Product type
Recalls involving toasters and toaster ovens.
24 official CPSC notices published 1990–2026, covering at least 3.5 million units.
Type the model number from your toaster's label. Every model number named in a toaster recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
48 model numbers
Wolfgang Puck Toaster Oven/Toasters · 09-746 · 2009
Lun Dar Electric Ind. Toaster Oven/Broilers · 09-199 · 2009
General Electric Toasters · 08-413 · 2008
Cook's Essential Electric Toasters · 08-522 · 2007
Black & Decker® brand Infrawave™ Toasters · 08-111 · 2007
Cook's Essential Electric Toasters · 08-001 · 2007
KitchenAid® ProLine® Toasters · 05-142 · 2005
VersaToast™ Wide-Slot Toaster · 02-099 · 2002
Welbilt toaster ovens · 00-142 · 2000
Black & Decker Spacemaker Optima · 98-097 · 1998
Welbilt convection ovens · 98-066 · 1998
QVC Teba Cooking System multifunction ovens · 97-189 · 1997
Dualit-Plus electronic toasters · 95-036 · 1994
Toastmaster Toasters · 91-087 · 1991
Toastmaster four-slice electric toasters · 90-101 · 1990
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Panasonic Manufacturing (Xiamen)
The power cord insulation can be insufficient due to a protective fiberglass sleeve not covering it adequately, posing a risk of shock and/or fire hazard.
The recalled toasters can leak electric current when operating at the maximum normal temperature, posing a shock hazard to consumers.
Hamilton Beach classic chrome
When the toasters are first plugged into the outlets, the heating element can be energized although the toaster lifter is in the up or off position, which can pose a fire hazard if the toaster is near flammable items.
Hamilton Beach classic chrome
The heating element in these toasters can remain energized indefinitely when an item is placed in the toaster which may ignite the contents, posing a fire hazard if the toaster is near flammable items.
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The toaster oven can remain "on" after the toast pops up, posing a fire hazard.
Electrical connections in the toaster oven/broilers can become loose, posing electrical shock and burn hazards.
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Wiring inside the toaster can become loose and contact the toaster body, posing a shock hazard to consumers.
An electrical short circuit can occur between the heating element and the bread cage, posing a fire and electrical shock hazard to consumers.
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The toaster can turn on without bread in the slots and ignite items placed on top of it, posing a fire hazard.
Hamilton Beach and Proctor-Silex
The toasters can remain "on" (energized) after popping up, and can ignite flammable items covering or in contact with the toaster, posing a fire hazard.
The toaster can turn on without bread in the slots and ignite items placed on top of it, posing a fire hazard.
Black & Decker Infrawave
An electrical component in the toaster can overheat and ignite the circuit board, posing a fire hazard.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 16 of 24 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 24 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (2), QVC (2), Walmart (2), Costco (1), and Crate & Barrel (1) are the stores named most often in the 17 notices that say where toasters were sold. 6 of the 17 notices mention online sales.
The 17 notices that give a price range from $8 to $300. Half of them name a price of $30 or less.
By the 17 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 19 months or less; the longest for 8 years. Half the recalls came within 2.5 years of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A refund in 2 of the 4 notices that name a remedy, a replacement in 2. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 16 of the 24 notices (67%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then electric shock (8) and burn (4).
16 of the 17 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 1 reports injuries. 1 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
18 of the 24 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 3, date codes or manufacture dates in 6. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on the bottom of the toaster” (2 notices), “on the bottom of the toasters” (2 notices), and “on a plate located on the underside of the toaster”.
China (15), in the 15 notices that name a manufacturing country.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 24 recall notices for toasters since 1990, covering at least 3.5 million units. The most recent is “Panasonic Recalls Electric Toaster Ovens Due to Shock and Fire Hazards” (CPSC 26-618), announced July 16, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 1 recall notice for toasters in 2026, on July 16, 2026 (CPSC 26-618).
“CPSC, Applica Consumer Products Inc. Announce Recall of Black & Decker® Brand VersaToast™ Toasters” (CPSC 02-099), announced February 7, 2002: about 2.1 million units.
Brands named most often: Hamilton Beach Brands (3), QVC (3), Appliance (2), Applica Consumer Products (2), Cook's Essential Electric (2), Hamilton Beach (2), Hamilton Beach classic chrome (2) and Salton (2), plus 13 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 18 of the 24 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 3 and date codes or manufacture dates in 6. The place they name most often is “on the bottom of the toaster”.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across toaster recalls, the remedies offered most often are refund (2) and replacement (2).
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