I haven't had a toaster for some time now and we invested in the Breville 'Lift & Look' Pro. I love the ease of the settings, can stop it anytime at the press of a button, 'cancel'. I mainly use it for toasting fresh bread, sometimes the top of the bread is over toasted compared to the end. Can over toast if the toaster is used more than once, so I automatically reduce the setting. Toasts crumpets and they come out fine.

Paid $99 for this toaster in Myer two years ago. Recently it just pop the toasts up whenever it feels like it. Now it does not stay down at all.
I always went for the Breville brand for kitchen appliances and thought it was a good brand. Very disappointing. Now I shall look at some other brands for my appliances in the future.

My biggest issue with this toaster is that the toasting time is all over the place. It just pops up whenever it wants to. Sometimes it will beep at me & not stay down at all. Other times it will stay down for 10 seconds, other times 60 seconds. You can never predict it! It's very frustrating when you are busy getting the kids ready for school & you have to keep running back to the toaster to push it back down again.

Considering it was not a cheap toaster, I expected a lot better. Next time I will get a standard toaster without the fancy functions.

Bought this toaster 17 months ago and in the beginning it was quite good apart from the annoying several times it would beep at me and wouldn't let me put my bread down?? It now only toasts my bread when it feels like it.The back element doesn't heat up all the time.I thought I had purchased the bee's knees of toasters....WHAT A BUST

The Breville toaster shure looks robust and I am shure it is but after around 11 months use it stopped working, We returned it to the store Billy Guyets and they sent us a new Breville (same Model) we have been using it now for around 3 months with no trouble and are satisfied with
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Whilst the toaster has lots of good features, it is a pretty pricey toaster and worked well. Until a loud pop sound resulting in all the lights continuing to happen, but alas no heat generation. So appears some sort of heating element failure. One week past the twelve month warranty. Alas.

Making a toaster that does what it says, ie makes toast, isn't rocket science. I mean, how hard can it be? Obviously for breville very hard. This toaster has been replaced, but does the same thing as the original. When you press the leaver to toast, it pops back up. After a few attempts it stays down, but then you find that the bottom half of the bread is toasted before the top half. So to compensate I invert the bread half way through the cycle and go through the pop up routine again. May as well have an old-fashioned manual toaster. For a company that can make some good products this one has to be their worst.

It was probably among the most expensive toaster to buy, but a friend of mine had it and so before buying it I perfectly knew how well it works. It has settings for crumpets, fruit loaf slices or normal bread. Everything comes out perfect. Nice design, easy to clean too.

The toast always pops up before it has finished, sometimes it happens straight after it is put in. It's now happening more frequently and sometimes I have to push it down 6+ times to get a lightly toasted piece. It also has the standard toaster issue of not toasting evenly

So this was my third Breville toaster in a row after returning two Bit More Plus toasters. I was hoping that paying that bit extra may solve the problem I had with the others, but unfortunately they must all share the same mechanics, because I was disappointed again. These have the Bit More button, which is supposed to just give you that little extra hit if the toast pops up underdone. Well no, it just kept on toasting until burnt. And when I put toast in at the max setting on defrost it still often came out underdone. I called Breville customer support, and all they said was to return it. Not helpful at all. So I opted to replace with a Sunbeam which I'm loving.

Bought this toaster as the element on the old one was starting to go. This new toaster seems to be even worse! It is extremely uneven and you can see the elements are all at different intensities. Try to toast crumpets on crumpet setting and end up black on one side and not cooked on the other. I would say not fit for purpose.

The toasting was never even and so I had to keep flipping the bread over. The Lift and Look was not as high as I would have expected. Mine only had a life of 4 years and I only used it on Sundays. It looks pretty and suited my decor but unfortunately didn't deliver.

That toaster maybe the worst I ever has,completely uniben toast,plus level toast some time let just little toast,and next time,in the same level,bernd the bread.I have to give away to charity.Unbelievable in Breville une of the best company in electric products.Bear in mind that toasters are very hard to find one very good.

The toast finished beep did not work so I took it back to Myer. The second one did not beep and had the toast popping up prematurely. Returned it and got my old one back. Rang Breville and was told to take it back again. Chances of getting one that works? After 3 trips to Myer and the fact that they had sold out I asked them what to do - take it back and get a refund was the response. I asked them if they could test one and send it out to me - impossible as they have no testing facilities. Breville contacted the National Sales Manager and told me to get a refund. Clearly Breville are not interested in providing any customer service.

This toaster is unable to reliably complete a single cook. Purchased one a couple years back, and it was great for the first year, but 2 months out of warranty it would randomly prematurely pop. Extended warranty replacement, new one has the SAME ISSUE, only 2 days old! Never Again!

Unfortunately this toaster although cooks toast well takes forever to cook it. I put the toast in then go off and do things rather than stand around waiting. Would I buy another 1, not in a heart beat. I gave away my old 4 slice toaster as we didn't need something that big and downgraded to a 2 slice but also downgraded our quality. It almost appears the toaster is not functioning properly but if you adjust the setting it still takes a long time or doesn't cook it enough.