This toaster is great. It has tons of features and it's quick and easy to use. I love the fact it's a double toaster (4-slice) because I don't have to keep reheating the rest of the food while I'm waiting for the toast or bagles or whatever to cook only two at a time in a regular toaster. I also love the extra lift with the lever. I always burn my fingers trying to get pop tarts or bagles out of a normal toaster, but with this toaster you can raise it out a little higher by lifting the spring loaded lever. Awesome!

I wanted a good looking toaster that could reliably toast bread and bagels. Well, the toaster looks great. It just doesn't reliably toast bread. It is necessary to wait and watch as one day it burns; the next day you have to toast twice. (I now know my smoke detector works perfectly) The bagle setting appears to have no affect whatsoever. The stainless steel finish is beautiful, however is a fingerprint magnet. When clean, it is a very nice looking toaster. Looks 10, features 5, functionality 1.

We bought one and all we got was one sided toast. We took it back and exchanged it. This one was even worse. Made in China, Gee they built a great Wall, but Toasters? Tried to call the Cuisinart Company no help

Put in 4 slices of toast and each slice comes up done to a different degree. Worse, for a given piece of bread one side may be done while the other is nowhere close.

When you look down into the 4 slots and see different glow intensities on each of the faces you see why this happens. Another reviewer wrote about getting one bad one, then replacing it with one that worked just fine. I just took back my 3rd one and gave up.

Its looks alone are worth a couple of stars. But I sure wish it worked.

Okay, my original review below. That was toaster #1. We had it replaced by the store, and the second model seems to be working great. We really like the look and utility of the thing.

One of the nicest little features is that when toast is finished, it will stay mostly down in the slot to stay warm. But a spring handle allows you to push it up a little higher, preventing you from burning your fingertips on the machine, or electrocuting yourself when trying to dig your slice out using the butter knife. All-in-all, pretty decent.(...)This is the world's greatest 6-sided toaster.

See, you put four slices of toast in the thing, and 6 sides come out toasted to perfection instead of all 8. Two sides will come out completely untouched. It's ridiculous.

The two center slices will have the sides which faced the middle of the toaster totally unscathed. And we could see that the elements were working there, but just not hot enough.

We liked the look of this toaster, but since it doesn't work at all, it was useless. There are many $25 toasters that do a vastly better job.

We're returning ours, and seeking another better model.