What if you want a toaster for your home overseas, your second home, or for a long-stay overseas, or for two weeks in quarantine? We were quarantined in Singapore after returning to Singapore from London, UK. We had left a small size coffee capsule machine in a suitcase with a friend in Singapore who used a forwarding company to send out suitcase from his home to our hotel. If we had had a toaster, we could have made ourselves toast for breakfast and or toasted sandwiches. Instead of a breakfast of rice, lunch featuring rice, and dinner of, guess what, rice.
Now we are looking online for a replacement toaster. We loved our old toaster with a rack on top for items which are too large even for the thick slice toaster. Our UK based family love their electric sandwich maker.
I saw the Smart (brand) Toast and Slide (item) tunnel toaster (description). The you tube video by review.com shows a user baking bread, bagels, croissants, pitta, and sweet potatoes. Admittedly, one item looked burned across the middle.
The toaster cost about fifty pounds sterling in the UK from Amazon.UK . What if you are not in the UK? You could ask a relative who lives there to forward it to you. But buying, packing and posting is a hassle for them, and you have no recourse if the item arrives damaged.
Shipping Companies
You could have a toaster or any other item shipped overseas using a shipping company. They will combine orders for you from different companies into one package and re-pack to save space and weight.
I suggested this to my husband, but he declined, saying, "A toaster is too delicate. What if it arrives broken and I have to pay to ship it back?
You might be more optimistic. Or ordering a must-have item. Or something less fragile.
Useful websites
Smart Toast and Slide toaster
Princess Tunnel Toaster
in German, man speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CS4emG7BQ
Lady speaking Dutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFLuNYGUyv8
Dash clear view window toaster I saw on a Youtube America's test kitchen About 40 dollars
I also liked the 'Breville bit more', cost 80 US dollars.
America's Test Kitchen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jveit7UKBy4
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