Electric toasters

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

My toaster packed up this morning. It obviously wasn't completely buggered for there was a slight warming of the bread that I inserted. Who cares? It's years old and it isn't worth taking it apart to investigate let alone getting someone to repair it.

So off I toddle to a local supermarket and bought a new one for £8.81. It has what I need - 2 slices at a time, removable crumb tray and the ability to toast bread from frozen, not that I do that that much. And it is in stainless steel and looks ok.

Out of curiosity when I got home, I took a look at the supermarket's website to see what range they offered. They have a staggering 64 models on offer ranging from about £5.50 to almost £150. OK so some can do 4 slices at once presumably to cope with a horde of starving brats. Others would apparently beep at me to tell me when the toast was done, a pretty much useless feature given that I can hear the crash of ejection of finished toast from several rooms away. But otherwise, they were all pretty similar in terms of functionality.

Who the hell spends £150 on a toaster? We should identify them, find them guilty of wasting money and appropriate much of their cash on the grounds of insanity and give the money to me.