Product Description

The KitchenAid 2 Slice Toaster features an attractive metal housing that gives the toaster durability and style that you’ll love displaying on your countertop. The LCD display featured on this toaster remembers the last shading and function set, so you can get your toast the way you like it every time. A sleek, digital progress bar counts down time, so you’ll always know when your toast will be ready.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15264 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Size: 2-Slice
• Color: Countour Silver
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: KMT223CU
• Dimensions: 8.30" h x 7.80" w x 11.50" l, 9.00 pounds

Features

• Extra-wide 1 1/2-inch slots
• LCD display with digital progress bar
• Bagel, Defrost, and Reheat buttons
• One Touch Control - Raises and lowers bread on demand even in the middle of cycle
• All-metal construction (120 volt, 60 hz)

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Uneven toast - loud annoying beeps
By Jake
I exchanged this toaster after 4 days of ownership. I'm going to break it down in 3 brief statements.

- Appearance is very good. Nice exterior design, easy to use controls. Very smooth lowering and raising action of the food.

- Beeps once when you push "toast" and beeps 3 times when your toast is done. The beep has an ear piercing characteristic and is way too loud for me. Reminds me of a smoke detector going off. The best feature on my microwave is silent mode - I can turn off all beeping. I wish this toaster could do that.

- English muffins went in first and turned out nice! I used the regular toast cycle and I was pleased with my new toaster (provided I would be able to hack into it to eliminate or muffle the beeping). The true test was regular whole wheat sandwich bread on a regular toast cycle (not bagel). Disaster. One side of the toast was well done and the other side was rare. I did this test twice, once in each slot, a nd I got the same result. Unacceptable.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent quality but that loud buzzer....
By Nick MTL
After trying several toasters during the past years, I can say this toaster is really close to the perfection. you get 7 different levels for toasting and even at the maximum, it will not burn your toasts but the 3 beeps at the end was driving me crazy. So, I decided to open the toaster to disable that buzzer.

The "guilty" beep is called ATT-1205, it's a magnetic buzzer. It has 85dba output but I believe the real problem is the high frequency combined with the dba. That magnetic buzzer should be correct in a smoke alarm, it's a bit surprising it's inside a toaster. You can see the specs and picture here:
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1. To open the toaster, you will need 2 different screwdrivers. One is standard but the second one is called "snake eyes". I had this in my computer kit but I guess you can find it on the net. Make sure you take a long and thin screwdriver otherwise it will not fit.

2. So here we go, unplug the toaster and then remove the 10 scr ews all on the bottom of the toaster.

3. Gently pull the cover. 4 connectors (2 if you have the 2 slices toaster) will forbid you to completely remove the cover. you just need to remove the 2 frontal connectors (1 if you of the 2 slices).

4. lift the chipset from the slot on the front of the toaster just to be able to see the "buzzer" called ATT-1205+ (if you have the 4 slices, it's on the front left). See my link above and it's on the back of the chipset, just pull it out, it's not very solid.

5. Put back the chipset in its slot and reconnect the connector(s). Put back just 1 screw and test your toaster. If everything is fine, put back the other screws and enjoy.

Note1: I'm used to open laptops. Ask to someone around if you don't feel comfortable.
Note2: Your warranty will be gone if you open it. Just choose between warranty and noise. :) and btw, the quality inside looks very good. I'm pretty sure this toaster will last very long.

Thanks.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Great toaster...give me a break with the loud beeping!!!
By looking around
Buy this toaster. It is very good, it does what it was designed to do, with extreme ease - push button technology, what else do you want? Oh, regarding the loud beeping....come on people! This is not louder than a regular alarm clock. I prefer the loud beep, as I I sit about 150 feet from the toaster - reading the news on my MacPro - when the beep goes off I can hear hear it very clear and I just get up and go to the kitchen to fix my sandwich or buttered toast. Compared to the other options, this is the best choice - best bang for the buck!