Quick - how many reasons can you list that someone might not want a toaster?

“Worst Family Feud question ever!”

Toaster phobia.

You’re still regifting the 13 you got from your first five marriages.

I always buy ground coffee.

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.

Your wait is over!

  1. They prefer a toaster oven, so they can use it for other stuff.
  1. They’re about to go traveling.

See also 22.

They live in a hotel/tent/period reconstruction house.

  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.

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.

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.

The OP’s spoiler covered most of my 5, but I also had “I prefer to toast my bread in the oven broiler”

I find it much more convenient to buy my bread pre-toasted.

  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.

I don’t want the government listening to me through the toaster waves.

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…

The butter and jam makes the inside of the toaster all sticky.

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.

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.

I’m 87 you know