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De'Longhi CT04A Toaster, 4 Slice (Blue) | 
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| Brand: Delonghi
Category: Kitchen
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 37679
Media: Kitchen & Home
Shipping Weight (lbs): 16
Dimensions (in): 20.6 x 13.2 x 12.4
Model: CTO4E
EAN: 8004399760608
ASIN: B0007KWRWW
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 pretty good! April 23, 2008
G. Lithgow (Devon)
had this for a year and works well so far. Yes the other reviewers have a point. It is sold openly as not being cold walled. It toasts things fine and looks fab! Maybe i have lower expectations of my toaster! Other toasters i have had have broken down fairly quickly. so fingers crossed....
 Not quite perfection August 22, 2006
S. Kingston (Midlands, UK)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
For looks it should get five stars.
For toasting it should get two stars (more later).
It looks fabulous; the texture of the coating (non-marking)is quite tactile; the dials are easy to use and the re-heat and frozen button are a bonus. Word of warning though. This is NOT a cool-wall toaster, the outer skin gets very hot during use so I would not advise buying this if you have children who are going to use it.
As good as it looks the innards let it down badly. The bread I buy will not fit in unless I cut about an inch off (batch loaf), and the toasting is not even - either on both sides or in all four slots. About a third of the elements do not heat up enough to glow until more than half way through the timer.
As for the 'high-lift' facility - it doesn't work on crumpets! Even if you are able to lift the crumpets without them getting wedged in the guide rails, they are still not lifted high enough to get them out without sticking fingers inside. I found the safest (if most comical) way to retrieve lost crumpets was to hit the lift lever hard enough to fling the crumpets out of the top and try to catch them before the toaster reclaimed them.
I only wanted to give this toaster two stars (for it's toasting ability), but I couldn't bring myself to do that. I have given it 3 - mainly for its looks.
 Expensive Mistake April 7, 2007
J. Taylor
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this toaster on the basis of it's cool retro looks, assuming that for just under 50.00 it would also actually toast things reasonably well. I was to be disappointed on both counts. The Delonghi takes a very pretty picture, but in the flesh it's all a bit cheap and tacky. The stylish 'chrome' controls are actually flimsy moulded plastic, the metal body is thin - and as the previous reviewer remarked it's not insulated so the whole thing gets absolutely red hot. I burnt my wrist quite badly attempting to extricate a crumpet from the toaster slot. The lifting mechanism is useless for smaller items like muffins and crumpets, you need to get your fingers down into the slots to get them out-whilst making sure you don't touch any part of the toaster's molten casing.
In addition, the slots are not deep enough to toast standard sized slices of bread vertically, or wide enough to pop them in horizontally, so you need to cut about an inch off each slice.
When you do get the bread in this toaster takes an absolute age to toast anything, and then it's very uneven. It makes no difference what setting you have the toaster on, it's very slow and you have to take the toast out a few times and turn it round in order to get any degree of even cooking. I think the main problem is that the heating elements are very fine and the slots are very wide so that the bread is actually quite a way from the heat source - and a lot of the heat escapes through the toaster walls.
I had only had this toaster a month when one of the flimsy levers which raise and lower the bread decided to fail to engage and spat out a shower of silver sparks at me. As it was then only possible to use 2 of the 4 toasting slots I got my money back and for less than quarter of the price bought another brand toaster which actually works. If I could have awarded the Delonghi 'no stars' I would have - to my mind it has no redeeming features whatsoever.
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