Why is it impossible to find a decent toaster ?

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Toasters, they are a mainstay of british culture, there must be on average one per household in the UK, and yet it seems no-one makes a decent quality toaster that can actually evenly and reliably toast 4 slices of bread.

I get that bread dryness and the ambient temp will affect the total time to toast the bread, but surely this is not beyond the wit of man to resolve ? could sensors not weigh the bread and adjust time ? Could you not take an IR reading from the surface to check it was hot enough ? could you not use smoke detector ionisation technology to detect if it was burning ?

And evenly doing 4 slices of bread seems impossible, you will always end up with one slice not done as well as the others and one side more toasted than the other. And when you peer inside a toaster its obvious why - the basic element design means not all the wires heat up evenly, some are closer to the bread than others.

And don't even mention Dualit, they are just as bad as everyone else but you pay 140 fking quid for a toaster that doesn't even pop up and has to have the timer wound by hand everytime and still burns toast and fails to toast 4 slices evenly as it has exactly the same element design as all the others.

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Rick101 said:

I concur. Very strange that what should be a relatively simple thing seems unachievable.


Currently with a Dualit but nothing particularly good about it. Damn things doesn't even pop up.

I think this is a market segment that is crying out for a decent inventor, someone like Dyson to take a look at and revolutionise. The basic design of a toaster has remained unchanged since 1919, there has to be a better way.