KitchenAid 2-Slice Long Slot Toaster with High-Lift Lever
The only model in the index with length, width and depth all independently measured. Also the only one no longer made.
The measurements
- Brand
- KitchenAid
- Model number
- KMT3115ER
- Slots
- 1
- Slice capacity
- 2
- Heating element
- Wire
- Controls
- Buttons on the end panel
- Lift
- High-lift lever
- Time to medium toast
- 2 min 13 sec
- Body, W × D × H
- 16″ × 5.4″ × 7.9″
- Price when recorded
- $79.99 (at time of testing, not a current price)
- Functions
Best for The reference row. This is the only model here with all three axes on record
Watch out for Discontinued, so this is a used-market purchase
Independently measured. Source: America's Test Kitchen, toaster review.
This is the row the rest of the index is measured against, and there is something bleak about the fact that it is discontinued. Length 10.25 inches, width 1.5 inches, depth 5.5 inches, all three independently measured and all three published. Nothing else here has a complete set.
The design put every control on one short end panel, so the machine reads as a single clean bar on the counter. The body is only 5.4 inches deep. A high-lift lever handles the reach problem that comes with any long slot, and a toast-longer button adds a short second run when the first cycle lands light, which it does when the machine is cold.
At the top of the dial it does not burn, which sounds like faint praise until you have owned one that does. The honest limitation is the same one that catches almost everything in the category: 10.25 inches will take two slices of a large sandwich loaf only just, with no room to spare.
Because it is out of production, the practical route is the used market. Check the crumb tray seats properly and that the carriage does not stick before you hand over money.
What this slot takes
Judged on length alone, against the slot figure on record. Width and depth decide whether a thick or tall slice clears, and where those are blank we cannot answer for them.
- Sandwich slice4.5″ Fits A standard supermarket slice, laid flat.
- Two slices, side by side9.5″ Fits The reason the shape exists. Needs about 10 inches with room to load.
- Bagel half4.5″ Fits Length is easy. Bagels fail on width, not length.
- Sourdough round slice8″ Fits A slice off a large boule, cut across the widest point.
- Bakery batard slice10.5″ Too short The slice that defeats almost everything on the market.
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