Breville VST005

I have owned a sandwich toaster for a number of years now, my one and only purchase being a green Breville 4 slice model which came as part of a 3-piece set including a kettle and toaster. The kettle and toaster have long since been disposed of and I have had a number of kettles and toasters since. The sandwich toaster however, lasted years, probably due to the fact that like my smoothie maker, I kept forgetting about it! Every now and then I spotted it languishing in the kitchen cupboard and would dig it out, use it and think why don't I have toasties more often, I will use it more often etc ... more

For as long as I can remember I have always had a sandwich toaster aka toasty machine. I have had various models ranging from Cookworks to Breville and out of all of them I can honestly say Breville has always performed the best. For many years I plodded along with a old two sandwich model, which believe me was worth more than its weight in gold when the step-kids were staying at the weekend, for a quick meal I would whip out a loaf of bread, a tin of beans and a block of cheese and make seven rounds of toasties. Due to the fact it was only a two sandwich machine I did regularly find myself in ... more

I love toasted sandwiches. For some reason a cheese toastie always tastes so much better than cheese on toast, so I was excited when I decided to traet myself to a toated sandwich maker. The Breville didn’t disappoint. They do two machines the same, one is simply larger than the other, making 4 sandwiches rather than 2. I went for the larger one of the two; in hindsight, I should have got the smaller one simply because it is a smaller machine and easier to store. I got confused when I bought it, thinking the larger one used 4 slices of bread (2 sandwiches) rather than 8 slices of bread (4 ... more