/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17109700
This seems like the type of thing that people pretend is real but isn't, but in reality, it's absolutely how it goes. Surely with all our smart devices somebody could make a toaster that can detect when bread is, well, toasted? It could be as simpler as a color-detection tool...

>>17109722
Sunbeam toaster from the 1940s. Google it.

>>17109722
Color detection would be faulty, especially with different types of bread.
See >>17109729
This toaster uses passive HEAT detection and automatically shuts off when the bread is perfectly toasted. It’s brilliant in its simplicity.

>>17109700
Electric range has shit heat control. It basically relies on turning the heating element on and off periodically to control the heat.

Join the gas or induction master race

>>17109779
That’s not a range knob; it’s a toaster knob. It doesn’t control heat, only time.
And you can compensate the range’s shit heat control by using a heavy and full cast iron pan, with the material slowing down the heating up and cooling down.

>>17109779
>Join the gas or induction master race
There's not a lot of gas toasters on the market anon

>>17109700
>Why is this allowed?
Because you can toast more than thin slices of bread in the toaster. They're built to handle shit like pop tarts, toaster pastries, bagels, etc as well

>>17109700
Go back

>>17109806
>bagels
there is literally a bagel button

the numbers are not 'level of toastyness' like you retards think, its 'minutes'...

4-5 is the sweet spot for my toaster.

>>17110401
is this true?

>>17110401
wtf no way

>>17110401
It’s not minutes. That’s a retarded tumblr post. They are just numbers that correlate with time. But they aren’t linear, and the are random on the division of time they cook.

>>17109700
Because that’s not how it works.
Are you really so technically challenged that the operation of something with one knob is too much?

>cold and underdone
>window of perfection
>overdone
No fucking shit, welcome to applying heat to food. You have a lot to learn.
One day you might do something called baking bread, which uses an oven.
If you use a setting way too low, you’ll just end up with warm dough.
But if you set it too high, you’ll end up with burned bread.
However if you set it just right, you’ll get the result you’re hoping for.
You’ll find this same principle applies to many other cooked items, not just bread.

>>17109700
I think everyone has a toaster oven these days. Why would you use anything else?

>>17110401
They're heat settings, just like on a stove top.

>>17110401
Stop repeating this retarded ass meme.
>While you might initially guess the answer is "minutes," that's not necessarily always the case.
>As demonstrated in this YouTube video by Tom Scott, the numbers on a toaster dial only correlated with "minutes" for one of the four toasters tested.

https://youtu.be/gN_PK5pXmIY

>>17109700
3 is minimum for proper toast, prove me wrong

>not using a travel iron

>>17110437
You talk a lot of shit for a guy who can't justify why the higher settings even exist.

>>17110437
Shut up dipshit it's a fucking toaster, and even when using frozen bread you never need 3 or more

Frozen waffles warrant using some of the higher numbers sometimes.

>>17109729
coooooool

>>17109722
>This seems like the type of thing that people pretend is real but isn't, but in reality, it's absolutely how it goes.
>This thing is only imagination
>But it isn't
>But in reality, it is
I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say.

who the fuck still uses toasters?

>>17110779
...everyone? why wouldn't you?

>>17109722
>>17110759
Yeah it's a fucking horrible structured sentence.

But what do you expect from someone who's too retarded to use a toaster

>>17110802
Well I have a toaster oven so why the fuck would I want an inferior version of the same device cluttering my kitchen

>>17110802
toaster ovens have more than one use and a big window and easier to clean.

>>17110887
This might be the most retarded description of induction heating I’ve ever read.

1 - heat the bread
2 - regular/light toast
3 - heavy toast
4 - heat rye bread
5 - regular toast rye bread
6 - heavy toast rye bread
dumb muricans

>>17109801
>He doesnt wake up in the moring and rev up his gas toaster

if you can come up with a good way to permanently hold down the lever and keep the toaster continuously on, drop in a couple pop tarts and they will convert their calories into a nice torch, be sure to do this outside
also, this ruins the toaster

>>17109801

>>17109722
>acquire toaster
>try out the different levels until you find the one that toasts the bread to your taste
>use said level until the end of time
What the fuck kind of major malfunction do you have that you need your hand held to use a fucking toaster?

>>17111609
>doesn't have a V8 toaster
ngmi

>>17111673
obviously you’ve never had a cleaning lady who bumps all the settings on your appliances when she’s wiping up

>>17111776
>can't remember what setting he has on his toaster
God damn you really are retarded.

>>17111776
No I've learned how to clean up after myself like an adult.

>>17111802
Do you also memorize the exact positioning of your seat and side/rear view mirrors? Or would you be making a best guess and/or have to manually calibrate it if they were changed?

>>17110759
He is saying:
People pretend that the meme is overexaggerated and isn't true, but it is true.
Though I'm not sure where he gets the first part from because people do agree with it.

>>17110641
why not just stay in a backpacker's hostel and use the kitchen at this point?
they have kitchens in hostels for a reason.

>>17109722
have a thermocouple with logic that breaks the circuit when a probe in the bread is the right temperature

>>17112566
Sunbeam literally did it decades ago using thermal properties of metal, you're overcomplicating this.

>>17109930
All that does is make the heat come only one side of the slot

>>17112471
It's not fab

>find out the right setting you like
>use the same bread every time
problem solved

>>17109729

>>17110736
>frozen products necessitate higher temperature settings

>>17109722
>people pretend is real but isn't, but in reality, it's absolutely how it goes

>>17110695
Because people use toasters for more than just making toast. Bagels, for example, need more time. You and OP are just retarded.

>>17114874
You don't even understand what the dial does

>>17110401
I timed mine and they are nowhere even close

>>17115527
Holy shit get a life

>>17114886
they dont think it be like it is but it do

>>17110641
always the god damn brits

>>17115527
you're a cool guy anon

>>17115568
>gets his gay little theory deboonked
>has a hissy fit