Magimix for breakfast – product review
I was flattered to be asked to work with Magimix to promote a couple of their kitchen products. They do, after all, make some of the best quality appliances around. I do subscribe to that old but wise saying that one should have the right tool for the job.
Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day, but it’s a shame that it arrives too early, when we are least in command of our faculties. We know we need something to eat and drink and we do indeed crave some sustenance, but it’s just too much trouble to get the comatose brain in gear.
Well, let’s start with a simple slice of toast. I was in the first year of secondary school cookery lessons before I realised that toast was not a two-part recipe: first incinerate your bread and then scrape with a sharp instrument over a handy sink.
The Vision Toaster would have been a godsend to our small family and the Fire Brigade back then. I fell in love with this stylish piece of equipment across a crowded room. Yes, food is my living and I cook every day but I eat toast every day as well, and even people who are virtual strangers to the inside of a kitchen also eat toast frequently.
Toast French bread to perfection
This isn’t just a good-looking piece of kitchen kit – it’s the most practical of toasters. There is the usual control for degree of brownness, but this toaster uniquely has glass sides which allow you to eject the toast at just the right moment. And one can now toast French bread or bagels to perfection on just the cut side, and even defrost that bread you forgot to take out of the freezer the night before.
It’s a universal rule that twice-cooked toast is to be avoided. We have all been presented with that dilemma. Started the toast and gone to check emails and texts. Toast is brown but cold on return to the kitchen. Do you eat cold toast or apply more heat, rendering the bread brittle and scorched? The Vision Toaster can just reheat your soon-to-be warm and buttery breakfast.
I have put the Vision Toaster through its paces and I am just as impressed as I was when we first met. All toasters are not made equal and I am sticking to the one that I believe to be the best. It’s taken the uncertainty out of breakfast and that can only be a life-enhancing improvement.
The Vision Toaster can defrost, warm and toast most types of bread, baguettes, bagels, croissants, buns, teacakes, crumpets, brioche, waffles…
• Double-insulated toughened glass windows for visual control
• High-quality replaceable quartz elements
• Variable browning control
• Slide-out crumb tray
• Extra-lift lever for small slices of bread
• 3-Year Gold Seal Service Guarantee
• Extra-wide slots with automatic self centring
For more information visit Magimix here
Product review by Chrissie Walker © 2018
