Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

In short: these guys thought of everything you could want in a toaster, and made it reliably for a great price. Also, as far as I can tell, they pioneered the market for infrared toaster ovens for 7 YEARS before anyone else. If you aren't familiar with infrared toasters, basically it means fast even cooking and no more burnt smelling food after cheese drips or something. It burns differently and it stops smelling quickly. Cleaning is EASY. The front pullout tray is awesome, I can clean it up in seconds. I can also pull out the grill quick and put it back in. The only minor negative is that I sometimes want to adjust the time while it is cooking, and it doesnt allow that. You can only adjust cook time at the beginning. Not a big deal though. Before this toaster, I had tried 2 or 3 that were garbage, they had the traditional timers that never worked or cooked consistently. I had to check constantly to see when something would be magically "done". My family uses this toaster every day (or close) for the past 5 or 6 years and it still works. It has been dropped, burnt (it was next to the stovetop), and generally manhandled. I am actually surprised it survived this long. I used to look on craigslist for the toaster for a few years when I thought "this should have died by now" because it wasn't on the market anymore and it would completely stink to use anything else. I'm happy to see you can still get this again. If you want a toaster and can affort spending $100 or so, this is a no-brainer. This model has been THE top rated toaster on amazon for years, literally. It is the Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky of toasters. To be fair, I might consider the newer infrared Breville's if I was looking at the moment, but it is hard to ignore the Panasonic reliability and simple reality this is a beautiful product across the board. PS: To Panasonic, why the heck did you stop selling this? I had over 7 people complain to me they tried to buy one EVERYWHERE. People offered to buy mine. You could have jacked the price up an $50 and still sold a ton of them.