Breville’s New Toaster Uses Optical Sensors to Measure Your Toast’s Doneness
It's also pretty good looking as countertop appliances go, a bar that Breville's products tend to clear easily. The “dark noir” brushed steel is handsome, the controls intuitive, and the ceramic-coated top is clean and will likely stay that way over time, more so than a traditional stainless top.
Over the summer, I brought the Eye Q along for a couple of weeks of family time in New Hampshire, where we were often eight or more around the table, tweens to octogenarians. Most everyone was intrigued by the toaster, and encouragingly, nobody needed coaching on how to use it.
During the months I had it, it almost always did an acceptable job. It wasn't hard to get the toast right, but—and this is a big but—compared to a regular toaster, the quality of the toast it made was comparable, not superior. To generalize, especially if you compared front to back...
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