Russell Hobbs Inspire Toaster Review

The Russell Hobbs Inspire Toaster is a 2 slice or 4 slice toaster with a textured ripple design available in black, cream grey, red or white. Its style is further enhanced by the use of chrome details around the bottom of the toaster, the buttons, the lever area and the slots on top. We also like the illuminating soft blue LED buttons.

The Inspire Toaster has numerous features. We list them now briefly, but go into detail later. They include a reheat and heat from frozen option, six variable browning control options, adjustable width slots, the ability to high lift for smaller items such as crumpets, an easy lift lever, a lift and look capability without interrupting the toasting cycle and a removable crumb tray (two for the four slice toaster).

About Russell Hobbs

Russell Hobbs as a brand has been around since 1952. They're one of the biggest home appliance companies and have dominance in the kitchen appliance industry. Their product range includes toasters, kettles, food processors, juicers, microwave ovens, smoothie makers, rice cookers and more. They're known for their high quality, durable and well designed products.

Specification

We now take a look at the features:

• Textured Ripple Effect - The exterior of the toaster has a horizontal textured ripple effect. It's made from high gloss plastic.
• Easy Lift Lever - The lever is light. It's easy to lift and push down.
• Frozen / Reheat / Cancel Buttons - The Inspire Toaster is equipped with three button. "Frozen" for if you're toasting from frozen, "Reheat" will return your toast to a warm state and "Cancel" will stop the toasting.
• Lift and Look - The toaster allows for a sneak peek at your toast without interrupting or resetting the toasting cycle.
• Browning Control - The toaster is equipped with a 6 setting dial which controls the intensity of the heating.
• Adjustable Slots - The slots have an adjustable width in order to fit bigger items into them.
• High Lift - The depth of the slots can be adjusted without issue to allow for small items such as crumpets.
• Removable Crumb Tray(s) - The 2 slice toaster is equipped with a crumb tray. It can be removed for cleaning as and when needed. The 4 slice toaster has two of these trays.

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Matching Kettle

Russell Hobbs also sell a matching kettle called the Inspire Kettle. The pair are available together on amazon.co.uk.

Video

There's a video of the Russell Hobbs Inspire Toaster (2 and 4 slice) and the matching kettle on amazon.co.uk.

Summary

All things considered, the Russell Hobbs Inspire Toaster is up to standard. It has a lovely textured design with plenty of choice regarding colours, as well as the choice of a 2 or 4 slice model. Its features are numerous and include the ability to toast from frozen which is very handy indeed. It also has variable browning control and adjustable elements such as the slot width and the slot depth. Overall we rate this toaster 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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