Best Pop-Up Toasters of 2025: 6 Best 2-Slice & 4-Slice Models Tested

A toaster is one of those things you do not think about until it breaks, and then suddenly your morning routine falls apart. You stand there holding a cold slice of bread, staring at an appliance that looks fine on the outside but just stopped working on the inside. Or worse, it still works, but it burns everything on one side and leaves the other side pale. We tested six pop-up toasters across a range of prices, from the thirty-dollar special to the hundred-and-fifty-dollar statement piece. We made roughly eighty slices of toast. Here is what we learned. ...

July 4, 2025 · 9 min · Kitchen Gear Review Team