I am a toast girl, I love my toast. I have been using a toaster oven and it's okay for toast, just okay. The Black and Decker toaster does a great job making toast. It has  seven adjustments for light to dark plus a button for frozen things and bagels. I tried each setting and my perfect setting is three. If you like dark toast, you can get dark toast. The bagel I toasted came out perfect, crisp outside, soft inside. Four stars instead of five because of the bagel and frozen button, it doesn't seem that you actually push it in, it's just "there." [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]