Toaster argument!

[Nessalina]

Me & DH are at a stand off. I have agreed to put the dilemma to the MN jury without bias...

One of us was having some toast this morning and found that it popped up after only a minute, the dial having been turned down to 1 by the other party yesterday for a product that only needed light toasting. This person is unimpressed and feels that the dial should have been moved back to it's normal toasting zone (no. 3) after being used last time. Said toast is now only slightly toasted and it will be difficult to achieve a perfect browning.

The dial-turner feels that there are several different products that may be toasted other than toast, and that when you pop your toast down you should first check what number you are toasting on, and that to ask the other party to adjust it twice each time they toast something different is ridiculous.

Who IBU? The person who thinks the dial should be returned to 3 after each toasting, or the person who thinks you should set it to your preference when you toast??

God it's hard being impartial

It's the sort of thing we'd argue about too

Come on then. Which side are you?

Check the dial.

If one person is only ever using one setting then clearly the other person is being left to do all other non standard toasting so the person is not doing their fair share of toasting so have to put up with dial checking as a consequence.

How hard is it to check the dial when you're putting the toast on???

I agree with your DH the person who changed it yesterday. You The person using it this morning should have checked before putting your their toast in or just accepted it was not as toasted as you'd they'd like and pop it down again.

You check the dial first of course!

Ooh it's a close one, but I think it's just coming down on the side of the 'check the dial before toasting'... Which is of COURSE what you should do!
DH is now claiming an unfair bias because he feels men would be more inclined toward leaving the dial on a standard setting
We actually have a 4-slot toaster with two dials, so we have resolved our differences by agreeing that the two right slots are mine to be twiddled to my heart's content, whilst the two on the left are his to remain at 3 come hell or high water

I agree though, it's very annoying if that only happens occasionally and if it is almost always in the right place because then you don't think to check it.

We don't have a toaster, we prefer to use the grill, so it's a moot point these days! But could be a point of contention once the kitchen gets redone as we'll probably end up ditching the eye level grill.

chipping you got it wrong

. Wise decision!

Beware of any third parties though!!

Yep, hands up! I've never known a man to complain about not being able to get the toast a perfect shade, I can't be done with that level if idiocy so they wouldn't have lasted long!

Oops now I've insulted the OP and if I say what I really meant couldn't put up with it in a man I'll be in trouble with the entire feminist wing of MN.

anyone? I make a lovely cuppa or coffee - percolated, latte, espresso...??

I'll have one as long as you leave it ready for the next person to use.
the op may refuse she's rightfully fallen out with you

Check the dial before toasting.

Although, I always used to work in a place where some people insisted on putting it at the longest time, and "saving" it, by popping it up part way through. I would want to put it on what I thought the correct time would be, and then toast a bit more, if necessary.

Both ways are fine, but it's easy to forget to check, and thus end up with burnt toast. Which often happened to me. Grrrr.

At least, on this occasion, the toast was underdone and not burnt.

Not sure what "always" is doing there. Sorry.

I think it's the responsibility of the new user to check the dial is at the setting they want.

I'll take a cappuccino

I'm not offended, DH isn't usually a fuss pot, this is an anomaly. We're both off work so treading on each other's toes (mat leave & half term!)

And I wouldn't usually have taken issue with him moaning about it, except for the fact that he left the microwave on defrost the other day and I couldn't work out why my beans weren't getting hot When I discovered the dial had been moved I kicked myself for not checking rather than him for not switching it back, so I felt hard done by!!

But what if the person who move the dial then decides they want another piece of toast before the non-dial mover does? Then they could have potentially turned it down, toasted, turned it back up again, turned it down again, toasted and then turned it up again - surely a singularly inefficient way to produce toast?!

i think this is akin to sharing a car with someone who has primary use and not putting the car seat back to its original position.

if you are the primary user of said toaster, the dial should remain where it usually is

ditto microwave

LTB!!

But if the dial is only turned occasionally there would be a lot of pointless dial checking as 98% of the time it will still be in the correct setting. Depends on how often it is changed, I think.

Don't get me started on car seats!

If you've had to move the car seat to your comfort zone, once you've moved it it's nearly impossible to move it back to the exact position it was before, so why even try? Far easier for the next user to shift it back to their own liking!

Toaster dials, car seat and mirrors position, what about the most important of all ... car radio.

Anyone else hate it when someone borrows your car, or it's been in the repair shop and they return the car to you tuned to a strange station?

Regards the toaster vote I'm on the fence, in an ideal world the user should always return the dial to the default setting, but the next user should check before toasting. I wouldn't get worked up by something too lightly toasted though, it's not that big a deal surely?

i like my toast carcinogenic, it would piss me off becuase you plonk it in - go and do something else to come back and find it lightly toasted and cold - so you then re-toast it and it is not toast then it is cardboard

Shared things should be checked before using.
On the handful of occasions that DH has used my (it pre-dates him) tumble dryer and has left it on the useless setting then he's wrong. Same as turning my radio to twaddle which IS NOT ALLOWED.