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Toasters. I go by weight to determine quality. I quite like the sunbeam four slice toaster.
 
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Toasters and kettles - any recommendations?
I bought this in 1984, still use it daily, never needed any repairs. Sunbeam. I like the way it softly lowers and raises the bread/toast, and seems to determine toasting by colour not time.
 

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Not an appliance but a kitchen tool, I had to buy a new can opener and went with Victorinox

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as this one is absolute rubbish and barely opens the tin.
It would be easier to throw the can against a brick wall to get it open than use this
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I have had a MagiCan opener for decades and still going strong. I wouldn't want anything else.
 
I bought this in 1984, still use it daily, never needed any repairs. Sunbeam. I like the way it softly lowers and raises the bread/toast, and seems to determine toasting by colour not time.
We go one of those for a wedding present, exact same colour. It lasted about 40 years. Sadly it stopped lowering.
We bought a Breville, its ok but not as good as the sunbeam one😢
 
Love our Breville 4 slice toaster, bought one for mum in laws house as well AND I used Qantas points to get it as I had a parcel of points to use 🤣


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I have the lengthened version of that one that can do 4 “normal” size slices or 2 long slices of bread. Been quite happy with it to date.

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We had fair life from a 4 slice Breville as above, but a replacement died within weeks followed by several other hopefuls.
I was a bit amazed at the parade of new junk passing through, some didn't even work out of the box !
I then bought a 4 slice Kitchen Aid for more $$ which also died.
The replaced under warranty KA toaster has ,however , been happily toasting away for many years now without fault.
 
I have the lengthened version of that one that can do 4 “normal” size slices or 2 long slices of bread. Been quite happy with it to date.

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I have had a good run with Breville (2 slice) which costs only around $25. Great value when you consider many expensive toasters die too early. So far around 10yrs but 18 months ago I thought it was about to die so bought a replacement. That was enough for it to get a second wind and behave itself. ;)
Did the same with the cheap Breville kettle and now I have both replacements sitting in readiness for JUT use.
 
Toasters and kettles - any recommendations?
MrsK went down the Delonghi route, for our new kettle and toaster. I think it was the shade of green that won her over - although it looks like the green isn't available for the kettle anymore.
 
Russell Hobbs Kettle with temperature control and Keep Warm button...i can never go back

Previously purchased the Target version but when I saw the RH one on sale for $66 I had to buy it for the holiday house.
 
Tonights Ninja-Creami experiment was vanilla mango. Similar recipe as prev posted but I added some mango from a can, as fresh mango not in season yet, and some juice and blended all and freeze.

Spin on lite on the ninja deluxe and hubby said it's yummy. I'm not a fan of mango but it tasted good. I will mix in some mango pieces after spinning next time and Mr Denali suggested some coconut.

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Next experiment will be pistachio.
 

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