Brian Gaff wrote

Actually those advocating leaving the EU will not find that this stops
this kind of thing either,

We'll see...

as in order to sell in the EU products will have to comply and hence still
be lower powered just the same,

But Britain doesn’t export that much of that sort of thing
to the EU anymore, its almost all manufactured in China
now and so that stuff is their problem, not Britain's.

China chooses to flout the regulations and so it
won't really affect China much and even if it does,
that's their problem, not Britain's.

And with the silliest regulation, I bet we see plenty of products
that choose to ignore what the EU requires because there are
FAR more consumers outside the EU than inside it so those
better performing products with bigger motors in the vacuums
etc will be available to consumers outside the EU and that would
include Britain if it chooses to leave the EU.

So your claim has a problem.


and of course as China is the main source for toaster innards these days,
the whole world will get the same problem

Nope, because the world outside the EU is much big
enough to provide a viable market for the stuff that
doesn’t comply with the most stupid of the EU regulations.

except where they are using a different mains voltage of course.

Plenty of stuff will work on any mains voltage now.

As for self toasting toast. I thin this has been tried before and was
considered a bit of a failure due to it bursting into flames or tasting
like cardboard.

Just because someone couldn’t manage to do it doesn’t mean its not possible.


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 12/05/16 09:07, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:03:29 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Then they came for vacuum cleaners, soon kettles and toasters.

How *do* you make a toaster more efficient?

Given the state of modern "cooking skills", pre-packed toast ?


There's a patentable idea there.

Bread coated with a conductive film that gets hot in the microwave,.
toasts the bread and ablates off.