Broken toaster, redux.

So, after years of having a toaster where the automatic hold-down thingie was broken and I'd have to stand there in the morning and manually hold it down so that my toast would toast while my coffee brewed, the whole thing finally went kaput a number of months ago, and I got a $30 "high tech" replacement toaster at the local grocery store chain.

(When you don't have a car, you tend to rely on the nearby supermarket for rando stuff like that that they carry, since it's easier time-wise to just pick it up there, rather than make a big special trip to somewhere way the heck out, just for one toaster.)

And, this toaster not only has an automatic hold-down thingie, but defrost and cancel and bagel settings as well, with these light-up-from-inside blue buttons that you press, on the side of the toaster.

(My previous toaster was a simple, classic metal-and-black-plastic toaster, with just the automatic hold-down thingie and a heat level adjustment knob, in addition to a simple black cord, of course.)

But, after only like two or three months, I noticed that my toast wasn't toasting all the way through, and that led me to look closer at my new toaster, and I realized that the interior toast-heating wiring had shorted out, so that my toaster would only be toasting one side of each slice of toast at a time.

So, now I have to toast my slices of toast on one side, and then flip it over and do it again on the other.

And, I mean, it takes longer, but at least that automatic hold-down thingie still works, so I can do other stuff while my toast is toasting for twice as long, with a quick return trip midway through the process to flip it and set it all again.

(I am wondering now if I could maybe set the heat on super high, and just have one round of toasting, where like one side would get super toasted, but enough heat would get through to dry the moisture out of the other side, to the point where that far side of the toast-slice wouldn't need its own whole toasting session sitting right there next to the remaining toast-heating wiring that's still working.)