My First Electric Toaster

[hc4361]

Was lethal. It plugged in to the light socket and got super hot on the outside. In fact I have found a photo of one very like it:

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I had to pull the side flaps down and turn the bread to toast the other side. All guesswork and far harder than toasting bread with a toasting fork in front of the fire or using the grill.

Which appliance has made your life harder?

[murraymints]

My first pressure cooker...scared the living daylights out of me !!

[Zacs-Master]

Mrs Z just bought a new iron. It's a Bosch, so should be good but the water reservoir emptys too damn fast, the spray button doesn't spray so much as doing an imitation of a water cannon and the thing is the size of a small family car so rubbish for ironing anything with any detail, like a pocket on a shirt. Grrrr.

[hc4361]

A selection of flat irons heating on the grate would be better, Zacs :)

Pressure cookers! The very old ones with the bolt down lids were frightening

[Psybbo]

I'd love to find one like that, hc4361, I like bread toasted on one side only

[sherrardk]

Psybbo - has your toaster got a bagel setting?

[Psybbo]

Sher, I don't know, I think it's just toast or defrost

[sherrardk]

Could you not put two pieces of bread in one slot?

[Psybbo]

I'll try that Sher, I had thought of doing that but never actually did it but I used to use one of those old toasters with really thick bread and loved it. Apologies hc4361

[ummmm]

I bought an electric egg boiler. That was more hassle than it was worth.

[vodkancoke]

Electric rice cooker....waste of time especially for just one person! lol

[hc4361]

We are tempted by gadgets - it's interesting to watch the customers in the Apple stores.

Please, Mr Dyson or anybody - invent a silent vacuum cleaner ASAP. Mine is just too, too loud.

[ummmm]

I have a Hetty hoover and it's very quiet. Dyson sounds like an aeroplane.

[hc4361]

Noooooo - I refuse to believe Hetty is quiet, I've heard a few Henry's and they sound like a bag of nails in a grinder.

Mine is a Hoover

[AlwaysConfused]

Buying a chip fryer as it means having to peel potatoes rather than being able to chuck a bag of chips in the oven. I hate peeling potatoes, I have an irrational phobia of potato eyes!

[Cloverjo]

Deep fat fryers are more trouble than they're worth. All that spitting fat and nasty dribbles. They look evil.

[hc4361]

But they do make lovely, proper chips

[Cloverjo]

Do they? I can't remember the last time I ate a home-fried chip. I do remember all the mess, though.

[hc4361]

You'll have to come round to mine, Cloverjo, and relive the good old days.

Thankfully I have a dishwasher :)

[Cloverjo]

Great! Thank you.
You can't put the walls in a dishwasher, though. :))

[hc4361]

My kitchen is completely tiled - and I have a vacuum window cleaner thing that will soon sort greasy splashes out :)