On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 23:23:37 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Toasters are expected to be plugged into a GFCI "small appliance
circuit". There is a great amount of safety because of that.


I bet that over half the houses in the US do not have a GFCI in the
kitchen.

The first apartment and the first house I lived in (not counting the one
I grew up in) only had fuses in it, no breakers at all.

My current house that was built around 1980 only has the GFCI on the
bathroom and outside sockets.

As another pointed out, toasters have been around many years before a
gfci was even heard of, probably many years before even breakers were
used in homes.



I suppose there are plenty of cars without seat belts and they sell
the **** out of cigarettes so it is clear that people don't want to
live forever. GFCIs have been in the code since 75 or so tho.
All that being said you don't really see the pile of bodies you should
expect from 120 years or so of toasters so I guess they aren't that
unsafe.