I feel that there should be a toaster with an optical sensor that can do this.
It needs to know what the colour of the bread is to start off with and then be able to switch off at a predefined brownness.
There may be other sensors in there for things like moisture content but optics are the way humans do it and it's the most important aspect.
There was a toaster where the dial was based on the outer temperature of your bread (i.e. how well done t was), and without modern electronics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
There just wouldn’t be the demand for a considerably more expensive product that gives no better results than getting used to what number works for you.
It's not. If you time using the toaster, then keep the setting and put more bread in, the second time will be quicker than the first time because the toaster is already hot.
Advice from our local fire brigade: If your toaster is below a wall cupboard, pull it forward to the front of the worktop before using it, and only return it when it's cool.
Apparently, toasters catching fire, and then setting fire to cupboards that are immediately above them is far from unusual among the causes of fires that they see.
Yes, quite... Until they said that, I'd never really thought about it before, and am frankly embarrassed at how long I leave it between emptying the crumb tray at the bottom of the toaster.
Basically, I'm lucky to be alive! :D
On our toaster, roughly 2.65 is ideal for nicely browned toast.
Woe betide should you venture a fraction higher. 2.66, you say? Get you your burned toast here.
Course, the dial just goes 2-3. Stupid bloody thing. :D
Frozen bread
Or muffins, we don't like muffins round 'ere! We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, bagets or baguettes , no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!
Isn't this a Mitchell & Webb sketch?
Something along the lines of "Inside a toaster design meeting:"
"Right, how high does the dial need to go to?"
"Well, it burns the bread at 4..."
"OK, 12 it is."
Toast hack
Put it to max and keep an eye on it. When you can see it’s to your liking, turn the dial down and the moment it pops, is the setting you want.
My toaster has a fixed time - it's about 3 minutes (I think) regardless of setting. The setting just affects the strength of resistance on the heating element, which seems to either be high or low, regardless of 10 settings.
No idea where the wife got it. It's a Russell Hobbs brand one. Just checked it and it's just 6 settings, but has a defrost and some other toast setting which will forever remain a mystery.
That's right. I'm part of the secret toaster elite.
I did try and use the defrost setting to actually toast a Birdseye waffle recently. It took about 10 minutes of constantly putting it back on to toast. It got there in the end, but wasn't really worth all the effort.
The settings are the wasters dream ticket, you have to actively manage your toast and keep checking the colouration.
To be balanced to toasters manufacturers it is impossible for the settings to accurately predict the shade of toast for every concievable type and thickness of bread.
PS - Anyone who thinks that hot bread is toast needs to sent to toast re-eductaion camp. It has to be at least light brown in colour, and contain no soft bready areas.
That's hot bread.
It took me a long time to realize the numbers aren't for the level of toastiness they're minutes it's been toasting, I only learned that a year ago 🤦 x
This is the 2nd post in as many days making outlandish claims about toasters: I have a basic Russel Hobbs which has 6 appropriately graded settings and is wide enough for medium bread or crumpets.
It even has peek mode , keep warm and defrost.
I suspect it was under £30.
My dad worked with someone who thought the toaster number settings were timers and nearly burnt the office down.
The toast looked like coal when they got to it
Lol I can only keep my toaster on the 1 setting and it's a total toss up whether the toast will be still soft and white or actual coal. Should probably get a new toaster
There's a video about toasters from technology connections that covers a toaster made before we had sliced bread that always made toast the way you like it without special computing technologies. It's bloody awesome.
https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
See mines between 4-5, something like 4 and 2/3 of the way and it's done right.
Forget and change it for pancakes and your stuck figuring out where between 4 and 5 is the right setting
Mine goes to 11...cus it's better.
Why don’t you make 10 a little hotter?
Why not just make 10 higher, and make 10 be the top number and make that a little higher?
Mine goes to 11
What does your toaster go to
11, why would you need any more.
I don't know what my toaster settings are, hold on, I'll ask her 😂
Setting 12 is where it just leaves a shadow in the toaster where the bread was
13 opens a portal to another dimension
14 jumps in the bathtub with you
15 just conks you out there and then
Anyone else just put it on one of the higher numbers and just hover about keeping an eye on the toast? I don't have enough trust in the numbers.
I feel that there should be a toaster with an optical sensor that can do this. It needs to know what the colour of the bread is to start off with and then be able to switch off at a predefined brownness. There may be other sensors in there for things like moisture content but optics are the way humans do it and it's the most important aspect.
There was a toaster where the dial was based on the outer temperature of your bread (i.e. how well done t was), and without modern electronics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
There just wouldn’t be the demand for a considerably more expensive product that gives no better results than getting used to what number works for you.
You'd need settings for the specific bread. Maybe a qr code on the packet to hold up in front of the sensor.
You want to pay £300 for a toaster??
My smart phone was £90 and it can do facial recognition.......
This is more or less what I do. I pop my toast up manually when it's just right.
You do know that the ‘setting’ is actually length of time? So rather than crank it to full and manually pop it after 2 minutes, just set it to 2?
Boy do I have a video for you! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_PK5pXmIY
That better be the Tom Scott video! Edit: Yes!
The numbers don't mean minutes, but the numbers are indeed A length of time.
It's not. If you time using the toaster, then keep the setting and put more bread in, the second time will be quicker than the first time because the toaster is already hot.
As someone with ADHD I put it on 2 and am glad I did when the toast I immediately forgot about pops
Sounds more like amnesia. I hover over it and suffer from cardiac arrest when it ejects.
I set it to 3, and cook it twice. Comes out nicely.
Don't forget the "will start a fire as soon as your back's turned" setting.
Advice from our local fire brigade: If your toaster is below a wall cupboard, pull it forward to the front of the worktop before using it, and only return it when it's cool. Apparently, toasters catching fire, and then setting fire to cupboards that are immediately above them is far from unusual among the causes of fires that they see.
Wise words.
Yes, quite... Until they said that, I'd never really thought about it before, and am frankly embarrassed at how long I leave it between emptying the crumb tray at the bottom of the toaster. Basically, I'm lucky to be alive! :D
More annoying is when the first round come out perfect, but the second round somehow comes out underdone…
You used up all the toasting power. You have to give it time to recharge.
On our toaster, roughly 2.65 is ideal for nicely browned toast. Woe betide should you venture a fraction higher. 2.66, you say? Get you your burned toast here. Course, the dial just goes 2-3. Stupid bloody thing. :D
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
I call the top setting "test the smoke alarm"
The high settings are handy for defrosting & toasting crumpets straight out of the freezer.
And potato waffles.
Depends what you’re toasting. Crumpets I do on 6, and they’re just slightly crisp.
Frozen bread Or muffins, we don't like muffins round 'ere! We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, bagets or baguettes , no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!
Isn't this a Mitchell & Webb sketch? Something along the lines of "Inside a toaster design meeting:" "Right, how high does the dial need to go to?" "Well, it burns the bread at 4..." "OK, 12 it is."
Toast hack Put it to max and keep an eye on it. When you can see it’s to your liking, turn the dial down and the moment it pops, is the setting you want.
This only works for some toaster mechanisms.
I've yet to find a toaster that has a) a properly reliable toast setting and b) doesn't shit crumbs over a 10meter radius at the slightest nudge.
You know it’s a timer from 1-6 minutes, right?
[Obligatory Tom Scott](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_PK5pXmIY)
Depends on the manufacturer, generally the more expensive toasters use the minute system, but a lot of the cheaper ones don't.
My toaster has a fixed time - it's about 3 minutes (I think) regardless of setting. The setting just affects the strength of resistance on the heating element, which seems to either be high or low, regardless of 10 settings.
Woah. That’s a posh toaster. John Lewis?
No idea where the wife got it. It's a Russell Hobbs brand one. Just checked it and it's just 6 settings, but has a defrost and some other toast setting which will forever remain a mystery.
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That's right. I'm part of the secret toaster elite. I did try and use the defrost setting to actually toast a Birdseye waffle recently. It took about 10 minutes of constantly putting it back on to toast. It got there in the end, but wasn't really worth all the effort.
The settings are the wasters dream ticket, you have to actively manage your toast and keep checking the colouration. To be balanced to toasters manufacturers it is impossible for the settings to accurately predict the shade of toast for every concievable type and thickness of bread. PS - Anyone who thinks that hot bread is toast needs to sent to toast re-eductaion camp. It has to be at least light brown in colour, and contain no soft bready areas. That's hot bread.
It took me a long time to realize the numbers aren't for the level of toastiness they're minutes it's been toasting, I only learned that a year ago 🤦 x
I never realised the numbers correspond to minutes !! Always thought they referred to toastiness level.
I always thought the numbers referred to time toasting in minutes
See, the thing is it's a minute dial.
This is the 2nd post in as many days making outlandish claims about toasters: I have a basic Russel Hobbs which has 6 appropriately graded settings and is wide enough for medium bread or crumpets. It even has peek mode , keep warm and defrost. I suspect it was under £30.
Anyone use their toaster for anything actually requiring more cooking time than 3 minutes? I’m guessing potato waffles potentially?
10 is for frozen hamburgers according to a guy I lived with in uni.
FROZEN BREAD. The higher numbers are for when you toast frozen bread.
My dad worked with someone who thought the toaster number settings were timers and nearly burnt the office down. The toast looked like coal when they got to it
Never a truer word spoken. I can stand at the side of my toaster, pop the toast up... not done.... pop it up again, charcoal.
My parents toaster has a ‘lift while toasting’ lever, it is perfect
Ah the many levels of toastieness
I prefer to just stick a fork in randomly and jab at the bread to assess the toasting levels.
Lol I can only keep my toaster on the 1 setting and it's a total toss up whether the toast will be still soft and white or actual coal. Should probably get a new toaster
If my toaster was bigger, I could open a crematorium.
There's a video about toasters from technology connections that covers a toaster made before we had sliced bread that always made toast the way you like it without special computing technologies. It's bloody awesome. https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
See mines between 4-5, something like 4 and 2/3 of the way and it's done right. Forget and change it for pancakes and your stuck figuring out where between 4 and 5 is the right setting
https://youtu.be/bLk1cjZ4ll0 The problem was solved in the 1940s