Lets assume you’re toasting white bread and you want it a little bit toasted - a long way from burnt. Which way do you turn the dial? Towards the black toast picture where the indicator is thickest? Or towards the white toast picture where the indicator is smallest?

It’s not what you’d hoped and you’ve just burned 6 slices of bread.

  • Mannivu@feddit.it
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    10 months ago

    The wider the segment, the more cooked/burnt the bread gets. So, for black bread clockwise, for warm bread anti-clockwise.

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        10 months ago

        Ok, I think that’s because the knob is the whole black part, right? I thought that the indicator (the segmented part) was fixed and only the center part of the knob could be moved. But, if you have to move everything yes, it’s the other way round: clockwise to get warm, anti-clockwise to get burnt bread.

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    10 months ago

    A. Thicker line = more cooking B. Filled in white toast = bread slightly warmer than room temp; toast outline with black on inside = charcoal

    Both signs point to the same scheme to me… I know numbers are clearer but this is decently obvious.

    If the entire knob including the bars turn, then align it with the dot on top.

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    10 months ago

    Turn the knob to each extreme and choose the fastest movement. The icons are useless.

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    10 months ago

    The real trick is that this toaster has a track of wire that moves inside the toaster to move the bread under heating elements. The knob changes the rate the track moves at. Counter clockwise gets you a slower track and more time exposed to the heat.