Technical Details
- Hamilton Beach #22203 2 Slice White Toaster
- HAMILTON BEACH BRANDS INC
Product Description
Proctor Silex Smart Toast, 2 Slice, White, Toaster With Microchip Technology, Auto Safety Shut Off Extra Wide Slots, Toast Boost, Cool Touch, Slide Out Crumb Tray, Self Adjusting Bread Guides, Rotary Shade Selector & Cancel Feature.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
2010-09-26
By margkel
There is nothing more than I enjoy than a cup of coffe or tea with some toast with butter. I have just come home from purchasing this toaster, made a fresh pot of coffee, toasted some wheat bread...I am a happy woman right now. The toast was perfect on level 3, stayed warm while I prepared my cup of coffee, used the lever to pop out the toast, still warm, spread some butter, can't get any better for the price of about $15. Sometimes it's the small things in life that make me happy!
2010-09-23
By G. D. Green (FLORENCE, AL, US)
Love my Toaster, like the feature where I can pop my toast out when I want to check it out.
2010-09-09
By Felix The Cat
This is the best toaster I've ever had. It works wonderful even with oversized slices of bread. I would recommend this toaster to anyone in need of a new appliance.
2010-09-01
By J Darling
I have only had this toaster for a month or so, but so far so good.
Minor design flaw: it is very light, so when you push down the handle there isn't any counter-weight and the other end tips up slightly. They've put a plastic leg under the handle end so it won't actually flip over, and the mechanism requires only a very light touch, so it is not a big deal.
There is some irony here. The catch on the handle of my ancient metal toaster was messed up and I had to bang it down really hard to make it stick, sometimes multiple times. Since it was otherwise doing its toasting job well, I lived with that issue for years. Maybe it helped me release some tension every morning. Whatever. Then, last month I finally got tired of it and came here and bought this little karma toaster which evidently has come into my life to teach me to treat my appliances gently again. Maybe you can imagine what happened when I used it for the first time.
Meanwhile, it makes excellent toast, has a functional push-up feature that lets you grab your toast out without resorting to sticking implements down it, doesn't get hot, takes up a small amount of room, toasts bagels nicely, fits into the cupboard when I am done with it, didn't cost much, has a nice rounded shape, and will probably last years because there isn't much to go wrong, so there you go.
2010-07-25
By TVG (SoCal USA)
The Proctor-Silex 22450 is not a fancy-looking product. If you need a fancy-looking designer toaster to impress somebody, get something else. But if you want a toaster that just does a great job for the money, this is a good choice. Its skin is insulating plastic and is very light in weight. You can just pick it up or slide back to put it away without ever burning your hand. This is a GREAT feature!
As with most toasters, you set the temp dial to the setting you want, pop your stuff in, and push down the load lever. With THIS toaster, if it is unplugged, your bread won't stay down. This is a super handy feature, because when someone unplugs your toaster to charge a cell phone or run the crock pot, you could be sitting there awhile before you notice.
Once you get it going, a red light comes on to tell you it's cooking. That red light doubles as an eject button to get your bread/poptart/muffin back right now, should you become impatient or realize your spouse has turned the heat way up to toast something else.
As one other reviewer has pointed out, this machine does not pop up your toast very much; the secret to getting your toast back is to just slide the load lever up. At first I wondered, why doesn't this thing just push the bread up higher, like every normal toaster? But now I realize why -- it keeps your toast snug in there until you get to it, instead of outside, where it can cool off. I really appreciate this feature now.
Having said that, here are the improvements I'd like:
1) Slightly wider slots, to handle bagels easier
2) Make the crumb catcher a little better -- this one drops a crumb or two sometimes
3) Replace the rotary temp adjustment dial with a vertical slider for an instantly readable indication of the temp setting
All in all, though, the best feature is that white plastic case. It just doesn't get hot. This is a terrific value for the money. We've gotten our money's worth several times out of ours, and it still works great. If something happened to this one now, I'd take another one.
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