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There is some rubbish going around on the
internet about how the numbers on these toaster

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dials are actually minutes.

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And it completely, utterly untrue and I shall
now prove it. All these four toasters are

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set to 2 on each of their dials.

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We have the cheap toaster, beloved of students
everywhere.

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We have the not so cheap toaster, beloved
of people who have just stopped being students

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and thought "I shouldn't buy the cheapest
toaster".

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And we have the slightly more expensive toaster,
for people who think that "adjustable, removable

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crumb tray" is a good feature.

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We also have the office toaster, which I have
nicked from the office next door.

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All of them set to 2, and I guarantee you
none of them will pop up at exactly two minutes.

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Why? Because toasters don't have timing chips
on them. They're far too cheap for that. What

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these have is a bi-metallic strip. Two bits
of metal back to back, that heat up and expand

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at different rates, so the strip slowly curves.
What you're changing with these dials is how

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far that strip has to curve before it triggers
the thing that pops the toast up again.

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There we go, nowhere near two minutes. And
a completely different time to all these other

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toasters.

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Two minutes on the toaster dials is absolutely
rubbish. And here's the thing: it doesn't

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even make sense. Because even if there were
minutes -- what would that do to help you?

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You'd still have to experiment through trial
and error to find out how many minutes your

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particular type of bread needs to be in there
for, and I'll tell you, it's way more than

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we've currently got.

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The office toaster? The one that is apparently
meant to be this "enterprise grade" thing

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designed to toast -- toast your toast quickly?
No. Nothing at all. What we have here are

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four completely different toasters, all set
to the same dial number, none of them popping

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up at two minutes.

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Someone is wrong on the internet and now you
can correct them.

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Would anyone like some toast?

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(That's not very well done.)

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It's not actually done at all, is it!

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(That's terrible.)

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What I love is that we're still rolling, and
this toaster still hasn't popped up. That's

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how different the dials are

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We are literally waiting for toast to pop
up now -- there we go!

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(Tom?)

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Yeah.

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(I think that one was two minutes.)

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What, on the nose?

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Ha! Okay, so maybe the expensive ones do have
timers in them.

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