Tesco toaster - good grief.....

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Our toaster blew up on Saturday, and since I was out at footy early on Sunday my wife asked me to pick one up cheaply on my way back as a stop gap. The nearest convenient place was a Tesco , and so in I went. I found the electrical section, located a toaster (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) and went off to pay.

Got it home, plugged it in, tried to fit in two slices of toast only to find the bloody fking slots are not long enough! Excuse my French.

Now forgive me, but is not the primary raison d'etre of a toaster to toast bread? Which brain-dead muppet therefore thinks it would be appropriate to put a toaster onto the market with slots which don't accommodate a slice of Britains best selling white loaf?

I know, it's my own fault for shopping at Tesco and for buying own-brand Tesco crap. Can anyone recommend a good toaster with appropriately sized slots?

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mrmr96 said:

Have you tried turning the bread 90 degrees?

Alas, the wonderful design also includes shallow slots - turning through 90 degrees then means only 2/3 of the toast is, er, toasted.

Clever clogs, bet you thought you were being clever...

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BoRED S2upid said:

I have exactly the same toaster £5 I think. It only toasts square bread anything larger and you have to turn it half way through. Not great at all but then again its a quater the price of a decent toaster so you get a quater of the ability to make toast. What do you expect?

Yeah, stupid me, imagine, expecting a toaster to actually, er, toast bread. The one I bought was actually nearer £20 - but that's not the point.

Why the hell would you sell a toaster (no matter how cheaply) that is fundamentaly flawed in its ability to execute its very reason for existing?

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anonymous said:

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As I said I needed something very quickly as a stop-gap - and paid £20 for it, in a UK supermarket.

If Tesco can sell an own-branded toaster for £5 or so (which from the comments above would alse appear to be 'unfit for duty') then I'm quite sure that they could sell one for £20 which is 'fit for duty', irrespective of where it was built.

The point I am making here is that Tesco choose to sell a product which quite clearly cannot perform the task for which it is intended in the market in which it is offered for sale. It's like trying to sell cars in Siberia with no heater.

I recognise that Tesco is to the supermarket world what Primark is to the world of fashion, and I am happy to say I would normally never venture into either.

On a separate note, do you know if there are actually any UK-built toasters on the market today - I'd be interested to compare price, quality etc (this is a genuine question BTW)..

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Bebs said:

Chapppers said:

I want water at about 85 degrees for coffee. Can't stand all this "slow sipping waiting for it to cool" bks.

I use milk and after a splash of cold Cravendale - temperature is just perfect

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you (and I never thought I would ever have cause to say this)....


















.... a milk snob!

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f13ldy said:

Anothe Cravendale user here.

I buy it to support their excellent marketing dept.

I love those adverts.

Indeed they are brilliant. Although, do you think Cravendale is any different to other milk - is the production process (post-cow, obviously) any different, and can you tase any difference, or is it just the genuinely clever marketing that differentiates?

I just wonder how different you can make milk? Can anyone quote Cravendale market share?