[WaltGisnep]

My toaster cooks the bottom part of the toast way faster than the top part so I have to flip it partway through to get it even. Also it accumulates a ton of crumbs which I can never quite clean out, and sometimes some crumbs will get onto the heating element and the kitchen will smell like burning. Plus it's just not at all consistent even though it seems impossible for there to be so much variance with the same machine cooking the same bread on the same time setting.

[mod]

A lot of folks could probably replace "my toaster" with "my spouse" for most of that.

You have a faulty model, that's not a knock on the toaster as a robot.