The Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice is a stainless steel long slot toaster with room for four pieces of sandwich bread or two longer slices of homemade or bakery bread. Like the Breville the 'A Bit More' 2 Slice, this 4-slice model offers more convenience features than most other toasters. Along with a mode for frozen items and another for one-sided bagel toasting, it has a cycle countdown indicator that shows when your toast will be ready, a 'Lift and Look' feature to check toasting progress without interrupting the cycle, and the titular 'A Bit More' button, which adds a little extra toasting time.
Our Verdict
The Breville A Bit More Toaster provides impressive performance for everyday use. As a long-slot toaster, it can accommodate items that may not fit in a regular toaster, like slices from an artisanal loaf or pieces of focaccia. The slots are deep, so your bread won't stick out the top, but they're not particularly wide, so you may have trouble squeezing in chunky bagels or extra-thick sourdough slices. This toaster doesn't toast very quickly or brown the bread's surface particularly evenly, but each side comes out similarly toasted, and you get similar results in each slot. While it doesn't offer the very best toasting performance, this model has plenty of convenience features. Along with buttons for frozen items and one-sided bagel toasting, it has a cycle countdown indicator, so you know when it's time to start buttering. It also lets you raise the slots without stopping the cycle with its 'Lift and Look' feature, and if you find your toast isn't quite dark enough, you can use the 'A Bit More' button to add a little extra time to the cycle. This toaster also does a good job of containing crumbs, keeping your counter tidy until it's time to clean out the crumb tray.
Long, deep slots provide room for a variety of bread types.
Plenty of convenience features.
Contains crumbs well.
Doesn't brown the bread's surface very evenly.
Toasting speed is just decent.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Breville A Bit More Toaster comes in 'Brushed Stainless Steel,' and you can see the label for our unit.
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The Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice is a long-slot toaster with a stainless steel body. Just like other Breville toasters, such as the Breville Die-Cast Smart Toaster and the Breville Die-Cast 4-Slice Smart Toaster, it offers a range of features that make toasting easier and more pleasant day to day. Along with buttons for frozen foods and bagels, they include cycle countdown indicators that show approximately when your toast will be ready. They also include a 'Lift and Look' feature to check your toast's progress without ending the cycle, and the 'A Bit More' button to add a little extra toasting time. The Breville the 'A Bit More' 2 Slice also shares these features, but despite being from the same lineup, it offers some notable differences in performance. The 2 Slice toasts much more evenly and offers more consistent results when toasting multiple batches in a row, while the 4-slice toasts a bit faster and leaves fewer crumbs on your counter. Ultimately, the Breville A Bit More 4 Slice is an impressive option if you want a feature-rich design that looks high-end, and don't mind if your toast is a little unevenly browned. That said, if you want a long-slot model that toasts more evenly, you might like the Smeg 4-Slice Toaster.
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The Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice is a better toaster than the Cuisinart 4 Slice Custom Select CPT-640. Although the Cuisinart toasts the bread's surface more evenly, it leaves one side much darker than the other and delivers very different performance depending on which slot you use, offering less consistency than the Breville. The Breville offers more capacity thanks to its long-slot design, so you can toast items that won't fit in the Cuisinart, like longer slices of bakery bread. The Breville also includes a couple of features the Cuisinart lacks, like a cycle countdown indicator, an option to raise the slots mid-cycle to check on progress, and the 'A Bit More' button, which adds a little toasting time. It also does a better job of containing crumbs, so your counter will stay tidier with the Breville.
The Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice and the Breville Die-Cast 4-Slice Smart Toaster are both impressive options, but they have different strengths to consider. Get the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice if you like to toast longer items that don't fit in a regular toaster slot, like focaccia or sourdough slices. The 'A Bit More' 4 Slice is also the better choice if speed is a priority, since it toasts a little faster. It's better at containing crumbs, too. Go for the Die-Cast 4-Slice Smart Toaster if even toasting is your priority, since it leaves each slightly more evenly toasted on both sides.
The Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice is a better choice than the Breville Die-Cast Smart Toaster. Both of these long-slot toasters offer plenty of capacity for a variety of bread types, and lots of quality-of-life features to make everyday toasting more convenient. However, the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice toasts faster and more evenly, leaving each side more similarly toasted and providing more consistent toasting slot-to-slot. It also contains crumbs better, making it easier to keep your counters tidy.
The Breville the 'A Bit More' 2 Slice and the Breville the 'A Bit More' 4 Slice are both great options, but despite being part of the same lineup, they have different strengths. Go for the 2 Slice if toasting evenness is your main concern, as it leaves bread more evenly browned on both sides, and provides more consistent results when toasting multiple batches in a row. Choose the 4 Slice if you're more interested in toasting speed, since it works a bit quicker, or if you want a toaster that leaves fewer crumbs on your counter. Of course, you'll also want to take size and capacity into account: the 2 Slice is more compact, but the 4 Slice has long slots that accommodate a wider variety of bread types.
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