The SMART Tunnel Toaster is a new way to toast your bread, croissants, paninis and anything you could possibly need to toast. This clever design features a sliding bread tray, completely removable from the heating unit and a heating unit in the form of a dome shape tunnel. The tray is designed to be removable and catch the crumbs for easy cleaning and with a unique clamp to cater for all all kinds of bread. It also features a very versatile temperature control with 7 adjustable temperature settings, reheat, defrost and cancel functions. Could the Smart Tunnel Toaster be the future for toasting? The Tunnel Toaster's sliding bread tray accommodates different sizes of bread as well as bagels, croissants and baguettes, something ordinary toasters can't do.

Toast is simple. Toast is easy. Toast is life. Buttery, eggy, cheesy, jammy or whatevery, there’s no getting away from that fact the making bread slightly more cooked than it was when we bought it, makes it ten-times more delicious. No one knows why - it’s one of life’s greatest mysteries. But we aren’t here to seek the truth to the universe’s most important questions – we’re just here to bring you the technology that will bag you the best toast possible. The Smart Tunnel Toaster has a slide-in bread tray that lets you toast bread, bagels, croissants, baguettes, and much more. It has variable temperature settings plus reheat and defrost functions. And, to make it easy to clean, it has a crumb catcher!

Few things are more British than sitting down to a cup of tea and a piece of toast, and for more than 100 years, not much has changed with the trusty toaster. We often see high-end toasters with unusual features, but the Seren offers a completely different way to enjoy toast, and more besides. Could the Smart Tunnel Toaster be the future for toasting? The Tunnel Toaster's sliding bread tray accommodates different sizes of bread as well as bagels, croissants and baguettes, something ordinary toasters can't do. Can this cheap and stylish toaster hold its own against pricier models? Read the full Next White Facet toaster reviewto find out. A button press opens the grips, and I lay my bread to rest. I slide the tray inside the chapel-shaped oddity; the tunnel glows red. It’s not unlike conducting a cremation. The device bears a warning: “Do not insert fingers.” Is it, by omission, an invitation to jimmy in other body parts? Weirdly, I do want to slide my fingers inside the hot, red tunnel. It would be so easy. Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number 01176085; Bauer Radio Limited, Company number: 1394141; Registered office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA and H Bauer Publishing, Company number: LP003328; Registered office: The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PLNot convinced by the side-loading toaster? Our most recent tests also included traditional two-slice toasters with some handy extra features, such as the three models below. Sliding tray holds two slices of standard bread, or any shaped bakery product, irrespective of size The unique shape of the tunnel toaster ensures all of the bread toasts evenly and you have full control of the level of browning thanks to the toaster's variable temperature control.

The unique shape of the tunnel toaster ensures all of the bread toasts evenly and you have full control of the level of browning thanks to the toaster's variable temperature control.

The SMART Tunnel Toaster features versatile temperature control, re-heat button and de-frost button. I’m not sold on toast sliders. Of course, the real slide is our collective slide into irrelevance, epitomised by this machine. If you’re one of those people who is weird about tunnels, or gets married to bridges, then have at it. For anyone else, there’s little here to love. Redeeming features? The sliding tray’s unique clamp is designed to fit many kinds of shapes including baguettes, bagels, croissant etc. If you buy tall toastie-style loaves or like to make your own in a bread maker, you may end up frustrated by traditional two-slice toasters. If the slots aren't quite long enough, you could be left with unappealing strips of raw bread along the top of slice.If you want to jump straight to the cream of the crop, head to our round-up of Best Buy toasters for models that are easy to use, fit a variety of different breads and toast brilliantly. This toaster has a unique sliding toasting tray that will fit two standard slices of bread in addition to a wide variety of products such as crumpets, waffles, baguette, croissant or ciabatta. The crumb catcher ensures the work top remains clear of crumbs and makes cleaning the toaster very easy. A variable heat dial, re-heat and de-frost settings allows you to finely tune your toasting requirements. The Russell Hobbs Elegance 23380 tries to solve this problem with one long slot for toasting taller slices on their sides. Find out how well this worked, and if the bread was toasted properly, in the full Russell Hobbs Elegance toaster review. Which toaster is right for you?

I had to temper my natural enthusiasm when I heard about this revolutionary type of toaster, because I’ve been burned before. In fact, this terrible month has also been a toaster rollercoaster. First, my mind was blown when I read that the numbers on a toaster dial refer to minutes, rather than darkness of toast. Then I discovered most toasters don’t possess timing chips, so the numbers relate to an arbitrary scale of brown-ness after all. What a waste of feelings. Still, I was determined not to pre-judge the tunnel toaster, an original design that slides bread slices horizontally into a wraparound grill, for more even toasting. Other benefits include accommodation of unwieldy foods, an easier-to-clean tray and the fact that toast is lovely. We’ve scoured the web to locate the best selection of toasters. We’ve got options for those looking to keep things simple, with modest two-slice toasting needs. We’ve got solutions for families who need to be hitting four slices to get out of the house on time. We’ve even gone so far to include a few quirky ones that might have you thinking again about all of your preconceived notions of what a toaster can be. At the close of the list, you’ll even stumble across a few toasting accessories – yes, they exist.