My toaster has 6 settings. 1=white, 3=blackend charred wreck. What are 4, 5 and 6 for? Thermonuclear? Why would I ever want to "toast" something on 6?

I don't get it. And all toasters are like this. If anyone is a toaster designer out there, could they please explain this to me.

Most grateful.

poptarts?

Setting 3 on my toaster cremates asbestos.

What most people don't know is that it's not a problem with the toaster per-say, it's actually a missuse on the operators part. As any space physicist knows, different dimensional spaces have different Biothermal Stages, what's called a BS reading. This reading is used to calculate many thermally dependant activities, including the toasting of bread. In the 1900's the developer of the first toaster, tactfully forseeing their future use in other dimensions, accounted for this. The number three setting on your toaster is actually a 3rd dimension setting. Number 3 should produce the perfect toast for any third dimension lifeform. If you don't like it it could be that you have 2ND dimension tastes. Many true toast connoisseurs can distinguish the intricacies of toast made on the 4TH, 5TH, and 6TH dimension settings. Try them out sometime, you might be delightfully surprised.

Well, I'm glad someone came up with a sensible explanation. I kept thinking that if I post something like this, I'd just end up with some lunatic reasoning. Thank whatever God you like to call your own, that sanity prevailed.

Glad I could help

I dispute your assumption that "all toasters are like this" - I have mine on aboutn 3.5 and, from a cold start, it only lightly toasts bread - which is how I like it. Add more slices without letting it cool down first and it burns them though. Some in built intelligence would be useful.

4-6 are most likely for defrosting.

We have an old toaster with two settings. Smoking and burning. I think we need to get a new one. Any suggestions as to brand and model?

My toaster has the following 6 settings

1 - Warm bread
2 - Warm bread (crispier)
3 - Lightly toasted
4 - Regular toast
5 - Burnt
6 - (mushroom cloud)

lol, At my house we still have an old fashioned 2 settings one. Nah, I'm not getting a new one till it brakes down. And BTW, all these toaster settings I've never heard of before :P

Wow man, your toaster has a nuclear bomb inside it? Cool. Just don't let the kids play with it :P

Extreme Coder

my toaster now runs linux and each setting burns my toasts with a different distro.

Funny, my oven runs gnomebaker 0.6.0.

I think there needs to be a full toaster audit done. One day, I am going to write the definitive guide to toasters settings by brand. I hope to produce a relative scale of toastingness and recieve some kind of formal accolade for my work.

i must have the most modern toaster here ,

a length of fencing wire twisted into a big 3 prong fork and an open fire
poke fork into bread place over fire retrieve when done..very user friendly

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2
3
4
5
6

cancel
reheat
burn to dust

My toaster is so confusing that it doesn't even toast!

That type of toaster is the type my oldest aunt uses :P

Extreme Coder

Around about 3 is pretty good on our toaster, perhaps from 4 to 6 is to emulate camping toasters, I'll never forget the day my breakfast burst into flames

My grandparents old toaster wouldn't work on anything except 6 though, but that was an old toaster, perhaps they get worse with age and the manufacturers are just future proofing them?

i usaly burn the tost then scrape the burn off. crispy is better

i do them on 6, toster goes up to 9 thow