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Best Countertop Toaster

Updated Jul 9th, 2019 9:28AM EDT

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Transform your boring breakfast by crisping up some waffles or turning your bread golden brown in any of these industry-leading toasters. Whether you like your toast more burnt or lighter, there’s settings for everyone. Need to defrost a bagel for your morning breakfast sandwich? Enjoy the luxury of restaurant-quality food right in your own kitchen. If you’re looking to make top-of-the-line grilled cheese, you have to get that bread toasted first. So be on your way to delicious breakfasts or comfort foods by checking out these three toasters we have hand-selected for you.

Best Two-Slice Toaster

The KRUPS KH732D50 2-Slice Toaster offers a lot of versatility. With its unique design of brushed and chrome stainless steel, it looks great and the two slots can handle enough bread for a sandwich all at once. It is equipped with blue LED lights that let you know what settings you’ve chosen. There are five different settings: toasting, defrosting, reheating, bagel, and cancel. You can adjust any of these settings to fit within six different browning levels, giving you the exact crisp and look you desire each time. It has a removable tray underneath that will collect your crumbs and allow you to easily clean it. The plunger that allows you to push the bread down to toast it has a upward lift feature, so it will push your bread up, making removing it easy.

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Best Four-Slice Toaster

With dual control panels, the Cuisinart CPT-180 Metal Classic 4-Slice Toaster lets you pick settings for either side of your toaster. The two plungers make either the left side or right side go down, and you can pick different toasting levels for either. It has browning settings dials to help you pick the right crispiness. The two sides also have dual reheat, defrost, or bagel buttons. The toasting slots are 1.5″ wide, meaning even the thickest breads and bagel halves will fit. With four legs that have rubber stoppers, it won’t scratch your countertop.

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Best Toaster Oven

To handle larger toasting tasks, a toaster oven is the preferred appliance and the Breville BOV845BSS Smart Oven Pro does the job. It has 10 preset cooking functions including toasting, baking, broiling, roasting, and reheating. You can heat up a pizza or cookies in this 15.75″ x 18.50″ x 11″ convection oven. With the power of convection heating, it speeds up the cooking time. The inside walls are covered in a non-stick coating for easy cleaning. It offers 2400W of power and is equipped with Element IQ technology that evenly distributes the heat. The LCD display makes reading the screen very simple and the interior oven light lets you check on your food.

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