Breville Smart Toast BTA830

All of my family absolutely loves this toaster, though I agree with other reviewers that it’s not as durable as it could be.

Both the “bit more” and “lift and look” features are genius. I love the long and wide slots that fit slices of sourdough and Turkish rolls.

Here are the issues:
- My first unit had an element fail after six months, but I got the toaster replaced under warranty
- The toast cooks more at the top than the bottom, so we need to flip the toast upside down then use the “bit more” button to get it evenly toasted, but that is a...

Loved the design, features
- toaster never toasted equally or consistently - same bread, same thickness, different results
- the worst - exactly 2 years into owning a big flash and toaster is dead

Had a couple of these Breville 'Smart' toasters over the last few years and have to agree with the bulk of the reviews here - they really are rubbish. The 'lift and look' function failed almost immediately on our most recent one, and today the whole unit failed altogether. Even when it was working, the results where less than satisfactory - toast only cooked on one side/burnt around the edges etc. I don't know if the people at Breville take any notice of these reviews or whether they don't give a rats what anyone thinks, but I notice there are no comments from anyone at the company on these pages in reply to what is an almost universally negative opinion of their products.

Bought just over 2 years ago and over the last 4 weeks the elements died, one side at a time. Now I can only toast 1 piece at the highest setting. Don’t buy it - it’s not worth the other features if it doesn’t toast.

Bought it from Myer in May 2017, use it once a week on average. One side of the toaster stopped working after seeing an electric spark. You would expect a toaster with this price ($179) to last longer than that. The quality of this toaster is unacceptable and unsatisfactory

We had this toaster for about 5 years after receiving a gift card for Myer.

We had toast almost every weekday and some weekends to give context on how often we used it. We got it in a red colour and it was always a hit with visitors.

It toasted items pretty well, but I always struggled to get crumpets perfect (could never find the correct position for the slider). The ‘a little bit more’ button always fixed it (it was also good as a warmer for your second or third slice while buttering your first)

We used multigrain, white, whole meal, crumpets - you name it.

I only wish the finishing ‘beep’ happened before the toast began to rise - it always did it after the toast had finished rising and had begun to cool.
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Hit the lift and look button and shorts the main switchboard. Hardly used but of course out of warranty. Sent an email to Breville, response I got was to throw it out. No concern why shorting and given other reviews seems like a common issue.

Had this $169 toaster for just over 2 years, not used every day of the week but is now dead. Literally died in a flash, tripped the house safety switch and again when checking whether it still worked. Was a good unit while it worked, but clearly from our experience and other reviews there is a fundamental flaw with the quality of electrical components used and therefore a safety issue.

If we had bought a $9 Kmart or BigW toaster then just over 2 years occasional use would be fair, at almost 20 times the price it's unacceptable, particularly with no service parts available from the maker. In a house where we also have a Breville kettle, sandwich press, blender etc sadly we will not buy Breville again.

Avoid.

Ive got alot of breville products, and sadly this one has ruined the brand for me, its lasted just over 12 months, so out of warranty... one side just stopped working....

Update - Seems Breville might reassess my units warranty cover as I got such short lifespan. I was told the units are on the whole good, but some fail early.... evidently i got a bad one. Hope they replace! This would certainly redeem my thoughts of the brand.

Sadly our toasters keep breaking! Our first one stopped popping up and we're now on our second and one side has stopped working. Really disappointing because it's a nice toaster, looks great and toasts well but too many faults especially for the price. Luckily we got an extended warranty!

Well, I am amending my review.
As I said I would if this thing failed.

I have also downgraded the rating from 5 to 3 star

Well its been a month or two and the first failure was the Fruit bread setting.

The blue button no longer lights up so this is going back to the retailer .

The comments below are my initial impressions and I removed a couple of paragraphs...

Whoever the Industrial Designer of this toaster was got the builtin obsolescence bang on. First one stopped toasting on one side after 23months. Replacement one had the same issue after 9months. It's not a cheap toaster so should be made with much better internal components and materials.

Purchased Breville BTA630 circa 2016 failed within warranty period, Elements in one side not working.
Retailer had no replacement stock so we took the money and went to JBHiFi in search of a replacement.
BTA630 discontinued so we purchased Breville BTA830 20 04 2017. The BTA830 looks the same as the BTA630.
Our new BTA830 failed within warranty period. Button backlighting would spontaneously flicker on and off during the night and intermittent failure to operate.
Warranty replacement BTA830 from JBHiFi 13 01 2022. This one failed on 05 08 2022...

The toaster was great for a little while, I've had this for around 9 months. Tonight it caught fire, not within any crumbs but the insulation at the top where no crumbs even go.

I was very lucky to be watching it cook while I had a pan on the stove next to it, noticed for about 20seconds one side of the toasters element wasn't lit and a little spark at the top which I thought was maybe the element trying to light - kept watching and it appeared to light and then went out- then started a tiny fizzle of fire. I quickly popped the toaster and th...

Works well while it is working. Just stopped working with all lights blinking while toasting some bread and will no longer work. This is just past the 2 years warranty. Really poor durability.