Salter Polaris Toaster Review

The Salter Polaris Toaster is a sleek and stylish metallic four slice toaster available in four colours - Champagne, Navy/Gold, Pearl Blue (pictured) and Titanium. It also contains a lot of polished stainless steel which, together with the colours, makes for a lovely modern design. It's part of the Salter Metallics Collection which also features kettles, blenders, mixers, pans, ovenware and more.

As a contemporary toaster, the Salter Polaris Toaster is equipped with features suited for modern use. It has a variable browning dial with six options so you can get your toast looking and tasting exactly how you like it. It's also capable of toasting bread from frozen, quickly reheating, and it's able to toast a wide variety of items such as bagels, tea cakes, crumpets, etc.

About Salter

The Salter brand is concerned with houseware products, with a huge range in the kitchenware subcategory. They've been around since 1760 and sell kettles, toasters, coffee machines, baking trays, deep fat fryers, and more. They're a big brand in the UK, and have built a solid reputation.

Specification

Let's now take a look at the features more thoroughly:

• Browning Controller - There are two browning dials, one for each pair of slots. The dials have six settings each, so you can make toast with a light brown crisp, or a more intense dark and crunchy brown, or in between. It's perfect for families who have different preferences.
• Defrost / Reheat / Cancel - These are the classic three buttons found on most toasters. "Defrost" allows the toasting of completely frozen bread without it melting and becoming soggy. "Reheat" is able to make your toast hot again without starting a new toasting cycle. "Cancel" allows you to stop the toasting at any time. Again, there's another set of these three buttons for the second pair of slots.
• Wide Slots - The slots are extra wide to accommodate larger items such as artisan thick cut slices of bread, bagels, tea cakes, crumpets, etc.
• Removable Crumb Trays - There are two removable crumb trays under the toaster. They slide out easily for emptying.
• Integrated Cord Storage - Left over electrical wires can be stored inside of the toaster, rather than sit on your worktop.

View full product specification.

Matching Kettle

Salter also sell a Polaris Kettle, which may be of interest. Its style matches that of the toaster, allowing for a consistent kitchen look.

Summary

Overall, the Salter Polaris Toaster is a good toaster, with an elegant mix of stainless steel with one of four colours. This is good as you can almost certainly match one of them to your kitchen's design. It scores highly on the feature front too, with six browning options, a defrost function for convenience, a quick and easy to use reheat function, wider slots so you can toast larger items, and more. We rate the Polaris Toaster 4.5 out of 5 stars.

View all customer reviews, or buy from amazon.co.uk: