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Andy Bennett <aben@ben37j.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> looking to repair a couple of toasters, mainly because
>> I do really thick toast cut from a full loaf and it's hard
>> to find a popup toaster that can do that well, particularly
>> when buying online at a sensible price and it shouldn't
>> be hard to spot weld the element burnout at the termination
>>  But I can't work out how to get the handle off so I can get
>> the cover off. Online some have screws but none of mine
>> do. Are they glued on and can you just lever it off ?

> Talking of toasters - we are (apparently) really weird and like our  
> toast really thick, dark and crisp on the outside and lovely warm bread  
> on the inside.

Me too

> Most of the population appears to prefer thin rusk-like  objects.

True

Mate of mine showed up one morning when I was having my
breakfast which is just a massive great slab of my toast and
said 'what the hell is that' :-)

> We have been on a quest for (our opinion) a decent toaster for most of  
> our 50 years of married life, nearly all appearing to take far too long  
> and generate the rusk variety of toast regardless of the thickness of  
> slice. Even using the oven grill dries out the slices somewhat.

And its a damned nuisance to have to do it so manually.
I much prefer a proper pop up toaster

> Most appear to abide by the rule of approximately 400W allocated to each  
> slot, so a 4 slice toaster is typically 1600W and a two slice 800 to  
> 1000W.

> I recently stumbled on a Russell Hobbs "Distinctions" toaster which is a  
> 2 slicer but claimed to be 1600W - a lovely 800W per slice.

> I did a few cross checks to ensure they were not telling porkies and  
> purchased one - probably pricey at £44 from amazon but certainly a lot  
> cheaper than the crap Dualit we have owned in the past.

I've been getting mine from garage/car boot sales, mostly for $5 or $10
so its cheap to try because you can't really try toasters in the shop to
see how well they handle very thick slices of bread and even the ones
that claim to do crumpets isnt really much use for our bread

> Has nice wide long slots too - ideal for our 1 inch thick slices.

> This produces our desired toast at last! You have to keep your eye on it  
> as it is VERY fast and can easily generate cremated slices for the  
> unwary, but once fully tuned works a treat. I can at last go to my grave  
> eating decent toast.

Thanks for that, might try one if the repair turns out to be not feasible.

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