First they came for lightbulbs

Given the state of modern "cooking skills", pre-packed toast ?

En el artículo , Jethro_uk escribió:

My kettle and toaster are over 30 years old. They're stainless steel and black plastic in a modern style, so look contemporary even now.

The only thing I've has to fix to replace the indicator neon in the kettle about 10 years ago.

Kenwood, for that that's worth in this age of branding Chinese junk.

Yeah. Take east enders off the telly.

That should save a bit.

All I ever toast is pita bread. Doesn't fit ANY toaster I've come across

Sigh. I s'pose that's why its called P.I.T.A...

There's a patentable idea there.

Bread coated with a conductive film that gets hot in the microwave,. toasts the bread and ablates off.

I knew someone who finally ditched their 1957 fridge in 2000. Bemoaning how modern fridges etc etc.

Then I asked how much it had cost in 1957. The answer was around £2000 in today's money.

Nah, meter residential consumers in kVA instead of Watts.

I don't know but I'm getting really pissed off about cleaners. I have a newish Bosch. It slows right down cos it overheats if yu use it for more than about 10 minutes on full suck. A Henry very recently purchased has now a smaller motor and half the muck ends up inside the pipe and has to be cleaned out every time its used in anything but a dustless house. What is going on?

As for kettles, I do think more efficent kettles can be made, the basic designs have not changed since the 1950s. Toasters are another issue. I'd imagine something could be done to make them toast more evenly, but power wise they do seem to lose a lot of heat, so if you could make them perhaps more efficient at the frequencies that toast tthings then fine. trouble is that people have been used to buying toasters at just over a fiver in Tesco, so if suddenly they are 50 quid people will start to moan.

Brian

... "this is not just Toast, but M&S ultra high fibre toast with every slice hand shaped on the thigh of a virgin, and buttered with butter made from Honduran Lama milk"

Actually those advocating leaving the EU will not find that this stops this kind of thing either, as in order to sell in the EU products will have to comply and hence still be lower powered just the same, and of course as China is the main source for toaster innards these days, the whole world will get the same problem except where they are using a different mains voltage of course.

As for self toasting toast. I thin this has been tried before and was considered a bit of a failure due to it bursting into flames or tasting like cardboard. brian

Have a look at:

Put the slots at the bottom :-)

Nonsense. They can just put a beefier element in toasters for non-EU countries.

Toast tasted better on an open fire from what I remmeber.

Our Dualit has a single slice setting.

Look: back in the day MGBS destined for the US market had air pumps to add air to the exhausts to lower the ratio of CO* etc etc.

They were not fitted to UK models

But toast tastes like cardboard anyway, if the bread is made by the 'chorley' method

I remember a really ling time ago, that mopeds in IIRC Switzerland were restricted to a certain speed or power - forget which, but could be ridden by 15 years olds.

Of course the pin that restricted the power was easily removed.

My freelander has had some EGR valve - that lowers emissions a bit - removed and has gained power and economy as a results. Its a standard mod...

The price of electr9onics these days means that a basic 1.5KW motor can be restricted to say 650W...remove the PCB and recover the power...

We have always had to build for particular markets. So what?

Inbuilt GPS now mean that vehicles and appliances could self-configure to local regulations.

It would be a bit extreme to see the steering wheel move from right to left halfway through the channel tunnel though, but headlamps could self-align.

Owain