Posted: 11/20/2009 3:54:33 AM EDT
| When you put bread in the toaster, push the slide down, go to the next room and wait to here it pop. Then when it hasn't popped for like 10 minutes your wondering to yourself "wtf happened to my toast?" Then you go check on it only to find that the toaster wasn't plugged in... |
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Quoted: When you put bread in the toaster, push the slide down, go to the next room and wait to here it pop. Then when it hasn't popped for like 10 minutes your wondering to yourself "wtf happened to my toast?" Then you go check on it only to find that the toaster wasn't plugged in... My toaster is plugged in 24/7. Never klnow when a zombie may want sourdough toast instead of brains. |
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Actually, I would be very surprised because I don't own a toaster. However, I have been known to put a pot of water / frying pan on the stove, wait for it to heat up, come back in the kitchen to see a glowing coil NOT under the pot/pan.  BTDT. Worse is when you forget about the whole thing and come back an hour later to find the pot glowing. Jane |
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Actually, I would be very surprised because I don't own a toaster. However, I have been known to put a pot of water / frying pan on the stove, wait for it to heat up, come back in the kitchen to see a glowing coil NOT under the pot/pan. BTDT. Worse is when you forget about the whole thing and come back an hour later to find the pot glowing. Jane I have a warped skillet (cheapo job) and a wok with a spot where the teflon boiled off (also cheapo) because of that. 
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or you burn one up doing this...did that once, what a smell!
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Actually, I would be very surprised because I don't own a toaster. However, I have been known to put a pot of water / frying pan on the stove, wait for it to heat up, come back in the kitchen to see a glowing coil NOT under the pot/pan. BTDT. Worse is when you forget about the whole thing and come back an hour later to find the pot glowing. Jane |
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I've never done that...
But a couple times in my bachelor years I went to warm some dinner up in the microwave and found the previous evening's meal still sitting in the microwave where I forgot about it during a marathon video game session.
ETA: I've also turned a hot-link into a charcoal briquette in the micro wave. Thought I was cooking it for 60 seconds but I accidently set it for 60 minutes. Went back to playing my games and waiting for the microwave to beep... eventually I noticed a really bad burnt meat smell. Went to check the kitchen and this heavy smoke cloud was just hanging there. Took me about a week of airing the place out to get rid of the smell. 
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When I was 10 I had this problem, I got so involved in cartoons that I wouldn't hear the toast pop up. So when I went to butter it the toast was cold and the butter wouldn't melt. So one Saturday I devised a plan. I would butter the bread before putting it in the toaster, guaranteeing melted butter on my toast no matter how distracted I got. Toaster coils and electricity do not react well to pre buttered toast.
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