User interface for a toaster

A toaster comprising:

• a housing that defines one or more cooking cavities;
• a lift in each cooking cavity to lower different food products to different vertical locations inside the cooking cavities;
• heating elements located inside each cooking cavity, the toaster being operable to supply energy to the heating elements to toast and/or cook food products arranged inside the one or more cooking cavities;
• and
• a user interface for selecting various combinations of food product, cooking mode, and doneness level;
• wherein the user interface is operable by a user to control a cooking cycle performed in the one or more cooking cavities, and the lift is configured to position a food product to a vertical position in the cooking cavity based on a type of food product selected using the user interface such that a center of the food product is at a center of a heating area in the cooking cavity.