Cuisinart 2-Slice Toaster, Compact, White, CPT-122

Not as good as the old ones
How old are the two of these hoping that at least one was not a mistake but both of the ones that I bought only toasted one side of the bread and while looking into the toaster while it’s on you can see that not all of the heating bars were working. I am very disappointed. I’ve always had a Cuisinart toaster until the spring when my old toaster decided to only toast on one side. Now all of the new toasters that I’ve ordered only toast on one side even when you put two slices in only one side of each slice gets toasted .

With a name like Cuisinart, I thought this toaster would be good.
My wife and I had used the same toaster for years and years and were kind of bummed when it finally bit the dust a few months back. We LIKED that toaster. We were perfectly happy with that toaster! But now we had to buy a new one.Perhaps we were out of practice in shopping for toasters. Or maybe we thought all toasters were like our old toaster–You put bread in, it gets brown, it pops up, you butter it and enjoy.Not with this toaster. For starters, finding a proper setting is exceedingly difficult (and rare). Right now, the flimsy, cheap-feeling “doneness” dial is cranked up almost as high as it can go and we still have to push the bread down a couple of times. But then we have to watch it so it doesn’t burst into flames.It’s also very sensitive to how thick or thin the bread is. If it’s thin, it WILL start to smoke before it pops up…apparently because it’s on that higher setting from when we put in a thicker piece of bread?I used to marvel about our old toaster. I once asked my wife, “How is it, no matter what kind of bread we put in, it toasts it just the right amount and then pops it up? How does it know when it’s done?” Well, now I’m learning that our old toaster must have been a freak of nature, because what I’m learning from this QueasyShart toaster is that, not only does it NOT know when toast is done, it doesn’t really care. When it pops up looking like a piece of bread, this toaster seems to say, “Is the bread hot?” “Then eat it, nerd!” Or when it overcooks the bread: “Is it burnt to a crisp? Man up and shove it down your pie hole. I’m not here to do your bidding. I am the captain now!”Oh…and when the plumes of smoke in our kitchen set off the smoke alarm and our cats are totally freaking out, you CAN’T just lift up the handle and have the toast pop up. No, that won’t work. You have to push a tiny dedicated button (at the bottom of a row of buttons) labeled in tiny letters: “Cancel.”I didn’t know it was possible to loathe a toaster, but I am truly rooting for this one’s early demise.

Plastic light-weight
I bought a Cuisinart Classic Style Electronic CPT-70 series stainless steel 2-slice toaster in 2013. It is metal, heavy duty, sturdy and pretty and works so well, but it’s not now not toasting equally on both side. So I bought this as a replacement. This one is plastic, light-weight and feels cheap. I’ve searched and searched to find the one I have, but Cuisinart doesn’t make it any longer; their products just aren’t what they used to be; they’re now cheaply made; I’ve very disappointed in this toaster.

Es algo voluminoso, pero para lo que es funciona perfecto.Siempre he tenido algo de problema con el hecho de que en cualquier tostador siempre se llena por dentro de migajas. Pero este al menos tiene el plus de que por debajo hay una bandeja que uno puede quitar para limpiar las migajas que le caigan.Tiene varias funciones, aunque en realidad solo lo usamos para tostar. Quisimos este porque precisamente estaba muy bien reseñado en The Wirecutter para tostar correctamente, y así ha sido hasta ahora.Muy recomendable 🙂

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