To want a toaster that makes toast...

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...and not charcoal??

WHY do toasters have a dial that goes up to 6? Mine makes pleasantly browned toast at setting 1. Setting 2 makes something very brown, dry and likely to set off the smoke detector. Anything done above setting 2 comes out black and inedible.

What exactly is the purpose of any setting above "well done"???

(And if anyone can recommend a toaster that can just do "light, medium and dark" without setting my breakfast on fire I'd love to hear about it.)

I've got a basic Asda toaster and it works fine.

Can't believe someone would spend £200 on a toaster. The stainless steel one I have from Tescos is fine!

A toaster would need to be quite sophisticated to be able to tell the condition of the ??? (whatever you have put in), is room temperature or straight out the freezer. White bread, brown bread (and if it is room temperature how old it is, or fish fingers or waffles etc AND to know what shade you would like it 'toasting' to.
50 shades of toast?

Smellbellina maybe I should just buy a caravan with a grill and park it in the drive. Partly in protest at the complete failure of the engineering and manufacturing industries to produce a toaster that can actually MAKE TOAST...
...but mostly so that I can have somewhere private to eat said toast in peace while my tea is still hot.

All the bread, cake, biscuits etc bought in the shops are all produced by 'engineering' and they are consistent in appearance.
Toast, cooked the way YOU want it starting with a massive range of 'variables' is rather more tricky.
Of course it is POSSIBLE but the programming of such a machine, plus it's ability to mind read that you fancy it a bit less cooked this morning would make it frightfully expensive.

I was excited for my Dualit toaster but toast came out uneven (light on side, fine on the other sde).

Sent it straight back.

Don't get me wrong - I don't expect a miraculous machine that automatically knows exactly how the user wants their toast done and adjusts itself exactly according to the temperature, thickness and density of the bread (although if NASA is reading this, that would be awesome.)

I just don't understand why 60% of the possible settings on the dial can only ever possibly produce thoroughly burnt toast.^^ It leaves a tiny proportion of the dial that is actually useful, and a few micrometers difference between "nicely done" and "burnt". It surely can't be impossible with existing, affordable technology to calibrate the dial so that it's actually controllable? Perhaps 9 o'clock position for light, 12 o'clock for medium, 3 o'clock for well done? It can't be too much to ask, surely? Maybe I should just write to Russell Hobbs...

Being the weirdo that I am, I have this toaster..

Wait. Toast hash browns. What? Does that work? Don't the just crumble into potato bits?

Nope Tis fab! Potato waffles too.

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