"Andrew Rossmann" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
I've got one with a similar mech. Works brilliantly compared to the old
purely mechanical system, except for one small detail. The designer
cleverly
omitted to put on an over-ride button ! So, if what you are toasting
starts
to scorch before the damn thing decides it's cooked, the only way to get
it
to stop and pop your toast up, is to either flick the wall switch off, or
pull the plug !!

What brand and model? At the minimum, you should be able to manually
pull up the handle! Would it even be legal to have a toaster that
couldn't be shut down without unplugging it?



It's actually a Philips, which I agree, you would have thought better of ...

If I'm absolutely honest Andy, you *can* get the lever back up, but it takes
considerable force to do so, such that it feels that you ought not to be
doing that way for fear of breaking something. Also, because this is a
mechanically 'slow' way of doing it, with the elements still energised,
there is a good old flash visible through the slot, when it does release. In
contrast, we have two 4-slice toasters at our cafe, which also use an
electromagnetic locking system, but have a cancel button. Simple and much
more effective than the Philips effort.

Arfa