Be wary of "commercial grade" equipment. They are, slightly, better than the standard consumer shoddy but not so much better for the price. IMO. YMMV.
If you have the time you can call through the restaurant supply companies in your area and see what they got. Sometimes you can get a pretty good deal on refurbished second-hand, scratch-and-dent, or models going out of production -- make sure the latter isn't because they are a POS!
Unless you're having an exciting toast party. Or such.
Then there are the 120 V ones, with U.S. plugs, mostly run through a 200W transformer with U.S input and output plugs. Finally, there's the espresso machine, Italian-made but bought in Zabars, with it's own 1.500 W transformer with a European plug.
The last thing I'm going to do is get something with a British plug...
totally maddening, irrational, mickey mouse, like so much else in this topsy turvy country.
then when you pull one out of the wall, the whole fixture comes out with it, lol. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I thought that was just my apartment...
there were those double grills too that made wicked toasted cheese sarnies.
those toaster overs i saw more in the states, in the pre microwave days. they were the bees' knees for bedsit type situations, student digs etc. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
