Lovely kitchen appliance (Bush TS281 Toasted Sandwich Maker)

Member Name: themasterknows

Product:	Bush TS281 Toasted Sandwich Maker
Date:	06/07/08 (134 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: simple to use

Disadvantages: drippage

The Bush TS281 Sandwich Toaster makes delicious toasted sandwiches in small amounts of time. This little device is compact and can make 2 slices of ordinary bread taste amazing. You can put pretty much anything inside this machine, but watchout, because it make drip down the sides.

...Using the sandwich toaster...

This Bush makes toasting sandwiches a whole lot easier. On the top of the machine you will find one red and one green light that indicates when your sandwich is ready. Before putting your sandwich in, you must remeber to butter the outsides, otherwise things could get messy when it gets stuck to the plates of the sandwich toaster! This is a bit of a disadvantage.

After this time consuming process has been completed, you then put your sandwich in, and clamp the device together, which is very difficult if you don't have the strength. Plus your hands are probably greasy with butter from handling the sandwich.

When all systems are go, the red light will show, and you wait until it changes to green. This usually happens after a few minutes.
So, then you take it out, and you have yourself a perfect toasted sandwich.

This sandwich toaster has a very handy feature, which allows you to remove the hot plates to wash them with greater ease.
But, the downside I find that happens to me is when you have to put them back on, and they fall off and make a huge clattering noise.
Even though the plates are removable, the filling that leaks out of the sandwich seeps down into the nooks and crannies, leading to build up and a dirty old sandwich toaster. You must watch out for this.
Also, as I mentioned earlier on in this review, there is quite a bit of drippage, espacially if the filling is cheese. This drips out and get stuck to the workspace that you spent some time cleaning.

...Appearance...

The Bush is not too pretty when it comes to appearance, since there is a lot of black on it compared to other household appliances. The stainless steel bit on the top modernises it some what, but it still might fit in with the rest of your kitchen.
The cord of this appliance is moderate, with enough of it to reach your plug.

So, overall, it's quite good to use and produces mostly perfect toasted sandwiches, appart from the slight leakages!

Summary: nice sandwich toaster