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Toasters!

  • 26-03-2022 4:53pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,554 ✭✭✭✭


    Why hasn't someone made a toaster that actually works for the Irish?

    Most toasters I think are designed for countries that have those slices of bread that are smaller than the square toasting bread that we have never mind your bigger pan like Brennans

    And it should have a longer setting for Batch bread instead of having to do it twice



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭john9876


    I think if you get a supermarket own brand toaster like Tesco's it's more likely to fit your Irish size slice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Had this problem last time purchasing, went with DeLonghi, fits Irish bread perfect, unsure if the entire range does this or not. I had a look at the reviews on Argos to see which was suitable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is that a very young Paul Young in the pop vid??😶



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    This toaster looks phenomenal. It only does one slice at a time, but it appears to do it to perfection. $270, but it takes thick bread and seems to have enough space for a arched-top pan slice.









  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Feck this fecking site. This video was supposed to be in the post above. It's there if I edit, but doesn't show when posted.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,554 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    oh yeah I actually watched this on Autin Evans previously





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    think i'll wait for black friday



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭pjdarcy


    You could just cook your toast under the grill and save yourself 270 quid



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    We have a bread machine that produces loaves that protrude a good bit out of the top of most toasters. So we end up having to rotate the bread multiple times while it's toasting to avoid one end being untoasted.

    I've been hunting for a suitable toaster for ages but the one important thing that's hardly ever mentioned in the specs is the size of the toasting compartment!

    I may be reduced to cutting out a cardboard replica of a slice of bread and trying it out in the shop at this rate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,903 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    turn down low, insert bread, toast, flip and repeat, job done!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Some sandwich makers have the same issue - they can only fit perfectly square micro sized slices - no hope of squeezing in an Irish doorstep.

    Regarding toasters, our current one is particularly badly designed. It is a four slice toaster, with two, two slice sections and the minimum you can toast is two slices - no provision to do a single slice. if you need to toast only one slice, the other half of the two bay section also heats up.

    Also ... you don't have a choice as to which two slice bay section you use - the right hand two slice bay has to be used first. It will burn out quicker than the other left hand two slice bay, because if you are continually toasting two slices, you can not share the usage load.

    If you have two slices already in use and then have to go for another two, the second two slice bay (only operable if first is also being used) will turn on, but it will pop up at the same time as the first, even if the first bay has been on for longer. If you then have to top up the second slices again (because they popped early) you will have to move them back to the first bay, because the second bay will not operate again on its own.

    First world problems, I know ..... but I am seriously thinking of throwing it out, just for the stupid design and energy wastage that it contributes to. The wife bought it, because it fitted the kitchen colour scheme - I would have brought it back shortly after using it for the first time, or changed the colour of the kitchen to match a better toaster.



  • Registered Users Posts: 319 ✭✭ThreeGreens


    From time to time Lidl do a four slice silvercrest toaster.


    It's still the wrong size, but you can lie the bread on its side and to one slice each side and it does it perfectly (ie use the four slice toaster as a 2 slice toaster).





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,144 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I say "Cheers to toasters"






    It's a toast,. I'll... I'll, ah, get me coat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I'm sure I've seen a toaster or two over here boasting the it fits warburtons bread. I assume that means it'll take a longer slice. We have a relatively expensive de longhi yoke that will fit most slices on their side but not all. I may join the OP's campaign in the near future!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    You could also just let your bread go stale and colour it brown with a marker.

    The Mitsubishi jobbie is airtight, so it seals moisture in. You're not just grilling the toast (which a regular toaster does), but steaming it too. Next level future tech for elite toast aficionados, not your average pleb who frets about a mere 270 of your earth dollars.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Ah but you don't get that warm fuzzy feeling of being ahead of the trend & part of the future if you do that



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Was the invention of toast not just a means of making stale bread more palatable for plebs who couldn't get it fresh?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Possibly, a bit like yoghurt is just a way to use rancid milk and beer is just a way of making stagnant water not kill you. But since those mundane origins, we've taken these products and made them into delicacies in their own right. Given that up to now, toast has just been bread crudely exposed to radiant heat, I'd say we're only at the beginning of what toast can be as we explore other possibilities of how to make it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Not really that was the Qtips which he was a member of plus it was called "toast" 😶



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    The band that sang 'Toast', was called Streetband and a young Paul Young, was their lead singer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    butter has to go on straight away aswell to melt, otherwise there's no point



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Ger Roe




  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,750 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Always drives me mad that we have to buy special sliced pan bread specifically made to fit into a toaster rather than manufacturers making toasters that fit bread in them.

    I like well done toast, never understood the point of just warming up the bread. But the upshot is I invariably have to put the bread down twice and try catching it before it burns.

    The solution seems to be a transparent toaster that looks like it could fit normal sliced pan but it's €475 😳



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,387 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    In 2011 when we were also in straitened times, the Toast Sandwich re-emerged from the 19th century as a cheap meal suggestion. 7.5 pence Sterling. Not to be confused with toasted sandwiches.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    If you toast stale bread you get rusks, which were used in the days of sail to provide a way to store food, for weevils.

    Interestingly enough in Kenya sliced white bread is referred to as fresh toast.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Bought this last week. Dualit, hand built in UK.

    Completely rebuildable. Expensive. Last a lifetime. No microchip etc etc to go belly up.

    Happy enough with it.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Bought one of these for my large Irish sliced bread, very happy with it.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭Ryath


    Kenwood used to make one, I have the previous version of this discontinued model, width adjusts and it fits everything from double decker club sandwiches made on batch to naan breads. Don't know what I'll replace it with when it dies. It's actually my second one first one only lasted about 4 years but this one is well over 10 years old. I really should have brought a spare.




  • Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Another thing that annoys me about most dual slot toasters is that for a slice of bread, the side facing the middle is more toasted than the side facing the outside. Sometimes it's so unbalanced that I have to flip the slice mid cycle. It's obviously because there are 2 toasting elements back to back in the centre, so it's hotter than the sides but one would think they'd balance the elements better to prevent that happening.

    Btw, really like the toaster in the previous post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,387 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    More expensive toasters will toast evenly.

    "All these problems can be traced back to the cost of the toaster. Cheaper toasters can never toast the bread evenly, but more expensive ones will."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,495 ✭✭✭cml387


    Paul Mc Cartney chose "Toast" as one of his Desert Island Disks.

    I don't have any views on toast except the special place reserved in hell for people who adjust the settings of the conveyor belt toaster you get in hotels



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    What does the toast dial mean? Is it heat? Is it time? Is it the seed of a random number generator which decides whether to burn your toast or not?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I for one was very disappointment when I joined my local Toastmasters group, and none of them had a fúcking clue. Toast amateurs, more like!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Toast rack + long handled lighter. Game changer. Yes it takes longer but it means perfect (if slightly cold) toast and you can call it artisan. Stick some avocado on there and you can charge Qatari beer prices.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,542 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    It depends on the toaster. It does not mean time, like is often claimed, except possibly on some extremely specific models.

    Fancier toasters detect the heat of the bread (this mainly means you don't need an extra defrost button if using frozen bread) and in that case the dial refers to that; except if you're using the slot empty to get heat to a toasting rack above in which case it means whatever the hell the manufacturer decides it means for that usage.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I have a bog-standard two-slice toaster, and the dial is definitely time. The lower the number, the quicker it pops.

    Agree wholeheartedly with the OP, my go-to crap white bread is Brennans sliced pan, and it annoys me no end (far more than it should) that I can't toast the whole slice properly.

    Next time I'm definitely getting a long-slotted one that you can put the slices into sideways.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,542 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    It will always pop quicker the lower the number - no matter what way they work.

    But the digits don't mean minutes and there won't be a consistent step between them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    Well yes they dont mean minutes, it is time specified in units of toast-time



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,542 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Except it usually isn't that at all. It's almost always heat based.

    Adding a timer means adding modern electronics to actually count the time. Doing it on heat means you can use bimetallic strips and so on

    If you do a second round of toast immediately after it won't take as long to toast as the elements will still be warm. A time based system will burn that toast - but a heat based one will automatically correct for that


    I haven't had breakfast yet and don't have any bread in the house and would now absolutely kill for a pile of toast



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    My toaster ejects the toasts completely out of the toaster. It can end up anywhere on the kitchen top depending on the bread used. We used to think it was funny but not anymore.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    How often do you rebuild your toaster?

    I remember people were very worried before Y2K that their toasters would not work from 1-Jan-00. There was no need to worry.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    I don’t rebuild my toaster. Just got it last week.

    Parts are available, from the manufacturer, to enable the owner to simply replace them should they malfunction. (as opposed to throwing it in the skip)

    I’ll keep you in the loop.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I wonder is there a vibrant underground community of toaster modders, replacing standard parts with custom, performance ones? Elements that will char custom images onto your toast, soft touch dials and levers for luxurious comfort when operating, LEDs that project the exact colour of your toast as it's being made onto your celling, ejector springs that will launch your toast into orbit, that sort of thing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I was looking at toasters just now but will have to wait.... Just a simple toaster... The gas grill is not effeciient..Last one died of overwork...



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