Product Description

Cutting-edge technology meets old-fashioned practicality in the Dualit Classic 2-Slice Toaster. The award-winning ProHeat system efficiently and evenly toasts the bread, while a manual browning dial and ejector lever put you in control. The chunky, retro

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28067 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Chrome
• Brand: Dualit
• Model: 20293
• Dimensions: 10.20" h x 10.20" w x 11.70" l, 6.45 pounds

Features

• Extra-wide, 28-mm slots accommodate a variety of bread products
• Award-winning ProHeat elements increase toasting efficiency and element longevity
• Ejector system keeps toast warm until the ejector lever is pushed up
• Removable crumb tray; adjustable rear foot
• Switch-system controls the degree of browning

From the Manufacturer
The Dualit Vario Toaster combines simplicity and sophistication perfectly. With extra-wide, 28-mm slots to accommodate a Sandwich Cage and the award-winning ProHeat elements, a patented design that increases toasting efficiency and element longevity. Also features a removable crumb tray and an adjustable rear foot. Manually operated, the Dualit toaster features switches to control the degree of browning and an ejector system, which means that the toast does not pop up, but stays warm until the ejector lever is pushed up.

Specifications:

• Capacity: 1 or 2 slices
• Output per hour: 65 slices
• Loading (kW): 1.2
• Dimensions (cm): 26 x 21 x 22
• Weight (kg): 3.5

Customer Reviews

Williams Sonoma electronic version is better
I wanted to love this toaster. My partner and I are fans of timeless, hands on appliances (Rancilio for example), and I thought this appliance would be perfect. I read the reviews on Amazon.co.uk, which warned of fire hazzard, poor build quality and cheap timers, unlike the Dualits of yesteryear. All true, I realized, as soon as this toaster arrived. The timer IS cheap and annoying, and after a few uses it began stopping in the middle of the cycle, leaving the elements still heating. We had to make sure to unplug this potential tragedy after every use. In addition, the toast was nothing a $20 model couldn't master. Aside from the hefty weight and the beauty, it just seemed like I'd succumbed to overpriced hype. But wait! Williams Sonoma sells a "New Gen" model with electronic timer, wider slots, and a bagel setting. I was skeptical, thinking it was just a modern redo with a trashy retro result. But I was so wrong. The WS model took an evolutionay approach, modernizing the controls, speeding warmup, increasing safety, and is superbly built. It works like a charm and feels like it will last forever. Worth every penny of its considerable purchase price. In addition, I was told at the store it would be guaranteed for life. Buy the Williams Sonoma model: it makes great toast (and bagels), is safe and of higher quality, and it's evolutionary design makes the regular model an obsolete, overpriced novelty.

The Perfect Dream Toaster!
AT LAST I found the Perfect Dream Toaster that does everything it claims to do. After yet another Chinese made-American Name Brand-Bagel Emphasized Toaster failed and wasted money in our kitchen, I started my search on Amazon.com with toaster reviews to see if there was actually any product that worked to produce a slice of bread toasted evenly on both sides, instead of the empty marketing promises made about manufacturers and their toasters. The reviews kept pointing me to the British-made Dualit toaster. The price was unexpected but I continued my Amazon search and found the one I perferred in Chrome Blue/2 slicer, new for $97. I thought for that price, I'll try the Dualit. It arrived and IT IS EVERYTHING THAT I DREAMED AND EXPECT FROM A TOASTER. The bread is toasted evenly every time on both sides with simple and perfect manual knobs that the toast-maker controls themselves. It is a beautiful, trustworthy toaster and now desired by friends as they also expereince the "rare" toaster that actually makes the perfectly toasted slice of bread. No Wonder---the British truely understand what toasted bread means and produced a simple engineered but perfect toaster. The price whichever one the Dualit toaster is found for is worth every dollar. I highly recommend this toaster to all who enjoy toasted bread on "both" sides! Bravo, Dualit and Amazon for the perfect product. Thank you for your excellence and also the buyers who reviewed this great toaster.

Love It, Would Buy It Again, But Still 4 Stars!
We actually received this toaster as a housewarming gift nearly 10 years ago, so take the "would buy it again" with a grain of salt! Let's just say we'd be happy to buy one as a replacement if we ever had to. Honestly, though, I think this toaster is going to have a very long life indeed.

We love this toaster.

It is the easiest to use, most convenient toaster you can imagine, and that's simply because it IS simple. You have three controls: a timer for the heating elements, a selector switch that turns on the elements for both slots or only one, and the lift handle.

Separating the timer from the lift simplifies the toaster, eliminating maintenance and also just makes the toaster more civilized somehow. I would never put the typical pop-up toaster on the table with breakfast, for example, but the manual lift Dualit just seems to belong there. Pop in your bread and turn it on, give it a peek here and there with the lift handle, and take it out precisely as you like it, exactly when you'd like to have it. Lovely.

So why 4 stars? First, the toasting itself could be a little more even. Second, most of the bread we buy won't fit the toaster unless the slices are put in vertically ... meaning that unless you flip the slice part-way through, the portion of the slice sticking up doesn't get toasted. I.e., the slots need to be longer.

So ... perhaps we'd buy one of the Dualit long-slot versions as a replacement. The size of this 2 slot model is just so convenient that perhaps we'd just buy another. Either way, there's no question that it would be a Dualit.