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RaoulDook ,

Yeah, I set the toaster on fire once also. I had read online that you can make cheese toast in there if you turn the toaster sideways so that the cheese is on top vs gravity. It might have worked if the toaster hadn’t caught fire. I had to throw it out the front door into the yard

dejected_warp_core ,

I’m actually kind of amazed that the failure mode for “toaster used sideways” is that it just catches fire. That’s one hell of a design flaw.

kevindqc ,

Is it a design flaw if someone uses the toaster in a way it’s clearly not intended for, and food touches the hot elements and catches fire?

dharmacurious ,

Id say the design flaw is allowing it to function in that position at all. Put a gravity switch in there like space heaters have, so that it it tilts more than a few degrees it shuts off

Zoot ,
@Zoot@reddthat.com avatar

How the hell am I supposed to make my quasedilla on the ISS then?!

dharmacurious ,

Duh, space walk with it and point it at the sun. That’s just common sense.

SoJB ,

This is an incredibly American attitude. The appliance clearly has a commonly occurring misuse that puts consumers at risk of burning their neighborhood down.

It would be a trivial addition to put a physical deadman’a switch on the bottom, exactly like what space heaters use.

The role of government and regulation is to serve and protect the people. I cannot believe you are unironically advocating that corporations should just put out whatever dangerous products they want with no repercussions just because there is one specific way to use it “correctly”.

Nevermind the million things that could happen. Cat knocks it over. Disabled or elderly person? Stoned college kid? Child?

I guess it’s all about pErSoNaL rEsPoNsiBilItY when it benefits you, and all about collectivism when it only benefits you huh?

kevindqc , (edited )

🙄 serving drama

Halosheep ,

Dude what the fuck are you on about. Plenty of products have safety measures in place because we have federal systems to regulate them.

You can’t just cherry pick one example and then say America bad. What a fucking .ml tier take.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

There’s a thousand things that can destroy your house if you use them wrong. Leave the stove on, turn the gas on without lighting it, store loaded firearms in the oven, extension cord trees, breaker bypasses, tinker with any utility, any number of cleaning products, cars in general, water leaks, just leaving the water running, space heaters, portable generators, shorting the terminals on a battery, the list goes on.

And preventing the use of the toaster sideways won’t fix the problem anyway. People will still cram extra stuff in there, and overcooked toast can catch on fire without much provocation. Even just forgetting to clean the crumb tray can cause a fire. Trying to foolproof a toaster just gets you an incredibly expensive device that rarely works.

marcos ,

If you didn’t expect a machine that has very hot elements very close to your food to make such food burn if used wrongly, that’s on you.

dejected_warp_core ,

I agree, but I feel like having the toaster itself catch fire could have been mitigated somehow.

ayyy ,

Then you get to play the “asbestos flakes or salt?” game. Fun for the whole family!

marcos ,

That said, eating asbestos flakes isn’t the most dangerous thing. Plastic partially burning close to your food, but too slowly for you to notice seems way worse… And there are many fire retardants that are safer to handle in a factory but that will give you a really bad time if you eat them.

NauticalNoodle , (edited )

Fire “removedants?” You mean fire removedants? How about artardents? I suppose one could argue that the automatic censorship of your word is a form of dysfunctional regulation.

marcos ,

Does ML censors parts of words now?

JordanZ ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cffc4716-35b2-4480-82dc-a96f73e3244e.jpeg

That is a toaster oven right next to it too…

dependencyinjection ,

It annoys me it doesn’t say the toaster

Atrichum ,

Fun fact, if you turn a toaster sideways you can use them to make quesadillas.

This works about 90% of the time.

Fenrisulfir ,

This is 100% bullshit. My mom lit the toaster on fire doing this with pizza

Atrichum ,

My partner did the same thing… with a quesadilla.

Rhynoplaz ,

Everybody knows that you only put bread or corn dogs in the toaster. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Pistcow ,

And hashbrown squares

d00ery ,

And waffles.

(Potato waffles)

Wogi ,

AND MY AXE

cron ,

I have no idea what a corn dog is. I just hope it is not a living being.

dwemthy ,

A) A dog with a single horn
B) A burrowing mammal native to Iowa
C) A hot dog in a stick dipped in corn bread batter and fried

Crazyslinkz ,

typo “on” not “in” …

😂 me picturing a hotdog inside the stck.

dwemthy ,

lol, leaving it

mkwarman ,

It is a hotdog inside of a cornbread shell, often served on a wooden stick. It is commonly a kids food though lately I’ve seen some restaurants make fancier versions goldbelly.imgix.net/uploads/…/Original.png?ixlib=…

Rhynoplaz ,

At one point it was at least two living beings, but could possibly be more depending on the quality of your dog.

PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES ,

In Canada we call them Pogo’s because of those shitty frozen Pogo brand corn dogs. Kinda like how Kleenex is used for tissues.

It’s just a hot dog on a stick dipped in a corn meal batter then deep fried.

marcos ,

It’s sausage coated with some material made of corn.

Every time I see people talking about them on the web I wonder what it tastes like. Is it sweet?

NakariLexfortaine ,

Depends on the breading used. Some are sweet, some are more savory.

PraiseTheSoup ,

Often the batter contains honey, so it is somewhat sweet, yes. You’re missing out if you’ve never had one.

DrWeevilJammer ,
@DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml avatar

Others have covered the definition of a corn dog.

A “cron dog” however, is when you use cron to schedule a dog command, which is an updated version of the cat command installed via the moreutils package that provides additional features such as colorized output and line numbering, making it more versatile.

THIS HAS BEEN A DUMB LINUX FACT

cron ,

Thank you, that was the answer I was waiting for.

marcos ,

“Mail the sysadmin every 5 minutes” looks like an incredibly useful script to know.

PlantDadManGuy ,

A corn dog is technically a ravioli on a stick. Fight me.

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

Just get a sandwich toaster.

It browns better in general too and burns less.

The only con being that it doesn’t let the moisture escape well enough (but that depends upon the model).

ByteOnBikes ,

You can’t flip a sandwich toaster sideways though.

MissJinx ,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

What a snitch

ipkpjersi ,

How have people not heard of toaster ovens?

With that said… I don’t have one, maybe I should get one lol

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