Product Description

The KitchenAid Pro Line 2-Slice Toaster is a Professional Quality tools for the home chef. Designed to withstand the most demanding home use, the rugged construction will last for years. An electronic heat sensor controls toasting, yielding consistent results slice after slice. A "Professional Stay Warm" feature keeps the toast warm in the cavity of the toaster until toast is manually lifted. With a true vertical lift specialty breads will be a ease to toast, and the 1" wide slots will accommodate thick bagels and toaster pastries. Combine all these features with KitchenAid's industry leading "2-Year Hassle-Free Replacement Warranty", and you will have a toaster that will deliver for years to come.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15367 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Size: 2-SLICE
• Color: Nickel Pearl
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: KPTT780NP
• Released on: 2005-10-15
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 11.00" w x 10.00" l, 11.95 pounds

Features

• 2-slice toaster with 1-inch-wide toasting slots and 9 shade settings
• Electronic heat sensor controls the toasting; over-temperature protection
• Stay-warm function keeps toast heated in toaster until manually lifted out
• Dishwasher-safe stainless-steel crumb tray; cord storage
• Measures 10-21/32 by 9-1/2 by 8 inches; 2-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed to withstand the most demanding home use, this two-slice toaster blends the durability of stainless steel and die-cast metal with professional-quality performance, producing wonderfully consistent toast slice after slice. Each of the toaster's extra-long, extra-wide 1-inch toasting slots can easily handle the thickest bagels, specialty breads, and toaster pastries. On the inside sits an electronic heat sensor that controls the toasting, accounting for the unit's unmatched consistency. And to ensure that the toast doesn't cool down too quickly, KitchenAid added a keep-warm function, which keeps the toast heated in the toaster cavity until it's manually lifted out. Other details include a full-width stainless-steel crumb tray that's dishwasher-safe, a power cord that wraps neatly into the base for tidy storage, nine shade settings, over-temperature protection, and a true vertical lift that makes it a breeze to remove bread after toasting. The two-slice toaster measures 10-21/32 by 9-1/2 by 8 inches and carries a two-year hassle-free replacement warranty.

Customer Reviews

Try another toaster
I bought the 4 slice version of this toaster, and quickly discovered it to be a waste of money. Not because it broke or anything of that nature. It sucks because of the details, and when you decide to spend this much on a toaster, it seems to reason, you're interested in the details.

I have two primary issues with this machine:

1) Its not possible to turn off just one side. I generally prefer not to toast both sides of a sliced bagel or English muffin.

2) The 1" slots. This might initially seem like a good idea; it is one of the features that initially drew me in. But a crucial flaw lies with the implementation of these wide slots. There is not a self-adjusting, centering carrier for the bread; not a carrier of any kind. It's just a big void. So if you insert a normal slice of bread it has to lean to one side or the other resulting in, of course, uneven toasting; absolutely unforgiveable in a toaster of this expense.

Missing the point
Don't buy this toaster because it makes better toast. It doesn't. It does no worse or better than a decent $10 toaster. The earlier reviewer was right. There is no centering mechanism so regular thickness bread slices do lean in the slot and do toast unevenly and there is no bagel option... But so what?

Buy this toaster because it is big, beautiful and bullet-proof. Built like a tank, it is the epitome of simplicity and "non-cheapness". It looks cool on the counter. The controls operate with smoothness and precision, the way you'd expect on a $200 toaster.

Forget the toast, I smile every time I use it.

Big toaster, big mistake
I bought this toaster because of the KitchenAid brand name, and because I thought any toaster gutsy enough to come with a $200 price tag might be able to toast a slice of bread in less than five minutes. Big Mistake. KitchenAid quality control must have been absent when this behemoth went down the assembly line. Even white bread set at the highest number on the temperature setting does not brown and it takes LONGER to NOT do it. Frozen waffles? Forget it. You have to put them through the cycle TWICE and they still don't resemble anything you'd want to put syrup on. I'm pissed that I didn't research the product better. I hope this saves others from making the same mistake.