On Thursday, 28 December 2017 23:52:38 UTC, Roger Hayter wrote:
tabbypurr wrote:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 23:15:05 UTC, Roger Hayter wrote:
tabbypurr wrote:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:03:21 UTC, Norman Wells wrote:
On 28/12/2017 18:40, Rod Speed wrote:

Well, that's the problem. It's not just that one manufacturer's bread
that is supersized. It's that many toasters cannot fully accommodate
slices from any large loaves.

I blame the EU myself.

It's not the EU but if they pass energy use rules for toasters, the
obvious approach to conformance will be to reduce the slot size.

The idea that they considered energy rules for kettles is almost amusing.
Water takes the same amount to reach boiling no matter what you do, and
ambient heat loss is trivial.

And, of course, within limits, the faster you heat it the less heat is
lost.

Yes, so expect singed soggy toast. Trouble with politicians is they don't
understand the subjects they legislate on. Even folk that do screw up a
lot.


I was rather confining my comment to kettles. It may be more
reasonable to limit the power of toasters, to encourage makers to make
them more efficient. What they need is a certain temperature, rather
then any particular rate of heat supply.

They need both of course, if you want decent toast. Most people nowadays don't want to save 0.1p and get rubbish toast. On one hand it's easy to make toasters more efficient by putting a mirror behind the element, OTOH that would only result in their effectiveness falling to hopeless after 2 years, and is exactly the sort of thing meddling politics is likely to result in.


NT