Russell Hobbs Distinctions 2 Slice Toaster

Interesting and useful toaster with one major failing and insanely expensive Does a brilliant job with thick and long bread Useful and easy to use controls with a visual bib indicator of the progress and allows you to pop up the toast to see how it’s going and continue when it has not been toasted enough yet The browning dual isn’t very well done, very small numbers and a big gap between the numbers so with some settings you can’t actually see a digit and you have to turn the dial to see which numbers it is between

Very high-powered at 1600W which means it toast a very quickly, but one reviewer doesn’t like the fact that you end up with bread in the middle of the toast. I personally prefer that sort of toast

The choice review says that it doesn’t do multigrain toast very well but they tested it with soy and linseed bread. It toasts multigrain toast fine and that is the bread I always use

Major flaw is that the two sides of the bread are toasted completely differently. Easy to get around that problem by setting the browning level at half wham you need and reversing the bread halfway through but you shouldn’t have to do that

Not easy to get in Australia but you can buy it on amazon.au and it’s delivered from Germany. Not cheap delivery but I got it delivered for free for some reason, not clear why and I am not on Amazon prime

Stupidly expensive compared with the cheapest toasters and it’s not clear how long it will last but it does have a three year warranty if you register it in the UK to get an extra one year on the two year warranty