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Philips HD2618 Aluminium 2 slice Toaster | 
 enlarge | Brand: Philips
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: £69.99
New (3) from £66.99
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 31448
Media: Kitchen & Home
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.5
Dimensions (in): 17.8 x 9.4 x 7.7
Model: HD2618
EAN: 8710103265160
ASIN: B000EYEYUO
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
2 slice,Warming rack,High speed toasting,LCD display with count down,Multi setting including one side toasting
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 Top Toaster October 31, 2006
BarrowBoy (London, UK)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have to admit, this is the first item I've owned that has this kind of aluminum body, but I'm a convert. It may look very different to the normal stainless steel or chrome that toasters are usually clad in, but it's undeniably stylish without being ostentatious and tacky.
Cool doesn't just describe the look. The body of the toaster seems to be constantly cool to the touch even after a few rounds of toast. Without the constant marking and scratches that other surfaces are prone to, it requires less cleaning and will probably last a good deal longer too.
The toasting action is top-notch, with a single versatile slot perfect for everything from normal bread to hand-cut 'doorstops' to pittas, and there are a variety of settings and modes to cope with anything you throw at it. Best of all is the digital display, giving you a running countdown and allowing you to grab your bread at its hottest.
Solidly built, attractive, effective - I've yet to find a single bad thing about this toaster. It may be pricy, but it should last you a long time.
quality toaster January 31, 2007
Mr. M. Dunn (Nottingham)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
great looking toaster with a countdown timer, very well made with a good toasting selection and built in bagel warming rack, can also do one side only toasting and reheating of toast.
Ideal April 22, 2007
Graham Hansel (London, England)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
My wife and I wanted a single slot toaster for taking either two slices of my larger farmhouse loaf, or three of her smaller gluten-free loaf, and this was it. The slot is 26cm long, and it is deep and wide accommodating all sorts.
My wife is a certified technophobe so we were relieved to find the digital controls simple: "+" and "-" buttons to alter the browning level and further the functionality if you want it.
A good tip I leant about electricity was that it all ends up as heat, so you can tell how much electricity something uses by how hot it gets. This toaster runs completely cold on standby and therefore (contrary to what one reviewer suggests) uses a negligible amount of electricity on standby.
 Looks great, toasts badly June 17, 2007
K. L. Holt (Utrecht Netherlands)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Everyone else who's written a review seem to be pretty happy with this toaster's performance, but I'm not. Yes, it looks absolutely gorgeous, and it's incredibly easy to keep clean: it doesn't take any fingerprints whatsoever. But I have yet to get an evenly browned piece of toast from the thing - it's always much darker on the top half than the bottom. Another annoyance is that, by hitting the '+' button, you're supposed to be able to increase the brownness of the toast in six increments. At the second one, the bread is barely toasted, while at the third one, the toast (at least the top part of it) is already burnt. I can't imagine what the higher increments are there for - am sure the bread would be cremated. My colleague, who also purchased this toaster recently, has the exact same problem. I'm giving it two stars because beautiful design and form are worth something to me, but function comes first, and this toaster doesn't make the grade.
Lacks an off switch January 14, 2007
Simon (UK)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a really nice toaster, it makes good toast really quickly which can be important if you are in a rush.
Unfortunately the one problem this toaster has is that it never turns off, after 5 minutes it just goes into standby mode unless you unplug or turn it off at the wall.
This has 3 side effects
1) RF noise - when in standby it interferes with the radio, producing so much noise you have to turn the radio off until the toast is finished and turned off at the wall.
2) Electricity if you do leave it on standby all the time the electricity over a typical 10 year lifespan will be in the region of [...] - a very expensive toaster indeed.
3) If you turn if off at the wall it 'forgets' your preferred toasting time. So the routine to make a slice of toast has become a 6 step process: Turn off radio, turn on toaster, press 3 buttons to set the browning level,press toast lever, turn off toaster, turn radio back on.
My old toaster was much less complicated :(
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