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  • @RaoulDook
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    815 months ago

    Yeah, I set the toaster on fire once also. I had read online that you can make cheese toast in there if you turn the toaster sideways so that the cheese is on top vs gravity. It might have worked if the toaster hadn’t caught fire. I had to throw it out the front door into the yard

    • @dejected_warp_core
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      465 months ago

      I’m actually kind of amazed that the failure mode for “toaster used sideways” is that it just catches fire. That’s one hell of a design flaw.

      • @kevindqc
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        465 months ago

        Is it a design flaw if someone uses the toaster in a way it’s clearly not intended for, and food touches the hot elements and catches fire?

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          Id say the design flaw is allowing it to function in that position at all. Put a gravity switch in there like space heaters have, so that it it tilts more than a few degrees it shuts off

        • @StaticFalconar
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          45 months ago

          Tired of burning your house down when you want to use your toaster toske something not toast? Introducing the toaster oven. For when you want to toast something besides bread.

        • @[email protected]
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          05 months ago

          Maxim number 50, if it only works in exactly the way the manufacturer intended, it is defective.

        • @[email protected]
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          -85 months ago

          This is an incredibly American attitude. The appliance clearly has a commonly occurring misuse that puts consumers at risk of burning their neighborhood down.

          It would be a trivial addition to put a physical deadman’a switch on the bottom, exactly like what space heaters use.

          The role of government and regulation is to serve and protect the people. I cannot believe you are unironically advocating that corporations should just put out whatever dangerous products they want with no repercussions just because there is one specific way to use it “correctly”.

          Nevermind the million things that could happen. Cat knocks it over. Disabled or elderly person? Stoned college kid? Child?

          I guess it’s all about pErSoNaL rEsPoNsiBilItY when it benefits you, and all about collectivism when it only benefits you huh?

          • Tlaloc_Temporal
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            There’s a thousand things that can destroy your house if you use them wrong. Leave the stove on, turn the gas on without lighting it, store loaded firearms in the oven, extension cord trees, breaker bypasses, tinker with any utility, any number of cleaning products, cars in general, water leaks, just leaving the water running, space heaters, portable generators, shorting the terminals on a battery, the list goes on.

            And preventing the use of the toaster sideways won’t fix the problem anyway. People will still cram extra stuff in there, and overcooked toast can catch on fire without much provocation. Even just forgetting to clean the crumb tray can cause a fire. Trying to foolproof a toaster just gets you an incredibly expensive device that rarely works.

          • @[email protected]
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            Dude what the fuck are you on about. Plenty of products have safety measures in place because we have federal systems to regulate them.

            You can’t just cherry pick one example and then say America bad. What a fucking .ml tier take.

          • @kevindqc
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            🙄 serving drama

      • @marcos
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        165 months ago

        If you didn’t expect a machine that has very hot elements very close to your food to make such food burn if used wrongly, that’s on you.

        • @dejected_warp_core
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          45 months ago

          I agree, but I feel like having the toaster itself catch fire could have been mitigated somehow.

            • @marcos
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              25 months ago

              That said, eating asbestos flakes isn’t the most dangerous thing. Plastic partially burning close to your food, but too slowly for you to notice seems way worse… And there are many fire retardants that are safer to handle in a factory but that will give you a really bad time if you eat them.

              • @[email protected]
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                Fire “removedants?” You mean fire removedants? How about artardents? I suppose one could argue that the automatic censorship of your word is a form of dysfunctional regulation.

                • @marcos
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                  25 months ago

                  Does ML censors parts of words now?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        There’s all sorts of inappropriate ways to use a toaster where the failure mode is fire. Making toast in bed, under the covers? Catch fire. In a puddle of gasoline? Catch fire. Seriously, WTC toasters?

  • Flying Squid
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    475 months ago

    I once got rear-ended by a lady (my car was totaled) who told me two things as we were waiting for the cops that I will never forget:

    “I just got my new glasses prescription, but I’m not wearing them today.”

    “I wasn’t supposed to be driving my husband’s truck. We don’t have to let the cops know it’s my husband’s truck, right?”

    The cops got informed. I got a new car.

    • @mineralfellow
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      Reminds me of the time I was rear ended and the guy told me it was because he was playing candy crush.

    • @Alexstarfire
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      I might have kept the second thing to myself depending on why she wasn’t supposed to be driving it. Though, it’s not like she can keep what happened from her husband.

      • @[email protected]
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        Some insurance won’t insure on certain vehicles unless people within the household sign an affidavit saying they will not be the ones driving it, usually based on their previous history. Seeing as she didn’t want the cops to know, I’d guess it’s something along those lines.

  • @Atrichum
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    355 months ago

    Fun fact, if you turn a toaster sideways you can use them to make quesadillas.

    This works about 90% of the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      465 months ago

      Do not do this. Toasters are not made to be used sideways. At best you’ll melt the probably plastic sides of your toaster, at worse you’ll burn your house down.

      • @atomicorange
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        155 months ago

        They said 90%, your mom was just part of the lucky 10%!

      • @Atrichum
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        125 months ago

        My partner did the same thing… with a quesadilla.

          • @Atrichum
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            Both, I think. Iirc the outside was a plastic shell that clipped to the metal toaster. It caught fire when the overfilled tortilla started dripping cheese onto the heating coil.

            I don’t know if I was more upset about the fire, losing a toaster, or not having a succulent quesadilla dinner.

    • Anna
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      And other 10% of the time you get to watch smokin’ hot firemen

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    Everybody knows that you only put bread or corn dogs in the toaster. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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    Just get a sandwich toaster.

    It browns better in general too and burns less.

    The only con being that it doesn’t let the moisture escape well enough (but that depends upon the model).

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    95 months ago

    How have people not heard of toaster ovens?

    With that said… I don’t have one, maybe I should get one lol