On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:45:39 -0700, "xrongor"
wrote:

reflected heat.

randy


Can you be a little more specific as to exactly what that means and
why it causes uneven toasting.

look im no toast expert, but it seems simple. you have a case of cause and
effect. the cause is using one piece of bread instead of two. the effect
is burnt toast.

i think the logical assumption is that bread absorbs energy given off by the
burners. when there isnt any bread there, but the burner is still on, that
energy goes elsewhere. in this case, over to the other piece of bread. if
the sensor were better located, this probably wouldnt happen.


You pretty much have it. Nothing to do with the sensor though. Most
of these toasters have three heater boards. A left board, center
board, and right board. If you only put one slice in the right side,
all the heat from the left board goes past the empty space where the
second slice would normally be and adds it's heat to the center board.
So the center board gets hotter then it normally would. That makes it
toast the left side of the right slice faster then the right board can
toast the right side of the right slice. This could be solved by
making the center board a sandwich with an insulating layer in the
middle so the heat couldn't transfer thru. Perhaps some toasters
have that, mine apparently does not.


either that or the magic bread faeries resent there not being bread in both
slots and use magic to burn the single slice on one side....

randy