Rated 3 out of 5 by HRDad from Good and Bad Beautiful toaster, well made, and I love that I can watch the toast so I can get it exactly how I want. However, some types of toast can burn at the top and ruin your meal. There is no other way to make a glass toaster work. The heating elements have to be at the bottom only, and heat rises, making the top the hot spot. I had one of these for 5 years and a heating element snapped, probably because the elements are on the bottom and they get dirty and you can't clean them, and it overheated and broke.

Rated 5 out of 5 by Buddy from Class Act Class Act What a beauty! It works as good as it looks. The settings are easy to use. I like the warm button feature for heating matzos and for warming up already toasted bread. This toaster will accommodate wide-cut pieces of bread. The pull out tray for expended bread fragments at the bottom of toaster is easy to pull out and push back in. We love the clear glass viewing side so we can keep an eye on how the toasting is coming along. The dual paned glass front panel easily pops forward for easy cleaning the inside of the glass and for removing any fragments that might fall in the front of the toaster. There is an easy to reach button underneath on the left side, a little to the back, that releases the front panel. The control knob for how dark you want your toasted item is easy to turn. Make sure the plug is in, otherwise the toaster will not work! Sounds obvious, but it happens. We forget to put the plug back in the socket, so the toaster push down lever keeps coming up and won't stay down. It might make you think the toaster is broken. We love this product.

Rated 5 out of 5 by Marjie from Great: never and issues purchased years ago I just happened to see the wolf toaster oven for sale. I had not purchased from WS for a long time. I noticed this is still selling so I thought I would post. It is fabulous. I love it. Never a problem at all. easy to get rid of the crumbs. You can watch it cool to your liking. I would never have another toaster. great product and worth it.

Rated 2 out of 5 by tj2433 from Looks Nice, But.... While it looks nice, the one I got had two problems: the bread did not stay down when I pushed the lever, and when I finally did get it to stay down, the device wouldn't even start to heat up when I pushed any of the buttons. Obviously the device I got was seriously defective. While W-S offered to replace it, I asked for and got a refund instead. Why? I have to stay it didn't feel any more robust than my old $75 toaster. The lever and mechanism to lower the bread, for instance, just felt cheap. I had hoped to get a more even brown, but given the apparent poor quality of the one I got, and the huge price difference, I'll never know. Two stars for looking good;-)

Rated 5 out of 5 by FuschiaKate from Fascinating to watch and perfect toasting Great idea to have the glass sides. Can stop toasting before it burns. Fascinating to watch the bread toast. I've used the frozen setting for my Ezekiel bread, bagel setting for bagels and regular setting for white bread. All settings work perfect with even browning. I clean it like the manual instructs. It's pricey but a splurge without me having any buyers remorse. I use it daily. I leave out on my countertop. Not that displeasing to my eyes. Doesn't take up too much space in my apt kitchen.

Rated 5 out of 5 by CentralIllinoisCook from Good Toaster This toaster is very good. I love the simplicity of the design, the straight-forward controls, how solid and well-built it is, that it is quite striking in its appearance, and -- IT MAKES GREAT TOAST! I'd almost given up on a good toaster. I recall the old polished mirror-finish ToastMaster my mother had that was used regularly for about 40 years. The thing just worked and consistently made good toast. The Vision Toaster is of that caliber. The design is well thought-out. I like that the function controls are on the FRONT of the unit (as well as the Cancel button). I especially like being able to monitor the progress of toasting. I also like the accessibility in order to clean it. Ingeniously simple. The Vision toaster is made the way countertop appliances used to be made: solid and serviceable. Even the packaging is top-rate. Well done, Williams-Sonoma.

Rated 5 out of 5 by Psychon from Does a great job and is fun to watch, too! I bought last year ago to replace a dying KitchenAid toaster. The manufacturer suggests a "break-in" of setting it on the highest setting before you use it. Even so it's slow to toast. The reason I rate it so highly is its versatility and looks. It toasts thick slabs or thin, one-side alone, frozen items without drying them out, or does a quick reheat. It does an incredibly even job, leaving most slices without any lines. The ability to see it toasting is both useful and fun. It has a tray that slides out for easy crumb removal. Both front and back glass doors swing open for clean up of the innermost panel. However the two sheets of glass in each panel are fixed in place, so don't drop anything between them. It's been trouble-free for a year. Highly recommended.