tIPS ReVIEW

Cuisinart 4 Slice Toaster 2015 Review-Positive (Cuisinart CPT-440C is one of the steadiest toasters, after the test produces consistent results satisfactory in all settings. Looks classy, leverless design for the luxury price). Negative (besides the lack lever, CPT-440 does not offer a lot of unique functions on competitors cheaper). Important (at a price of $ 100, this toaster is the Royal, it is difficult to justify, but not impossible, given that it gets the job done quite well).

If you ever, under any circumstances, to pay $ 100 for a toaster? Cuisinart think so - especially if it is CPT-440, one of toasters that offers the most expensive brand.

CPT-440 offers build handsome and classy stainless steel, "touch-to-toast" design for grilling experience that really did not feel high-end leverless, coupled with consistent performance in our tests, make CPT-440 toaster very good, but it does not make it a very good value, not with so many cheaper alternatives out there that offer similar features, decent design their own pillowcase and stronger than other toaster.

CPT-440 looks luxurious, and its presence as a toaster, it does a great job, but, its still just a toaster. You can at least be sure that the CPT-440 will produce satisfactory results.

We thought Cuisinart toaster had handsome here. Brushed stainless steel building feels right with a combination of blue, backlit LCD display and design leverless give a classy, futuristic sheen.

CPT-440 Canada lets you choose the level of maturity on a scale of seven points, and also comes with the usual presets: bagels, frozen goods, and heat function. You still will be able to set the desired level of maturity for each preset as well.

With a locked setting, design leverless will press the "toast" to start grilling. While you toast food, a series of bars on the LCD screen will gradually disappear to provide visual cues for how much longer the cycle needs to be run.

When you press the button, the CPT-440 will be soft and low (whatever) that you bake in a toaster, a bit like Han Solo get lowered into the bath Carbonite her. At the end of the cycle, soft bread will rise again. It was a silly thing, but it certainly had us oohing and aahing bit several times we test it.

Practical benefit of this approach is that there is no spring mechanism to break, and also no getting surprised at the end of the cycle of bread. One drawback, though: without lever, there is no way to give your toast that extra lift to help you take out in the end. For the most part, we had no problem grabbing items without burning fingers, but still, its one of the little things that you might end up missing.

Performance and usability

The Cuisinart CPT-440 shines when in the process, you put the bread, you press the button, you get toast. You will have no trouble using presets or change the maturity, and emptying the crumb tray in the rear double easy, too.

We provide usability Cuisinart with very high scores, though, because it proved to be a predictable way. In all tests, we never saw a surprising result. Although the muscular strength at 1,560 watts (more than other toaster in this roundup), CPT-440 never cooked anything, nor undercook anything. It never fails to operate exactly as expected, produce consistent results in the retest.

This held true even when we asked for Cuisinart to do two things at once. In one test, we set the left slot for toasting frozen Eggo waffles good to do six of seven. At the same time, we set the appropriate slot for a pair of Pop-Tarts heat to lightly toasted two of seven. Waffles come out crisp and slightly browned, while Pop-Tarts out hot but only lightly toasted.

In general, we were also impressed with how Cuisinart roast evenly. This is true in every slot, with the majority of uniform browning on each side of each slice of bread, and also true in all four slots, with a few slices of grilled out to the same level. The only exception is preset bagels. It is designed for the inside of your bagel, and while its just what he did when we tried it out, we can not say that the grill evenly. Its a minor quibble, though, and not one that stopped us from the results of tests for breakfast food.

Another powerful results is that we can distinguish each of the seven settings maturity of one another. With a few toasters, what bake for five or above will be out done well, with only a slight difference in the amount of darkness. With Cuisinart, we felt that having seven different maturity settings, all of which yield predictable results and satisfactory. It was a better result than we see with the cheaper models such as Hamilton Beach Classic Chrome Toaster, which tend to be too long and also better results than the ultra-high-end Kitchen Aid Pro Line Toaster, which leaves things a bit undertoasted.

The above graph shows how each grills we tested performed in three settings: setting the lowest maturity, the maturity of the middle setting, and setting the highest maturity. For our taste, the spread Cuisinart looks the best for us, even with the results in all three settings and nice, golden brown bread in the middle. Black dark settings may be more than you would ever want, but the extra oomph bake to seven might be useful if you ever bake bread straight from the fridge.

One final factor to consider is the time toast. Averaging our tests, CPT-440 exit on the fast side of things, beaten only by Alessi Electric Toaster, which costs more than doubled. Slowest grills we tested was Frigidaire Professional - a direct competitor of CPT-440 with similar price point.

Bread faster is not necessarily better bread, but we were still impressed with the combination of CPT-440 the speed and consistency. It seems never toast too fast for his own good, never take too long to give a simple piece of good toast. If there is a sweet spot for the performance of a toaster, I think the CPT-440 hits it, or at least approaching.

Cuisinart CPT-440 is priced at $ 100 is a very good toaster, in all our tests, it handles everything we throw at it, and never produce the results that we would classify as disappointing. However, up the Amazon, and youll find dozens of toasters that cost half as much, or less. It includes models with eye-catching, unique design, very favorable user reviews, room for four pieces, and the general ability of the same as you would find with CPT-440, which was never sold on Amazon for less than $ 70. We will not blame you for choosing one of the cheaper alternative.