Best Toastie Maker 2026: 10 Sandwich Toasters Ranked

Fourteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-one ratings at 4.6 stars is both the largest and the best-scoring combination on this page, and the reason is versatility. Flat non-stick plates mean this is not limited to sliced bread: paninis, ciabatta, tea cakes, crumpets, pittas, flour tortillas and wraps all go in, so it earns its worktop space far more often than a sealed-toastie machine does.

The large plates hold up to three sandwiches at once, and a floating top plate rises to match whatever thickness you load, resting evenly on a thin sandwich or a stuffed ciabatta rather than crushing one and missing the other. It stands upright for storage, has a cool-touch handle and non-slip feet, and the aluminium plates wipe clean.

The one thing it will not do is seal. Without cut-and-seal ridges a very wet filling can escape at the edges, so if your idea of a toastie is a crimped triangle full of molten cheese, buy the Breville Deep Fill below instead. For everything else, this is the more useful machine.

This is the machine most people picture when they say toastie maker. The cut-and-seal system slices the sandwich into two triangles and crimps the edges closed, so the cheese stays where it belongs instead of welding itself to the element, and the deep-fill plates leave room for a proper amount of filling rather than a mean smear.

Full-walled plates catch any overspill, a ready-to-cook indicator light tells you when it is hot enough rather than leaving you guessing, and it stands upright for storage with a cool-touch handle and cord wrap. At GBP 19.12 with 10,135 ratings at 4.4 stars, it is the cheapest way to a well-made sealed toastie.

Two things to know. The plates are fixed, so cleaning is a damp cloth on a warm machine rather than a dishwasher cycle. And it shares its rating pool with the pricier Ultimate model below, so the reviews describe both machines rather than this one alone.

The Ultimate takes the standard Breville toastie maker and fixes its two weaknesses. The plates come out, so burnt-on cheese goes in the dishwasher instead of being scraped off a hot machine with a cloth, and they swap for waffle plates, turning the same appliance into a waffle maker. Breville also gives it 20 percent more filling space than its other toastie makers, which is the difference between a sandwich and a proper meal.

It keeps the cut-and-seal system for sealed triangles and the ready-to-cook indicator, stands upright for storage, and has 10,135 ratings at 4.4 stars.

At GBP 29.00 it costs around ten pounds more than the standard Deep Fill for the same toastie, so the question is simply whether removable plates and the waffle option are worth that to you. If you make toasties often, the cleaning alone justifies it; if you make them occasionally, the cheaper model above is the same sandwich.

The Tower is the pick for feeding more than one person. Four extra-deep pocket moulds make two generously filled sandwiches in a go, and a 900W element gets it up to temperature quickly and keeps it there, so the second round does not come out pale. It has 5,613 ratings at 4.5 stars.

Automatic temperature control holds the heat steady rather than cycling wildly, the non-stick coating releases cleanly, and Tower backs it with a guarantee that extends to three years on registration — longer than most rivals here offer.

The trade-offs are the usual ones for this style: fixed plates that need wiping rather than washing, and sealed pockets that will not take a ciabatta or a wrap. But as a fast, generous, well-guaranteed family toastie maker at under twenty-five pounds, it is a strong buy.

This Sensio Home machine covers the same ground as the Tower for a pound less: four slices, meaning two full sandwiches at a time, on plates deeper than the standard sandwich toaster so a decent filling actually fits. The 900W element heats quickly, and power and ready indicator lights tell you when to load it.

It has 4,590 ratings at 4.5 stars, a compact footprint for a four-slice machine, and a non-stick coating that lets the toasties lift out cleanly.

There is nothing exotic here — fixed plates, no waffle option, no removable parts — and it sits below the Tower mainly on review count and the shorter guarantee. As a straightforward, cheap, well-rated family toastie maker, though, it does exactly what it says.

The Mico is a genuinely different answer to the same problem. It is a silicone microwaveable tray with a non-stick grill plate inside, so you build the sandwich, close it, and microwave it — no plug, no preheating, no hot metal appliance taking up a cupboard. Morphy Richards calls the internal plate Heatwave technology, and it browns the bread rather than steaming it soft, which is the thing cheap microwave toastie gadgets usually get wrong.

For a student room, an office kitchen, a caravan or a small flat where worktop space is the binding constraint, that is the whole appeal, and it works for croissants, bagels and paninis too. It has 5,887 ratings at 4.5 stars and goes in the dishwasher.

Be realistic about what it is: a microwave will never crisp bread quite like a hot press, and it makes one toastie at a time. But it is the only product here that needs no socket and stores in a drawer.

Salter is a name most British kitchens recognise, and this machine's selling point is removable plates at a price well under the Breville Ultimate. Being able to lift the plates out and wash them properly is the single biggest quality-of-life difference in a toastie maker, because melted cheese on a fixed plate is a genuinely annoying job.

It makes two deep-filled toasties at a time on 900W with automatic temperature control, so it holds heat between rounds, and it is compact enough for a small kitchen. It has 3,055 ratings at 4.4 stars.

It ranks below the Breville and Tower machines on review volume rather than features, and its 4.4-star average is solid rather than outstanding. If you want removable plates from a familiar brand without paying nearly thirty pounds, this is the sensible middle option.

At GBP 15.99 this is the cheapest machine in the comparison and it makes no pretence of being anything else: two slices, non-stick plates, four non-slip feet, a cool-touch handle and 750 watts. For a first flat, a student kitchen or a spare toastie maker for a caravan, it costs less than a takeaway sandwich lunch and does the job.

It has 3,398 ratings, a large sample for something this cheap, and Quest is an established UK budget appliance brand rather than an anonymous listing.

The number to weigh is the score: 4.1 stars is the lowest average on this page, and at 750W it is also the least powerful, so it heats more slowly and browns less evenly than the 900W machines. For a few pounds more the Breville Deep Fill has 10,135 ratings at 4.4. Buy the Quest only if the lowest possible price is the point.

If you want one appliance instead of three, this is it. Three sets of removable plates turn it into a deep-fill toastie maker with cut-and-seal, a waffle maker and a panini press, so it covers both the sealed-triangle and the flat-plate styles that the rest of this page makes you choose between. An adjustable-height lid accommodates very thick sandwiches rather than squashing them.

The plates lift out for the dishwasher, there is a ready-to-cook indicator, and it has 1,197 ratings at 4.3 stars.

Two things put it at ninth. At GBP 47.98 it is by far the most expensive machine here — more than the Breville Panini Press and Deep Fill bought together — and its 4.3-star average is a shade below the simpler Breville machines, which is common with multi-function appliances. Buy it if you genuinely want waffles as well; if you only want toasties, the cheaper Brevilles do that job just as well.