Didn’t Technology Connections make a few videos about it?
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Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Modern toasters are bullshit. This of what you want. theverge.com/…/sunbeam-radiant-control-toaster-t2…
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Holy fuck, why didn’t this catch on?
fossphi@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The article mentions that they costed about 22 USD when introduced and it’s around 260 in today’s dollars. Pretty darn expensive
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My guess is that the profit margin wasn’t big enough 😮💨
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Hmm, I guess it might have been pretty complex for 40’s manufacturers. Hopefully someone gives it another try.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have a kitchenaid toaster that matches my KitchenAid…I hate it , it manages to burn one edge on either side of every slice of every bread. It beeps before it makes a loud pop to so the beep is annoying and superfluous. It’s first setting is warm bread and second is just passed acceptable, 3 is burnt. I’ve never used the remaining 4 -6 settings. If you put bread in at 2 and then another batch when it is done it will burn the second lot.
Utter piece of shit for the price we paid. You’d get, and in fact I have, a better toaster for a tenth the price doing your grocery shopping.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
These days, any purchase you make is a gamble without research. And even with research, it’s hard to tell the difference between a reviewed version and the one you’re looking at sometimes.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 months ago
Or something with a knob for heath control, to counter the aging bimetal.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Modern? I’m pretty sure this one is older than me and I turned 41 the day before yesterday 😄
That being said, the sunbeam looks brilliant and if I could afford one I’d much prefer that to the one I have!
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Just make friends with someone who has one!
(Then steal it)
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Well, if it is just the knob you can try gluing it back, cut up toothpicks might help. If you are confident with electrics you can replace the potentiometer.
Toasters just really go by time or temperature, except the Sunbeam which actually goes by if the toast is ‘toast’.
I never let anything die, I just keep fixing it. Hardly an auspicious start though.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
After some swearing and trial and error, it turned out that putting it back on was actually quite easy without having to use any glue or anything, making it fulfill the “mildly” part of the community name lol.
Thanks for all the helpful advice nonetheless though, I really appreciate it 🙂
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Swearing and impact technology are greatly underrated techniques for appliance repair.
dandu3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not true, I had a Philips toastsensor that apparently sensed the toast.
It was good only to burn said toast. That toaster is now in the garbage and has been replaced by a regular one. Good riddance!