#A huge dissapointment! (2009-06-15) Looks good. Mechanically it is cheap and nasty. Cooks toast well, but those awful levers for depressing the toast into the grills! One tended to stick as you pressed it down, while the other jammed on 50% of ocassions. It also jammed when trying to eject the toast. We gave up after 3 days and sent it back. Delivery was excellent, and returns is easy with Amazon. But I now do not have the confidence to reorder this toaster as a replacement. I will try another.

#good toaster (2009-06-11) Our toaster stopped working which was a relief because it didn t toast evenly anyway and we de had it for years. My wife liked the look of this one(not perfect criteria for choosing a toaster),but it claimed to do all we required,so we bought it. Each side has a rotary setting knob graded from one to six. When set on three it toasts evenly all over. It has a stting for bagels(hot cross buns ,teacakes etc)which will heat one side and toast the other. Usefull,but it is difficult to extract small items from the slots. You have to switch it off at the socket and ...

#I hope I can keep my toaster for a De Longhi time! (2009-05-30) I received the De Longhi toaster very promptly. Although the Icona is an expensive version of toaster (it can retail at arround £70. 00), it is most certainly worth every penny of it and with the saving I made on Amazon (at least £25. 00)it was even better value! The toaster is stylish with a high gloss, black exterior, it has a contemporary design that oozes charm. Functionally, it is easy to use with a dial for each twin toaster. It has defrost, reheat and bagel controls, I recommend a toasted bagel with cream c...

#Worth the money!! (2009-05-27) Just munching through a piece of toast I decided to review my new toaster as I m delighted with the results! After several years of unsatisfactory toasters, I decided to pay a little extra than before and choose this chunky, retro one. It has that solid, dependable feel about it and I know it will be around for years. No flashing lights or LCD displays- you just turn the dial to set the toastiness and it works!!Simple but effective. I also love the look of it and it hasn t got buttery fingermarks on it at all (despite my regular strokes of admiration...

#HOT STUFF! (2009-05-15) This toaster is one if the best buys I ve had in a long while. Very happy with it.

#Mornings just got simpler (2009-06-04) By now I fully expected to have a robot valet, and to travel everywhere by jetpack. The disappointment has been crushing. But this clever thing almost makes up for all that. Its a genius idea to have a toaster that also poaches eggs. Seems obvious really as you want one with the other. Minor quibbles from me are that the non-stick egg container isn t very non-stick. There are claims it also fries eggs but I am not so sure about that. You might put some oil in there with it but its still a poached egg. The packaging of my one also suggeste...

#The best thing since sliced bread (2009-05-29) Honestly, this toaster is actually the best thing I have ever seen in my life. I never thought it was possible to get so excited about a toaster but this is the shiz! We ve just got one at work and my whole team are so happy. It works perfectly - not like some gadgets that try and venture into other areas of expertise, this has perfected toast and eggs. You can even choose how runny you want your yolk! I m getting one for home for sure!

#FANTASTIC - Great idea (2009-05-14) Bought this item quite recently as needed a new toaster. I have to say I am really pleased with it. It is a great idea to be able to poach your egg while toasting your bread, you don t have to stand watching it like you would if you were doing an egg on the cooker - you can even leave the room and do something else while it s cooking! No complaints at all - a great buy!

#Good eggs... shame about the toast (2009-04-27) This is a generally good piece of kit. It poaches and boils eggs well- can t fault that side of things. But the toaster part is slow and doesn t seem to cope well with normal sized slices of bread. If the bread is square (which is quite a low loaf), it s fine. But if it s a rectangular slice then only the bottom part is toasted, the toaster depth simply is inadequate. Otherwise, though, it s fine and easy to use.

#TOASTER & EGG MAKER (2009-04-17) I HAVE NOW BOUGHT 2 OF THESE FABB MACHINES - MY FIRST PURCHASE WAS FOR MY STUDENT DAUGHTER WHO USES IT NON STOP TO MAKE POACHED EGGS ON TOAST / BOILED EGGS OR JUST TOAST YOU CAN MAKE UP TO 4 BOILED EGGS BUT ONLY 1 POACHED EGG WHICH IS A SHAME BUT THEM BY THE TIME U HAVE EATEN ONE THE NEXT ONE IS MADE NICE AND FRESH FOR U MY MUM LOVED IT SO I BOUGHT HER ONE AS WELL FOR XMAS AND TO BE HONEST 1 POACHED EGG IS ENOUGH FOR HER ANYWAY A GREAT ITEM IF YOU LIVE ON YOUR OWN - NOT PRACTICAL IF THERE IS MORE THAN 2 OF YOU AS IT WOULD TAKE ALL DAY TO MAKE THE POACHE...

#Stylish, attractive, even matches our Aga Kettle (2009-06-02) Yes it is exactly as the title suggests, it does look very nice. The option to either cook 2 or 4 slices of toast is very useful as are the independent cooking controls for each bank of two slots. It does look good, but I would say that as a toaster and an expensive one at that, it leaves much to be desired. It is inconsistent in the length of time it takes to toast bread, even when using uniform sliced bread, the setting of yesterday which left the bread singed at best, renders the bread to charcoal today. Even on ...

#Good looking but slow to toast (2009-05-03) The toaster fits really well with the style of our kitchen, it s a good looking toaster. It is good that it has the 2 levers to toast 2 or 4 slices altogether, as with some 4 slice toasters you have to put all 4 down whether you are using them or not. BUT it takes a long time to toast, the levers don t bring the slices up high enough, so it can be tricky to remove them, and when only using one side the toasting is a bit uneven so slices are browner on one side than the other.

#LOOKS GOOD, TOASTS GOOD ! (2009-04-16) My research for a new toaster led me to choose this make & model based on the (mostly) good reviews seen here at Amazon. Although we ve had it only a short time, it is used daily and we ve found it very good at its job: the two sides can be used independently at differing browning settings to suit different tastes, and we even used frozen bread in one side and fresh in the other, to our satisfaction. Toasted hot-cross buns came out a treat! With any new toaster there is likely to be a learning period while one adapts to the new settings. Reg...

#Nice 4 slice toaster (2009-04-08) Cream and lovely, it toasts very well but it s not very fast, according to the size of bread you might have to lower or higher the temperature. It has a bread crump tray. The plastic gray base finish doesn t look very good.

#Nice all round toaster (2009-04-02) If, like I was, you have found yourself reading endless reviews of toasters, worried about getting a dud or somethign just as patchy or inconsistent as your old one, then my advice would be just to get this one. It s understandable that we spend a long time researching these things - there is something about a toaster that makes it much more important than might otherwise be. We rely on it, it needs to be dependable, and it s often one of the first things we use in the morning, setting the tone for the rest of the day. This one I was relieved to fi...

#toaster (2009-05-24) this is a good toaster but could be better it does not toast both sides evenly, but toast does taste nice.

#Good toaster (2009-03-09) I bought this after seeing it on the Gadget Show as a challenge winner, which saved me a load of hassle in working out what he differences were between the dozens of toasters on sale in all the shops. It looks cool with the blue lights, it works very well, and we happily replaced our previous functional but flawed toaster for this. Breville have clearly thought about functionality, and it has easy crumb removal method, and even browning. Toast tastes better due to that even browning, and because times are reduced compared to my previous cheap toaster.

#Disappointing (2008-10-14) I had heard great things about this toaster and was fed up with cheap toasters only toasting one side of the bread,so i decided to splash some cash on the supposedly market leader. i was so disappointed i opened the box to find no instructions or guarantee paperwork at all. it performed only a little better than my old cheap toaster,with one side dark brown and the other still white. looks good but doesn t do the job. save your money and buy a cheaper model. . .

#One sided toaster (2009-06-29) As Which? state the toaster cooks one side more than the other - this annoys me.

#Best thing since sliced bread!! (2009-06-03) If you are sick of having to put your bread in twice to get it toasted. Then this is the toaster for you.

#Very uneven toasting (2009-05-19) Ended up sending this back to Amazon since, even on the light setting (3 of 8), one side of the bread is virtually untoasted while the other is burnt. Higher settings are unusable. Looks nice and has some good additional features, but isn t fit for the main job. May be a problem with some models as other people seem to not have this issue.

#Great toaster overall (2009-03-30) Nice retro yet modern design, toasts evenly and has plenty of power, quality item, fun to use. Only negative is the bun warmer, the metal tray on top. It is too close to the heat source and burns quickly what is being put on it. An elevated bun rack would have been better.

#Krups Two Slice Toaster (2009-03-27) Lovely looking toaster - stylish and modern. Robust, easy to use and clean, e. g. removal of crumb tray. Bought because it had good reviews compared to others and so far I m really happy with it. Toasts pretty evenly and has a good range of functions, e. g. roll warming that worked surprisingly well.