Toast Woes.

[threebikesmcginty]

This guy's pretty good at toasting....

 

[SavageHoutkop]

If you put in two slices it works pretty well, but if you only put in one slice then one side (the one on the "outside" of the toaster) gets much less heat than the other side (which must be getting heat from the empty slot) and therefore the toast is unevenly brown.

The toasters I've used lately seem to do the opposite - they overcompensate for that possibility; so the side away from the other slice gets browner!

Also, the toaster at work takes absolute ages, it's the slowest toaster I've yet seen.

 

[Fnaar]

I've had the same Dualit for 18 years. It's not as shiny as it should be (many a plastic bread wrapper has melted onto its side over the years... I blame the missus) but it's still going strong, and takes 6 slices of bread (but one of the doo-dahs has recently stopped working, so its down to 5... I'd get a replacement doo-dah, but I don't know what they're really called)

 

[Kirstie]

Cut your bread in half before putting it in the toaster? Would solve the problem...

 

[Aperitif]

I've had the same Dualit for 18 years. It's not as shiny as it should be (many a plastic bread wrapper has melted onto its side over the years... I blame the missus) but it's still going strong, and takes 6 slices of bread (but one of the doo-dahs has recently stopped working, so its down to 5... I'd get a replacement doo-dah, but I don't know what they're really called)

"It's elementarray my dear Fnaarson"

I replaced a timer switch in the Dualit I used* - £34 or something like...the elements are probably easy to replace also - £15?

*Got an Asda white thing now with "toast safety handles" - if that's what the blank bit at the top of bread is called

Kirstie's idea is too logical and spoils the grimbling...neat idea though!

 

[Kestevan]

Cut the bread in half?
In half?

Ridiculous.

It's this sort of defeatist pandering to the toaster mongers that has got this country into the state it's in now.

You should be ashamed of yourself young lady.

 

[mr Mag00]

now this begs the question could the toaster have been repaired?

 

[Fnaar]

"It's elementarray my dear Fnaarson"

Cheers... if I'd thought about it enough, I might have worked it out. But sometimes my mind simply refuses to play ball

 

[Gromit]

Bikepete did this when we got our Dualit toaster. It shows you how to replace the elements in the toaster.

http://www.eland.org.uk/toaster.html

 

[Aperitif]

Ok,OK. Now stop trying to drag this thread into the sensible zone!

...or you're toast!


Of course, all this pales into untoastednificance when the chat slides towards what you actually put on the toasted product:

crunchy peanut butter with marmite. (I need the protein now the fly catching season has finished in the UK)

 

[fossyant]

My Phillips does toast Warburtons Toastie bread just perfect.... was a requirement for a replacement when the cat puked in the Delonghie...... (yeh - sat on top of the kitchen units, and straight into a perfectly good toaster...ruined......)

PS - Sandwich toasters - finally Breville have got one that is oblong shaped, just like a slice of bread........not square.... how many years did it take them to sus that - I love my new'ish Breville...........

 

[Kirstie]

Cut the bread in half?
In half?

Ridiculous.

It's this sort of defeatist pandering to the toaster mongers that has got this country into the state it's in now.

You should be ashamed of yourself young lady.

Up yours big nose!

 

[Fnaar]

Bikepete did this when we got our Dualit toaster. It shows you how to replace the elements in the toaster.

http://www.eland.org.uk/toaster.html

Thanks... that's just like my toaster, but mine is 2 slices bigger

 

[Campfire]

I'd love a Dualit Fnaar! I think that the next time a toaster fails I will get one - but b....... me always around the same time, the kettle fails as well! So I end up buying a cheapo kettle from Argos on offer usually. Well - next time perhaps?

My son's even got a Dualit radio, how excessive is that? Gorgeous though.

 

[Aperitif]

I get Dualit spares here. I can't remember but is one of the rubber feet longer than the other three? (Semi-sensible post deteriorating rapidly, leading to crumbs all over Dualit owner's worktops )