ponyduck's Full Review: DeLonghi RT200 Retro 2-Slice Toaster
After a lifetime of owning only cheapo toasters, I decided with my kitchen remodel to go upscale a bit and buy a (relatively) pricey toaster. I saw this toaster and thought it would look perfect in my new retro-kitchen. And it does. However, it doesn't make good toast. I had the same results as another reviewer--very uneven toasting, with the bottom inch of bread not toasted at all. The top inch of bread was actually near burned, and the bottom inch remained white. Also, one side of the bread was toasted darker than the other.
Another thing I didn't like was that it didn't pop up high enough. With a standard-sized piece of grocery store bread, only about an inch of bread stuck out the top when it popped up. I know this might seem like enough, and I was able to pick up my toast without burning my fingers, but I had to concentrate a little, kind of look carefully and finesse it a little, none of which I want to do that early in the morning. With my old toasters, I got used to half the slice showing--virtually no thought and only half a glance needed to grab it out. I don't want to have to use the extra lift lever every time just to retrieve a standard piece of bread.
Everything else about it is fine. But since the main objective of a toaster is to make good toast, if it can't do that well, then all the other stuff doesn't count for much. I returned mine, and went back to using the old $19 Procter-Silex.
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