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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs there any practical use for the far end of the toaster dial?
I was making toast and I guess I accidentally turned the knob to a higher setting; not much, just from, "2 1/2" to about, "3 1/2" (okay, I have no idea what those little tick marks mean). First, I smelled the smell of burning toast and when my toast popped up I thought, "Well, I could probably use this to patch the hole in my car from that hailstorm."
Now, my toaster goes up to, "8." It can't be for bagels because the toaster has a bagel button. So, what reason could anyone have for turning the dial all the way up?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That's all I could think of.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)The one I have now dries out the toast before it's even slightly toasted.
I'm going to start hitting up estate sales. I want an old fashioned toaster. I will unplug it after use to reduce risk of burning my house down, but I would really like to have some decent toast again.
csziggy
(34,189 posts)You might spend more than you planned:
My grandmother's toaster looked just like this guy's mother's toaster!
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)You take your beaver and clean it, then make super thin slices and hang them by toothpicks and set that toaster dial at "7" which stands for the letter "G".
That's "G" as in "Gee this beaver jerkey tastes great!"
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)vanlassie
(5,894 posts)I LOVE charred sourdough toast. I crave it. I preheat the toaster. I know it's ready when I see smoke. Really.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)The smell of burnt toast is suggestive of a change in chemical composition of bread. As the name 'polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons' indicates, there is a recognizable aroma when particular substances are heated to a burning point, such as burnt toast.
When starchy foods like bread or potatoes are cooked at a high temperature they produce a carcinogenic substance called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are a group of over 100 chemicals resulting as a byproduct of combustion. These chemicals can enter the bloodstream through breathing air contaminated with PAHs,such as incinerated trash or cigarette smoke or ingesting foods that contain PAHs such as grilled, charred, burnt or pickled foods.
In the laboratory, studies have found PAHs to cause lung, stomach, and skin cancer as well as adverse reproductive effects in female mice fed a diet with high levels of PAHs. The offspring of mice fed a diet with PAHs had higher levels of birth defects and lower birth weights than mice with a diet absent of PAHs.
Center for Disease Control - PAHs Factsheet
- Sowwy......
vanlassie
(5,894 posts)impression that the charred foodstuff is limited to meats. "Contaminated" is not the same as charred. But maybe I'm wrong.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Toaster torture shuts 'em up every time! Water-boarding them works better though because with the toaster method one might forget to reset the dial and that will make ones toast taste funny.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)It's three toastier.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I make frozen French toast and it's almost always soggy in the middle. My toaster even has a "frozen" button.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,966 posts)csziggy
(34,189 posts)As proven by this video:
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)toaster starts to die. Cranking up the dial buys you a few more weeks before you have to go out and replace it with a new Chinese made, Wall-mart bought, POS, disposable toaster.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)excellent skeet targets.
They are a little on the small side, but they break apart easily with only two or three of the shot pellets.
For a real challenge, one could do bagels and try for the hole.