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Chris French wrote:

I use various other toasters and they all annoy me in one way or another
and don't seem to add anything. If one was to actually take something
and to be able to toast it automatically to a given brownness then that
might be an improvement, but none has so far AFAICS

You know what....

We've been making toast for 100s of years, yet we've not come up with
a good reliable design that "just works". My dualit is almost there - the
one niggle I have is that the 2nd load of bread through it toasts slightly
quicker... But then I've seen the opposite in toasters that have a bi-metal
strip type of "ready" mechanism.

The most repeatable ones I've used have been the chain/belt type -
used in cafes, etc. but then they need a warm-up time and also need
the public to not fiddle with the speed control or be stupid and put
criossants through it (I've seen them on-fire )-:

It seems simple enough - put bread next to something hot enough to heat
the bread and toast the surface - not too hot that you end up with toast
with a cold middle, nor too cool that it takes too long and the inside
ends up at furnace temperature.

Can we throw technology at it? I'm not sure - there are colour sensors
but what happens when you put in brown bread?

But given that the internal temperature affects the toasting time, can we
use a combination of internal temperature and time via either a mechanical
device, or some electronics?

And if-so, who wants to take up the challenge?

Or maybe we just put up with what we have and keep an eye on it. It's
either that or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Gordon
(any excuse to post that link ;-)