The Smart Planet grilled cheese toaster has a knob where you select the desired level of browning. The lowest shade is 1, while the highest is 7. The advantage of this toaster is that you do not have to monitor your sandwich. When it is done, it will pop out and not end up being burnt. The Smart Planet toaster comes with a sandwich cage where you can prepare grilled cheese sandwiches. You just need to put the cage with the sandwich into the slot and the toaster will toast the bread and melt the cheese. You can prepare two sandwiches at a time. The number of toasting levels: In a household where everyone has their own toast preference, there is nothing better than a toaster that has several levels of browning. The only time the R180 tripped up was with Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, the frozen pastry version of Pop-Tarts. The toaster made the crust hot and flaky, but it didn't warm up the frozen filling, even after I selected the toaster pastry option and set it to frozen. Experimenting with toast settings can produce better results in an outlier case like this, but out of the box, the toaster pastry preset isn’t tuned well for Toaster Strudel. So, what's our hot verdict? Making breakfast for more than one person is made much easier when four slices of bread can go in at once. There's no waiting around for toast to get cold – everyone gets a hot slice, it's a breakfast miracle in our house!

The Krups toaster has seven different shades of browning your toast. It also features the bagel setting that browns only the inside of the bagel and defrosts setting for crispier results. In case you want to stop the toasting cycle, you can do it by pressing the cancel button.

Smart Toasting

The Hamilton Beach SmartToast toaster has extra-wide slots. This means that you can fit homemade and artisanal bread, bagel, waffles, English muffins, and traditional toast. If you toast smaller bread, like English muffins, use the extra-lift lever to retrieve them. Tapping the touch screen brings up a row of various toastable items you can swipe through, including bagels, bread, English muffins, toaster pastries, and waffles. Once you’ve selected the food you want to toast, you can choose whether it’s fresh, frozen, or if you just want to reheat something that was presumably already toasted. For all foods except toaster pastries, you can also select your level of toastiness from 1 (lightest) to 7 (darkest). Smart Toasting While it does seem like a steep price to pay, The Smart Toast's quality, reliability and impressive capabilities mean it should probably save you more money in the long-run. SAGE SMART TOAST REVIEW: DESIGN AND BUILD

As a bonus, if your toast or bagel starts to go cold, the reheat function ensures you get a hot slice without burning it. If you ask us, it’s the best thing since sliced bread. The Krups MY Memory 2-slice toaster features a large digital display on the right side of the toaster. The digital screen shows the remaining toasting time so you know when your toast will be done. Once it is done, the toast will pop out.There is a particular level of goldenness that most people want in their toast and this is where the device really shines. With its ultra-gadgety touchscreen control setting, you can choose a level of heating that matches your bread type. Using colour sense technology, the device adjusts the level of heat based on your chosen settings. The Hamilton Beach smart toaster has 7 adjustable browning shades. Additional features include the bagel, defrost and cancel the setting. These are selected on an easy-to-use control panel. Shades are selected by turning the knob, while settings are chosen by pressing the smart buttons. While using a mild surface cleaner to wipe the exterior of the smart toaster won’t do much harm, using it on the inside or touchscreen can damage the toaster. Plus, it can leach harmful chemicals into the toasting slots that may contaminate your toast. We recommend avoiding using chemicals to clean your toaster. How often should I clean the crumb tray?

Unlike your everyday toaster, this device lets you heat bread whether it's fresh, needs reheating, or is frozen. These features do, however, come with a hefty price tag so, if you're a gadget fanatic or looking to add some serious levels of control to your breakfast game, then it'd be worth considering adding this device to your home appliances arsenal.

Although it’s not huge, it does everything you need it to, and it does it all well. There are six browning functions; we opted for mid-way but noticed that once the toaster was warmed up, we could dial it down a bit. We also think the De'Longhi Ballerina Toaster is reasonably priced for how luxe it feels to use. Its design was noticeably sturdy during testing and the toast comes out with far fewer lines on the bread. Space: Toasters with more features and slices will be larger, so consider whether your kitchen will accommodate them.

While a new toaster isn't the most costly appliance you need to invest in for your home, the best on the market aren't exactly cheap. That's why we've put all of the toasters in this guide to the test - so that you know whether they are worth your cash before you part with it. The Cuisinart Style Collection 4 Slot Toaster is the perfect choice for bagel lovers. It's a more common feature in American toasters to have a bagel setting, which will toast the inside of the bagel while leaving the outside nice and chewy, but because Cuisinart is an American classic brand, we got to experience the joys of a bagel setting for ourselves. One thing to note is that you should place the bagel with the outside facing in if you want the inside to be toasted on the bagel setting. If there’s just one or two of you and you’re not a fan of fancy loaves then we’d say a simple two-slot model with just a couple of functions will probably suffice. Two slot models are also better if you’re a bit tight on space as it’s a product that usually has a permanent, easy-to-access home on your worktop. It also has a defrost button so there aren’t any ‘Oh no, I forgot to take the bread out of the freezer’ moments, while the one side toasting function is good for bagels and the reheat perfect for those of us that sometimes get distracted and leave the toast to cool.The number of slices: Family or larger households may find a four-slice toaster useful, while smaller households may prefer a two-slice toaster.