Agreed 100%.

We've been using a cheapo £10 tesco or argos one for the past few years. It toasts..

I used Dualit in various places, it does as good or bad a job, can't tell the difference.

I love the Dualit idea, but in the end can't justify the price, not for this particular kitchen item.

I have a ~20 years old Philips toaster cost around (1500 INR)20-30 dollars than. We don't use it every day, but I don't see what can go bad.

Seconded. My Philips toaster is more than 30 years old and in the super cheap bracket.

Every few years I have to shake out the bread remains and that's about all maintenance it gets.

Works like a charm and the outcome is very predictable.

Granted, I only use it for sliced toast bread. But I'm happy with the results.

My biggest issue is with the lever. I have to push it down between 5 and 10 times before it will trigger, without fail. I've had this across most all toasters I've owned.

My second biggest issue is related to the same mechanism: the "pop" is impotent and does nothing to eject what's being toasted. The most I can hope for is that I can manually push the lever up.

The next biggest issue is with heating element distance. If there's anything that is wider than a slice of wonder bread it's going to get sizzled by the heating element. In the worst cases it causes smoke to be emitted for several runs afterwards.

this guy toasts