Your Toast!
Any way you slice it, toast makes the most of any loaf. But which of these worthy appliances will make toast of the competition?
San Francisco’s Tartine Bakery is as renowned for its gateaux and gamine waitstaff as for the queue that invariably snakes outside the bakery and down the sidewalk. On weekends, patrons swarm, anxiously awaiting a seat in the jam-packed eatery, praying to benevolent brioche gods that the last almond croissant has not been sold. Sadly, if you arrive past noon, it likely has been.
For those lowly souls who aren’t early risers (or Bay Area residents, for that matter), owners Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson have lent their expertise in all things leavened to help assess Dwell’s top picks for the most humble of kitchen appliances: the toaster. A servant to sliced bread since its patent in 1905, the electric toaster has seen little change over the past century, and for good reason:
A simple box, flanked on either side by heated coils and outfitted with a spring-loaded compartment (patented in 1926), the toaster makes palatable even the most wondrously bland bread. Prueitt and Robertson’s bakery is named for what is, essentially, the French term for toast (a piece of bread—–be it freshly baked, toasted, or grilled—–on which something is spread), and Dwell couldn’t think of
a better duo to judge the merits of these five toasters or, as we prefer to call them, tartinerators.
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Ikon Toaster
Stainless steel body and finish with ”lift and look” feature to view toast without resetting the cycle
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Morrison Toaster
White plastic and stainless steel single-slot two-slice toaster with warming tray and photo-sensor browning control
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Lightly browned or dark and crusty? Sliced thin or a thicker piece? The brightly colored bistro toaster comes with adjustable temperature settings and slot widths, plus a warming rack for prepping…
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I have a 4 slice Dualit & it works really, really well for me. If I bought another toaster, I'd get the same thing again. Surprised it wasn't mentioned.
I also have a Dualit that has worked incredibly well for over ten years -- I can't believe this iconic machine wasn't considered.
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