# Quick - how many reasons can you list that someone might not want a toaster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186 "2017-04-25T04:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/21 "2017-04-25T11:22:15Z")
“Worst Family Feud question ever!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/22 "2017-04-25T11:26:18Z")
[Toaster phobia.](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=toasterphobia) ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/23 "2017-04-25T11:33:34Z")
You’re still regifting the 13 you got from your first five marriages. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/24 "2017-04-25T11:37:15Z")
I always buy ground coffee. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/25 "2017-04-25T11:47:58Z")
Kitchen is too small for an appliance that immense. “Toaster” isn’t good enough. I’m waiting for the “toastest” to come out. Waiting for an app for toast. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/26 "2017-04-25T12:09:00Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Waiting for an app for toast. [Your wait is over!](https://appadvice.com/app/more-toast!/296180799) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/27 "2017-04-25T12:15:53Z")
1. They prefer a _toaster oven_, so they can use it for other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/28 "2017-04-25T12:24:43Z")
1. They’re about to go traveling. See also 22. They live in a hotel/tent/period reconstruction house. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/29 "2017-04-25T13:14:21Z")
1. Back in _my_ day, we didn’t have those newfangled toastie-thingies. We crisped our bread over the fire pit, and we were _glad_ when it didn’t come out half burnt. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/30 "2017-04-25T13:17:01Z")
Why use a toaster, which only has a single purpose, when you can use a toaster oven, which has many purposes? I like multi-use tools. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/31 "2017-04-25T14:09:37Z")
Nobody has mentioned what I do. I put a wire rack over the electric stove element, and turn the bread with a fork until it’s toasted. Step one – disable the smoke detector. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/32 "2017-04-25T14:28:13Z")
The OP’s spoiler covered most of my 5, but I also had “I prefer to toast my bread in the oven broiler” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/33 "2017-04-25T14:32:42Z")
I find it much more convenient to buy my bread pre-toasted. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/34 "2017-04-25T14:37:33Z")
1. Been with their bank for years and doesn’t want to change accounts right now. 2. Is waiting for the bluetooth/wifi version. All of you early adopting toast technologists can work out the bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/35 "2017-04-25T14:49:53Z")
I don’t want the government listening to me through the toaster waves. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/36 "2017-04-25T14:57:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Or ‘Rats Toes’. You want that in your kitchen? After suffering under two (2) cheap POS toasters of the type flooding our shores I sought refuge in a good old Made In U.S.A. chromed Sunbeam T-20A on eBay or something similar. It is a tank and works great. Somehow, it senses when a piece of bread is installed and automagically starts the heating element and lowers the bread into its loving embrace. This is a good feature… Sort of. I read about a couple that had the same model at their summer cabin. A mouse jumped inside to snack on crumbs and… Well you can guess the rest. I unplug it when we’re going to be away… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/37 "2017-04-25T15:00:01Z")
The butter and jam makes the inside of the toaster all sticky. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/38 "2017-04-25T15:00:53Z")
It needs to be pointed out that in Taiwan, “toast” is the world for bread which can be toasted rather than something which happens to bread after it is heated and browned. (And no, TokyoBayer and TokyoWife don’t fight over this terminology at all. Not once in over ten years of marriage. Nope. Never once has TokyoBayer ever been exasperated by the necessity of explaining _once again_ what the difference is between bread which is in a particular shape and the end result of placing it in an appliance specifically for heating it to the point of browning.) So, after someone finally goes crazy and gets a divorce, maybe they would need one. Hypothetically of course. Thank god _my_ marriage is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/39 "2017-04-25T15:12:33Z")
I wasn’t considering things like “just doesn’t like toast”, because I was restricting myself to reasons specifically not to have a toaster. I came up with five: 1: Don’t want to spend the money to buy one 2: Don’t have space on the counter to put one in, or would rather use that space for something else 3: Worried about the fire hazard 4: Worried about the electrocution hazard 5: Philosophically opposed to the use of modern technology I suppose that 6: Crumbs in the toaster might attract pests would also work, but it didn’t occur to me until after I started reading replies. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-how-many-reasons-can-you-list-that-someone-might-not-want-a-toaster/785186/40 "2017-04-25T15:13:26Z")
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