At second glance flawed ...

First impression: noble, high-quality materials (stainless steel), many functions, sleek design. In practice, then show the more defects, the longer you use the toaster. The beep sounds at the end of the toast process are unnecessary as a goiter. Pulling the plug, "forgets" the toaster setting the browning level. When you turn on every time you have only a couple of seconds to wait until the toaster superfluous Piepstonmelodien and lights animation has ended before the degree of browning can be finally set. In the long run just annoying! The toast result is not uniform! First is always a side of toast brighter than the other. And secondly, the toaster toasts the surfaces with one side not evenly. Especially at the edge is with large slices of toast always a relatively large, ungetoasteter area left! The toaster is weak! American sandwich needs to be toasted in the highest level and is then still only mid-brown max! The results of each stage vary also. Times brighter, sometimes darker. Simply reliable! Defrost and Co. are nothing like on low levels toasting. Come out to the same thing. The toaster is prolig large, the case looks bloated exaggerated and needs a lot of space on the breakfast table. In my unit flips after only 6 months already, the soft top layer of plastic Lift switch from (hazardous phthalates?). Conclusion: an overpriced toy with a lot of useless frills. In the basic functioning and operation of flawed and absolutely unsatisfactory. One has to have increasingly acquired an inflated toys after a while the feeling, and no attention was paid to the basics. Keeping Up Appearances, can be! Then prefer a no-frills, solid and reliable device from another manufacturer. The Philips toaster is not recommended! Too bad about the money ...