Posted on 12/21/2023 9:54:02 AM PST by ShadowAce
I have two toasters. One is a four slot unit. One side is set for toast and the other side is set for waffles. My second toaster is a two slot unit with elongated slots for toasting really wide bread. Or it can toast four pieces of normal sized bread. It even has a count down timer so I can see how many seconds until my toast is done. I have plenty of counter space and outlets, so both are always out and plugged in.
A watched toaster timer never pops up
“Yes, and there must be an app on your Smartphone so you can start your toast before you get home, and a camera so you can view it.”
You’re practically still living in the late 1900s.
Today it requires an API that interfaces with generative AI to automate the creation of the requisite “selfie” of the celebrity-esque activity of eating a meal, and auto-magically push it to multiple social media feeds.
Not bad, but he missed dependency injection.
—”A cheap toaster never makes sense; if anyone needs one, buy a more expensive one.”
We were gifted a new two-slice Cuisinart that cost over ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, as our ancient one was going dark and slow.
The new one is nice and even but takes about four minutes on plain white bread; slow junk!
Our old neighbors used an ancient gizmo that toasted one side of one slice at a time. A fork was used to activate a flipping mechanism.
Mr A would be reading the paper, having a cigarette, coffee, breakfast, and having a conversation; with a deft move of his fork flips the toast to perfection!!!
And fast too.
That old king was great and wise!
Pre electricity days the skillet was the toaster still works better than a toaster.
My Granny always made toast in the gas oven, slathered with butter. (I’ve tried many times to make that toast in an electric oven, and it just never works.)
When it snowed and we were off school, she topped it with brown sugar and cinnamon, and we had tea. Lots of carbs for playing all day in the snow!
(When I was much older, we got an electric toaster. Things were just not the same...)
Try pop tarts with butter on them
I bought two toasters at a thrift shop.
The toaster one has 4 wide bays with 2 separate sets of controls for toasting level and defrosting before toasting.
The second toaster was made in West Germany and handles the oversized slices of bread such as the 8-inch wide Artisan bread slices.
Lol... I am tired of tinkerers who just have to tinker even if there is no reason to tinker. They are like tweakers.
Like those those in congress. I would be happy to pay them to DO NOTHING. This lawmaking for no reason is a bad thing.
They just had to try and fix something that wasn’t broken.
I wish I had the kind of toaster we had when I was a kid. Nothing ever popped up anywhere. It had two doors, with little handles, that opened down and you could see if the toast was done. If it wasn’t dark enough for you, you just . . . closed the door again.
Like the one shown in post 35.
The pop-up ones are dangerous. I’ve seen people go after a too-fat piece of toast without unplugging the toaster first.
I was thinking that a build-your-own would be good, esp. if it could be like building a PC via https://pcpartpicker.com. Today I saw Toyota IMV 0 Concept Is a Build-Your-Own Electric Pickup Truck not-quite-full-size truck starting price of just $10,00 - https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45599623/toyota-imv-0-concept-details/ But in US? Not likely.
HAHAHAHA!
I saw a really old one once. You set it by the fire in your fireplace and spin it to the other side with your foot. The colonial toe stir!
Progressives gain power from wrecking things that are working perfectly well.
Then they gain even more power by creating “fixes” for things they wrecked.
Also, they have a long history of destroying things and then bringing back what they previously destroyed as a great progressive “innovation”, e.g.:
-streetcars / urban transit
-precinct stations / community policing
and on and on..
“Progressives gain power from wrecking things that are working perfectly well.
Then they gain even more power by creating “fixes” for things they wrecked.
Also, they have a long history of destroying things and then bringing back what they previously destroyed as a great progressive “innovation”, e.g.:”
I agree. And mostly through government involvement and regulation.
From what I read here on FR that's exactly what the world's self-appointed elite want for us, too. The few of us left after mass die-offs from some reason or another.
Oops, gotta go - late for my latest COVID booster.
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