What does the dial on a toaster do?

[Flared Hicks]

I always assumed it was a timer, but I'm getting contradictory reports that it adjusts the heat intensity.

I suppose I could do some empirical tests with a stopwatch

[janiep]

I'm informed you can now buy a see-through toaster.

[cocky]

Perhaps it's both.

[youmademerealise]

If I turn mine up to 6 Phil Bardsley falls over

[TheSaintlyMackem]

Originally Posted by janiep

I'm informed you can now buy a see-through toaster.

for £150ish.

[SedgefieldMackem]

Originally Posted by Flared Hicks

I always assumed it was a timer, but I'm getting contradictory reports that it adjusts the heat intensity.

I suppose I could do some empirical tests with a stopwatch

Report back please.

[tunstall birdman]

Have a setting that burns your toast to a crisp?

[janiep]

Originally Posted by TheSaintlyMackem

for £150ish.

I won't be rushing to get one then.

[youmademerealise]

Originally Posted by tunstall birdman

Have a setting that burns your toast to a crisp?

Odd innit. 6 is guaranteed to give a smoldering carbon coating to anything

[tunstall birdman]

Originally Posted by youmademerealise

Odd innit. 6 is guaranteed to give a smoldering carbon coating to anything

Anar just baffles me? One of lifes great mysteries.