Two Slice Toaster with Longer Slots – This stylish two-slice toaster allows you to evenly toast longer slices of bread, just the way you like it!
6 Browning Settings – Whether you like a deep golden shade or lightly toasted bread, with 6 browning settings, you’re in complete control.
High Lift Feature – No more burned fingers! The high lift feature allows you to safely retrieve slices of hot toast from warm slots.
Frozen, Reheat and Cancel Functions – These helpful functions allow you to toast bread straight from the freezer, reheat if you’ve let your toast go cold or cancel mid-cycle.
2 Year Manufacturers Guarantee – Plus 1 extra year when you register the product online.
UK’s No. 1 Toaster Brand – Market research institute, retail toasters sales value, October 2023 – September 2024.
UK’s No. 1 Toaster Brand – Market research institute, retail toasters sales value, October 2023 – September 2024.
8 reviews for Russell Hobbs 2 Slice Lift & Look Toaster (Longer slots, 6 Browning levels, Defrost/Reheat/Cancel function, Removable Crumb Tray, 1670W, Black & Stainless Steel Gloss finish) 26550
Rated 5 out of 5
stuart harrison –
It does the job and it takes large slices (you won’t have to buy those daft small toaster loafs). I got one for my girlfriend too, in white. Looks good, had mine about a year without any problems.
Rated 5 out of 5
Ms. A. M. Cammidge –
Great toaster, works well but have found the bread needs flipped to give even toasting. Slot size is great and will take a whole Warbutons toastie (other brands available) slice on it’s side with room to spare. Love the check lift on it, which does cut off power if held for prolonged period. Would recommend and good value.
Rated 5 out of 5
KevinD –
I’ve only just received this toaster and used it for the first time, but I absolutely love it. It seems very big to me as my last toaster was nowhere near this size, but it still looks very nice on my worktop. The slots look huge, both in length and width, and I can’t imagine anything that wouldn’t fit. To test it I toasted a couple of burger buns, set on 2. They popped up so fast I thought I obviously had it set too low, but they were toasted evenly a lovely golden brown and exactly how I like toast to be. A second set of buns had an identical result. I am so happy! Obviously it’s early days (extremely), but there is nothing about the toaster that suggests to me it’s not good quality, and with a 3 year guarantee there is no reason not to love it. One thing I would point out is the fact that it needs to be run at high setting while empty before the first use. They warn there may be some smell, which is normal. Thankfully I have an electric socket next to my back door and so I decided to stand the toaster outside the door while doing this. Being outside I don’t know about a smell, but it smoked like crazy for a short while and had it not been outside, my smoke alarms would have been going insane! After that initial run I toasted the buns as normal and there was neither smoke nor smell. Absolutely recommend this toaster.
Rated 4 out of 5
richard ives –
We did not have much choice in buying this toaster because it was the only one we could find that fulfilled our needs. As we bake our own bread we need a toaster with extra long slots which this one has. Most toasters seem to be produced for the standard Mother’s Pride type bread size, our bread comes somewhat larger and we don’t want to cut the top off! This product however does leave a lot to be desired, the toasting is not even, resulting in one edge being burnt and the reverse edge hardly brown. To get the slice down is not easy either and one has to really thump down the lever otherwise it will not engage. We feel that with a little more attention to detail and a price rise would make this toaster fit for purpose, to sum up, rather disappointing when it could be great.
Rated 1 out of 5
KevinD –
When first received this unit toasted each side very unevenly and the two sides were also different. I couldn’t believe that Russell Hobbs would produce such a poor item and decided to give it time to settle in. It didn’t change much and the setting knob made things even more annoying. It has setting numbers but no ‘clicks’ and the knob turns so freely that it is easily disturbed by accident. To make matters worse the pointer is just a groove in the black knob and difficult to see in all but the best lighting.
I bought this to replace a 15 year old unit that was starting to show its age and was put in the garage for recycling. Today when loading the car for a recycling run it was unanimously decided to keep the old one and send the new Russell Hobbs instead. We didn’t even think it was fair to inflict it on anyone else.
Rated 4 out of 5
Jojo67 –
Mains flex just 2 feet long. Not as solid seeming as our previous Russell Hobbs model which lasted more than two decades. This new one is rated about 400 watts more than the old one so cooks much faster. However this means the edges of things like crumpets get burnt before the rest is cooked. On the plus side the supports come near the top of the slots so it’s easy to remove small items; and the toaster has the same long slots as the old model which are a must when toasting Jackson’s of Hull bread, or best of all, a slice or two of Donker from Thorleys of Driffield.
Rated 3 out of 5
Oriana –
This toaster really does have great sized slots. They’re not only long, but also wide, so we never get things like rolls stuck in the sides like we did with our last toaster. I don’t think we’ve found anything yet that hasn’t fit. It’s also very compact considering how spacious the slots are. The toaster looks fine – nothing fancy, but blends into our kitchen. I like that you can push the toast up to check how done it is without ejecting/ending the toasting session. The one downside (and it’s a fairly big one!) is it just really doesn’t toast that well. Most of the time things are not evenly toasted, and it also seems like the line between ‘not toasted at all’ and ‘burned to ashes’ is hair-thin. It doesn’t even seem to be consistent, so some slices from the same loaf of bread will get toasted differently despite being on the same toaster settings. So unless you are really not picky about your toast then you do kind of have to stay with the toaster the entire time, constantly checking. The toaster claims to have a ‘reheat without toasting it further’ setting, but it regularly burns our toast when we use it. So annoying because this toaster really would be perfect for us but the inconsistent toasting is just really stressful.
Rated 5 out of 5
Fabian Webb Brown –
Great toaster that actually takes two slices of bread sideways so the whole slice gets toasted. Can’t fault it so far and better than a lot of the others
Last updated on June 20, 2025 12:51 am
stuart harrison –
It does the job and it takes large slices (you won’t have to buy those daft small toaster loafs). I got one for my girlfriend too, in white. Looks good, had mine about a year without any problems.
Ms. A. M. Cammidge –
Great toaster, works well but have found the bread needs flipped to give even toasting. Slot size is great and will take a whole Warbutons toastie (other brands available) slice on it’s side with room to spare. Love the check lift on it, which does cut off power if held for prolonged period. Would recommend and good value.
KevinD –
I’ve only just received this toaster and used it for the first time, but I absolutely love it. It seems very big to me as my last toaster was nowhere near this size, but it still looks very nice on my worktop. The slots look huge, both in length and width, and I can’t imagine anything that wouldn’t fit. To test it I toasted a couple of burger buns, set on 2. They popped up so fast I thought I obviously had it set too low, but they were toasted evenly a lovely golden brown and exactly how I like toast to be. A second set of buns had an identical result. I am so happy! Obviously it’s early days (extremely), but there is nothing about the toaster that suggests to me it’s not good quality, and with a 3 year guarantee there is no reason not to love it. One thing I would point out is the fact that it needs to be run at high setting while empty before the first use. They warn there may be some smell, which is normal. Thankfully I have an electric socket next to my back door and so I decided to stand the toaster outside the door while doing this. Being outside I don’t know about a smell, but it smoked like crazy for a short while and had it not been outside, my smoke alarms would have been going insane! After that initial run I toasted the buns as normal and there was neither smoke nor smell. Absolutely recommend this toaster.
richard ives –
We did not have much choice in buying this toaster because it was the only one we could find that fulfilled our needs. As we bake our own bread we need a toaster with extra long slots which this one has. Most toasters seem to be produced for the standard Mother’s Pride type bread size, our bread comes somewhat larger and we don’t want to cut the top off! This product however does leave a lot to be desired, the toasting is not even, resulting in one edge being burnt and the reverse edge hardly brown. To get the slice down is not easy either and one has to really thump down the lever otherwise it will not engage. We feel that with a little more attention to detail and a price rise would make this toaster fit for purpose, to sum up, rather disappointing when it could be great.
KevinD –
When first received this unit toasted each side very unevenly and the two sides were also different. I couldn’t believe that Russell Hobbs would produce such a poor item and decided to give it time to settle in. It didn’t change much and the setting knob made things even more annoying. It has setting numbers but no ‘clicks’ and the knob turns so freely that it is easily disturbed by accident. To make matters worse the pointer is just a groove in the black knob and difficult to see in all but the best lighting.
I bought this to replace a 15 year old unit that was starting to show its age and was put in the garage for recycling. Today when loading the car for a recycling run it was unanimously decided to keep the old one and send the new Russell Hobbs instead. We didn’t even think it was fair to inflict it on anyone else.
Jojo67 –
Mains flex just 2 feet long. Not as solid seeming as our previous Russell Hobbs model which lasted more than two decades. This new one is rated about 400 watts more than the old one so cooks much faster. However this means the edges of things like crumpets get burnt before the rest is cooked. On the plus side the supports come near the top of the slots so it’s easy to remove small items; and the toaster has the same long slots as the old model which are a must when toasting Jackson’s of Hull bread, or best of all, a slice or two of Donker from Thorleys of Driffield.
Oriana –
This toaster really does have great sized slots. They’re not only long, but also wide, so we never get things like rolls stuck in the sides like we did with our last toaster. I don’t think we’ve found anything yet that hasn’t fit. It’s also very compact considering how spacious the slots are. The toaster looks fine – nothing fancy, but blends into our kitchen. I like that you can push the toast up to check how done it is without ejecting/ending the toasting session. The one downside (and it’s a fairly big one!) is it just really doesn’t toast that well. Most of the time things are not evenly toasted, and it also seems like the line between ‘not toasted at all’ and ‘burned to ashes’ is hair-thin. It doesn’t even seem to be consistent, so some slices from the same loaf of bread will get toasted differently despite being on the same toaster settings. So unless you are really not picky about your toast then you do kind of have to stay with the toaster the entire time, constantly checking. The toaster claims to have a ‘reheat without toasting it further’ setting, but it regularly burns our toast when we use it. So annoying because this toaster really would be perfect for us but the inconsistent toasting is just really stressful.
Fabian Webb Brown –
Great toaster that actually takes two slices of bread sideways so the whole slice gets toasted. Can’t fault it so far and better than a lot of the others