toaster repair

No! Whoda thunk it?

Not the pies I have eaten, all have steak in them, I suppose it is possible for some pies to have more or less meat than others? Admittedly when you take it out of Air Fryer. it has more pastry than filling, I like them with a beer they are not cheap either Aldi sell them for $10 a pie when they put them on offer. Woolworth's $10:50

Yes seems so

I have a 25yo old-model "Sharp Carousel Convection Microwave" at work, All SS with quality turntable. They made better ones in those days. It's too big to fit at home.

It's criminal how easily they rust up. I even leave the door open after use for a good airing out.

There are some with very wide openings containing wire clamps to center and grip narrower pieces of bread during toasting. Though weird bread sizes require a griller. I'll report back when I get my new commercial microwave.

None of mine have and I do lots of frozen veg, rice etc which do produce quite a bit of steam, particularly the rice

I never do that and never get any rust

Nothing weird about 1" thick square slices and the best popup toasters do handle that fine.

Yes please, and the price

Buffalo badged

Its very satisfactory apart from popping its mag - s*it happens - easy to clean the floor.

We found one of those in a holiday cottage[1]. The wire clamp on one side of the bread worked, the other side didn't move. Not too surprising to find a defect in a mechanism, subject to wide temperature cycles, and built to the cheapest standards possble.

My toaster (two slice, popup, slots not wide enough), is at least 40 years old. The "thumb push" handle (the compression fit kind like Rods), is no longer on the machine. I don't know where that got to. You just push down the metal stub. All the "logo" badges have fallen off (bad glue). The bottom still has the brand name Proctor Silex, Picton, Ontario, so it was apparently Made in Canada (by elves).

I've had it apart several times for cleaning. You can't use lube in there. Just clean the rails and things that slide.

Considering the materials burned and plated onto the moving bits, it does pretty well for itself.

As for the "operating principle", it's a Rube Goldberg machine with levers, springs, a piston (for damping the toast-rise). When it isn't happy, I haven't a clue what could be wrong with it. So it gets a cleaning.

I have a replacement toaster sitting in a box. Wider slots in that one. I thought Old Faithful was ready for the bin once, but a cleaning brought it back, and the "new one" sits in the box. And you don't dare use the new one, because if you threw the old one away, the new one would promptly fail. That's how these things work.

When I was younger, I got to see an even older toasting item. I'm sure everyone here has seen the toaster with the door that folds into place while toasting, and you let the door down to get the toast out. It doesn't pop up. And I don't think it has a toast colour setting either. You might have to turn the toast over, as I think the element only faces one way, so two toast cycles are required.

It is the kind of thing you keep at the cottage, to annoy visitors. These aren't necessarily all that high-powered either. They may not attempt to draw whatever the outlet limit happens to be, and the cottage electricals might not be all that wonderful anyway. That's one reason for bringing one of these along. But as appliances goes, this is one of the uglier inventions.

-- There is nothing a fleet of dispatchable nuclear power plants cannot do that cannot be done worse and more expensively and with higher carbon emissions and more adverse environmental impact by adding intermittent renewable energy.

Your existing toaster has understood the threat you have made in keeping its replacement in a box nearby. It will carry on working.>

At least it's got a proper plug on the end of the cable.

Rod Speed snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

Turns out that fixing the best of the toasters wasnt easy. You have to dismantle it completely to be able to repair the burnt out wire and its made with metal bits that go thru slots and are then bent. Can't see those lasting when unbent and rebent and the toasters weren't great even before they failed, particularly getting too thick toast out when that jammed

So I bought the one you recommended. Not sold in my country or yours that I could find only but I could get it from amazon in germany and didnt have to pay freight from there to australia

Stupid price, but I will never spend all my savings before I kark it so what the hell

Works very well except for the fact that it doesnt toast both sides the same, even if you turn the toast around when half way thru, so it can't be a design geometry problem.

I did consider that is due to one side of the slice having been exposed to the air in a plastic bag for 24 hours since I normally only toast a single slice of the multigrain vertical loaf out of the bread machine every day for breakfast but I just tried cutting an extra slice off and keeping it in a plastic bag for 24 hours and turning it half way thru, but that didnt make any difference, still one side toasted more than the other

The difference is just visible, not so brown, in fact closer to white than brown. Can't work out what that can be due to, maybe the vertical loaf just varys in density down the loaf

I used to get the same effect with the other toasters that died

Some people avoid toasters for a similar reason - they can just grill one side of the bread

Abandoned Trolley snipped-for-privacy@microsoft.com wrote

The problem with that approach is that its much slower given you have to fire up the grill and monitor the slice all the time,

And I don't find that an air fryer produces an acceptable result toast wise

that's usually due to one side of the bread having more moisture than the other. if you dry out the slices at room temperature in a vertical rack so not lying down on one side you shouldn't have that problem

I am not so keen on air fryers as toasters either, but at least you can have the bread as thick as you like

Abandoned Trolley snipped-for-privacy@microsoft.com wrote

Sure but I have fixed that problem with the new toaster

you could try this ..

Axel snipped-for-privacy@not.here wrote

Just tried that, with it out in the air for about 7 hours and that did see the two sides much closer in color. But that approach no longer produces the toast I prefer, what I used to call when a kid, toast with bread in the middle. Its now toasted right thru

The residual difference in the two sides appears to be due to the vertical loaf varying in density down the loaf. You can see that effect in the bread before its toasted.

In theory the fix would be to vary the temperature of the element that is toasting one side and that wouldnt be hard to do electronically but might be hard to do given the density of the loaf varys quite a bit down the vertical loaf

The difference while visibly different still sees the paler side toasted but just not as brown as the other one so likely I will just leave it at that