Just received the Black Matte toaster. Toasted a bagel and a piece of toast and both came out toasted to perfection (toast was toasted on BOTH sides the way it's supposed to! The toaster looks great, works great but I am disappointed in the round LED light.  I thought it functioned as a "countdown" mechanism-start out as a full lit circle and then slowly become a semi-circle and then nothing at the end. Doesn't do that, but it does dim half-way through the process but I don't want to watch it constantly, just occasionally to see how much time is left. My previous toaster had a blue light that showed bars and went from, say, ten bars to 9 to 8 to 7 etc. counting down the remaining time.