Back to Basics TEM500 2-Slice Toaster
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- Number of Slices: 2 Slice Toaster
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Works great but made of fragile brittle plastic
Pros
Works as advertised
Cons
Two plastic parts broke in normal use
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Strong enough performer to serve as your primary toaster but oh so much more.
Being the veteran gadget freak that I am and often having to leave the house for work at 4 a.m., long before the convenience stores open, I couldn't get my credit card out fast enough to order one of these.
The UPS truck showed up at my door in record time and we put this honey to work.
Echoing prior reviews (why did it take so long for this to be a reviewable product) this thing does it's job's, poached, hardboiled, scrambled and oh yeah, toast, beautifully albeit with a few stumbles and quirks.
When cooking eggs it's critically important to measure just the right amount of water to pour into the heating tray. It's kind of amazing because the differences between the amounts needed is tiny. To help in this task, Back to basics provides a little plastic measuring cup (it even has an egg piercing needle, piercing needed when making hard boiled eggs, thoughtfully recessed and out of harms way on the bottom) Then why is it that the measurement lines are so hard to read. I mean on one side of the cup are 3 lines for different softnesses of poached eggs and on the other side are measurement lines for use when boiling 2, 3 or 4 hard boiled eggs with 3 or 4 different doneness lines for each quantity. All of these lines are molded into the plastic cup and extremely hard to read. I use a single line for poached egg most often and have used a sharpie marker to highlight that line. My eyes aren't that sharpie in the morning, hah!, pun intended.
We have a top of the line Cuisinart toaster oven but this egg and muffin toaster has become our primary toaster unless we're making more than 4 slices at a time or have large specialty sliced bread or bagels. The shading adjustment is adequate for our needs.
The availability of pre-cooked meats, even bacon has not proved a problem for us.
Well there's good news and then there's bad news. Here's the rest of the story (apologies to Paul Harvey). The little egg cooking tray is made of metal but it has a plastic handle, one day the handle broke and flaked apart in my hand. I phoned Back to Basic's customer service line, number provided in the manual, and an unsurprised but nice as can be customer service rep said she'd sent out a replacement right away. Right away eventually turned out to be several weeks later after a second part of the unit, the whole egg holding tray cracked in several places and I needed to call B to B again. A couple of weeks later both parts arrived in the same padded envelope.
The egg and muffin toaster is available in any color you desire as long as it's BLACK. I really don't know what the sales figures are for this unit but I guess that if you wait long enough it might match your other appliances.
Would I buy one of these again, you betcha!
We've had our BtoB EAMT for several months and in spite of the plastic problems (which actually did'nt affect using it) it's still going strong.
The UPS truck showed up at my door in record time and we put this honey to work.
Echoing prior reviews (why did it take so long for this to be a reviewable product) this thing does it's job's, poached, hardboiled, scrambled and oh yeah, toast, beautifully albeit with a few stumbles and quirks.
When cooking eggs it's critically important to measure just the right amount of water to pour into the heating tray. It's kind of amazing because the differences between the amounts needed is tiny. To help in this task, Back to basics provides a little plastic measuring cup (it even has an egg piercing needle, piercing needed when making hard boiled eggs, thoughtfully recessed and out of harms way on the bottom) Then why is it that the measurement lines are so hard to read. I mean on one side of the cup are 3 lines for different softnesses of poached eggs and on the other side are measurement lines for use when boiling 2, 3 or 4 hard boiled eggs with 3 or 4 different doneness lines for each quantity. All of these lines are molded into the plastic cup and extremely hard to read. I use a single line for poached egg most often and have used a sharpie marker to highlight that line. My eyes aren't that sharpie in the morning, hah!, pun intended.
We have a top of the line Cuisinart toaster oven but this egg and muffin toaster has become our primary toaster unless we're making more than 4 slices at a time or have large specialty sliced bread or bagels. The shading adjustment is adequate for our needs.
The availability of pre-cooked meats, even bacon has not proved a problem for us.
Well there's good news and then there's bad news. Here's the rest of the story (apologies to Paul Harvey). The little egg cooking tray is made of metal but it has a plastic handle, one day the handle broke and flaked apart in my hand. I phoned Back to Basic's customer service line, number provided in the manual, and an unsurprised but nice as can be customer service rep said she'd sent out a replacement right away. Right away eventually turned out to be several weeks later after a second part of the unit, the whole egg holding tray cracked in several places and I needed to call B to B again. A couple of weeks later both parts arrived in the same padded envelope.
The egg and muffin toaster is available in any color you desire as long as it's BLACK. I really don't know what the sales figures are for this unit but I guess that if you wait long enough it might match your other appliances.
Would I buy one of these again, you betcha!
We've had our BtoB EAMT for several months and in spite of the plastic problems (which actually did'nt affect using it) it's still going strong.
