The Electromagnet in your Toaster
Added 2019-03-13 20:09:24 +0000 UTCThe last video required travel to Orlando and Houston. This one needed a toaster.
As the headquarters move nears (which--big video update coming very soon!) I have attempted to move forth with some of my simpler video ideas. This is one, and while perhaps you were aware of your toaster's clever modus operandi, I hope I've brought enough additional trivia to the table to singe your bread in delight!
Oh, and if you think I didn't immediately go to eBay and buy a Sunbeam toaster as featured in the video--well you'd be wrong. I'll revisit this topic if that is interesting enough, otherwise I'll make it a TC2 video at the very least.
Also! I know I said forever ago that I would make a TC2 video on hotel locks. I will still do that, don't worry, but it's just sort of on the back burner...
Let's partially burn some sliced carbohydrate media!
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Biking With Panda
2019-03-16 04:35:00 +0000 UTCMy friend has just bought a new Sunbeam toaster made and designed in Australia. It specially allows you to manually raise the lever during use to check on how well it's toasting bread. I've never seen a toaster like that!
Colin Grimshaw
2019-03-16 03:24:50 +0000 UTCthis is why i patreon. ahhh yessss
Steven Manring
2019-03-16 01:29:17 +0000 UTCThanks for this brilliant video! It made me laugh multiple times, while being educating as well. Well done!
Paul Schuur
2019-03-15 20:47:14 +0000 UTCI swear toasters always went "DING" when toast was ready, but even on ones I remember dinging as a kid don't, it's always just a clunk. I guess the alternate timeline started in the 1990s. ;) Read:Mandela Effect
Phil Sowers
2019-03-15 19:06:07 +0000 UTCWait why are the realy old toasters better?
Keyford
2019-03-15 05:56:46 +0000 UTCI have a Sunbeam toaster and it works perfectly. Many morning I get up and toast my bread. Watching it slowly lower and then slowly rise after it's toasted.
Robert McCullough
2019-03-15 03:39:43 +0000 UTC"An already taken apart one here" π
Tom G
2019-03-14 19:58:22 +0000 UTC"toasty smooth jazz"? LOL! Love it!
Arthur Robillard
2019-03-14 19:56:34 +0000 UTCHe may have done that.... I was thinking he'd wired the eject button he showed us to a foot switch.
2019-03-14 18:49:57 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure that timer chip simply has a thermistor inside that measures the ambient temp. If the temp is above 100F, you can bet the toaster just ran. It is in an enclosed cabinet after all.
2019-03-14 18:48:23 +0000 UTCActually enjoyed this video. Never gave much thought to just how a toaster functions but now you've given me something MORE to think about. Thanks. Love the (almost) tongue-tying lines used to describe this too. Bravo ! Keep upo the good work Alec. I'll raise a "toast" to you for sure. VGC
Vincent G. Calvacca
2019-03-14 18:29:08 +0000 UTCAnother great episode! How many slices of toast did you go through - did you need more than one loaf? As an afterthought, it would have been neat to show the guts of an older, say 1940s-1960s (pre-circuit board) toaster for comparison. Thanks!
CharlieVictor
2019-03-14 16:30:11 +0000 UTCWhat did you do with all the toast?
Sam Blakey
2019-03-14 11:10:07 +0000 UTCI was tempted to title this something like "the suicidal circuit in your toaster" but that was A. a little dark (even for toast) and B. probably at risk of demonetization. And that may have been what got me on the alliteration kick this time around, as "suicidal circuit" has kind of a neat ring to it, actually...
Technology Connections
2019-03-14 09:23:24 +0000 UTCWell, technically I didn't *need* two toasters, but it was worth it for the gag!
Technology Connections
2019-03-14 09:21:05 +0000 UTCI love your writing, Alec. "That's 4-44 a slice"! Was that a split screen at 7' 46"? :-) Brilliant.
Stephen Bell
2019-03-14 08:40:03 +0000 UTCYour toaster suicide really resonated with me because I had a Wemos board that would talk to a Raspberry Pi to turn off a pesky broken dehumidifier when it would start making too much noise. The sad part being that the Wemos board was plugged into the same powerbar as the dehumidifier it would kill itself by telling the Raspberry Pi to end it's life. It was tragic.
2019-03-14 06:03:54 +0000 UTCHow many pieces of toast did you create for this movie? (would be a fun-fact at the end ;-)) Did you eat them all or was this a terrible food-waste? :-P
MrHammond
2019-03-14 06:02:52 +0000 UTCthat shirt!!! love it
evistre
2019-03-14 05:35:36 +0000 UTCSelf aware toasters? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec</a>
Kadah
2019-03-14 04:47:42 +0000 UTCThansk for the toast! Loved all of your T alliterations and your puns! Made me giggle way too much! ;)
Jason Wellband
2019-03-14 03:29:25 +0000 UTC"This one needed a toaster" Lies! It needed 2 toasters.
kalleboo
2019-03-14 03:23:30 +0000 UTCUntil I saw the bloopers at the end, I thought you had just unplugged the toaster with a foot switch or something to get it to pop up at the correct time. :/
Wolf
2019-03-14 03:10:09 +0000 UTC@9:43, did you turn off the power strip with your foot or did you actually time it?
John Arild Lolland
2019-03-14 03:00:55 +0000 UTCWow, I just learned what the bagel setting is for on my toaster. Like any good American the first thing I did when getting my toaster was unpack it and throw away everything including the instructions because it's a toaster. But I've always wondered what that setting was for - but never wondered long enough to look it up. Now I know. Thanks!
Chris Munch
2019-03-14 02:52:55 +0000 UTCWhat a tasty toasty tongue twisty! Itβs obvious in hindsight that an electromagnet controls everything, but Iβd not guessed that in advance. Thanks for the fun video! Ewen
Ewen McNeill
2019-03-14 01:15:36 +0000 UTCThat is so weird. We had a similar Sunbeam toaster here that stopped "detecting" toast so it wouldn't toast the bread. We replaced it with that exact toaster from Walmart because we just wanted something with "no frills".
drone r0m-3
2019-03-14 00:58:34 +0000 UTCI had the magnet fail on a toaster. I thought about fixing it but common sense prevailed and I sprung for the $10 to buy a new toaster instead
2019-03-13 23:33:34 +0000 UTCGreat video, I have always wondered how a toaster work, it's actually pretty ingenious!
Jay
2019-03-13 23:19:24 +0000 UTCI'd hate to be a subtitler into other languages for this video. The puns! They hurts!
Marcel de Jong
2019-03-13 22:37:04 +0000 UTCOh I suppose you just edited out any timing issues--great story just the same.
Mark Hesse
2019-03-13 21:40:44 +0000 UTC'twas a terribly tasty toaster treatise. Did you really get your narration to synch (or is it sync?) with the toast popping up? I was sure you must have used a foot activated switch to do it at the right moment, but after watching the outro bloopers, it appears that you actually had the timing down.
Mark Hesse
2019-03-13 21:38:24 +0000 UTCI really, really enjoy the little Classic TV flourishes recently! The "Here's one I prepared earlier" bit in this one was very good.
Kevin Kostka
2019-03-13 21:00:27 +0000 UTCPlease do touch on Hilton's "digital key" feature in your video on hotel room locks.
Matt Whitlock
2019-03-13 20:59:25 +0000 UTC7:46 black magic!!
Mark
2019-03-13 20:28:04 +0000 UTCProbably the least useful endorsement youβll ever read, but this is my only SFW patronage and worth every penny.
Ketafuki
2019-03-13 20:23:00 +0000 UTCHere's a tool I've found helpful for identifying rfid readers like hotel keys: <a href="https://store.dangerousthings.com/product/rdc/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://store.dangerousthings.com/product/rdc/</a>
2019-03-13 20:17:54 +0000 UTCStarted watching this on my computer and thought "Why didn't I get an alert for this?" as my phone gave me the alert. Fastest I've ever been lol.
Ralph Lucas
2019-03-13 20:11:20 +0000 UTC
