How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2020
- I love this toaster so dang much.
Here are those as-promised links in the description;
Link ONE: The original Sunbeam video;
• The Antique Toaster th...
Link TWO (why am I yelling?): The Electromagnet in your Toaster
• The Electromagnet in Y...
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OK, $50 might be too hard of a price point to beat. I'll up it to $100.
And yeah, some toasters have a defrost function, but Sunbeam has proven how silly that is!
Hello! Love your channel!
Companies went from quality to quantity. Why sell one quality item a lifetime when you can just make them next to nothing and sell dozens!
So, will there be a Kickstarter for the TechConnecToaster in 5 years or so if no decent toasters are designed by anyone else?
That toaster needs a toaster cozy btw.
Just looks like it's cold and needs to be warm ❤
@@Ianthe1 I can imagine that the mechanism got stuck and created fires and that's why they stop with this design
I am enthralled with this bizarre toaster salesman channel.
he is strangely mesmerising…
200 likes
Came for the toaster, will stay for the other stuff I guess.
You have summed up my feelings exactly. I'm replying mostly just so the "engagement" metric is increased.
Dont forget that he's a CED salesman as well.
If someone made a modern one of these, their competition would be toast!
Ba-dum-psht. *Eyeroll* XD
I just orgasmed ghee due to the witty repartee.
@@Menstral Side effects of watching Technology Connections may include orgasming ghee. Please see a doctor right away if you develop this condition. Or figure out how to get another condition where you orgasm when you sneeze then if you want ghee you just sniff some pepper.
@@Menstral clarified butter? You must be desi.
@@shadmium3471 no these days I think the Westerners have found ghee and think it some kind of new food they can appropriate.
"I don't want a smart fridge that connects to the interwebs, I just want it to know to dim the lights when I open it at night." -Someone
And a camera to see the light level in the room and a mic to listen if it can hear crickets and thus figure out its night time.
@@jbird4478 ...Or just make it so that you have to set the time on the clock yourself, and pick what time during the day the lights should be dim
...or just have a switch/button on the outside of the fridge to control how bright it is inside.
Or just always dim the light no matter what time is, because we won't need it in daylight
Eduardo Rossi have you never had to dig to the back of a fridge before?
@@qualeb8164 no
"Man Berates Toaster Manufacturers for Ten Minutes" is the sort of quality content I have come to expect from Technology Connections.
Toaster Connections, you never disappoint.
I, for one, welcome our toaster overlords
As long as you're not putting both peanut butter and jam on it together.
Heinous concoction.
Unlike toaster manufactures...
@@firepowerg Indeed, I prefer one of each, and never the twain shall meet outside my belly!
amen
My parents got one of these as a wedding gift. Fifty six years later, it still works perfectly. I think my dad replaced the cord. I told my mom I wanted it when she died and told my brother I was getting it so suck it up. He just moved 600 miles closer, so I'll have to hustle. My son might pass it down to his kids. It really is that great. I can also see why Sunbeam had financial difficulties - if you build things to last it cuts your replacement sales.
@@odouroushouseant Then why does the build quality of most appliances keep getting worse? Why are so many tools engineered to fail after a certain amount of time?
@@jaswats9645 Because you're not willing to pay for it. We have come to expect that appliances and tools cost the same as they have always done, even though money is worth less now, and materials cost more. So unless you're specifically looking for made to last stuff, you will be left with the crud that is shoveled out there at cheap prices. Also don't forget about survivorship bias - the things we see now and point to as examples of "Stuff was made better in the olden days!", are just the things that happened to survive until now. Anything crappy was discarded along the way, and so doesn't survive until now.
@@Vcen7 Very good points. I would only point out that many high dollar brands are crap too, reliability-wise. Viking, Bosch, Mercedes, Audi...
There are some society benefits to Planned obsolescence (Most gain the company/industry ofc...), which in the case of washing machines for example, is more efficient washing machines, that use less electricity, time and water, performs better etc (This is not always true if you compare a product that was expensive decades ago to a cheap product today etc).
This can applied to some other products also.
But with a toaster? I have problems finding any significant improvements on them, so sometimes products can be built to last!
Would I pay $250 for a toaster that can last a very long time, and is this good? YES!
Planned obsolescence like it is now, is more beneficial to companies than everything else! Too many products last for so short that it doesn't benefit society at all, and harms the environment, because of waste (mostly plastic waste, since most hard plastics can't be recycled in any meaningful way yet, and is used a lot)! Apple took this to a whole new level, SO FUCK THEM!
@@Nor1MAL Consider the considerable energy cost in the manufacture of the washing machine. Is there an actual benefit to increased efficiency if more energy lost to manufacturing than is gained with the use of a new machine? Ed Begley Jr, who is kind of an eco nut but actually walks the walk, points out that it makes no sense to replace a perfectly good incandescent bulb with (this was a few years ago, but it still holds up with LEDs) a compact florescent. Wait until it breaks. Similarly, a large laundromat might be able to justify replacement of many machines at once because there would be a large improvement in cash flow because of improved cleaning, but environmentally that works only if the still-working machines are used elsewhere. There's always a trade-off. And the way this toaster slowly lowers and raises the bread, even after over 50 years, is amazing to watch. The nature of the toaster doesn't really allow improvements in efficiency, just improvements in company bottom line for replacements.
I want this guy to play a Vault-Tec salesman, if they ever made a Fallout show or movie.
criminally underrated comment
Well there's now a show in the works. I'm hoping that he's getting calls about this!
Now is the time to
Can you imagine what a game character based on Alec would sound like, if you pissed him off? And how much time would you waste, trying to get him to say that one Gen-X reference or super snarky quip?
balls
Alec: "I'll be so perturbed as to draft a letter."
Me, a Briton: "Blimey, now things are getting serious!"
"You'll need some shooting stars to deal with the mold."
Easily the best use of an All Star quote I've seen yet.
Thanks for that... I heard it, didn't get it, and moved on. Well done.
Same, but I was still wondering about it until I read this comment!
Huh.. never had toast bread mold
@@kearneykaktus Oh I did once! Mold will grow weird in bread in the freezer! I had a loaf of sliced sourdough bread in the freezer and after I took a slice out of the toaster I saw this weird circle baked into the bread 🤔 I took my loaf out of the freezer to check it and it had *extremely slowly* growing mold crystalized in the slices! 😅 I thought I had frozen it enough time ahead of the expiration date but apparently not.
Here's the real MVP.
Video 1: "You might want to watch video 0 before you watch this one."
Video 0: "You might want to watch video -1 before you watch this one."
It’s called channel engagement baybee!
And you know what?
We fucking did it, and we liked it too.
Those "smart toasters" that use "algorithms" remind me of Cory Doctorow's short story "Unauthorized Bread", where people cannot toast anything with their toasters unless it has been authorized by the company that produces these toasters (plus, the toasters of the near future seem to be much more than a toaster, it seems like they can also be used to bake bread and other things, if you hack the software).
Crazy as it sounds there was a packet squeeze juicer a bit ago that read QR codes, phoned home over the internet for authentication before it would squuze. It had juicer DRM.
@@frederf3227 I think I've heard about that. Really scary.
Same thing with coffee machines that only accept cups that are shaped in a specific way they only the manufacturer produces.
@EFFram YOUng the fact that people would just buy the premade juice and squeeze by their own hands prove that juicero is useless beyond belief.
In the future, toasters will rebel against mankind...
ua-cam.com/video/22NyKD0M4rc/v-deo.html
Toaster manufacturers: "Quick, quick don't write that down"
I feel like the phrase "It just works" is one of the highest forms of praise that you can give a function designed with simplicity in mind. Because that's exactly the intention of the function and it's executed perfectly.
Yes - but only when the phrase comes from a third party like an unbiased reviewer.
Users who liked functionality as a design-philopsophy also liked: "Bauhaus"
I think "It just works" has been beaten to death by Apple who proves you can get away with any lie if you market it towards yuppies and hipsters.
@@Hawk013 Replace Apple with Bethesda and im with you
that's how apple markets their crap
"Ok Google. Start my smart toaster once the percolator finishes brewing coffee."
" I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that... until you watch three 30 second ads and confirm you are not a robot."
My grandparents made toast with a Sunbeam and coffee with a percolator.
I also grew up with one of these. Then I started collecting them. I would buy one every time I found one for $15 or less. Every single one just works. I’ve literally never taken one apart. Thanks to this channel, I could probably retire on toaster sales!
Lucky you :P I'd definitely buy one from you lol
I'm jealous. Project Farm just did a toaster test, so my ADHD brain went down a toaster tangent, and I ended up buying an 80s model off of eBay. ...which cost nearly $80, including shipping.
"Toast has become my Jam. And jam is what I put on toast"
Thought it was so funny, then I realized he puts toast on toast instead of jam.
If you complete that loop a few too many times you'll have a stack overtoast and need to reboot the system
@@imperialphoenix1229 you made my inner programmer tickle.
@@TheDoctor735 my brother is going to a tech school for programing, so I know exactly enough to meme about it, but not enough to write anything
He Spreads Toast on Toast using a Toast then Sandwiches the Toast with Toast Spread upon it to make a Toast Sandwich.
"This toast is too good for just jam. No, it needs something that can match its perfection... more toast..."
Damnit man, you're single handedly cranking the prices of this things up on Ebay.
Still totslly worth it.
@@singletona082 toastally worth it
he probably owns dozens of them and will sell'em all after the prices peak
"Hope they don't get rid of the description"
*foreshadowing*
It's already gone if you watch UA-cam on a Smart TV or Android TV. No access to comments, either 🤦♂️.
Lord I hope not.
@@BrendonGreenNZL WTF
@@lordofthecats6397 Yep. It's incredibly annoying that I can have a button to show useless MPEG statistics, but not one that allows me to read the description of the video 🤷♂️.
@@BrendonGreenNZL as far as I remember there never were descriptions or comments on TVs.
You have single-handedly increased the value of these toasters beyond all reason. Nice work.
Edit: For anyone thinking about looking, at the time of this comment these things are currently around $300 US.
3 years later...Project Farm just did a toaster testing video, and my ADHD brain remembered the first Tech Connections video, so I looked it up and found a Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster on eBay...for about $80.
"That's assuming youtube doesn't ditch cards in favor of something else someday."
*Sigh* I miss annotations.
agreed.
Personally I could not be happier they're gone. Almost every time they were used, it was by someone who just plastered the entire video in annotations, so I always turned them off. Cards can only really be used in moderation, so they're much less annoying.
Anotations were horrible, it's your nostalgia speaking. Cards can provide the same information in a less invasive and more elegant manner. Plus they work on mobile, too.
@@uvbe Cards just can't do everything annotations could though. Not to mention, any information in annotations is now gone, which is especially bad when they were used to correct mistakes in educational videos, and all of the old interactive videos that used annotations are broken.
For the creators that used annotations appropriately, absolutely; but there were so many others that would spam you with them, I turned it off long ago.
"...Allows the toaster to toast the toast to toasted perfection every toast"
I'm wondering how many takes that took.
"All toasters toast toast!"
@@LonelySpaceDetective All toasters BURN toast. All toasters toast BREAD.
But in order to know the toast is done, it must sense when the definition has crossed from bread to toast. When is this? The paradox of bread.
It took toast many takes....
Also, YEAH TOAST
@@quietone610 "All toasters burn toast. All toasters toast bread." Then how come my toaster burns bread? Huh?
@@NanoMan737400 You don't have a toaster, you have a burner.
Just bought one of these today at a small thrift store. I think it's a model from the 60s. It was $20. It works and is pretty clean considering its age. I remembered these videos and I recognized the toaster right away. Probably my best thrift store find to date.
Soon in your local kitchen appliance store: a toaster that measures temperature of the bread using a puppy and dog.
I never thought I would ever feel envy over a toaster. Never.
And yet here we are. I'm actually kinda angry that we're stuck with crappy toasters when they had it figured out 80 years ago...
I never would've thought someone flexing with a Toaster from the 1940s on the internet would make me jealous but.. Here we are.
And that's what makes Technology Connections great. First, the technical explanations are so well done. Next, the humor, which is clever and fun. And finally, Alec's sheer enthusiasm for the subject matter. It's infectious.
"A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply!"
"Buddy, if my heating element were just a little bigger, you'd be on fire right now. On *fire!*"
That feeling when UA-cam ditches cards.
I was looking for this comment! I hope people will still be able to find it when UA-cam ditches comments!
Video next year: So I started a Toaster Production Company
This is the toaster my family had when I was growing up, '70s and '80s. When I finally got my own place, I bought a toaster and it was terrible. So I bought a better toaster and it also didn't seem to work very well. Now I know why. My standards were very high. I had no idea I grew up with one of the best toasters ever.
“Bread sadly sports a somewhat short shelf life.”
That’s my new tongue twister to try with my students 😂
is it hard to speak many "sh" sounds as a native english speaker? I decided to try and it wasn't difficult, probably because there's already lots of sh ch sounds in my primary language
@@krolon9786 The tongue twister nature comes from the fact that there’s a mix of “sh” and “s,” which people will get mixed up.
I absolutely love how he takes the mundane and makes them incredibly interesting.
Not for me. This guy is just too weird.
"This is the Darkness... I will put it on a plate, so we can compare later..."
Modern Psychoanalysis is weird...
For is it not said that if a man should gaze overlong into the toast, the toast also gazes back into him?
At my place, the darkness actually does gaze back at you. It also purrs.
"This is somewhat problematic, as bread sadly sports somewhat short shelf life."
Bet that took you a few takes, lol
I looked at that and was like thats not hard at all, then I tried to say it...
Alliteration is poetic and deliciously delightful!
I read that as "... a few bakes". How breadful!
I read it in my head and couldn't even do it.
Also, the aesthetics of the toaster (the slightly-rounded, chrome-bodied, just-post-Art Deco shape) are really quite nice! Though as a fan of antiquated, screen-damage mitigation software I may be biased.
The tale about a man and his quest for perfect toast. He must have found that toaster in a level 99 dungeon treasure room.
I was recently "gifted" a broken toaster that I could fix. The whole time I was working on it, I was upset that it wasn't this Sunbeam toaster.
What was it?
@@SquishyZoran It was a toaster
@@NoahNobody Yes, but what toaster?
@@gynaecide4382 Toast toaster
@@gynaecide4382 A bread toaster.
Fun etymological fact: the first recorded usage of the word _toast_ to mean "finished, doomed, defeated" is in the 1984 film _Ghostbusters._
it's amazing how much linguistic innovation we had in the 80s.. apparently nobody was ever named Madison before Splash.
I will treasure this knowledge for as long as I live. Thank you.
and i went to the movie theater to see that movie..... iam that old.
@@KairuHakubi it was certainly less common before that, but there were people with that name before the movie.
@@CapApollo I saw it the day it opened with my best friend, as a matinée (we were 13). We thought it so good, we convinced our parents to take us again for the evening show and they stay and watch. The only time in my life I saw a movie twice in one day at the theater. It was that good.
You look so much happier in your new videos compared to your first ones. I'm glad you feel so comfortable now because your videos are so valuable in terms of knowledge and entertainment. Thank you!
So my dad and I both watch your stuff and I went to my parents house the other day for my dads birthday and he pulls out the toaster you show here. He was so stoked about it and so was I. It doesn;t work right now but he's an electrical engineer so I assume it wont be long until he finally gets around to fixing it.
"God help us - we're in the hands of engineers." - Ian Malcolm ;)
Any updates?, as a fellow EE, I realize he might not have gotten round to it yet.
I also have to ask, any updates?
I also have to ask, any updates?
I also have to ask, any updates?
When does your kickstarter toaster page go live?
I’m in!👍
@hawkturkey you don't need any of that crap.
Fuck, forget the fancy automatic lifters. Bimetallic strip and an electromagnetic. Put the strip towards the bottom of the toast slot for bagels and you're done. Or to deal with bagels and really weird bread shapes, have one at the bottom and one in the middle wired in parallel to form a simple nand gate. If both strips aren't flipped open, the toast isn't done. That's not much different from a regular toaster. You could wind the heater wire vertically instead of horizontally to avoid needing circular heating coils, steal the bread guides from every toaster in the last few decades, and you're done.
@hawkturkey arduino doesn't run linux lmao
@@wyattroncin941 Importantly, electronics tend to fail at around 250 degrees Freedom; a mechanical solution is better.
i could literally build such a toaster right now at this exact moment, since i have an arduino and a colour sensor. just connect a relay to control the electromagnet on a toaster and write code and it is done.
@hawkturkey im sorry to tell you but arduino doesnt use linux
The Sunbeam is like the Saturn V rocket, we have better electronics but we still can't do what could be done decades ago.
"We can, but we don't" Would be more accurate.
@@user-oc5gi1su9k put 5G modem on it so it toasts the toast instead of the heating elements
@@GewelReal 5G is just as powerful as current technologies, do not spread misinformation.
@@KarolOfGutovo No, we literally cant rebuild the Saturn V without some Major redesigns, because many of the manufacturing techniques, used to build it, have been lost over time (because we have more efficient techniques nowadays).
In contrary, this Toaster could be rebuilt literally 1 to 1 without any redesigns using modern techniques and machinery.
@@semurobo I mean, those techniques were developed over the course of less than a decade, theres no reason we couldn't do it again.
"Toast has become my jam. _pause_ And jam's what I put on toast."
Please excuse me while I exit fullscreen to find the like button
shush
SAME
“Oh well, I guess some knowledge just gets lost to time” haha clever
This toaster is so good it actually makes me kinda mad. How many terrible appliances do we needlessly live with every day when they had vastly better ones 60-70 years ago??
Calvin Ball because you can’t design the item to fail and force people to buy a new one in 5-10 years of you design them well
Don't ever look at the source code of software. It's the exact same problem.
Same... How are toaster designers so inept?
Vintage ovens and ranges will last forever too if you take care of them. My parents' 1992 Frigidaire range is still going as strong as the day they got it!
Software source code shouldn't (and usually isn't) designed to be obsolete, it will be obsolete anyway. Mostly the problem is software companies think a newly graduated programmer is just as good as a 40-year-old veteran while being cheaper. They are wrong, and we pay for it.
These videos used to include a clever pun or two relieve your attention span from the tons of technical info... now they are full on elaborate, refined, informative comedy skits that have me WHEEZIN while still retaining a ton of interesting insights! The formula of going insanely deep on a mundane topic for a video which also ridicules itself all along for being so meticulous gives us plenty of dad jokes AND cool facts and i love it and i really think we are witnessing this channel in its prime
I might be dead inside, but what exactly in the video was so funny it got you wheezing?
@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen Idk, the part about a 70 year old toaster being able beat the crap out of the "modern competition", kinda like a Iwo Jima veteran beating up a mugger.
it's comical.
@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen that shooting stars and mold bit got me pretty good. It is a song reference. It was used in beginning of the original Shrek movie.
The "toast is my jam" joke was pretty funny in the "please stop" sort of way.
I don't actually want him to stop. It's great.
You should do a video on office chair articulations. Same issue as with toasters: Manufacturers came up with brilliant designs generations ago, but for some reason (probably $$$) nowadays they're all flimsy rigs that rely entirely on friction, or are $900 overengineered monstrosities that STILL use the flimsy design. I really want to believe that someday we'll evolve back to being a world that builds things well rather than one where everything is disposable and shoddy.
I'm trying to figure out what "articulations" you were talking about.
My parents had this toaster in the 50s and 60s. I remember the first time I saw a toaster that the toast leaped out under spring pressure. I thought it was a joke, like something from a party shop.
Why is this at least the third time I’m watching an over 10 minute video on a toaster and enjoying it? I feel like such a nerd.
Thank you Technology Connections for making multiple videos on toasters and all your other subjects entertaining and educational!
Odd way to spell Toaster Connections.
on THE SAME TOASTER
“Toast has become my jam, and jam is what I put on toast!” This is why I’m a patron.
Bread Sandwich!
This and the Smash Mouth reference
As an engineer, I find these kinds of videos invaluable and think you do a great job. Thank you.
This is sad. You tease me with the perfect toaster, then I look for it and find it's a crazy expensive retro ebay item :(
The toaster cost $250 new in today's dollars. But I guess the prices might have gone up a bit since his first video? I mean to recall they were cheaper on Ebay back then lol
@@Nor1MAL So that's his scheme! He showed at least three he bought but maybe it's all his life's savings invested in sunbeam toasters and to drive up the market price he promotes those like hell. At that point he can sell all of them at a huge profit. Classic pump and dump that makes him rich!
I bet the New York Times or sth will release the Toasternology Connections papers!
@@Nor1MAL i believe there's some under 200 right now
I got a solid one on Ebay for 70$. needed the screw adjusted. And it's the LAST toaster YOU will EVER need....figure that into the cost.....the toaster will OUTLIVE YOU!
@@CowSaysMooMoo Really depends how long you tend to live. Ohwww.. wait... damn.
3:16 An All Star reference? I can’t believe you’ve done this. 🤣
The virgin modern toaster:
- Cost optimized beyond belief
- Cook time based on confusing dial
- Toast doneness for a given setting varies between different breads
- Loud and startling
- Plastic housing
- Probably made in China, contributing to the economic hardship of the Midwest
Vs. the Chad Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster:
- Automatic beyond belief
- Beautiful chrome housing
- Simple doneness setting that is based on actually bread doneness
- Doesn't care if bread is fresh or frozen, will cook both to the exact same doneness
- Quiet and soothing
- Probably made in America, harkening back to golden age of US manufacturing
🤤🤤
Underrated comment right here folks.
I'd like to add to virgin modern toaster,
- likely to throw toast out of toaster, most likely to land on the floor
Nowadays, Sunbeam makes crap.
Also The virgin modern toaster: Well break in a few years
Sunbeam: If treated right will outlive you.
but if its not "smart" how will they data mine consumers?
Toaster manufacturers: Change nothing for decades
TC: "And I took that personally."
More of this. More toaster content. Asking for a friend.
That's exactly what happens. Almost all knowledge gets lost to time. I could imagine setting up a department that does just that, dig through old patents to find lost knowledge.
That toaster was highly overengineered but still ingenious. The today's price would be 250+US$
I solved a problem with a design insight when I worked at Ford Motor Co. It was clever enough that I filed a patent disclosure. It was denied due to "prior art". Unbeknownst to me, Rolls Royce engineers in the 1950s had the same insight and patented it. So I was disappointed. But on the other hand, I had re-invented an idea that was actually worthy of patent! I just didn't know it, so it was still a good idea and a rather valuable insight.
@@jerrygrimes8813 that's an amazing story!
I work/worked as a designer for street lighting company, and as I was designing an LED fixture, we just couldn't come up with proper ways to seal it and the way I designed reflectors was unusual to say the least, so there was barely any information on how to bend them properly. I was getting my inspiration to solve those things from videos made for factory workers in the 40's. Oh good times.
Lots of companies do that.
And that department should be called Adeptus Mechanicus.
This episode had the best amount of snark. I laughed and my wife just stared at me. That's how I know it's great.
Inside Edition also recently did a story about old appliances that are still working and in regular use with them featuring a 96 year old woman who purchased that exact toaster from Sunbeam in 1946 and is still using it today as it’s first and only owner! :)
"Hope they don't get rid of the description." *Imagine the chaos.*
Both Android TV and the TV-optimised website for UA-cam don’t have descriptions, comments or even just a simple counter for like/dislike. And voting in cards doesn’t work as well.
However, they do support cards linking other videos (use cursor keys to pause the video and select the corresponding video). So there’s some hope left.
I wouldn't be surprised if youtube makes changes to the video description in the near future. The sad reality is that nowadays way too many youtubers misuse the video description as a copy&paste channel description, so most of the time I don't even bother checking what's in there anymore. Even if you look at this videos description, it contains 58 lines of copy&paste text vs. 7 lines unique for this video.
@@Pyrazahn Nobody has looked at the description much...
I've seen youtubers lamenting as far back as a decade ago that people ask them things that are written in the description, showing almost nobody reads them.
@@KuraIthys But how many people DON'T ask them those questions. Impossible to know. People read them, there's just a subset that NEVER read them.
UA-cam: Actually that's not a bad idea.
I have one of these, but an early 50s model. It was a wedding gift to my grandmother and has passed through 3 generations of continuous service. Needed some slight adjustment but still works perfectly. Only update it might need is a new cord. Some thicker bagels can get a little stuck since the eject is so gentle, but bread/muffins and anything normal thickness is fine.
While still an engineering student I was fascinated by the Sunbeam Toastmaster at a department store demonstration. We asked for and received one as a wedding present in the summer of 1957. We have been using it daily ever since. When it was new, I took it apart (to my wife's dismay) just to find out how it worked. Absolute genius! I disassembled it one other time decades later, removed all the plastic parts, put it in the oven, and ran the self cleaning cycle....just to get iits internals shiny clean again. It still makes perfect toast every morning. My kids will probably be using it 50 year from now!
**This episode contains paid content from The Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster Company**
For anyone wondering what he said in the second time lapse, it's the Doctor Who pear speech.
How on earth did you hear that?
thanks. i was really about to load up Audacity over here
You LIAR!
@@Fuckhead1976 Do it. Do it now. OP is a phony.
Trust me when I tell you, you haven't had toast until you've had it from one of these beautiful toasters. I LOVE mine! It doesn't have to be complicated to have an ingenious toast lowering and raising mechanism or to have perfect toast that is NOT timed, rather, ready when thoroughly heated for the setting you choose. And because the heating elements work like the surface of the sun, your toast is done VERY quickly.
i do like a bagle occasionally, and the fear of having that option is what stops me from spending $59.99
I really like the elegant design. Do they still sell these?
My grandmother had one when I was a child; it was already called old by that time in the early 1980s. I still remember the weird sideways slots and the slow rise of the toast, and I have never seen once since. If I find one, I will rescue it, repair it, and cherish it.
I'm just catching up with your channel after a few weeks sans UA-cam. I have to say I really love your content. It's clear that you take great care and pleasure in crafting your scripts, and the delightful sparkle of witty alliterative riffs never fails to make me smile. You truly deserve your following and the many patrons that support you. Your sense of off-the-wall fun combined with a diligent and insightful approach to your research keeps me watching and always will.
7:56 Mica, that material is most likely mica
I sincerely saw this update post and thought "oh sunbeam came to their senses and released a modern variant utilizing the same technology" but nah. Thanks for the upload though my man @Technology Connections
Thought the same thing, was genuinely excited to see what a modern sunbeam was like.
Yep, count me as one more disappointed viewer
“That’s all for this video”
[video continues for another 2 minutes]
This is literally my new favorite youtube channel. Thank you TC and all the patreons
Thanks for the update! I bought my T-20B nearly 20 years ago because my parents had one, and because this one was made on the day I was born in 1956. The only attention it has needed is a cord replacement. We bake all our bread, and this toaster toasts it out of the freezer perfectly every time, much more consistently than our modern toaster that can handle bagels. It's an improvement over today's models in another way: it's very high powered and toasts in a fraction of the time.
This is probably the only channel where I am genuinely interested in watching an 11 minute video about one toaster. Love this channel!!
Would like to see how it handles poptarts, waffles, English Muffins.
This just brought to mind the Amityville Toaster: ua-cam.com/video/2KyRCQp32p8/v-deo.html
I'd like a toaster that at least allowed British sized bread in it not some miniature square loaf.
as the owner of one, it does quite well with any toastables, although english muffins can get caught on the edges of the opening
Who was it that named them english muffins? I'd like to know who their dealer was that day
My family had one of these when I was a kid, '70s and '80s, and it worked just fine with Poptarts and English muffins. I don't remember ever using it for waffles.
My parents got this as a wedding gift in 1953. I’m 70, my dad did replace the cord at some point but, my 65 year old sister now has it. Darn it I didn’t speak up fast enough! Best toaster ever!
I love your work over the years. Your more camp than a row of tents but round out your point of view very well. Keep up the great work! From Australia
Watching your toaster videos just makes me realise how inferior my toaster is.
Before I watched this, I put a toaster coasy over my toaster so it wont get jealous
Kick starter for a Technology Connections branded toaster!
This should happen, This toaster makes me wish I wasn't on a Keto/Carnivore diet.
Toastnology Connections
That tidbit about finding the cards that I missed may well have changed my life.
I love it when you talk about that toaster! I so want one! Such an excellent device! Thanks for your infectious enthusiasm, and brilliant snark!!
1:17 don't give them any ideas, they might ditch the video part next.
I love his expression here xD
Google giveth, and Google taketh away... That is the Google Way. (a disillusioned former G+ user, lol)
@@robertcartier5088 Former Google Wave user here (should I have said that out loud?)
My Girlfriend hates when I talk about your videos. She calls you "The Toaster Guy".
Love your videos, dude. You've made me want one of these even more.
hahahaha sorry boy but you're a noob (no ofence), a real oldschool girlfriend says "the sony trinitron guy"... have a good day.
Patrick Barba My girlfriend says „yes, master“ .
When my grandmother died, while everyone else was going for the grandfather clock or coin collection or some of the other valuable antiques, I made sure I got her Sunbeam toaster. These things are amazing.
l was given this kind of toaster model TA-J --thats right from Aust-- for free (l bet the person that gave it to me never know what he had)......l know how cool and different the up and down function of it was......l raised a family with this toaster......about 6yrs ago it wasn't taking the bread down as well as it should, so l decided to open it up and have a look......l was blown away by the ingenious mechanical design. Managed to get it working again and then l came across these vids and l have grown to love my toaster to the point of bragging to friends on how good it is......thanks to these vids l now know so much more - everything actually - about my toaster.....ie how to adjust the up and down tension, the radiant control etc (a big thank you TC for that)......l literally have grown to love it because of these vids.....THANK YOU
Sunbeam: We managed to make the perfect toaster for cheap with 40ies technology
Mitsubishi: Why not make a 400$ toaster instead?
(look for Mitsubishi TO-ST1-T)
And it doesn't even look good! It's so tall!
You watch AvE too huh?
all that and it only does once slice of bread is what buries it for me. It's easy as hell to cook a small item to perfection, scale is the true challenge for a counter top white good.
@@anasevi9456 Yeah, the 1 slice of toast thing ruins it for me too. I'm also a bit dubious about the whole, "steaming" aspect of their design. I don't want steamed toast. I want it uniformly dry!
SateenDuraLuxe it is toast and crisp, but it’s also moist and chewy in a really pleasant way. Almost like the bread of a grilled cheese.
Yes, the epic toaster is back! A toast to the toaster that'll toast them all!
one toast to rule them all, one toast to find them
one toast to bring them all, and in the darkness burn them.
Our family has owned one of these toasters for years and it still works. Thank you for your Sunbeam toaster videos! They bring me great joy. I appreciate knowing how this phenomenal toaster works. I am so proud to say I own one.
This is the Saturn V of toasters, old, incredible, and not made anymore.
God damn! The patreon title led me to thinking that Sunbeam is coming back and making those toasters again.
Thanks for crushing my hopes!
You should get a kickstarter started for bread temp measuring -type toasters
My grandma has one and I love it, it gets used every day and still works perfectly. The only thing that was ever done to repair is was that my grandpa replaced the cord.
Like many, I still use my inherited Sunbeam toaster. It was bought by my grandparents in 1954 and still toasts beautifully today just shy of 70 years later. One spring adjustment back in the early 2000s and a new cord at that time (old rubber insulated cord was getting a bit tired) and it keeps on bemusing anyone who is around for breakfast with its smooth drop and rise. Will never let it go and have actively hunted used ones for friends. A case of modern still not being able to match antique design.
The "i" to see the cards that vanish!
You have changed my life!
I had a feeling cards have been wildly misunderstood...
>I click everything I can that I don't know the function of!
You're the idiot in every movie that hits the big red "fuck everything up" button, aren't you.
@@HellJustFroze And I bet he doesn't stay in the car as well
Totally learned something new about getting to cards. OK top of everything else informative you've shared that's a nice bonus. Thank you.
I can't get it to work on iPhone
AGREE! I learned that too!
Agree. Been wondering for a long time.
TheMysteryDriver when you tap the video so that you have the pause button visible, there should be an “i”-icon up to the right. It’s like that on my iPhone.
I love those toasters. It doesn't dry the bread out when toasting as well as making it perfectly.
Radio control toasters are great. I'm waiting on a radio controlled vacuum cleaner or radio-controlled toothbrush or something. All seriousness aside, I was able to find one of these at a local charity shoppe for 2 quid! Considering what they're going for online I believe I made out like a bandit. It actually works!
"Lets see how long it takes to cook
*1:35
Its THIS long!"
Never change.
The only possible way this gag could have been any better was if the timestamp on the video when the toaster finished was 1:35. Missed opportunity there, Alex!
His fishing stories must be top tier. "I once caught a fish.....*hard cut* THIS long!"
"If it doesn't dry out first, you'll need some shooting stars to deal with the mold."
*_bruh_*
I had to pause the video and just let out a long, deep sigh. Then continue with a smile on my face.
I don’t get it 😅
I didn't get it either. Google says it's a song I think. It's a joke about mold the fungus (video here) and mold the shaping container (song lyrics).
well, only things capable of breaking the mold are shooting stars
@Lavantan T or any Pokemon that has the Mold Breaker ability.
Saving you a click: on eBay these sell for ~$60-160USD. There are some outliers for way more but (as of May 2020) that’s how much it will cost to get your hands on one
Lucky to get one for $200 in 2022 but I bought one anyway. Ha.
I was so amazed at this toaster that I bought one. As I live in the UK, I knew I would need a transformer but did not realize how difficult it would be to get one.The toaster uses 1375 watts but most transformers available in the UK are around 500w, possibly 1000w. USA and China have quite a selection, though why Americans would need a step down transformer eludes me and China would be a 3 week wait and an unbelievable amount of postage. Good news is, I have managed to get a suitable one from Germany and am now awaiting it's arrival.Thanks for the many interesting vids.
I'm more or less in the same boat. Managed to find one for only €15, it still has a US plug. Seems like a step down transformer is what I need.
You do not need a trasformer. Just use a diod. The diod cut off a half of power of 220 volt.