The GE 4-Slice Toaster is a four-slot toaster. It has basic features, including settings for bagels and frozen items and dials to select your desired shade. You can operate each pair of slots with different settings. It's a little bulkier than some similar toasters, though, and you'll probably want to store it where you plan to use it.
Our Verdict
It's not a good toaster. Most of the 7 presets produce very light bread, and items that take longer to toast, like multi-grain bread or bagels, may need more than one cycle. You can make golden-brown toast from sandwich bread with setting five, but setting the dial between five and six offers better results. The slots are wide enough for thick slices of bread and lift high enough to grab small items. However, they aren't very deep when pushed down, so if your bread is much taller than white sandwich bread, it might stick out the top.
- Easy to grab smaller pieces.
- Bad toasting range.
- Toasts one side more than the other.
- No cycle countdown indicator.
Changelog
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Updated Apr 30, 2026:
We retested the toasting range using new methodology and updated the Toasting Range and Toasting Evenness boxes to reflect the results.
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Updated Mar 31, 2026:
We retested the toaster's Toasting Evenness performance to check if it produces better results using setting '5.5'. Previously, we used setting 6, which resulted in a score of 4.2. Setting 5.5 makes slightly more even toast, and the score changed from 4.2 to 4.5.
- Updated Dec 15, 2023: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The GE 4-Slice Toaster comes in one stainless steel variant, and you can see the label for the unit we tested here. There's a similar 2-slice version, but it may perform differently.
If you come across another variant or yours is different, let us know in the forums, and we'll update our review.
Popular Toaster Comparisons
The GE 4-Slice Toaster is a four-slice toaster that doesn't perform very well compared to models like the Black+Decker 4-Slice Toaster TR4900SSD or the Cuisinart 4-Slice Custom Select Toaster. Most of its presets produce light toast, and it toasts bread more on one side than the other. It's also a little bulkier than those toasters.
If you're still looking for a toaster, check out our recommendations for the best 2-slice toasters, the best 4-slice toasters, and the best toasters.
Test Results
This toaster offers a good toasting range, but it can't char sandwich bread in a single cycle, which suggests you may need to run it twice to properly brown denser breads. You can use setting five to make golden brown toast, though adjusting the knob to sit between settings five and six does a better job.
