Timeline for Why don't sandwich toasters have an on/off switch?
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| Jul 18, 2023 at 13:14 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @WayneWerner says: "With a stove it would be harder to put on a timer". Technology changes though. We just bought a new gas range, and it automatically shuts off the oven after, I think, 4 hours. (This feature can be overridden by setting "Sabbath mode", but that affects other things that make it annoying enough one wouldn't normally leave it in that mode.) Oh, and when it does automatically turn off, it sends an alert to the app on my mobile device. As I said, technology changes. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | PhillipW | A bread toaster has the best design: turning the power off is built into the physical cycle of making the toast. | |
| S May 14, 2019 at 5:06 | history | suggested | QA Collective | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed a lot of bad grammar
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| Jun 7, 2018 at 18:08 | comment | added | Rob Grant | @RegDwight Nobody, ever, is willing to say "There is no reason" or "Even if there is a reason, I do not know it. So I am making this up." - welcome to UX :) | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 14:32 | comment | added | RegDwight | @Wayne yes, this is all justification in hindsight. If it were exactly the other way round, we'd just as easily be able to come up with a bunch of just as sound reasons for it being exactly the other way round. Nobody, ever, is willing to say "There is no reason" or "Even if there is a reason, I do not know it. So I am making this up." | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 12:49 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | @RegDwight your oven is insulated (though your stove is not), which does prevent at least some fires. With a stove it would be harder to put on a timer - frequently you put something on to boil and walk away. Or doing something that takes a long/unknown amount of time to cook. But... you may be right to be skeptical! | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | RegDwight | I am even more skeptical than @JonW. If this really is the reason, then why am I not forced to unplug my oven/stove each time? Or to turn off the gas on my gas stove? A stove left on is likely causing a fire somewhere right now as we speak. And so do irons, by the way. People constantly leave them on. Just because you have to unplug, doesn't mean you will. So that's two reasons right there why this is just hypothetical conjecture. For all we know, the companies really just want to save a couple cents on switches. As you say yourself, more expensive models do have a switch. | |
| Feb 13, 2013 at 9:55 | comment | added | MSalters | @alexeypegov: Not a new idea; my iron already has precisely that. Beeps in 5 and turns off in 8 minutes. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 14:59 | comment | added | Benny Skogberg | @JonW I agree that this is not bullit proof - but its better than a power button. You could also use an external timer on the jack, which I use on my Nespresso machine at home, or buy the expensive toaster with built in safety. The Nespresso machine goes into "hybernating" state if we're not using it - but an external timer feel better. Safety costs! | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 14:26 | comment | added | JonW♦ | No power-off button on a sandwich toaster can still cause accidents though. 'Hypothetically speaking' someone could make them-self a Tuna Toastie while watching a horror movie late at night but forget to unplug the toaster; causing the toaster to short-circuit, blow the trip switch in the fuse box (causing all the lights and electrics in the house to shut down too, which could be quite scary at the best of times but especially during a late night horror movie) and also result in the toaster breaking forever. Hypothetically speaking of course. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 13:33 | comment | added | Oisin Lavery | Great idea @BennySkogberg | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 12:51 | vote | accept | Vitaly Mijiritsky | ||
| Feb 11, 2013 at 8:06 | comment | added | Benny Skogberg | @alexeypegov Thanks! You accelerometer sounds like a great idea, and good safety first thinking! | |
| Feb 11, 2013 at 8:01 | comment | added | alexeypegov | +1 for the iron analogue. And I just have an idea of adding an accelerometer to iron so it may be automatically turned off if it's not used for a specific amount of time. | |
| Feb 11, 2013 at 7:51 | history | edited | Benny Skogberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
rephrasing
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| Feb 10, 2013 at 21:33 | history | answered | Benny Skogberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |