I usually buy Kenwood toasters, because my experience is that they work well enough for long enough to be worth the £20-30 they cost before they inevitably pack up. I think I've had four of them. The present one (roughly equivalent to this one in the current range tinyurl.com/33o83kl ) is now four years old and on its way out, so I'm wondering what to replace it with.
The obvious choice is another Kenwood - partly because I find the long-slot design works well and fits the space I have for it - but my eye is caught by flashier items like this Breville: tinyurl.com/326mfv3 , which looks solidly made, and has garnered some complimentary reviews from the kind of user who gives the matter some thought rather than awarding a full house of stars because he plugged it in and the light came on.
In hunting about for reviews, one such bears the byline Fenlander, and I wondered if that was our own chap. And if so, is he still pleased with the thing a few months on - and is it worth sixty quid more than another Kenwood? Other views welcome - I should add that we tend to toast almost as many bagels and doorsteps as we do slices from the bag, so we need some versatility in a toaster.
Much obliged,
WdB.
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