Hamilton Beach Retro Toaster with Wide Slots, Sure-Toast Technology, Bagel & Defrost Settings, Auto Boost to Lift Smaller Breads, 2 Slice, Polished Stainless Steel (22782) Reviews

The Hamilton Beach® Classic Stainless Steel 2 Slice Toaster with Sure-Toast™ technology evenly toasts both sides of bread, even when toasting a single slice. Includes bagel and defrost functions along with Toast Boost for removing small slices.
EVENLY TOAST BOTH SIDES OF BREAD: With Sure-Toast technology, bread, waffles, English muffins and sandwiches made with toasted bread look as good as they taste. Whether you toast 1 or 2 slices, you always get balanced toast color on both sides.
EASILY RETRIEVE SMALLER BREADS: Toast Boost lets you give smaller breads like English muffins a lift so they’re easier to retrieve from the toaster. Simply lift up the lever after toasting to bring slices up and within easy reach.
CUSTOMIZE TOAST SHADE: Make your toast as light or as dark as you like it. The 9 shade dial adjusts to suit everyone’s taste and makes it easy to create a crispy, delicious backdrop for a wide variety of recipes.
PERFECTLY TOASTS BAGELS: The bagel function toasts the cut side of the bagel and warms the outside for a great bagel-eating experience. You get crunchy, toasted bread on one side and warm, soft bread on the other.
GIVE FROZEN FOODS EXTRA TIME TO COOK: Use the defrost setting for optimal cook time and flavor when toasting frozen breads and waffles. Just press one button to defrost and toast.

Reviewer: Robert Lewis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: works good, looks old style cool on the counter
Review: good toaster. even toasting and the controls work as advertised. one small thing to know. Toaster is not a cool sider. gets hot to the touch on the sides during/after toasting. Not a deal breaker but not something for younger children to use perhaps…

Reviewer: Suz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to use
Review: The size is perfect. Only needed two slice toaster. Great price. It’s toasts evenly. Has several choices for heat level. Only smelled the first time I used it.

Reviewer: VanguardLH
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More 1-side toasting than 1-slice toasting. Wide slots. Toasts well.
Review: “One slice” actually means “one side”. The outer heating elements for both slots come on, and stay on during the toasting cycle. The inner heating elements (both of them, one for each slot) turn off halfway through the toasting cycle. There is no toasting of 1 slice. There 1-side toasting in both slots (whether you use 1 or 2 slot). Bagel toasting usually has the outside (skin) of the bagel to the outside, and cut side inward. The outer elements only partially heat to prevent burning the skin on the bagel. With this toaster, you have to reverse the procedure: cut side outside, skin side inside. That’s because the so-called 1-slice mode is also the bagel mode. The instructions note the reversal of bagel position, and the decal on the toaster also shows orientation (cut side outside). First toaster I’ve had where toasting is reversed, but it probably works. I can’t see how 1-slice mode will ever work, since both slots get heated, not 1 slot, and the inner elements turn off halfway through toasting cycle, so the inside of the bread is toasted less than the outside. As for making toast, works great. Not perfectly even toasting across the bread, but no toaster does that. For 1-cycle toasting (no flipping over the bread halfway during toast cycle), it toasts just fine. A little more toasting at the top, but then even tots know heat rises. Slots are more than wide enough to accommodate bagels. Slots are 5-5/16″ long. Should work with wide-pan breads (5-1/4″), but I haven’t bought those for a long time. The old Hamilton Beach toaster was pretty much the same as this one, but with a couple extra features, and it worked okay with wide-pan bread although it was a tight fit, and the toast might not popup, but you could lift using the lever to clear the top of the slot. The lever rises up (boost) to lift the top of the bread above the top of the toaster for easy grab of toast without burning fingers on metal shroud. Don’t know why toasters nowadays have their power cords attached to the front of the toaster, and this one is the same way. I have a power strip nearby to use with the toaster, so a short cord is not a problem. Prior toaster was very slow, and often required 2 cycles to toast the bread. This one toasts in 1 cycle, and I can see the elements are hotter than in my old toaster. Instructions recommend against toasting Pop Tarts or other pastries, because the sugar coating melts onto the shroud or onto the cage holding the toast in place in the slots. Does have the 1-slice, er, 1-side/bagel setting, so you could angle a Pop Tart into the slot, so the frosting doesn’t contact the cage. 1 point deducted since 1-slice toasting in 1 slot is instead 1-side toasting in both slots.

Reviewer: Dogs r my fave
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: good purchase
Review: So pretty and the polish finish just keeps shining. Several settings makes it a choice too ! Yes I Recommend

Reviewer: B. Powers
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Disappointed
Review: I bought this toaster because I had an older version of the same model that worked great for years. After that toaster gave up the ghost, I bought this toaster. It’s awful. Even at the lightest setting it ALWAYS burns our toast. I am very disappointed.

Reviewer: Richard C McRay
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect toast !!!
Review: I like the clean classic 50s look, simple but needed modern day features. Yes it makes toast perfect and works very well with bagels, waffles frozen or not. Price was good considering the quality and performance so far. Time will tell how good it really is. My Grandfathers real 1950s toaster is still toasting like new for the boomer generation. Alas my uncle won’t let it go until he passes. So I had to settle for this toaster, so far it has proved a good choice.

Reviewer: GrannyB
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful Retro look
Review: Loved this toaster. I had one for 40 years and suddenly it stopped working but I wanted one as closely resembling my old one as I could get.It looked great but unfortunately didn’t work.Amazon was great about returning it and I got my refund quickly.

Reviewer: Neal clark
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Toast
Review: Works great.I can toast my bread just the way I like it.

Reviewer: M.Knox
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Toaster only grills upper half of slice of bread and have to manually raise the bread to retrieve half cooked toast

Reviewer: Irene Ieno
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Rapidisimo y muy practico.Muy feliz con este producto

Reviewer: Hans cierson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: works well

Reviewer: Omar
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: El tostador llegó bien embalado: dentro de su cajita de fábrica y ésta dentro de una caja de Amazon. Hasta allí todo bien (el breve instructivo trae versión en español). Aplausos. Pero al tostador, pese a su apariencia “impecable” le faltan 2 gomitas en 2 de las 4 patitas que tiene en su base. Esto lo hace inestable, sin duda. Su tamaño es menor a las medidas que se anuncian en Amazon México, por lo que resulta un engaño (que puede pasar por alto o no). La estructura metálica no parece de acero inoxidable; es decir, si acaso lo es, se ve delgada, frágil y endeble, casi como una lata fácil de abollar. Pese a su apariencia de espejo, adhiere con facilidad las huellas digitales (promete, con ello, tornarse mugroso a la mínima manipulación y más aún con el paso de tiempo). No tiene la robustez de un tostador Oster NI EL ASISLAMIENTO AL CALOR que éste sí tiene, ni su repelencia a las huellas de las manos y dedos. Por si fuera poco, la innecesaria etiqueta o pegatina que trae pegada a un costado implicaría maltratar la estructura, si no tienes, de antemano, la habilidad para despegarla sin causar ningún daño. Para probarlo lo encendí (sin introducir ningún pan) y vi que se calienta muchísimo y por ende se advierte que PONE EN PELIGRO AL USUARIO DEL DÍA A DÍA, ya sea adulto, viejito o niño, que por distracción (o por las prisas) lo tocara estando calientísimo: te quemaría y el violento reflejo al retirar la mano podría ocasionar otro accidente. En fin, tendré que devolverlo y solicitar el reembolso.