Purchased for my Father at his request. Looks nice but is a toaster…..
Nothing exceptional for the price.

The toast can be made to order by looking at its progress with the lever and really getting an accurate result. It also keeps the toast warm if you like it that way. Love i

Attractive classic styling, well built easy to use and clean. If needed only need to use one element for single piece of toas

I always fancied having a mechanical toaster and have no regrets now we have one. A beautiful thing to sit in the kitchen, and it makes toast!

Will last and give great toast unlike so many other toasters. Yes it costs more, but you will notice the difference. Even toasting. Make sure you preheat and follow the directions!

This is my second Dualit toaster. The first I had for many years and I rashly gave it away to our daughter. I’m delighted to have a new one and it’s as fantastic as the last one. It’s also great to have a product that is made by a British company. I cannot recommend these toasters highly enough. They are so attractive in a contemporary kitchen, very easy to use, toast the bread evenly and exceptionally durable. I wouldn’t buy any other toaster.

Well – I dithered for ages before spending lots of money on a toaster.
I needn’t have worried – apart from the clunky timer (clockwork) this is without doubt the best toaster I have ever had.
It toasts perfectly & evenly.
I did save 30 by buying one that had been returned so the box had been opened but the product unused (made me feel better about the price)

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Makes great toast but the timer control is a little hard to get used to

A fantastic thing that has made our weekends (and sometimes our weekdays, too) so much better. And there wasn’t anything wrong with them before, either. Still, the Dualit has managed to make a whole little family look forward to weekend breakfasts before the weekend is even over. We also got the sandwich inserts, perhaps called baskets, that we now wouldn’t want to live without. Great, great stuff, this!

Expensive, naturally, but looks classic and magnificent, a treat for my refurbished kitchen. Functionally it produces ace toast. The manual lever allow you to check so that you get toast to perfection.

First class toaster, recommend it to anyone.
1 Toasts evenly (most important to me).
2 Toasts in half the time it took my old toaster.
3 Toast is crisp on the outside and soft inside.

Had a white one of these that lasted 38 years. I would have given this one 5 stars but being stainless steel it shows up all the finger marks, wish I had got a coloured one. This is still a superb toaster.

Brilliant! VERY expensive, but IT IS BRITISH MADE! Not many (if any) others are, so this fact alone makes the price worthwhile. It is a wonderful piece of kit and we are very pleased with. If you can go to the price, do so. You won’t regret it.

The perfect companion to our Dualit Classic Kettle despite there being more of the copper element, which is a darker colour, on the Toaster. Robustly made, small footprint and generous double slot for all sizes of bread and fillings. Looks good, toasts good. What’s not to like? Five stars from me.

Really lovely and well made toaster, but the slots are far too small for our needs (so had to be returned). Too bad they don’t make this exact same one with larger slots (especially given that so many types of breads nowadays are larger than the old fashioned standard loaf size).

A beautiful, solid, easy to use and good looking toaster. Evidently I can keep this for ever as it is an excellent build standard and can be repaired. I hope this is the case, to justify the high price, but it does look worth the money. I leave it out on the kitchen worktop now instead of putting it away, as I did with my old toaster – it is a smart addition to the kitchen. And it toasts the bread very well.

This has to be the best toaster on the market. Replaces one that is over 15 years old and in my repair/custom shop (you can get spare parts easily). Easy to use, adaptable to your degree of toasting preference and accommodates thick slices of bread. Can toast one slice of bread without using energy heating a vacant slot.

Can’t fault the build quality and solidity.

Handy hint – if you have toast for breakfast and prepare a sandwich for lunch, popping in a couple of slices of frozen bread after toasting your breakfast defrosts the bread nicely without crisping it up.

A beautiful toaster, which in contrast to the matching kettle (which also looks beautiful but performs entirely normally) – really does seem to toast better than I’m used to !

Bread is evenly toaster and stays in the slot keeping warm when finished toasting (as opposed to immediately popping up and getting cold).

I really do love this toaster. Of course it’s ridiculously expensive but I expect it to last !

I love this toaster so much. You can set it to toast at one slot, two slots or all four slots. The only down side is, when you want three pieces of toast, one will be double cooked on one side. Still five stars though.

It’s a toaster but looks awesome, extremely well built, produces beautiful crispy even toast toast with a moist fluffy inside. Hand assembled and built in the UK, supporting our country. Expensive but will worth the money.

Thanks Barry for building our toaster!

It is a classic Dualit 2 slot toaster and works very well. It is not an automatic pop up toaster, but controlled by a mechanical timer. It takes a few goes to get the timer just right for how you like your toast, for me just over 2 on the dial works and you can raise the toast to check with the lever on the front at any time to see how it is going. The great advantage is that this toaster will not have to go to landfill like my last 3 pop up toasters. It is very well made and robust, you can buy replacement elements and timer for this machine or return to Dualit to repair. I look forward to many decades of great toast!

A solid (literally) and reliable device. It has some heating elements and a mechanical run-back timer, plus a switch that turns on one or both elements. There is so very little to go wrong. This is m second Dualit toaster. I purchased my first over 15 years ago. That’s how long they last. In fact the first one is still working but the mechanical timer is starting to get a bit worn out. I could have purchased a replacement unit and swapped it over, but I figured that after this amount of time the elements were probably getting ready to be changed. I could have also changed these, since spares are available. But the cost of new elements and timer was more than a new unit, and so it was just less hassle to purchase a new one. I don’t resent that one little bit. After 15 years and still working…..

Very good job,by our British brothers!!! This toaster is one of the best things I have ever purchased! My US girlfriend recommended it to me.I tested it in USA ,at her house,where she has the same one,and for me was nothing left ,but to order one for my home in Bulgaria!!! Of course amazon.co.uk is the closest place to buy so i did!!! Very happy with it.It is indeed the Rolls Royce of the toasters as they say!!! One of my best investments lifetime!!! Thank you Dualit!!!

A toaster for life. Still hand made in England. I decided to go for the polished stainless steel option and it’s a real statement. These classic Dualits aren’t pop-up toasters, they use a timer and have a manual lever to raise the toast – very simple to use. Wide slots can accommodate a hand-cut bread. The Vario model has a two/four slot switch. This toaster gives great results as you’d expect at this price. If you’re in the market for an expensive toaster then this is really the one to have. All parts are easily replaced and readily available – Dualit also to a repair service for UK customers.

I love it!!!!! Am so pleased with it, it was on my wish list for over a year and it toasts just how I like my toast. I bought the sandwich toaster that slides into the slot at the same time and have had no problems with width of sandwich being toasted (unlike other reviewers). It looks smart on the work surface and I put up with its large size in my tiny kitchen as its beauty is greater than the recognition of its size!

Lovely solid toaster, looks beautiful and toasts quite well. Nice and easy crumb removal tray and manual lever to lift toast in and out. I’m not sure it’s worth the very high price though, it has an annoyingly noisy timer and doesn’t take bread that is cut too thick. I bought it for looks and a quality brand and it delivers both for me, it seems a sturdy and well made toaster.

What’s so good about this toaster is that it has basic functions that anyone can understand – and, thus, are far less likely to go wrong or break. Especially important is the bread riser, which is hand-operated and which is not a thin metal bar that comes up (which after a while warps and traps your toast), but a thick metal base that the slice of bread sits on all the time – down, and up, with no bother and nothing trapped. Excellent.

You can buy toasters that do everything for you or you can buy a Dualit, it’s back to the old days. Don’t get me wrong, this is a fantastic toaster. A lever to pop your toast up or down, a switch for 2 slices or 4 slices and a clockwork timer for 3 minutes or less of toast cooking, what else do you need, apart from startling good looks.
The timer thingy gets a bit of getting used to, to find your correct level of toastiness for your toast, I reckon about 2.5 mins, which is just dark enough for me.
I also like the pull out tray for the crumbs, very easy to clean. Also, there aren’t many toasters where you can buy spare parts for, most are throw away. I don’t think I’ll need a different toaster ever.
I also bought the sandwich cage which means I can do cheese toasties in it too, and the cheese doesn’t fall out all over the inside of the toaster, simplisity at its best. (British engineering done well)
And I noticed in our local Waitrose cafe, they’ve got one as well…. and they do a lot of toast.

For many years I had a four slice Dualit toaster but like all things it eventually wore out. Not wanting to spend too much money on a replacement I purchased a cheaper make Needless to say the cheaper make was not a patch on the Dualit and went the way of all things. Having been taught a lesson I have now bought another Dualit. It is extremely well made and it has very reliable elements and is so easy to use.I will never buy another make

I bought this around 18-months ago and only now am I writing a review. Why? Because you buy a Dualit for the quality and longevity, so writing a review on day-one somewhat misses the point.

Firstly, the quality. It’s superb. It feels like a professional bit of kit that is built to last, rather than a plastic-formed toy. The dial, the level the switch, they’re all reassuringly high quality. If you set the dial to the same time 100 times, you’ll get the same result 100 times. This might seem a small point, but when rushing around making breakfast you don’t have to give it your full and undivided attention – bread in, lever down (well, up…), dial to your usual setting and off you go. Being lever-based, when done the toast doesn’t ‘pop’ up and get cold. It waits until you’re ready… sure, you can’t leave it forever, but it’s definitely a benefit.

Next, the taste. The main thing I’ve had to deal with is the ‘toasters are all the same’ comments and questions about spending a lot of money on a toaster. This does taste better. As above, it’s consistent so you always get great results, but it doesn’t dry your toast out and remove all texture and flavour and it toasts both sides absolutely evenly.

Now, the cost. Considering the two points above you can see you’re getting value for money. High build quality and excellent end results, that’s enough right? Well, also consider this can be repaired easily and cost effectively. Not that I’m expecting any faults for quite a long time… it’s nice to know when something does go wrong, I can buy one replacement part rather than send this to the tip and buy a new toaster. Being a product from a professional-grade company, you won’t struggle to find spare parts or somebody to service it for you.

Downsides last… just two, really. Firstly, if you set the timer too long you can’t easily cancel it. Not a huge deal as you soon learn the ‘right’ setting, but not ideal if you often change bread types and need to work this out on-the-fly. Secondly and lastly, some of the wider breads don’t fit entirely inside this toaster, they stick out a bit. Fortunately you can lever your toast up and spin it around if necessary, but it is a downside.

Overall a justified five stars, excellent quality, excellent value for money and a definite recommendation from me. It even looks the part too, adding a touch of quality to any kitchen!

Well, 16 years on this toaster is still doing its job fine. Perhaps the elements are getting a little tired, but they’re easy enough to replace when the need eventually arises – one of the reasons I chose this in the first place.

These toasters are undeniably expensive, but beautifully made and designed for ease of maintenance – something very hard to find in this age where everything including >1000 computers is designed to be used then thrown away when any minor component fails.

Durable, aesthetically attractive, ergonomically close to perfection and makes good toast out of a wide range of sizes and thicknesses of bread… if only we’d bought the three slice version all those years ago instead! (Updated – actually, the four slice version would have shown more forethought!)

I purchased this to replace a Kenwood toaster which had lasted 10 years based on reviews I’d seen. I was not disappointed. It looks very smart sitting on my worktop and makes lovely toast. The switch for one slot toasting is handy. Only downside to this is that if you put a waffle in to toast, because the holder is on an angle to raise and lower the item it gets stuck and you have to fish it out. But we have learnt from that episode. I have had this several months now and would definitely recommend i

I really bought this because I liked the idea of a professional type of toaster . I don’t think I would pay so much for a toaster for my residence but it is for a “holiday let”in Largs and I like to put in sturdy good quality items and tenants appreciate it. I have only looked at it so far and it looks good and I reckon it will produce good toast but who knows…I guess someone will use it soon but personally I never toast anything.
It does look nice and feel solid though and should not be confused with the plasticky cheaper Dualit,nice enough though they are too.