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Four Slice Toaster: Your Perfect Kitchen Appliance for the Perfect Breakfast

Being served perfectly toasted and crispy bread in the morning is one of the most satisfying  breakfast experience for average Americans. While many years have passed since the discovery of first electric toaster, our love affair with toasts is still going strong.

Since the introduction of the first automatic pop-up toaster by the Waters Genter Company in 1926, different types of toasters (eg. Sunbeam T-20 and World Fair toaster among many) were developed. Today’s toasters are the modern versions of earlier automatic pop-up toasters. Currently, you can find automatic two slice toasters, four slice toasters and even six slice toasters on the market.

A typical automatic four slice toaster has four slots for heating and toasting four bread slices simultaneously or independently by means of infrared radiation. The infrared radiation is produced by heating coils made with nichrome wire, wrapped around two mica sheets. In addition, a typical toaster also contains a spring-loaded tray to pop out your toast, a timer to turn off the toaster and pop the toasts out simultaneously and a handle to activate the nichrome wire to start the toasting.

Though there are many toasters available on the market, one of the toasters that you may consider having in your kitchen is the T-fal TT7461002 Avant Delux 4-Slice Toaster. The large toaster gives you the perfect breakfast experience by toasting bread, english muffins, poptarts, bagels and more. The T-fal TT7461002 Avant Delux 4-Slice Toaster comes with self adjusting slots and high-speed independent 2 or 4 slice toasting. For safety, it has a brushed stainless steel exterior. The major problem with the T-fal TT7461002 Avant Delux 4-Slice Toaster is that the toaster can produce uneven toasting and has short slots depending on the size of your slice of bread.

So what do you thing? Going to give the four slice toaster a try?

-Justine