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Had a toaster that would detect when you put bread in & start. Issue: walk away & if you don't take the toast out within a dozen seconds of it finishing, it'd go on to toast toast


This one has a latch that prevents that. To fire the second time you have to remove the toast (it’s mentioned near the end of the video).


Terrifying! At least the Sunbeam toaster in his video had a mechanism that requires the toast be removed before the cycle can start again (~11:25 in the video). Thinking of all the possible ways something can fail and mitigating them can be difficult but I feel like leaving the toast in should have been an obvious one.


i.e. set your kitchen on fire. How the hell does something like that pass basic safety testing?




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