On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:00:09 -0000, Roger Cain wrote:

Most toasters I have seen use a bimetal strip fixed to the chassis
which engages with a lug on the bread carrier. Gets hot, bends,
unlatches, carrier pops up.

That's how they used to work but these days they pop up if you have a
power failure as well. Must be a solenoid playing a part somewhere but
the basic bimetal strip is the crude timer.

My toaster when set for prefection on the first two slices from cold will
burn the next two.

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