Cuisinart 2-Slice/4-Slice Metal Classic Toaster

by Cuisinart

Product Features

• Dual control panels make this two toasters in one with smooth brushed stainless housing.
• Custom control: 6-setting browning dials, dual reheat, defrost and bagel buttons with LED indicators
• 1-1/2 inch - wide toasting slots, extra-lift carriage lever, slide-out crumb tray
• Instruction book included
• 3-year limited warranty

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.1 x 7.1 inches ; 4.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000H48EHA
• Item model number: CPT-160BCH
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (238 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,991 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Color: Black Chrome | Size: 2-Slice

Amazon.com Product Description

Cuisinart Metal Classic Toaster

Cuisinart's Metal Classic Toaster has a smooth brushed stainless housing with polished chrome and black accents. Its custom controls let you defrost and toast bagels and bread -- just the way you want them!

Press any of the four buttons, bagels, reheat, defrost and cancel, to fit your toasting needs.

The browning control sets the desired toast color from light to dark, with six browning levels.

Product Features

• Smooth brushed stainless housing with polished chrome and black accents
  
• Custom control: 6-setting browning dials, dual reheat, defrost and bagel buttons with LED indicators
  
• 1-1/2-inch wide toasting slots
  
• Extra-lift carriage lever
  
• Slide-out crumb tray
  
• Convenient cord wrap
  
• Instruction book
  
• Limited 3-year warranty
  

Toasting Tips

Toasting is a combination of cooking and drying of the bread. Therefore, differences in moisture level from one bread to another can result in varying toasting times. For slightly dry bread, use a lower setting than you normally would. For very fresh bread or whole wheat bread, use a higher setting than normal. Breads with very uneven surfaces (such as English muffins) will require a higher toast setting. Thickly cut pieces of bread (including bagels) will take longer to toast, sometimes significantly longer, since more moisture must be evaporated from the bread before toasting can occur. Very thick pieces may require two cycles.

Cleaning and Maintenance

Always allow the toaster to cool completely before cleaning. Do not use abrasive cleansers. Simply wipe the exterior with a clean damp cloth and dry thoroughly. Apply any cleansing agent to a cloth, not to the toaster, before cleaning. To remove crumbs, slide out the crumb tray and discard crumbs. Wipe clean and replace. Never operate the toaster without the crumb tray in place. To remove any pieces of bread remaining in the toaster, turn the toaster upside down and gently shake. Never insert any hard or sharp instruments into the slot, as this could damage the toaster and cause a safety hazard. Never wrap the cord around the outside of the toaster. Use the cord storage cleats on the underside of the toaster.

Product Dimensions

The Cuisinart 2-Slice Metal Classic Toaster measures approximately 10.75" x 7.13" x 7.13". The 4-Slice Metal Classic Toaster measures approximately 11.88" x 11.06" x 7.00".

Warranty

The Cuisinart Metal Classic Toaster has a limited 3-year warranty.

Product Description

Cuisinart's Metal Classic toaster has a smooth brushed stainless housing. Its custom controls let you defrost and toast bagels and bread, four at a time-just the way you want them.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, February 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Cuisinart CPT-160 Metal Classic 2-Slice Toaster, Brushed Stainless (Kitchen)

I was reluctant to spend this much for a toaster, but after trying a less expensive one (a Krups, no less) and finding that it made extremely uneven toast, I decided to spend a little more. I exchanged it for this one, and so far, this one makes perfect toast; in fact, I've never seen toast so evenly browned. The defrost works great, too -- I tried it on frozen bread, without changing the 'brown' setting, and it came out looking just like the toast from regular/thawed bread. (Sorry, I don't toast my bagels, so I can't comment on that feature.) In short, this is the best toaster I've ever used, and well worth the money.

122 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Time for an in-depth review of this Toaster, February 3, 2007

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Courtland J. Carpenter (Fort Wayne, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cuisinart CPT-160 Metal Classic 2-Slice Toaster, Brushed Stainless (Kitchen)

I don't think there's a toaster made that is perfect for everyones taste. For years I'd use a toaster oven with a toast timed setting because I could not only do more than two slices, but I could usually get even browning. Now I have this, and have had it for nearly two years. I bought it here on the Zon. One of those kitchen specials they frequently have giving me a good price overall.

The problem with toasters is that not only do some of them vary because of cheaply made or defective thermostats (trust me you ain't paying for a furnace quality control here), but because of the bread. The key to toaster is know your bread. Standard Sunbeam or Wonder bread needs about a 3 on this thing, premium breads do well at 3.5, muffins using the bagel button and so on. Your's may toast a bit different. Realize the science of toasting has to do with both the moisture and fat content of the bread or bagel, or muffing being toasted.

Dry Bialy bread has little fat content and little moisture but takes a 5 or six to get it toasted. Dry grocery store brand standard white will toast using a 1.5 to two setting. It has fat content and no water, probably the best combo to get a fast toast browning. You will also see a big difference in one or two slices, since the overall heat goes up in the toaster a lower setting is typically needed when doing two slices at once.

For features this has a number of simple but useful items. The slide out crumb tray in the back makes for easy cleaning. The button array contains not only the standard toast setting, but settings for defrost and reheat. This helps overcome the problem with stand alone toasters. You need to remember to dial down a little on repeated toastings. My toaster oven used to sense what temperature it was and then adjust the toast time, even though the setting never changed. I know that because it had a digital time readout. It first confused me when I did repeated toastings and the time would decline by maybe fifty percent or more. I noticed later that it always had the same time when cool and much less when it was warmed up. Toasters typically don't do that, so you must. There is also a bagel button which works well on English muffins too.

Additionally I like the feature that allows you to "pull up" on the set bar to remove "short" slices of bread after toasting. One of the old household dangers of toast was people putting in metal knives to remove toast, and getting shocked. Here you just raise it up, and then pluck it out. I toast almost daily, so this has held up two years without any complaints, so I'd say its durable. It comes in colors, but I like the all stainless model, it shines up so nice.

65 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but Ineffective, June 2, 2004

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P. Corning "pcorning" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cuisinart CPT-180 Metal Classic 4-Slice Toaster, Brushed Stainless (Kitchen)

Put in 4 slices of toast and each slice comes up done to a different degree. Worse, for a given piece of bread one side may be done while the other is nowhere close.

When you look down into the 4 slots and see different glow intensities on each of the faces you see why this happens. Another reviewer wrote about getting one bad one, then replacing it with one that worked just fine. I just took back my 3rd one and gave up.

Its looks alone are worth a couple of stars. But I sure wish it worked.

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