Avoid the BALMUDA.

What a joke.

Apparently it's huge in Japan and is starting to become something of a fad here, too. A friend of a friend recently bought one and was all giddy to show it off to friends. You would think that she had been granted the opportunity to be the first to buy some new Tesla model.

From what I could tell the damn thing struggled to properly toast a simple piece of wheat bread, despite the on-and-off cycling of the heating elements and the stupid water chamber adding moisture to the mix. The KitchenAid countertop dual convection toaster was $100 less and it actually works.