Breville Smart Toast BTA845

I purchased this toaster for $200 and time level from 1 to 4.5 gives you light toast. when adjusted to 5, toast burns. Never ever will I be buying anything breville. here's my review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THuO8SntTHk

The only job of a toaster is to cook the bread.
You would think that spending almost $200 on a toaster that it would do that and more.
The look of it is great, the functions and usability is great but it doesn't evenly cook a slice of bread.
One side is always more then the other, you have to keep turning the bread so it cooks evenly and doesn't burn.
The crumpet function, puts all the heat on one side, so doesn't matter what setting its on, you have to stop it or it will burn.
I actually returned the first toaster because it wasn't cooking evenly (thinking it was a faulty one) but the second one was exactly the same.
Definitely not a smart toaster. My mums $10 toaster cooks better.

I bought this about 8 months ago. I decided to splash out the $159 which was a discounted price from it's original $200 plus pricetag and thought I was getting a decent quality item that would at least do perfect toast and last a long time. To begin with this toaster wasn't bad at all but as time wore on we started to notice how it toasts unevenly just like the cheap ones do. It cooks crumpets only on one side and burns raisin toast to a crisp even on the fruitbread feature it has. On thicker slices in particular crumpets that are frozen and wh

Ba 845 I think. Continually unable to use. This week: Yesterday won't lift toast ... today lights flash ... cannot use. Wasted a heap of money on this item. Toaster will be in the trash today. Buying a cheap one from the supermarket. No need for Breville to post a 'please call' as we won't return to this page.

I was looking for a basic toaster as I didn't see the point in all the extra settings. I bought this one in the end partly because there was a special on it but also because I liked that the slots were wider to accommodate thicker slices of bread. I still haven't used most of the settings has but the Lift and Look function is pretty handy.

This toaster replaced an old Dulit, it is far superior in everyway,
the lift a look the a little bit more and the frozen buttons are all brilliant and work very well.

Nothing like the led display and knowing when your toast is going to pop its a great toaster.

Purchased at Harvey Norman 03/12/2014
Retail price at time of purchase $219.95 paid $150.00

*Lovely 'sherbet' colour, sure to impress!
*All buttons and functions still work and have not faded (2.5 years after purchase)
*Toasting time scale has a good range
*Fruit bread button works well and cooks nicely
*Crumpet function works well and cooks perfectly
*Defrost works well
*Look function works well

I bought this Breville Smart Toaster on Wednesday 29th March, I have used it once and then the next time I went to use it the right hand side does not heat I can find nothing about troubleshooting in the manual, so back to The Good Guys today (Sunday) for a replacement. I have checked all the power points and each one working fine. For an expensive toaster I would have thought I would have gotten more joy out of it.

Absolutely love this toaster. Having a family that eats toast and crumpets we've found this to be an excellent toaster. White in colour looks great in our kitchen and the functions (eg. "a bit more") are wonderful. Crumb trays are easy to use and the 4-slice capacity allows numerous people to toast at one time. Only slight negative is being careful not to put very thin slices of bread onto the leaver as it can slip down the side into the base and is almost impossible to remove but this is a human error.