About this site

What this site is for

LongSlotToasters.com exists to answer one question that is surprisingly hard to answer anywhere else: will this toaster actually take the bread you buy?

Almost every published toaster specification collapses three separate measurements into a single figure called “slot size”, and different publishers pick different pairs of axes to print. One prints length and depth. Another prints length and width. A third prints all three, and a fourth prints none at all and describes the slot in adjectives. Those numbers cannot be compared to each other, which means the buyer cannot do the one piece of arithmetic that decides whether the purchase works.

What we do about it

Every model in our index stores three numbers separately — length, width and depth — along with the source that established each record and whether that source measured the machine or simply described it. Where a figure has never been published we leave it blank and say so on the page. A blank is honest. A guess looks exactly like a measurement and there is no way for a reader to tell which they are looking at.

We also keep discontinued models in the index rather than deleting them. Long slot toasters churn faster than conventional ones, and a reader who owns a machine that stopped being sold three years ago still needs to know what its slot measures.

What we are not

We are not a test kitchen. We do not buy toasters, run 365 slices through them and time the results. Organisations that do this well already exist and we link to them by name on every row that uses their figures. What we contribute is the structure: a consistent schema, per-row sourcing, and an explicit distinction between a number somebody measured and a number somebody printed.

We also publish a documented history of the appliance, which turned out to be necessary for a reason we did not expect. For ten years the most widely repeated answer to “who invented the electric toaster” was a hoax inserted into Wikipedia in 2012 and not corrected until 2022. It reached newspapers, reference books and a Bank of England banknote nomination. Our history page cites a primary source for every entry.

How the site is funded

Advertising, and in some cases affiliate commission when a reader buys through a link. Neither arrangement buys a position in the index or influences a measurement. The full terms are set out in our editorial policy and affiliate disclosure.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, we want to know, and we would rather hear it from you than leave it up. Write to info@siteplotmedia.com or use the contact form. Corrections that change a published number are noted on the model page.