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The right complexion: the simple control panel allows you to choose between 13 browning levels and different functions, while the intelligent heat control ensures that your baked goods are evenly crisped over multiple passes. Bread settings: The bagel setting usually toasts only the inside of a bagel and warms the outside so you don't have to worry about an overly dry or crunchy bite. A defrost setting is great for frozen waffles or bread; it typically adds more time to the toasting process so you get the same results you would if the item were fresh. Reheat settings typically toast bread or other ingredients for a short amount of time, perfect for a toaster pastry or adding a touch more color.
It’s also available as a four-slice model, which should perform similarly to this one and has the advantage of two great big slots (rather than the more common four smaller slots) so that you can toast longer items with ease. Extra features: While not every toaster will have additional special features there are some nice-to-haves that you can look for when selecting a toaster. Practical and easy to clean: the included dust cover prevents the ingress of dust when you don't use the toaster, while the removable crumb drawer allows clean disposal of crumbs and crumbs. Material: The exterior material of toasters is more about looks than anything else. In our tests, we did not find that the material affected the quality of the toast.There is also a shade selector that allows you to choose anywhere from lightly toasted to dark (levels one through seven) and options for defrosting and toasting single slices. An involvement with design has been a fundamental aspect of Hamilton’s practice: he taught design to first year students at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1953-66 and was himself employed as a designer for Encounter magazine in 1956 and for Churchill Gear Machines, Blaydon-on-Tyne, co.Durham (1956-62). In a text written for an exhibition of the work of Dieter Rams (born 1932), chief designer for Braun (in particular designer of their toasters), at the International Design Centre, Berlin, Hamilton wrote of his intense admiration for Rams’s design sensibility, comparing the place Rams’s consumer products occupy in his ‘heart and consciousness’ with that occupied by the Mont Sainte-Victoire in those of the painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) (Quoted in Lullin, p.78). Hamilton’s equation of Rams’s toaster with the Mont Saint-Victoire, the subject of many paintings in the last decade of Cézanne’s life, is a Pop gesture – the glamourisation of everyday objects and their elevation into high art (as epitomised in the notion of exhibition the toaster at the Museum of Modern Art, New York). By using images from magazine advertisements, first in collages, and then, altered, as actual works in themselves, Hamilton was following the precedent of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), who first used everyday objects to make art in the early years of the twentieth century. Duchamp’s famous concept of the ‘readymade’ took a manufactured object such as, most famously, a urinal ( Fountain, 1917, T07573) and transformed it into art by repositioning it and with the addition of the artist’s signature. Duchamp’s readymades were all more or less ‘assisted’, referring to the degree to which the artist altered the original thing. Hamilton most directly referred to this process in Still Life, 1965 (Museum Ludwig, Cologne) a photograph he enlarged from an advertisement from a Braun catalogue of electrical appliances. Deliberately selecting an object from the luxury end of designed and manufactured products, Hamilton reversed Duchamp’s assertion that he chose objects that had no aesthetic value in themselves. Similarly, with Toaster, Hamilton took as his subject an object already fetishised by its presentation as a luxury item and made it his, signalling this possession by replacing the Braun logo with his own name. His alteration of the advertising text repositions the appropriation of the readymade from that of the object – the toaster – to that of the mode of presentation – the brochure created by the manufacturer to enhance their product. In this Pop development of a Dada idea, the form of the artist’s name – that confers value – traditionally his signature on the work, has now become a product logo. Long-slot toasters: Long-slot toasters are gaining popularity now due to the wider availability of rustic forms of bread. Opt for long slots if you love sourdough or other artisanal loaves. You'll rarely be able to fit a whole slice in a traditional toaster without cutting it in half. The results were impressive: toast was evenly done, and it’s faster and more power-efficient than anything we’ve seen at this price. The slots are really wide, too, so getting bigger items to fit isn’t a problem. Speaking of which, there’s a bagel mode so you can get them crunchy on the outside and doughy on the inside – as nature intended. That said, I still had to test and confirm that Braun HT400 Toaster could hold its toasting consistency for a long time, so I used it to toast all the slices I had in the house. The process took approximately 40 minutes and the last slice that went into the appliance came out just as perfectly toasted as the first one that went in.
The first thing that attracted me to Braun HT400 Toaster when I set my eyes on it, was its hard to beat design. Actually, just from the image above you can tell that the appliance looks like a piece of machinery from the future. We think timing is important too, which is why we assess how long single slices take to toast using the same setting on every model, again for testing consistency. Once all the toasting and tasting is done, we look at build quality and style, and whether these reflect a model’s price tag. Your toaster should be as functional as it is stylish, which is why our testing takes everything into consideration. During testing, the Elegancy performed well. We were able to achieve a nice even brownness using all the settings for the most part, although sometimes the level of browness did vary – something we see a lot on mid-price toasters. The defrost setting works best on a lower setting and doesn’t dry out bread too much. What’s more, we found it very easy to clean thanks to crumb trays that are easy to remove. All in all, this is a nifty little toaster with some great functions at a decent price. It’s also easy to clean, but it’s better suited to standard-sized loaves, so probably not your best bet if you use homemade bread. And the shiny look shows up every mark. While a two-slice toaster will only have a single browning control (timer), on a four-slice model you may be provided with one or two such controls. A single control means the timer is set for all four slots, which is fine if you all want your toast done the same way. Two timers means you can set each pair of slots separately so you can toast, say, crumpets on one side while doing toast on the other, or have “his and hers” slots set to your personal preferences. What features should I look out for in a toaster?
Metal toasters: Metal toasters are generally brushed steel or stainless steel and may coordinate with your other kitchen appliances. Two-slice toasters: If counter space is a concern, however, you may want to opt for a two-slice toaster. Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
A bagel setting is handy for anything, like bagels or English muffins, that you want to toast on just one side. Shade selector: All toasters offer a way to change the doneness (i.e. light golden to dark brown) of your piece of toast. They generally offer either a slider, dial or touchscreen that allows you to choose your toast color. We have found they are all effective, so you can choose based on how you prefer to navigate your toaster. By the time I made Toaster the habit of working a print simultaneously with a painting was well established. The print on the toaster theme is less a version than a natural corollary of it. My interest in process, aesthetic or technical, had led me to make a series of studies and reliefs [see The Solomon R. Guggenheim Ideal for toast, bagel, etc. : The Braun toaster features a removable roll attachment that allows you to heat or defrost various baked goods, while the bagel function roasts pastries on one side. Toaster was printed by offset lithograph in four colours before being screenprinted from four stencils with collaged metallised polyester by the artist and Chris Prater at Kelpra Studio, London on T H Saunders paper. It was produced in an edition of seventy-five plus seven artist’s proofs and published by Hamilton. Tate’s copy is a printer’s proof, inscribed ‘July 67’ and signed by the artist in pencil.Four-slice toasters : If there are more than two of you racing to make breakfast at the same time, a four-slice toaster is probably your best bet. For those who hate regularly cleaning their kitchen appliances, its removable crumb tray has got you covered. This tool will collect all the debris and dirt that fall off your slices and keep your counter clean at all times. A glass window will allow you to peer into your toaster as it's toasting to help reduce the likelihood of burnt toast. Richard Hamilton, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1992, pp.40-8 and164, reproduced p.164. Plastic toasters: Generally, plastic toasters tend to be less expensive than metal, but they aren't always the most aesthetically pleasing.
Richard Hamilton: Exteriors, Interiors, Objects, People, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Winterthur 1990, pp.65 and 70-71, reproduced item 18, p.70 in colour. A defrost setting is useful for frozen bread. First, it defrosts bread then switches to the toasting cycle. Each model is different: on some models, you need to press the defrost button before you push the bread carriage down, while others are pushed once you’ve activated the toaster. High lift saves you from burning your fingers by pushing the slots up so you can retrieve your toast safely. The print Toaster was developed while Hamilton was making a wall-mounted assemblage, originally including parts of the real Braun toaster that the artist greatly admired, also entitled Toaster, 1966-7 (reconstructed 1969, collection the artist). He explained: Style of toaster: When choosing a toaster, consider how many slices of toast you regularly make at once and what size of bread you like to toast.To improve the tool’s versatility, Braun also included three toasting settings on the appliance; namely reheat, defrost, and cancel. The defrost setting allows you to toast frozen bread slices in a timely manner whereas the reheat feature is in place to let you warm your leftover slices without browning them any further. Settings: Look for a toaster with the right settings for you in terms of bread options and doneness settings. This super sleek toaster from Zwilling features two long slots perfect for toasting up to four slices of sandwich bread or two long slices of sourdough bread. This model comes with a shade selector featuring seven different levels of browning and preset buttons that feature bagel, defrost and reheat. In our Lab tests, slices of bread came out very evenly toasted (no un-toasted edges, like some competitors), and the shade selector did produce different results, offering users a variety of toast shades. works made in 1965, P04252 and 1965-6, T01195] which echoed, through an analogy in painters’ terms, the design and construction of a building. Similarly, the Toaster painting equates with the appliance, and the print metaphors the public relations vehicle for it. The text is an important part of this work not only for its visual quality (conjunctions of word and image are fundamental to the manner of presentation in the field depicted) but in the way it provides information and tunes the aesthetic response as only the explicitness of words can do. Etienne Lullin, Richard Hamilton: Prints and Multiples 1939-2002, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 2003, pp.78-9, reproduced p.79 in colour.
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