The Dash Clear View Long Slot is an affordable toaster that has a single long slot with room for two slices of regular sandwich bread or a longer piece of bakery bread. It stands out for one unique design feature: a glass panel that lets you watch your items toast. Since you're meant to keep an eye on the toasting progress through the window, it doesn't have a cycle countdown indicator, but you'll find typical toaster settings like buttons for bagels and frozen items, a shade selector with seven settings, and a cancel button. It comes in a range of glossy colors to match your style.
Our Verdict
Toasts evenly.
Produces a wide range of browning levels.
Toasts consistently batch after batch.
Burns toast's bottom edge on higher settings.
Changelog
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Updated May 14, 2026:
We added a note about the BELLA 4-Slice Slim in the Capacity box for users who want to toast more bread at once.
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Updated May 11, 2026:
We mentioned the BELLA 2-Slice Slim in the Body box for users who want a more compact single long-slot toaster.
- Updated May 01, 2026: We've updated this review to Test Bench 1.1, which includes several new tests, including Capacity, Features, Crumb Management, and Toasting Speed. You can read more in the Changelog.
- Updated Apr 28, 2026: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Dash Clear View Toaster comes in ‘Red,' 'Cool Grey,' 'White,' 'Black,' 'Cream,' and 'Aqua.' We tested the Cool Grey variant. See the label for our unit.
If you discover another variant, tell us about it in the comments, and we'll update our review.
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The Dash Clear View Long Slot is a budget-friendly toaster with a single slot that's long enough for two slices of sandwich bread or a longer slice of a homemade or artisanal loaf. It has a unique design with a glass panel on one side, so you can watch your toast as it browns. Typical toasters, like the GE 4-Slice G9TMA4S or the Cuisinart 4 Slice Compact Plastic Toaster, brown bread by heating thin nichrome wires until they glow red hot. Since this would block the view into the toaster, the Dash instead uses the type of tubular quartz elements usually found in toaster ovens, with one above and one below on each side of the toasting chamber.
This setup delivers better toasting performance than other long slot toasters we've tested. For example, the Dash toasts much more evenly and provides a wider toasting range than the Cuisinart Long Slot Toaster, making it easier to reach your desired shade. Its toasting performance is more similar to the high-end Smeg 2-Slice Toaster. Both options offer a fantastic toasting range and toast very evenly, though the Smeg heats up after the first batch, producing darker toast with each subsequent cycle if you don't adjust the settings. Overall, while you may find the Dash's viewing window somewhat gimmicky, this budget toaster is a fantastic buy and even stands out from more premium models, consistently making excellent toast, whether you prefer it barely toasted, golden brown, or practically charred.
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The Dash Clear View Long Slot and the Black+Decker 2-Slice Toaster T2569B are both budget-friendly toasters that make fantastic toast, but ultimately meet different needs due to their designs. Get the Black+Decker if you tend to eat sandwich bread and want a pretty standard 2-slice toaster design. It evenly toasts bread, easily handles all toast preferences from ghostly to charred, and produces consistent results so you don't have to fiddle with settings between batches. On the other hand, if you like to eat homemade or artisanal loaves and want a toaster with a bit more personality, then get the Dash. Its single long slot is the more versatile option as it can handle long slices, and its unique design includes a window on one side so you can watch your bread toast. While it also produces consistent results between batches and offers a wide range of browning levels, its unique design means the edges of your bread sit close to the lower heating elements, which can cause them to char.
The Dash Clear View Long Slot delivers better toasting performance than the Breville Die-Cast Smart Toaster, but the Breville offers some quality-of-life features that may sway you. Get the Dash if having evenly-browned toast batch after batch is your priority. If you need more capacity or you're more interested in high-end quality-of-life features, consider the Breville. While the Dash has a glass panel that lets you keep an eye on your bread as it toasts, it doesn't have a cycle countdown indicator like the Breville. The Breville also includes a 'Lift and Look' button, which raises the slots mid-cycle so you can check out toasting progress away from the glow of the heating elements, and a button that adds a little time to the end of a toasting cycle.
The Dash Clear View Long Slot is a better toaster than the Smeg 4-Slice Toaster for most people. It toasts more evenly and consistently, so you get similar results batch after batch without changing the settings. The Dash offers a better toasting range, too, since it can char sandwich bread in a single toasting cycle. Neither toaster includes a cycle countdown indicator, but the Dash features a glass panel that lets you monitor your toast's progress, while the Smeg has a lever you can use to lift the slots up. Although the Smeg comes with a much steeper price tag than the Dash, it's also made of more premium materials. It also has a larger capacity, with room for four slices of sandwich bread at once, so you may prefer it if you need the extra toasting space or if aesthetics are your top priority.
The Dash Clear View Long Slot and the Beautiful 4-Slice Toaster with Touch-Activated Display both provide excellent toasting performance, but their designs make them ideal for different uses. The Dash features a single long slot for longer slices of homemade or bakery bread and a window on one side so you can keep an eye on your toast's progress. It toasts less evenly, but it's the better choice for repeated toasting, since it can produce golden brown toast batch after batch on the same setting. The Beautiful is a 4-slot toaster, so it's a better choice if you need more capacity on busy mornings. It toasts more evenly than the Dash, but toast comes out a bit darker after the first batch if you don't adjust the settings.
Test Results
While this toaster is about as compact as many smaller two-slot models, it's still pretty bulky, given that it has only one slot. If you're looking for a single long-slot toaster that takes up less space, consider the BELLA 2-Slice Slim, which has a smaller countertop footprint.
If you're looking for a long-slot toaster with more capacity, consider the BELLA 4-Slice Slim, which has two long slots.
