What kind of toaster do you have?

Jesus Wept

Mine is a Breville TT15.
It beeps five times before it pops which is pretty headwrecking and it always needs to be put down again anyway for another minute or so.

I inherited it as it was here when I moved in.
In an ideal world I'd buy a toaster of unimaginable destructive powers, like this one which has 34 slots.

Links234

one that toasts bread

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

What a time to be alive.

SomeFool

I'll take a piece of plain white bread, thank you, with a glass of water on the side for dipping.

I have one but I'm afraid of it's magic powers so I use the grill.

chicken fingers

Links234 wrote: »

one that toasts bread

First reply to an AH thread with a hilarious* joke, what a great concept!

JONJO THE MISER

2 sluts for me.

lemonjelly

My two slice toaster was the business until she broke down on me. Now i use the grill have to get a new one soon.

just checked argos are doing a nice one's for 5.95

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/4219608/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/3%7Ccat_19780844%7CToasters%7C14418671.htm

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

lemonjelly wrote: »

My two slice toaster was the business until she broke down on me. Now i use the grill have to get a new one soon

I feel your pain. I had a two slice toaster that served me for many years but the spring mechanism broke, I tried to repair it as it was as close to kin but it was not to be.

lemonjelly wrote: »

just checked argos are doing a nice one's for 5.95

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/4219608/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/3%7Ccat_19780844%7CToasters%7C14418671.htm

Price is right. I thought the one I had bought was great value at 9.99 in Dunnes.
This was the heady days of the celtic tiger though.

The Gnome

I'll take a piece of plain white bread, thank you, with a glass of water on the side for dipping.

This kind...

lemonjelly

The-Rigger wrote: »

I feel your pain. I had a two slice toaster that served me for many years but the spring mechanism broke, I tried to repair it as it was as close to kin but it was not to be.

Read the link above. It reminds me of my old toaster...oh the times we had :pac:

Buceph

4 slice toaster.

Toast is almost as good as spuds.

lemonjelly

wouldn't it be class to have a toaster with an electric can opener on the side built in

SomeFool

I'll take a piece of plain white bread, thank you, with a glass of water on the side for dipping.

lemonjelly wrote: »

wouldn't it be class to have a toaster with an electric can opener on the side built in

with a wee pot for heating the beans on the other side

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

There is a toaster radio and ones that cook eggs with your toast.


wow, checkout these, a notepad toaster...

Buceph

4 slice toaster.

If you have them toaster pockets, you can put frozen waffles in them and toast them in a toaster. It takes two go's on my toaster, but it works.

sam34

none, not really a toast eater. if I have visitors who want toast I do it under the grill for them.

congo_90

I don't have a toaster. I do however have a kitchen and a woman..



neither apply though as I don't eat toast

lemonjelly

congo_90 wrote: »

I don't have a toaster. I do however have a kitchen and a woman..



neither apply though as I don't eat toast

Oh I forgot. I dont have a toaster anymore because my woman does everything for me too. cop on man:pac:

seanybiker

4 slice toaster.

Why do toasters have a burn setting on them. Bloody head wrecking.

lemonjelly

you must have had the setting to max 6. To make the perfectly toasty sambo you only need it to 3 so its not too crispy but yet yet not too bready

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

ardinn
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Agonist

post pictures of these 8 and 10 slice toasters of yours plz.

enda1

4 slice toaster.

What I'd like is a toaster which had a light sensor which could tell when the toast is ready (or 3 levels maybe, just under done for the wusses, just right for the normals and just over for the boggers).

I hate that the toast time changes depending on the freshness of the bread, the thickness of the bread, the type of bread etc. So a setting of 3 which is perfect for one condition of bread, burns another or just barely tans a third. Infuriating.

Smart toasters, its your time to shine!

Dravokivich

4 slice toaster.

The-Rigger wrote: »

In an ideal world I'd buy a toaster of unimaginable destructive powers, like this one which has 34 slots.

Ewww some of the toast is still raw in that picture...

Johnny Bitte

4 slice toaster.

Wanted a 4 slice one but the ex insisted on the crappy 2 slicer.


Biggest regret of that relationship

starbelgrade

4 slice toaster.

lemonjelly wrote: »

My two slice toaster was the business until she broke down on me. Now i use the grill have to get a new one soon.

just checked argos are doing a nice one's for 5.95

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/4219608/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/3%7Ccat_19780844%7CToasters%7C14418671.htm

Our kettle broke over Christmas & being sick of forking out €30+ for kettles that continuously break down, I got one of the Argos range kettles for around €6. It looks grand & works perfectly fine. There's not much science involved in boiling water.

However, the same can not be said about toasting bread. There isn't much more science to that, but there is more of an art to getting a nicely toasted piece of bread than there is to boiling water.

I know this, because when the toaster broke last month, I got one of the Argos range toasters thinking it would be as good as the kettle.

Oh, how wrong was I - they are brutal. Grand, if you want one side of your toast done but not the other. Grand if you like putting in 2 slices & having one toasted twice as much as the other. Grand if you only want the bottom 2 thirds of your bread toasted. Grand if allow for the fact that if you are going for a second round of toast, you keep in mind that as the elements have already been heated up, you have to adjust the timer down to stop your bread from being incinerated. Etc Etc.

Do yourself a big favour & spend a few quid extra on a decent toaster, or just use the grill.

GavRedKing

4 slice toaster.

Just your standard, run of the mill 2 slicer.

I was always jealous of my cousin's with their superior 6 slicer

old_aussie

4 slice toaster.

Two slice toaster, only used 2 or 3 times a year.

Might start to use it a bit more as winter starts.

pajor

One that sets off the fire alarm

Kimono-Girl

4 slice toaster.

This one


edit:erm i got distracted and i voted wrong i clicked 2 when i meant to click 4



Ha! it's actually a link to a toaster!

_feedback_

6 slice toaster.

Have one of these 4 slicers. Previously had the cheapest one available in tesco and it only lasted a few months.

God, I love toast.

Swampy

4 slice toaster.

I've got a €6 Tesco piece of crap toaster. Still on the lookout for the "one".

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

The_Goose135 wrote: »

Wanted a 4 slice one but the ex insisted on the crappy 2 slicer.


Biggest regret of that relationship

Well I hope that is why the relationship ended.

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

This one


edit:erm i got distracted and i voted wrong i clicked 2 when i meant to click 4



Ha! it's actually a link to a toaster!

You are stuck with us 2 slice toaster plebs now.

Swampy wrote: »

I've got a €6 Tesco piece of crap toaster. Still on the lookout for the "one".

You'll know it when you see her it.

One with four slots. It has a number of little red lights in the middle, I think four lights and they decrease to 3 2 1 etc while it's toasting, so you know when it's almost done

colm_mcm

http://www.dualit3slicetoaster.com/

Epic toaster.

cock robin

4 slice toaster.

seanybiker wrote: »

Why do toasters have a burn setting on them. Bloody head wrecking.

For well done steak and chops

seanybiker

seanybiker wrote: »

Why do toasters have a burn setting on them. Bloody head wrecking.

perfect for waffles from frozen

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

colm_mcm wrote: »

http://www.dualit3slicetoaster.com/

Epic toaster.

This is madness, why would anyone want an odd number of slices.

yupyup7up

A purple one but it keeps bringing me to strange and unknown places... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52VT_TT-sQ

Krieg

6 slice toaster.

Standard 4 slice toaster, 30 euro as i recall.

What I really want is one of these -
http://www.topnews.in/files/glasstoaster.jpg

It only does one slice but I could buy 4 of them!
Being able to see exactly how well cooked the bread is an absolute necessity for me. The dial's sometimes play tricks with you, you think 5 is the perfect setting, but then one day it breaks your heart by slightly over cooking or under cooking the bread, ruining your day. Or maybe ill look into a toaster that takes into account the current environmental factors such ambient temperature and perhaps background radiation plays a factor in the cooking of bread.

Ruu_Old

Dis wan!

chin_grin

I've read the word 'toast' so many times in this thread that it's lost all meaning.

"Yeah......put the raw bread in to the upright-slotty-cooky-thingy beside the kettle please."

Jesus Wept

2 slice toaster.

You could time travel in that yoke.

Boom_Bap

I hate my f*cking toaster, it has a default setting of 3 which is never enough to toast a slice of bread (dont get me started on batch). So every goddam time i use the toaster I have to start pressing buttons and configure the thing. It's an additional 3-7 second second delay in the toast preperation process depending on the required configuration.

Lumen

6 slice toaster.

Dualit 4-slice. Ten years together and not a wrinkle on her.

Sometimes I wish I had one of those catering ones with a conveyor belt so I could have an eating vs toasting race.

I'll take a piece of plain white bread, thank you, with a glass of water on the side for dipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_FIwX1tb8

A sheet of asbestos hung on the wall and a blow torch!
The asbestos has a couple of nails on it, stick the bread onto the nails and fire up the blow torch, instant toast

enda1

4 slice toaster.

Lumen wrote: »

Sometimes I wish I had one of those catering ones with a conveyor belt so I could have an eating vs toasting race.

This is my dream realised in words. It'd be like homer in hell with the doughnuts, only with toast, and me at home.

PandyAndy

4 slice toaster.

I have a two slice toaster. It's terrible. Sometimes I wonder what's the point in living...

In the last house we had a 2 slice toaster that had a metal stand on top so when your two slices were done you put them up on it while your other two slices are toasting away to keep them warm. It was the BEST year of my life.

I could use the grill, but fúck that.

HoneyRyder

I know they say it's all about the journey but when it comes to toast I'm more a destination kind of girl. That and melty butter.

enda1

4 slice toaster.

HoneyRyder wrote: »

I know they say it's all about the journey but when it comes to toast I'm more a destination kind of girl. That and melty butter.

A lot of toasters "guarantee" you Barbados, but deliver Bray in November.

Chris P. Bacon

I don't have a toaster i have always used the grill,i think the toast out of the grill is nicer it takes longer but its worth it,and you cant fit a blaa in a toaster

KnifeWRENCH

4 slice toaster.

We have the cheapest one that was in the Argos catalogue. Bread usually gets stuck in it and has to be poked out with the wooden spoon. TOASTER DESIGN FAIL.