toaster repair

I am going through the process of getting a commercial microwave to replace mine, rusted out as usual, with the little turntable wheels all oval and clogged up. The commercial units don't have a turntable at all, and are stainless steel throught. I'm looking at.....

Perhaps you should stop frigging about and buy a commercial toaster, with a fine control, and wide jaws. Remember, I'm here to help.

Peter Jason snipped-for-privacy@jostle.com wrote

The one I got in 73 is still working fine and the wheels are still perfect and I used it basically daily until I got the air fryer and still use it for frozen veg most days

Mine doesnt rotate anymore, but that isnt due to the wheels, it still rotates fine by hand and the lack of rotation in use doesnt cause any problem.

No corrosion in mine

Never got a split nail with mine

Not clear if they do the inch thick toast I do, properly and no way to test that with something so expensive

I bought a 'commercial' microwave. All stainless steel.

Two years later the magnetron shorted out. :-)

But it was DIY replaceable.

Are you?

the National microwave I bought in 1977 is still working fine. no reason to replace it. except the turntable is reluctant to spin, and sometimes needs a helping hand to get it started

sounds good, expensive tho

I don't know why anyone would be bothered trying to repair a toaster these days, unless it was something they really wanted to keep

damn! you beat me by 4 years

ha! mine still does

it won't heat as evenly if it doesn't rotate the food

or mine

try the Paul Hogan method :)

My granny had a strange toaster. There was a single element (I assume it was round a mica back but I was too young at the time to be interested in that. There were two swing out receptacles for the bread and a strange hinge arrangement. She put a slice in each receptacle, which toasted both slices of bread on one side, then she swung the receptacles round the fixed bit holding the element and that toasted the other sides of the bread.

I have never seen one like it before or since. I have no idea what happened to it when she died.

The best toaster I found for thick bread was a Tefal one I had about 40 years ago which had a single long wide slot which took two slices if positioned vertically. That means it could have taken pitta bread, but I never tried it. I have just looked at the Tefal website and they don't do anything like that now.

It was very good with thick slices. Unfortunately when I tried using it for crumpets it toasted them OK but it didn't pop up high enough to take the crumpets out so I had to unplug it and try to stab the crumpets to lift them out.

In those days I didn't know that toasters could be repaired, and these elements were coiled wire in a glass tube, which because of the length of the slot were longer than for a typical toaster. With no internet capable of being searched in those days, when the elements stopped working it was scrapped.

I recognise that this is not much help to the other contributors to this thread, but it is an interesting glimpse into history. Old age does bring some benefits!

Felix snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.com wrote

Mine is a National too

Bet its something simple like the belt has broken or has come off but I haven't even bothered to look because it works just as well when not rotating

Just as even as it ever was.

Too much farting around. I want something you put the toast in and it comes out perfect every time with me doing nothing except something else while I am waiting. +

Indy Jess John snipped-for-privacy@omitthisgooglemail.com wrote

Yeah, one of my ancient relos who was the same age as my dad and mum who we used to stay with a lot had one of those,

I have seen one at a garage/car boot sale for a deceased estate

Yep

Years ago, that was a pretty common design. completely manual, but nothing much to go wrong, cheap too.

Toasters are now like a antique car sentimental value for old crap! Sticking to my air fryer, Aldi even flogging them for as little $40/ The Air fryer make toast exactly as I tell it to. by manipulating time and temperature.

Over the years driving home from work became addicted to the 11 month old servo pies with tomato sauce!! Replicate I defrost the Aldi "Chunky Sous Vide Slow Cooked Beef Pies" 2 in a box put the defrosted pie in my 800 watt Microwave for 2 minutes, the, transfer it to the Air Fryer wet at 175C, for 3 minutes remove add Tomato sauce and delicious, Even better are the Steak and Kidney "Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie with Puff Pastry" in a *steel tin* you need a heavy duty can opener

You are obviously a gourmand.

Our microwave doesn't have a turntable.

Didn't Big Clive take a Fray Bentos steak & Kidney pie to pieces and fail to find *any meat at all*?

There is no need for a turntable. The industrial microwaves have a rotating aluminium reflector array under the removable-for-cleaning plastic floor.

Its way more reliable than a rotating turntable for continuous use.

It wasn't a serious suggestion

IOW the perfect toaster. I don't think such a thing has ever been invented.

the purpose of both of those is to scatter the microwaves so the food heats evenly. so if there's no turntable there needs to be another method, such as the rotating reflector you mention. without some way to scatter the microwaves the food will not heat evenly.

I actually have two, one is a convection microwave I got for peanuts at a garage sale which I hardly ever use, which doesnt either. It works fine too

There isnt just one version and there is plenty of obvious meat in the best versions