The Toaster

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[ShadowAce]

H/T to Red Badger for sending this to me

[ShadowAce]

[Openurmind]

If it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it.

[Billthedrill]

My toaster oven crapped out last night (true story) - less than a month after I finally got the clock working right. It figured now it’s a clock is my working hypothesis.

[Reverend Wright]

+1 000 000 !

[Magnum44]

[aquila48]

That’s what today’s car has become.

[Jamestown1630]

I recently bought a plain old 2-slice toaster, and it stinks. I have a 4-slice one in storage that works excellently, but I thought it took up too much space; so I bought a cheap little one that had ‘excellent reviews’.

A cheap toaster never makes sense; if anyone needs one, buy a more expensive one.

[KarlInOhio]

Cute, but a little dated. You would now need an i7 with 16GB of RAM and a half terabyte of local storage plus a cloud service to provide a permanent photographic record of your breakfasts. But you could save on the heating elements by running Windows 11 and use the processor to heat the bread directly.

[DugwayDuke]

Of course, no true software engineer would have failed to include a requirement for dual factor authentication as part of the user interface.

[Tell It Right]

Decades ago in the early 1990's I had a chance to play with the Video Toaster that amazingly ran on a home computer (Amiga). I could not believe that could be done at home. Of course, today it's nothing to produce video content like that on a home computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

[dayglored]

As I mentioned to Red Badger in mail:

> "...Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor..."

Clearly this joke has been around for decades. LOL

[ExGeeEye]

My toaster was made in the 1940s.

If you look at the plug end, you can see the wires attached to the prongs with screws.

[Billthedrill]

I may have to take that advice. I have a newer toaster oven in storage (going to retrieve it in a few minutes) and I’m hoping I won’t need a degree in electrical engineering to run it. I don’t think cooking Pop Tarts on my wood stove is going to work out.

[Deaf Smith]

>>old 2-slice toaster, and it stinks

Old toaster usually have a bottom that opens to dump out accumulated crumbs and junk.

Maybe even an old Lego your kid dropped in years ago.

[Disambiguator]

This is my most recent toaster purchase. I expect it to last a very long time.

[Jamestown1630]

The cheap one I got burns or barely toasts the bread - on the same setting. It’s like it moves around internally, somehow.

Nothing is the quality things used to be; but spend money on something like this. The good one I got is a Black and Decker; it doesn’t look available anymore but it was about $65 a few years ago, and they have other models.

[Jamestown1630]

The modern ones usually have that too; every one I’ve bought has a slide-out bottom/door.

[Dr. Sivana]

Of course, no true software engineer would have failed to include a requirement for dual factor authentication as part of the user interface.

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.

[Jamestown1630]

I have one of those. It doesn’t seem to work very well on an electric stove...