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> Why would you have a letter near your toaster? The standard American household with 2.3 kids has everything on the counter near the toaster. For the "oven"
by koolba 7y ago
> Why would you have a letter near your toaster?
The standard American household with 2.3 kids has everything on the counter near the toaster.
For the "oven" style toasters there's an significant chance that there's something made out of either paper or plastic atop the metal roof ready to melt as well.
> Also why not unplug it when done?
And plug it back in every morning? That'd be unnecessarily annoying.
- vonmoltke 7y ago> The standard American household with 2.3 kids has everything on the counter near the toaster. I always, and have always, pulled my toaster out on to a clear portion of the counter before using it, to make sure nothing is too close when it operates. > And plug it back in every morning? That'd be unnecessarily annoying. Again, that's how I have always done it. Growing up, both of these things were considered Toaster Safety 101.
- OJFord 7y agoWhy not just turn it off rather than actually unplug it?
- NickNameNick 7y agoProbably because American sockets are normally un-switched. (I don't get it - Every socket where I live has a built in switch)
- frosted-flakes 7y agoThey are always unswitched, with the exception of some houses where a wall switch controls a receptacle on the other side of the room (for lamps). There's no room for a switch on the receptacle, and North America has used the same plug arrangement since the 1910s (a ground prong was added later, but an ungrounded lamp from 1915 is still compatible with modern receptacles). Changing it now is not likely to happen. It is possible to buy a combination unit with a receptacle and a switch on a single yolk and wire it up so that the switch controls the receptacle, but I've never seen it done.
- OJFord 7y agoOh I see, thanks, yes me too.
- diekhans 7y agoI have one of these things and it is a think of beauty as well as useful. Since it has not had the cord replaced I have a switch at the outlet to turn off the power.
- UncleEntity 7y ago> And plug it back in every morning? That'd be unnecessarily annoying. A lot less annoying than waking up to a 3-alarm fire methinks... I still unplug kitchen stuff when not in use and it's been a long time since I was a kid in the 70's when stuff could (and probably would) "fail hard" and burn down your house.
- sjg007 7y agoI am a standard American with 2 kids and we don't have enough counter space to keep the toaster out all the time and my house is 2600 sq feet!
- walshemj 7y agoThere is this new fangled technology called a switch - or can you not turn American sockets off at the wall.
- astura 7y agoYou can
- MertsA 7y agoThat's the exception, not the rule in America. The only widespread use of switched outlets was back when floor lamps were much more common around the 70s. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a switched outlet on a kitchen countertop other than the one below it for a garbage disposal.
- bakul 7y agoI was shocked when I first discovered that US sockets do not have a switch!