Breville Eye Q toaster review: a ‘revolutionary device’ that makes perfect toast without me trying

I toasted just about every kind of bread in Breville’s new Eye Q – and each slice came out perfectly toasted Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things It’s a centuries-old problem: how to prepare the perfect slice of toast.

Historical toasters range from a simple iron frame standing slices of bread in front of a hearth to Rube Goldberg-like contraptions of springs and knobs that turn, flip and eject. The core technology of the toaster has changed little in the past 100 years. A coil of high-resistance wires is activated for a certain period, and the radiant heat from that coil warms and…