warms bread very warm

Continued using it for another year, and now it completely burns the bread on the lightest setting.

However when toasting rye toast I found it only "warms" the bread

I especially like the defrost feature, for properly toasted frozen bread.

My husband ordered it for me because I love toasted bread and bagels in the morning

On the 3 setting, it warms bread, even soft bread like English muffins or sourdough