Hamilton Beach 24559 Classic Chrome 4-Slice Toaster

Pros: makes great toast and bagels

Cons: a few ergonomic flaws

The Bottom Line: Mr Toaster is a welcome addition to the household. Breakfast just wouldn't be the same without him.

Review: Man cannot live by bread alone; he's got to have a little toast of a morning. The Ms knows that's my mantra, and she also knew that the aging white plastic Procter-Silex toaster in our kitchen was on its last legs - it was either gonna die or I was gonna ...

Pros: looks, good toasting job, and extras

Cons: the wide slots loose small breads

The Bottom Line: The Hamilton beach toaster, it has looks, is very accurate in toasting, and the extra reheat and bagel buttons are fantastic.

Review: With breakfast the only good thing that stands between wakening up and sitting down at a desk for the next eight hours, it is always a plus to have breakfast as faultless as it can be. The sunny side up egg is perfect, the cool glass of orange juice is ...

Pros: Slide out crumb tray.

Cons: Only two types of toast made, warm or burnt.

Review: Our old toaster finally gave out after many years of faithful service. Since my husband eats four slices of toast almost daily, it was imperative that we replace our toaster immediately. We went to the local Target store and bought this toaster for ...

Pros: looks sharp, crumb tray

Cons: toast gets lost in the wide slots, difficult to remove without digging in for it

Review: I gotta say if I hadn't used this & still had the receipt it would be going back to the store! It looks great, the polished chrome matches the stainless steel appliances in my kitchen, but as soon as I took this lightweight model out of the box I knew ...

Pros: Does bagels ok. Looks nice.

Cons: Toast settings symbols confusing. Takes more than one cycle for normal toasting.

Review: I bought this on looks mostly but also for the name. Looks don't toast bread! I ALWAYS have to run more than one toasting cycle on the highest setting. Even though it has a feature to push the toast up it is still hard to get out if slices are ...

Pros: Looks Slick

Cons: Uneven inconsistent toasting, finicky settings, tongs needed to fish out average sized bread.

Review: It is evident that the attention was paid to the look of this unit and certainly not to its function. I am a solid "form follows function" type and if form can match function then congrats to the engineering and design team for an elegant product. Not ...

Pros: This toaster is very attractive.

Cons: Toaster does not toast, is very lightweight, and has a tendency to fall apart.

The Bottom Line: Opt for a toaster with less buttons and lights, and buy one that does what it is intended to do - toast bread.

Review: This toaster has only one problem that I can see - it can't toast! I bought this toaster because I trusted the Hamilton Beach name, and because, to be honest, it looks very good. It has a lot of buttons and lights and dials, and I fell for its ...

Pros: impressive looks - good job with bagels

Cons: bakes sliced bread long before it toasts

Review: We chose this to augment our toaster oven's limited ability to toast bread evenly. The only way that this Hamilton Beach can toast regular bread slices is to bake them first. It is the S-L-O-W-E-S-T toaster that we have ever owned; generally necessary to ...

Pros: Large slots

Cons: Poor toasting Hard to remove small slices Faulty design

Review: I bought this toaster not having read any of the reviews. It is poorly designed. 1) It does not do its primary job of toasting bread well. I had to turn it all the way up to get toast and it was uneven. 2) The upswing to retrieve smaller slices ...

Pros: There are no pros with this toaster that I can recommend at this time.

Cons: Hard to get toast out. Doesn't toast, but either burns or warms.

Review: Chose this toaster because of the styling and fact that the slots are wide and it toasts bagels and the crumb tray is handy, etc. However, it was a huge disappointment. The toast does not pop up sufficiently to be able to get it out of the toaster ...