Large slices of toast come after toasting with no major problems from the toaster to vorscheinen, with smaller it gets a little tricky, but it can be mastered. A big plus: the crumb tray. This can be easily pulled out and thus get rid of all the crumbs that are not so easy out gets without crumb tray in a conventional toaster and often char to the black in the toaster. That the housing is warmer or hotter than other toaster from the outside, I can not confirm. Who holds the whole time about toasting his hand on the body of the toaster ??? The toaster is great and I would buy it at any time again! 5 Stars!