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Originally Posted by tabs

You Boyz are fking NUTZ!!!! Its TOAST for christs sake....remember the old addage the best is not always the best. All those geegaws are just a waste...the object of the game is to put some brown on a slice of bread...not send a rocket to Mars...

Go to Wallmart and buy the cheapest Toaster they have..thats around $10.00. It has wide slots, and a darkness selector. I bought that thing nearly 10 years ago, the cheap one I had previousily lasted 20 years....it does the job.

If ya don't like it ya can always throw it away its only $10.00 and waste more money on a deluxe model.

So your advice is to buy a cheap toaster.

Toaster Blamed For Brevard Fire

Rockledge fire investigators blamed a shorted out toaster for starting a fire that heavily damaged a kitchen on the 1300 block of Canterbury Lane Monday, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

A 6-day-old boy was taken to Wuesthoff Medical Center in Rockledge for observation, officials said.

The blaze broke out at the concrete block home about 9:15 a.m.

"Everybody got out. The fire appears to have started in kitchen and caused quite a bit of damage. The house itself is still standing," said Lori Matson, spokeswoman for the Rockledge Fire Department.

"It started in a small toaster. They had put a Pop Tart in the toaster and the wire shorted," she said.

Matson said the baby was in good condition but that officials wanted to be sure the child did not take in any smoke.

"It was just a precautionary measure," Matson said.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

2/6/06

from The New Philadelphia (Ohio)
Times-Reporter headlined: "OVERHEATED POP-TARTS CAUSE DOVER HOUSE
FIRE, OFFICIALS SAY." The article states that fire officials
investigating a house fire in Dover, Ohio, concluded that "when the
toaster failed to eject the Pop-Tarts, they caught fire and set the
kitchen ablaze." According to the article, the investigators reached
this conclusion after experimenting with Pop-Tarts and a toaster. They
found that "strawberry Pop-Tarts, when left in a toaster that doesn't
pop up, will send flames 'like a blowtorch' up to three feet high."

Like most Americans, I have long had a keen scientific interest in
combustible breakfast foods, so I called up the Dover Fire Department
and spoke to investigator Don Dunfee. He told me that he and some other
investigators bought a used toaster, rigged it so it wouldn't pop up,
put in some Kellogg's strawberry Pop-Tarts, then observed the results.
"At five minutes and 55 seconds," he said, "we had flames shooting
out the top. I mean LARGE flames. We also tried it with an off-brand tart.
That one broke into flames in like three and a half minutes, but it wasn't
near as impressive as the Kellogg's Pop-Tart."

Plunking down over $300 bucks for a toaster is something I NEVER thought I'd do. However, after throwing out countless cheap toasters, and nearly burning the house down with the last......well, $300 bucks didn't seem like anything anymore.

I decided I needed a good, reliable, SAFE toaster in my house. My children use the toaster. It has to be safe.

The Dualit 4 slice is my answer. It is a wonderful, substantial design, comes in an array of colors (mine is petal pink!) and displays beautifully on the counter. This baby is the simplest toaster to use. I've read other reviews in which people seem to have a hard time giving up the "pop up" feature. Not me! I love not having to rely on that mechanism to pop my toast up before my house burns down! I wanted a simple, timer feature that will shut my toaster off whether I'm standing there or not. I got it with my Dualit.

In the 4 slice model, you can choose to toast 2 or 4 slices with the touch of a button. The toast goes in, I warm up the toaster by turning the timer to "3" and then I lower my toast when the timer gets around to "1.5". This allows sufficient warming of this toaster and even toasting. There are only 3 settings, so there's NO confusion as to how long to cook something. Trial and error for first time users, then you'll make toast like a pro!

This toaster allows the toast to stay warm in the chambers until you depress the lever and retrieve the toast manually. Very simple.

And, it makes great frozen waffles! My children use this toaster for their waffles and they turn out crisp, brown and just beautiful. And, if they walk away and forget their waffles, I don't have to worry about it overheating and burning. It will shut off automatically after the cycle.

Considering my last cheap toaster scorched my cabinets and started a fire, I happily paid the money and went for the best!