Toaster

silver37

I've always used my electric grill for toasting bread. However, I've been told that a toaster uses less energy. I live alone so only need a two slice one. I also want a deep slot one so that I don't need to turn the bread (which will use more energy). Does anyone have any recommendations please?  

Flight3287462

Yes but you can't buy them in this country now and that is a krupps toaster, great bit of kit

What you want to look for is a toaster with a wire heater matrix and not one that looks like a single or two bar heater they don't toast evenly.

Zinger549

Flight3287462 said:

Yes but you can't buy them in this country now and that is a krupps toaster, great bit of kit

What you want to look for is a toaster with a wire heater matrix and not one that looks like a single or two bar heater they don't toast evenly.

They have one on Amazon but it's 4 slots and costs £200

Benny2020

Eat bread.

Flight3287462

This is the type of toaster you want and this one looks ok at first glance and a reasonable price but do your own research.  Finding a toaster that actually lasts a number of years is the holy grail.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-Chassis-2-Slice-Stainless-VTT981/dp/B0942XL6KG/ref=sr_1_13?crid=381MHZI0QM2RF&keywords=krups+toaster&qid=1649255207&sprefix=krups+toaster,aps,71&sr=8-13&th=1

Flight3287462

And for me this is the best value simple 3KW kettle you can buy....all for £10 from Asda!

George Home Black Fast Boil Kettle 1.7L

Gerry1

Flight3287462 said:

And for me this is the best value simple 3KW kettle you can buy....all for £10 from Asda!

George Home Black Fast Boil Kettle 1.7L

But sadly out of stock.

Benny2020

Other kettles are also available at £10 (when out of stock)

macman

The capital cost of even a cheap toaster, maybe £20, which will probably last about 3 years, is likely to wipe out any saving you make over using the grill.
if you want to save energy, turn your heating down by 1C, that will probably save you far more per annum.

Rodders53

You need to time how long it takes to toast via your grill and work out (by reading the specs / manual of the device) how much electricity that consumes.
(e.g. 6 minutes to toast 1/2/4 slices on a 2,000 Watt-hour element =  200 Watt-hours, 3 minutes would be 100 Wh (0.1 kWh or 1/10 of a Unit).

Next estimate how many times a year you toast like that... multiply the two to get a total.
Lets say you eat toast 200 mornings for breakfast and it's the 200 Wh 6 minutes a time... = 40 kWh per annum of 40 x 30p = £12. 

Then look at a typical toaster and apply the same calculation.

My Dualit Classic toaster (highly repairable, but expensive to buy) takes 2.5 minutes typically to do two slices but for ease of calculating the numbers I'll use 3 minutes .  Rated at 1.2 kW.  That's 60W-hours (0.06 kWh) for two slices. Same 200 days. That's 12 kWh per annum or £3.60.

So saving about £8 per year possibly?  Probably less?

We have a 800 W 1970s era toaster in our touring caravan that's going strong, but takes forever to cook bread to toast.

BikingBud

But what about the cheese on marmite on toast? Can't do that in a vertical slot.