Morphy Richards Slice Toaster

There didn't seem to be much wrong with my old toaster... it did the job... well, to a fashion - it turned bread into toast (ok, so it was always dark at the edges and pale in the middle, but it was toast). There didn't seem to be any reason to change my old toaster, until a Tradex leaflet popped through the door promoting their special offers - included amongst these was the Morphy Richards Europa toaster at only £14.99 - seemed like a good price and worth a look. The toaster itself is granite in colour (kind of dark grey with tiny sparkly flecks in that only show up in certain light), however it is also available in white. It is the traditional toaster ...

I recently blew up our toaster, this was not a good move due to the popularity of toasted bread products in our family, and so I was dispatched to the local Argos store to pick up a replacement. I had a number of gripes with our old toaster anyway, never before having worried about such things I had previously got the cheapest toaster money could buy, well it was only going to be used for making toast and all toasters are the same aren’t they. Well it would appear they are not, the old toaster was supposed to do 4 slices, but if you use the square bread we could only do 2 slices and I was often poking plastic things into the toaster to reclaim my lost ...

Since receiving this "British racing green" toaster as a wedding gift over 2 years ago, it has seen many slices of bread pass through its filaments, giving our family many rounds of tasty golden brown toast. Pikelets, muffins and pitta breads have also taken a grilling on the various heat settings this appliance has to offer. I find that somewhere between 3 and 4 gives the ideal setting, any more than 5 and you'll set the smoke alarms off and have the fire brigade round for breakfast. It is a shame that only 2 slices can be toasted at once, and the thicker slices of bread don't fit in too well, though it does have a handy "defrost" ...