Breville Smart Toaster, 14.9 x 7.7 x 7.5 inches, Stainless Steel Reviews

Breville Die-Cast Long Slot Smart Toaster 4 Slice BTA830XL, Brushed Stainless Steel
The Breville Smart Toaster with extra long slice capacity for bread types that need longer slots; Use one touch auto lowering or lifting for gentle handling, “Lift & Look” to monitor progress and ‘A Bit More’ to add a extra time to the toasting cycle
INNOVATIVE FEATURES: ‘Lift & Look’ and ‘A Bit More’ allow you to check on your toast or add a little extra time without interrupting the toasting cycle; The bagel function ensures even heat for even toasting and unfreeze your favorites using defrost
EXTRA LONG 4 SLICE CAPACITY: The toaster features a 4 slice capacity and provides longer slots to meet the demands of larger artisanal bread, thick bagels and dense pastries
VARIABLE BROWNING CONTROL: The Breville Smart Toaster 4-slice long slots lets you toast to your ideal brownness level and monitor your progress with the LED indicator so you know how much longer the toasting cycle has left to run
AUTOMATIC CONTROL WITH AUTO LIFE & LOOK: At the touch of a button, your bread can be automatically lowered into the toaster, lifted during the toasting cycle to monitor progress and lifted at the end to deliver toasting perfection
EASY CLEANING: No need to lift when cleaning, simply pull out the front crumb tray and empty into the dustbin
SETTINGS: 5 Settings including ‘A Bit More’, ‘Lift & Look’, Defrost, Bagel and Fruit Bread
WARRANTY: 1 Year Limited Product Warranty; Power: 1600 Watts; Voltage: 110 to 120 Volts

Reviewer: Tracy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Cadillac of Toasters
Review: I discovered this toaster while renting a very nice home during a recent Hawaii vacation. This toaster is so user friendly, toasts both sides evenly, and fits all types of breads and bagels of any length and width. I was most impressed with the features. After using hers, I knew I had to have one for myself. So I took a picture of it and found it. Yes, it’s expensive but it’s so darn cool! It does such a great job, made very well, I know I will have it for many years to come. She also had a very cool induction oven, and now that’s on my wish list too.

Reviewer: Bob L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The best toaster I have ever owned.
Review: This Breville goes back to the simple elegant expectation I hold dear in a toaster: toast my bread evenly and consistently. You would think that this is an easy thing to do with all our technology but to be honest, I’ve tested many toasters over the past three decades and the expensive ones seems to work no better than the cheap ones. My expectation is how well the bread is toasted, how enemy its toasted from top to bottom,left to right and how each slice toasts the same as its mate. Then I expect that the toaster will toast the bread exactly the same way every single time, for years.This is somethings that I just have not been able to previously find in a toaster,, although I once got close with one toaster which toasted my bread quite evenly but it fell apart prematurely so it too let me down.This Breville is rather expensive, an its controls are simple but my tis is what it down with the bread and this machine really toasts my bread as perfectly as I want it. All the slices are evenly tasted every time, the two slices match each other every time and each day when we go back to do more toasting all the slices come out even, just as expected.This is what I want and for once, this Greville delivers. Since the basic function of being a toaster is so well delivered, I now look at the features of this unit (because it it didn’t toast well, then I don’t care about any fancy functions since they can’t improve my past), which includes an Led display that visually indicates how much times is left to the toast process (more useful than it seems because we a tryoically cooking something else att he same time), the Lifet N Look feature which gives you a peek at the toast for a second or so (by raising it up then pulling it back down) is brilliant and should be required in all toasters. Its simple yet obviously useful the very first time you use it and can see exactly how your toast is doing. The next feature, called “Just A Bit More” adds a little time to the toast process if the toast is underdone. this is fantastic for the first time you a toasting a new bread (since you simply don’t know what setting you will need to set to for), its brilliant and works perfectly well. The Bagel feature can be found in other toasters but I’m happy to see that its toasts the inside (cut side) of the Bagel more than the outside, which is exactly how the Bagel shops so it and is how I like it.The lovely cast metal exterior stays cool and feels vey thick and sturdy, it feels expensive unlike most toasters that have think sheet metal sides that feel flimsy. I don’t know if its aluminum or stainless steel but it looks good and feels like its built to last a lifetime.I like the long slots which will accommodate artisan bread (the only bread we now eat, in addition to bagels) so normal toasters just don’t work for us. This has been a great toaster for us so far and I look forward to updating my review years from now to report back on how well it holds up in the long term.

Reviewer: Keith Pyne-Howarth
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: After Two Years, Still Perfect Every Time (Well, 99.99% Of The Time)
Review: With respect to the negative reviews, our Breville Die Cast Four-Slot Smart Toaster has been, by far, the best toaster we’ve ever had. Purchased in November, 2018, it has performed brilliantly and (almost*) flawlessly for over two years (Dec. 12, 2020 now) and has justified the high purchase price. It’s not just the reliability (which, it must be said, should be a given for almost any appliance only two years old) of course, but it also really does a great job toasting everything we’ve tried. Bagels are particularly well-handled, with the machine producing them to suit everyone’s individual preferences. But everything from thick breads to (shudder) Pop-Tarts come out perfectly.The Breville is also very consistent. It makes everything today as it did two years ago, as dictated by user preferences. This is no small thing, as it’s easy to waste food and time with under and, especially, over-cooked meals. And it makes trying new kinds of food or new brands relatively painless thanks to the “bit more” feature, which allows you to hone in on your preferred level of crispness, heat or consistency “at the touch of a button” as they say.And speaking of which, probably the best feature of this great toaster is the motorized lower/lift mechanism. It works silently, smoothly, and seems well integrated with the sensors so as allow for much more consistent and thorough results. You press the button and let the Breville do the rest. When it’s done, it lifts your food with a non-intrusive little “peep” notification.*Now for that qualifier. On one occasion, about three months after purchase, the Breville, for lack of a more precise term, froze up. The lift/lower mechanism would not budge. “Uh Oh” I thought “Here we go.” I assumed this was just what our fellow Amazon members had tried to warn about. But for whatever reason, it didn’t turn out that way. I treated the problem as with a frozen computer. I unplugged the toaster, waited in case it has any capacitors etc. that require discharge time (admittedly more important when repairing microwaves than rebooting toasters, but…) and plugged it back in. This was, apparently, all it required, and it happily chirped its return to service. The problem has never re-occurred. This is NOT to assume or imply that this approach would fix the problem for everyone. Clearly, it does not, and Breville, if it hasn’t already, needs to address this head on, both at the manufacturing AND customer service levels. If you pay ~ $200 for a toaster, it should work for you until your ready to pass it down to your grandchildren (okay, that’s probably asking too much). Certainly, you should not be faced with a useless machine for many years, and I sympathize with everyone who has been been confronted by their beautiful toaster turning into a useless brick.For over two years, though, our Breville has been exceptional in every way. When and if that changes, or if it soldiers on for two or more years, I’ll be back for an update.

Reviewer: Tom Cain
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I know spending $200 on a toaster is a bit much, especially when you can buy the same appliance for much cheaper anywhere else. But this toaster is the best I have owned and worth the money. It can toast 4 pieces of bread, bagels, English muffins at once. The toasting controls are very precise and give you exactly what you want for an all-over toast. It has ‘look & lift’ button and another for a bit more time. Slow raise and descend grill and an alarm to let you know it’s done. I wish the alarm were just a bit louder (which you can program for mute or softer tone). Never disappointed with Breville products.

Reviewer: Americo T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Breville como en todos sus productos son de excelente calidad!

Reviewer: greatjuicing
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I am a fussy toast person, I like it just so.I had a nice inexpensive toaster for years and then it started to break down, I still fought with it because of the retractable cord feature that I love. Eventually I had to call it quits.The next one (different toaster) only lasted about 4 months.I never thought I would spend $150.00 on a toaster, so I would call this a purchase born from frustration and in haste. Not a normal thing for me, I am a researcher.I have had the toaster for about a month now ( I can not speak for the longevity yet) and so far I love it. I did read a few reviews good and bad, some of the bad ones did make me feel like I was taking a bit of a chance, but I went for it.First of all the feel and weight of the toaster immediately impressed me. It is definalty heavier and more solid feeling than any other toaster I have held.The operation is so smooth and quiet, its actually quite cool.Reading some of the bad reviews and seeing pictures of uneven toasting, including one that showed a un-toasted stripe down the middle of a long piece of bread had me concerned. So when I first used it I was watching inside, it did look like only one side was going to toast, because the elements on one sided did not seem to be on. However I have toasted quite a number of different bread products and it has all been perfect ( I did over-toast my first piece).Some said it was loud, I really don’t know what kind of super hearing these people have, Life in general must be unbearable for them. The quietness of it is partly what makes it so cool.I love the “lift and look” feature, I was chronically always interrupting the cycle of my old toasters to check the doneness before.What i did notice as far as a watch for, I wouldn’t necessarily call then cons.The outside of the toaster does get fairly warm/hot, not sure if the others did as I never scrutinized my $40.00 toaster.It does definitely have a hotter toasting temp, so start low. Before I first used it, I followed the directions and ran a full time cycle. The radiating heat seemed to hot to keep under the upper cupboards, so I would pull it out. Although unless you are making coals, I am not sure when there would ever be a reason to use that full cycle again. I always store my toaster away when not using it ( hence the love of the retractable cord) So it isn’t under the upper cupboards anyway.I now see how a $150.00 toaster is worth it, as long as it holds out for the long haul, I love it!

Reviewer: Penny
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Buen producto solo que necesita sacar con mas espacio el pan al terminar de tostarlo, cuesta trabajo sacarlo sin quemarte.

Reviewer: Ryan
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I bought this toaster a year and a half ago. Recently, one of the inside toasting elements stopped working. Which means on one of the toast slots, only half the bread gets toasted. The toaster was cleaned and babied. Never abused. It just failed. For no reason at all, because being of poor quality.Also, because this toaster essentially has a computer inside it, it will just go mental for no apparent reason. As in, it will take the bread down, toast, then all the lights will start blinking and it will not give pop the toast up. It’s the equivilant to the blue screen of death on a Windows computer. You have to unplug the toaster and let it cool down, then plug it back in so it can “reset”. This is unacceptable for an appliance that is supposed to heat up bread.It looks nice, but there is WAYYYY to many things to fail. And because it is basically mass-producted garbage, one of those many features (or more) will soon break.I think Breville should be ashamed of their manufacturing quality. This is a TOASTER. An appliance that has existed for a hundred years. Why is it that my parents can have a toaster from 1964 that still, TO THIS DAY, makes toast perfectly, but Breville can not build a machine that lasts over 18 months. A nearly 60-year-old appliance runs circlues around the lastest product from Breville. That. Is. Pathetic.Stay away from this toaster. Many people have given it posivive reviews, but they are doing so after using it for a short period of time. I have used it for a year and a half, and this is the crap I have had to put up with.My confidence in Breville has been wrecked. My next option is to buy a quality machine that is built to last. Likely a Dualit Classic, or perhaps a vintage toaster from eBay.Think long and hard about wether or not a “smart” toaster with all the electronic features, is worth it to make bread hot and crispy.