Grille-pain Breville « Un Peu Plus »® 2 tranches

This is truly embarrassing. I complained in my negative review that--among other shortcomings--my new Breville toaster lacked a crumb tray, which struck me as inexcusable. What I discovered is truly inexcusable is posting a review prematurely. "What are you talking about?" my wife asked when I told her about my complaints. She calmly walked over to toaster and slid out a crumb tray, which, in my fog of shocking stupidity, I had not found. "Pretty hard to miss," she said. "Not for me, apparently," I had to admit. So, my sincerest apologies to the Breville company and to any browsing customer foolish enough to trust me.

I used to respect Breville products, but lately my experience has been disappointing. The "A But More" toaster I bought was, in fact, a lot less than expected. Listen, I'm not an engineer, but I do know that toasters have been around for a long time and one would have thiought the bugs would have been wokred out of the system by now. The slots on the toaster are not deep enough to accomodate anything but supermarket-standard rectangular slices of bread. Toasting oval slices? Can't be done without flipping halfway through. The lever that allows you to lift the toast and check for doneness is inadequate. Most surprising: there is no crumb tray. The only way to clean the toaster is turning it over and shaking the daylights out of it and hoping that constitutes a "cleaning." That, or completely disassembling and reassembling. Will I buy a Breville product again? No.