Sunbeam Cafe Series (page 3 of 5)

Worst Toaster I have ever bought, sick of toasters breaking over the years, i thought that by paying almost $200 I would have a quality product.
Instead this was the most expensive and worst toaster I have ever purchased. Uneven, slow, only half of it worked and then stopped working altogether. Will not be replacing it with another Sunbeam toaster.

There is a 5 year warranty on the element but I cant find my receipt as Ive moved house and even though I had all the serial numbers in front of me I spoke to two people at Sunbeam and without th...

2 months old and broken, so disappointed. One lever is stuffted so we can't lift out the toast. Never again! We were after a hardy trsuworthy appliance, all want is to be able to toast bread, I mean how difficult is it in 2014 to design a product so basic?
the promise of quality
the reality. Lever broken after 2 months purchased.

I bought the 4 slice toaster thinking that paying an arm & a leg would get me something that would do a great job & last for years.
I don't consider 5 years of use good value.
The slow toasting in our busy household drove us crazy, but we gritted our teeth, knowing by reading product review there were lots of complaints about this & that it wasn't a fault.
Now the toast pops up, but the element stays on, burning the bottom half of the toast.
We almost have had a fire twice- despite being in the kitchen at the time.
It's too dangerous. It's going in the bin

Too slow to toast. Now it won't turn off.

I owned several toasters over the years and this one is the best of the lot. It feels well built and has sturdy buttons and levers. I love that this toaster has crumpet buttons to toast from just one side of the slot. Not many of the other brands of 4 slice toasters had this. The toast is very consistent with how brown it toasts the bread. We previously owned a cheaper toaster and it would toast darker if it was already warm. The cord of mine was damaged by my daughter and Sunbeam replaced it promptly. Love their customer service for all my Sunbeam products.
Modern look, separate controls for both sides, crumpet button, perfect customer service.
pricey - this is to be expected for a quality product.

Looks great, works well and produces nice crunchy fairly even toast. The crumpet setting works well, so far so good. Can make 4 pieces of toast with different settings for left and right sides. Crumb tray very easy to remove. It seems fairly well built, maybe not quite commercial quality but definately better than most other toasters out there.
Looks, relatively even toasting, crumpet setting, separate controls for left and right, easy to remove crumb tray.
Pricey

We just purchased a new Sunbeam TA9400 toaster expecting commercial grade quality and endurance.

Unfortunately, the toaster did not work from the outset.

Only one element is working, but its heating control is stuck on maximum and it simply burns bread to a cinder. The lever mechanism on the left side does not work at all.

Considering the price of this item and the fact that it was purchased new (as a gift), we are extremely disappointed in this outcome.

Unless the item is immediately replaced (it was brand new), we will not be b...

This toaster is great. It actually creates nice crispy toast without burning it, and without drying it out too much. We make our own sourdough bread and toast it, so I haven't tried it on normal shop bread, but I do think it's the best toaster I've ever owned. The long warranty was a bonus.
Toasts nicely and evenly. Nice pop-up mechanism. High lift to get small bits of toast out easily. Long warranty.

Looking at toasters for a while now, Have had two cheaper brands in the past 4 weeks with no luck so decided to spalsh out and get what I thought we be a quality item, our previous Sunbeam was 18 years old when it gave up. I bought the first one home on Tuesday, and it burns one side of the toast and leaves the other side white, if you press the crumpet button it works better and does not have such a drastic differnce between sides, but this opposite to how its meant to work. Took it back today and decided to try another one, got this one hom...

FIRE! The toaster failed to pop up ( it was on low setting) the toast/toaster caught fire. The toaster was very expensive so I assumed it must be a quality item. It did work o.k. for a while until the pop up mechanism failed. The toast was totally cremated and just a small glowing black cinder remained. The house was full of smoke. Be very careful if you own one of these toasters and ensure it is away from anything flammable I.e. curtains, paper towel etc. I will not buy Sunbeam again as I have had issues with some of their other produc...

Had a Sunbeam Cafe series coffee maker and Sunbeamcoffee grinder so decided to buy TA9400 4 slice toaster to go with them. Would have to have been the slowest toaster and most expensive I ever owned. To top it off in just over 12 months of light use the elements burnt out. I could not find my sales docket from Myer where I purchased it and they rightly did not want to know about it without that docket. Sunbeam were worse when I called them, did not want to know about the expensive dud I had bought or my problems, their customer service is zil...

Had my 2 slice Cafe Series for over 4 years now. It makes beautiful, evenly coloured toast every time but it is soooooo sloooooow. Also found it's not much good on high sugar breads (like raisin toast), the thermostate doesn't go down far enough to cook without burning. Forget making toast for 2 people, the first person's will be stone cold before the second's finished. The toaster looks great and is a breeze to clean and has proven to be very reliable.
Beautifully cooked toast. Reliable
Unbelievably slow.

Left lever is very stiff to push to the point or ceasing up, brought this product as I expected it to last. I feel very let down. Will never buy another sunbeam product. Poor product not built to last or be repaired, another throwaway product, waste or materials. Wish I'd read reviews prior to purchase.
Looks, materials
Poor I thermal components and build quality

Takes a long time to cook toast but that didnt bother me too much however the bottom tray after 2 months wouldnt sit flush back into its place, after 2 years the hold down button on right won't stay down. I just keep putting up with it. There are 5 of us living here so now that we are down to 2 slices at one time its annoying. I paid at the time what I thought was a reasonably lot, but not the cheapest nor the most expensive.

Normally I keep all receipts so I could have taken this back since I have just read that it has a five year warranty, searched high and low and no reciept! Wont be buying another. Bought the sunbeam as in my mind it was Australian and made well. What a total suck in.
The colour "red" the thick toast you can put in.

i bought mine around 5 years ago and I'm still happy, I like the tray underneath that can be moved out and discard all the crumbs that fall on the base. There are 4 large openings so even crumpets or larger slices of bread can be toasted. The toast do I suppose take a tad longer than other toasters, but I really haven't noticed. Best toaster I have owned.
Stylish looks.

I purchased this toaster approximately 4-5 years ago. It is a little slow at toasting like the other reviews listed here have mentioned, but overall I am very happy with the product. We are a family of six and this toaster has serviced us very well.

As we now need a new toaster I have decide to replace the elements in our sunbeam toaster. I came to this decision because I could not find a toaster (after researching on productview) that could convince me it would be better than what I already have, for the money I wanted to spend.

An im...

I bought mine on ebay, then when I used it, assumed it was faulty because of the slow toasting time,any wonder it has a warranty on the elements as they dont get hot enough to burn out,very poor design,am going back to my $12.00 one from the supermarket, disappointing product, did sunbeam ever test it before it went on sale?
Looks great
Slow

This good looking large toaster may as some say operate quite slowly but it toasts very well. The 4 slots are extra wide and their number should make up a bit if this indeed a bit slower than the average toaster. I do not think this an average toaster at all. It produces evenly toasted breads and crumpets, the degree of penetration of toasting is ideal, it is easily cleaned, looks good and has replaceable elements.

It did cost me a good bit but that is so long ago I have forgotten it. Could it be 6 or 7 years?

One of the selling points ...

We purchased several Sunbeam Cafe Series appliances and have been very disappointed. Our 4 slice toaster, priced well above the average toaster price failed just months out of warranty. We brought the toaster to the authorized retail centre in Sydney, only to be told that the Cafe Series is "garbage", which looks good but is made in China. The only item actually covered under warranty is the heating element.
Stylish, replaceable elements
Slow to toast, not reliable

I was given this toaster as a gift, so felt I couldn't return it. It is so slow...definately not worth the money. My teenagers are constantly complaining about it, but because of what it cost, I have put up with it. Next time I will be buying a cheap toaster knowing it will do the job better !
Looks good.
Toasts too slow - worst toaster I've owned!

I have the 4 slice Cafe Series - This has been the slowest toaster since day one, the element only glows slightly - which I think is why it is so slow - totally inferior product.

Pros: Best looking toaster I have owned - but thats it........

Cons: The price & looks make you think this must be a great toaster, but it is far from it. I have never had a toaster that cooks as slow as this one - quicker to poach eggs than cook the toast. If it hadn't cost so much I would have thrown it out long ago. Wished I had read the reviews prior to purchasing.
Looks good
Slow - Slow - Slow

I bought the toaster yesterday from Harvey Norman for $120. It is the worst toaster I have had. It takes forever to cook a crumpet, and when it does, it is uneven. Whilst the toast may be evenly cooked, it still takes way too long. I am now going out again today to see if I can find a half decent toaster, if there is one.
The looks
Too long to cook, uneven cooking.

I have the 2 slice version. I love the way this toaster looks and like many here was sick of getting a new cheap toaster every couple of years. The price of these units at normal retail of $139 I think is excessive fortunately Harvey was having a sale which made it marginally more comfortable at $120. I justified by saying well its high end almost commercial quality.

I was wrong its just like any other that uses the same domestic quality parts. This is proven by the fact that Sunbeam only offer the minimum required warranty of 1 year. I don'...

We have a Sunbeam Cafe series toaster model TA9200 (two toast type). The unit was purchased in 2005 and we have been very happy with it. At the end of March this year (2012) it tripped the safety switch in our meter box. One of the reasons that we bought the unit is because it was advertised as having replaceable elements. I am an electrician and so know that a device that trips a safety switch typically has a faulty element. Pleased with my decision to buy a unit with replaceable elements, I looked on Sunbeam's website and again was pleased to...

Well I figure our TA9400 must've done around 30,000 peices of toast over the last 9-10 years. We never had a problem with it until this morning when it simply gave up.

Now that it has given up, we have replaced it with the same model. We noted with interest the number of other toaster with plastic handles, tacky looks and motorised bread lowering mechanisms. All tacky junk imo.
It maketh Good toast when I am too tired to think.
It didn't last forever, and it would be good if I could replace the elements myself - it would be much less wasteful than just buying another.

I have bagged out some other Sunbeam items I own and the lack of customer service from Sunbeam, but have to congratulate them on this toaster. It's slow to cook the toast, but that just means it comes out perfect. The crumpets are evenly done - never will you have soggy crumpets again.
Perfect toasting of bread and crumpets