To not put the toaster in the cupboard?!

[CeruleanSal]

Obviously not a serious topic but…

I keep my toaster on the side in the kitchen. I regularly visit my brother and sister in law and they keep theirs in a low cupboard. I find this insane. Like me they use it daily (if not multiple times a day) and they’re forever getting it out and putting it back. Their kitchen is not tiny or anything, it’s probably larger than mine.
I just want to know… is this normal and am I a weirdo for having my toaster out all the time?!

YABU - I keep my toaster in a cupboard
YANBU - what is this lunacy, my toaster is out on the side!

My toaster is out on the worktop. I have always kept it out but only became a Catholic 14 years ago. It's obviously a good predictor of religious outcomes!

I keep mine in a cupboard. I hate clutter on the sides and I can go a week or more not using it.

I don't have a huge kitchen so I keep the countertops as clear as possible.

Oh good.

I am a Protestant who would love to put it in the cupboard but am in conflict with my atheist DH who wants it to live on the work surface.

Mine is in the cupboard, we only use it a few times a week and my kitchen is tiny, having it out would take up half of my useable worktop space. Plus I’ve hidden the Nintendo switch I’ve bought the kids for Christmas behind it 😂

Closet Protestant? If she was a good Catholic it would be a 'press' surely. Protestant also make better cakes and tarts by repute. We'd need to test them.

Though thinking about it, my Scottish Presbyterian in-laws kept their toaster on the worktop. Along with most of the contents of the kitchen.

We need another traybake thread.

I've bought some for the toy show.

Although maybe it's against the rules to have Protestant tray bakes for the toy show. 🤔

There's not enough room in my cupboards for it, it's bloody massive!. I quite like the look of those expensive bespoke wooden kitchens that have a sort of panel that slides down and hides all your worktop junk like the kettle and toaster but no way could I be bothered to put it in the cupboard after every use.

My mil carries her microwave in from a garden shed so as to have a clear work top

"Closet Protestant" 😆Cupboard Protestant surely?

I have actually occasionally wondered where Irish Muslims/Hindus/Sikhs position themselves as regards toasters, but my sample size is too small to arrive at a rule.

I keep mine in a cupboard because I don't like clutter on worktops. It's just below where we use it so takes seconds to get out and put away.

I think the cupboard protestant is the toaster itself under the formal definition.

@ColleenDonaghy your wisdom knows no bounds 😆 now back to the Toy Show... have you bought matching pyjamas?

@BeardedIrises I wonder? How would we even explain our crazy Irish notions? 😂

Sounds like a religious hate crime to me. You could have a Protestant toaster in the cupboard. He needn't know?

Matching PJs, are you wise. As if I'd let my kids watch, do you think it's for children or something? They will be fired into bed at 7pm and the wine poured. I'm already in my comfy hoody.

@ColleenDonaghy I love this! My little lad will be snoozed out by then too so the wine will be flowing here .. meanwhile on Insta the matching pyjamas & copious treats are off the scale 👀

I don't do insta so I'm spared

I really like PK but I will miss trying to spot the ad break that Tubridy chose to indulge in something a little stronger.

What an absolutely ridiculous statement to make.

Ffs 🤦🏼‍♀️

I'm from NI and in a group of friends where I'm the only Protestant in a large group of Catholics. So often referred to as the token Prod. It's an NI thing that isn't going away time soon.

When that's derry girls episode came out I was totally ripped apart on WhatsApp with jokes as mine was the only one in a cupboard.....but that's because it's 18 years old and I've dropped it quite a few times (surprisingly when it lived on the worktop) and it had to be retired to the cupboard as it looks like something from the junk yard.

I keep planning to buy a posh one but now I've acquired so many new kitchen gadgets, airfryer, coffee machine, blender etc that we do use everyday that I think the new one will still have to live the cupboard through lack of worktop space.

Didn't Patrick Swayze once say, 'nobody puts the toaster in the cupboard'? I am sure it was in a film where Swayze played a dancing kettle...

Mine lives on top of the fridge.

I only have a small kitchen and it makes a massive difference and looks so much less cluttered.

My friend won’t even leave her kettle out though, her sides are always left completely bare.

Mines in a draw , but we only use at weekends.