Best toaster I have had is a generic 20$ toaster. When I first moved into my apartment one of the plugs was wired wrong and was at 220v rather than 110v. Fancy toasters would have been toast, but not mine, no no no, mine became a turbo toaster. Fully toasted bread in 10 seconds flat
I feel like Alec from Technology Connections would have some words about this. There’s is literally a toaster from the 50s that automatically *softly* lowers and raises the bread and cooks it to perfection - all mechanically.
I’ve got this toaster and it’s not great. After a few months it often doesn’t turn on the heaters and requires a reboot. Kind if annoying considering the cost
This is the kinda toster if I worked in an office building I'd convince my boss to get for the break room since it would be "convient for everyone" and "will save time" But only cause Id want my coworkers and myself to be able to experience this train wreck of a product without any of us wasting our own money on it.
This is exactly the demographic they are looking for It's a conversation started in the break room and no one in their right mind would spend their own money on this But company money is a different story
Sarah single handedly wrecked this company's aspirations for selling people the best toaster ever. No matter how fancy you make the toaster, it cannot even toast the bread all the way.
They probably did that themselves with the $400 pricetag, but if you're receiving bad news about your product, you could do much worse than having Sarah deliver it
Well, there is also this 60 year old toaster called “Sunbeam radiant control toaster” that doesn’t even have a start button and still manages to deliver your toast quietly. You just put your bread in and it can even tell when the toast has the perfect crispness to your liking, because it uses a thermal sensor that checks the temperature of the surface of the bread instead of waiting for a specific amount of time. I highly recommend watching Technology Connections video about it!
I'm going to quibble slightly and say that it's not a sensor in the sense that most people imagine (the toaster is a purely electromechanical devices with no processors to speak of). It uses a bimetallic strip to sense the temperature of the bread in the same way that many old thermostats did.
I wish they made a "dumb" toaster that had the same capability of slowly lifting out the bread. I've been waiting for something like this ever since watching the Technology Connections video on that old Sunbeam toaster.
Imagine spending $400 on a toaster and it doesn't even toast the bread evenly across the entire slice. I can't say from my cheapest to most expensive toaster I've ever had a problem so fundamental.
If it had a simpler UX, and a more homogenous toasting, and for 1/4th of the price, then maybe I'd consider buying one when on sale for 1/8th of the price.
i dont care about the ux, but i 100% care about the homogeneous toasting. I think $100 for a toaster is still really expensive but at least it is the acceptable kind of expensive, 400 is just crazy....
The slow descent of the bread made me hopeful that this would be a spiritual successor to the sunbeam but the half cooked output shattered that thought. Technology connections would have a field day roasting this thing.
I kind of like the spring sound of normal/old-school toasters. Because in the morning, if I'm busy after I have put the bread in the toaster, I can most often hear the spring-sound when in bathroom or living-room, getting ready for the day. Noiseless smart-toasters or alike, I would have to take a look in the kitchen from time to time (not that it's oceans of time, but you get the idea).
The fact that many $20 dollar toasters can cook better then this 400 dollar one is the last nail in the coffin. I mean who would pay that much for bread that isn't even evenly cooked?
They'll also continue to work if the wifi goes down, if the manufacturer goes bust, if app doesn't get updatedm, if the vendor drops support in 3 years time and is unlikely to get ever get hacked or bricked. Basically, it's vastly superior
Riley and Horst together gave a chaotic/destructive twins energy in this video, they should host a WAN show or review a Framework laptop in front of Linus.
Agreed.. On the ltt secret shopper2 uploads. I was shocked how sitting on customer support/ hold all day, over several companies call, had literally no impact on dampening her vibe -- she actually even coached them along, in order for them to succeed rather than not care about random workers on other line of calls..
6:05 they actually made that back in the sixties. And it was able to consistently toast to the exact same degree regardless of whether the toaster was pre-heated or not. It's amazing how toasters keep evolving backwards, nowadays they apparently need microprocessors and a giant touchscreen to poorly emulate what a cheap toaster from sixty years ago did with just a bi-metallic strip, if memory serves correctly. Check out Technology Connections' video on the Sunbeam toaster, to find out what I'm talking about ;-)
The Sunbeam wasn't cheap at the time it was manufactured and the reason why Toasters are backwards as you say is because Sunbeam patent the Technology and prevented it's proliferation. No adays the Sunbeam's tech is seen as too expensive for the cost to value ratio that toaster manufacturers want and we make do with "good enough".
We need to see more videos hosted by Sarah. She's a natural presenter. Also loved the special guests, especially Riley and Horst. As a duo they seem to work really well together.
over on "Technology Connections" he has a toaster med in the 50s. It stops based on the breads COLOR, rather than time. And it's by far the most consistent way to toast a piece of bread. It also automatically lowers the bread when you insert it, and pops it up when it's done. its amazing. Personally i use those flat toasters. It fits any bread size and if you know what you're doing the timer is easy to set, so that you get consistent results
My missus still can't get her head around the fact the second round of toast will be more toasted than the first because the toaster's already warm....
Yes but its NOT a 20 dollar toaster, you have to pay extra to get your toast with a gradient toast. That way its heterogeneous and each bite is different so you don't get bored.
So fun to see the whole crew come together and give it a try with their own special touch! :D (obviously not even close to whole crew, but it felt like it)
I got a 4 slice toaster at a garage sale 10 years ago, still works like a charm. Had to replace a heating element in it one time. Toaster was 5 bucks, the new heating element was 20 bucks. Toasts my bread perfectly every time. Stuff like this is for people with more money than common sense.
Some day a brand will actually ditch the apps and return to glorious radiant control. (Also waiting for the rest of the Technology Connections crew to descend)
Only if it involves Jonathon telling us how this multilayer forged stainless steel saucepan doesn't inspire joy as much as that cheap stamped stainless thin-walled saucepan. Is Jonathan getting too cynical about cookware? No, he's just expecting better from his heroes!
@@mitchleonards a lot of New Jersey people say it like that, as well. I saw a video about it from one of the original tech bloggers called David in like 2009. His friends from other states made fun of him for it and he went round his whole family asking them how they say it.
Philips did one. Bought it about ten years ago for about $40 I think. A year later I saw it advertised as this amazing new thing and they wanted over $70 for it which made me laugh. Don't know if they still make them or if they anything similar in their product portfolio. Mine works well. It has a sensor that measures the "toastyness" by how much energy is reflected from the toast, much like the old SunBeam toasters only done electronically. It has a few "programs" for frozen toast, reheat and heating up buns on the rack that can be unfolded over the toaster, but frankly I can't be bothered to remember what the figures on those buttons mean. Also it doesn't have the nice lift mechanism that the SunBeam has, it's just the standard toast catapult if a little weak as the bread can't get much altitude. But it toasts well with predictable results and does it evenly on both sides and without that top to bottom gradient this $400 toaster had. Oh and one time when I tried to use it there was some kind of software glitch. Suddenly the heating elements got turned on, the LED's started blinking in different patterns, and then I pulled the cord. It only happened once, and I couldn't figure out why. My best guess is that it was some kind of self test that I triggered that was used at the factory to test all the functions. But that's just my guess. Still it was kind of interesting to see, and reminded me that there was some kind of micro processor in the toaster, which is pretty wild when you think about it. Would be fun to know what kind of processor it is and what the clock rate is. It certainly doesn't need much as all it does is read the IR sensor and compare to a value from a lookup table. Sensor feedback meet or exceed the value from the table and it kicks out the bread. Well there's some LED's that's showing how far the toasting has come but that's just about once per second so a clock rate in the kilohertz range would probably do fine, but odds are it's at least in the megahertz range as it seems hard to source anything much slower than that.
As a gluten allergic, the gluten free option doesn't worth a thing if you toast regular bread in it... as there could be contaminants/crumbs on the inside of the toaster from previous toastings
I love Sarah. Every video she hosts is pure gold. "We got bread bitches" might be my new favorite catch phrase. 🤣 Also, I agree with Sarah. A toaster is like the adult version of a jack in a box when you're staring at it waiting.
I took a toaster when I left home 12 years ago and it still works. Why would I want one that has a screen? It's one of those things I use for 5 minutes about 3 times a week
I can't imagine the stress of sending a product to LTT/ShortCircuit for review. Will we be sold out for ever or will our company flop because our product is roasted by a group of 20 somethings.
Gotta love the Sunbeam ... does the thing like, _ever_ die?! LOL my friend has the same one his parents (or maybe grandparents?!) bought brand-new and it's going as strong today as that first day it came out the factory!
We perfected the toaster a long time ago. The Sunbeam radiant heat toaster (has the auto down feature and toasts to a darkness, not a random time algo) and the Mitsubishi toaster if you're insane
Sarah roasting an overpriced toaster is exactly what I needed today, I mean I'm sad that it was disappointing but the bluntness of the review is hilarious to me XD
Which is weird because a friend has one (one of the cheaper models) and it toasts the whole bread. Either the more expensive on is actually worse or their model is defective.
@@lumoneko299 well if this particular one is bad it means there’s some quality control issues. Also a bad sign for the brand. Either way, the half toast is very bad sign.
The point about not waking up people with the “loud” toaster is… interesting? Who has the disposable income for a 300$ toaster but a sleeping arrangement where people, like, sleep in the kitchen?
Have you tried keeping a George Forman grill by your bed to cook bacon in the morning? You could do the same with a toaster. I’m sure you would never accidentally burn your foot.
Toaster strudels definitely require some experience with pre microwaving the correct amount of time before toasting if you want a fully cooked center without burning the outside . Like 15-20 seconds in a 1200w microwave then one cycle in the toaster at a medium setting works well.
It’s a shame, I was really hoping that someone finally built a toaster that would compare to the classic Sunbeam Radiant Control toasters that were better than anything you can get today. Sadly it didn’t do bagels or other wacky stuff, but if you don’t mind dealing with a toaster that’s always connected to the mains and is slightly dangerous, those things could toast perfectly every time and they didn’t pop up and startle anyone or fling bread and crumbs across the counter. No buttons or dials to adjust the temperature, it would just cook your toast perfectly every time and it did it much more evenly than this thing did.
We have been trying to find a replacement for our toaster but they are all made very cheaply these days. Online reviews aren't helpful because they mostly seem fake.
I can already hear the Technology Connections ranting how $400 toaster is against decades old Sunbeam. Because I am already laughing how much more useful my ~$40 toaster with a whiteboard on its side is compared to this and it doesn't even come with stylish gradient toasting option.
As everyone is saying, Sarah is really made to host videos. Great positive and lovable energy, and a contagious smile. I am really think she needs to be one of the main host of LTT
This is the first video I've seen with Sarah presenting. She is absolutely brilliant, completely natural in front of the camera and has an infectious enthusiasm I can't help but smile at. You should definitely keep her presenting. Here's an existential question for you: at what point does bread become toast?
It does take a certain skill to be able to get words out with out looking totally awkward or messing up over and over. I did a voice over once and realized just how hard it was.
Bread that goes into a toaster is toasted bread. Toast, before it goes into a toaster, is untoasted toast. If it is made to go into a toaster then it is toast
This product is insane! I am totally with Colton, a $20 'dumb' toaster wins every single f'ing time. Waste of money, waste of e-waste, waste of energy, waste of creative intelligence, for something that does absolutely f'all to enhance the final product!
Bruh, you can get a full size toaster oven for the same price that can do pizza, bake cookies, meals, etc, and best of all it will evenly toast your toast every time. Toaster ovens are underrated af.
I can't believe it was $400 and they didn't have even toasting. My $15 toaster is even end to end/ side to side, and the 1-4 1/2 setting equals the minutes within a few seconds. At ~4% of the cost, you can't beat that. Hopefully it's just a defect, because if they got that result testing, they should give up
And I thought when I spent 80 dollars on "just a toaster" i was making a bad choice. It does a way better job than cheap 20$ ones. It was actually worth the purchase at the end of the day. It's toasting is very even and consistent. And it works on all breads without special settings. This has a shit ton of useless settings for breads as if they each need to be handled with some sort of care. And it doesn't even toast evenly for like 4+ times the price I paid. WTF.
@@Locutus I'm sure there's anomalies, but before I buy things, i tend to do a lot of YT research, and these days, cheap stuff is many times just that: cheap. Most of the cheap ones wouldn't toast evenly. But the 150+ ones wouldn't do any better than the 80$ one I bought but were marked up for stupid gimmicks. Sooo, settled in the "middle".
I have a 5 Dollar Toaster, does the job well enough No Complains, just perfect for the price Some people just likes getting scammed for 400 bucks Toasters, i almost pity & feel sorry for them
@@uhm175 there's always a limit to how expensive something is vs the gains. usually there are diminishing returns. but on the other side of the coin, cheap can literally be cheap. just because something gets the job done doesn't mean everything else is pointless or doesn't create a better experience. here's another example. go to the store. buy a 30$ keyboard. you're content. it gets the job done. I always thought the same thing. then I spent money and put together my own keyboard from scratch. the non-mass-produced keyboard is an entirely different and satisfying experience that you can't even begin to understand until you actually try it. is spending . ore for some better quality for everyone? no. but just because you are fine with a cheaper product (doesn't imply it is always junk, but it will inherently still be likely it doesn't have as good of quality) doesn't mean something slightly more expensive can't be better.
Best toaster I have had is a generic 20$ toaster. When I first moved into my apartment one of the plugs was wired wrong and was at 220v rather than 110v. Fancy toasters would have been toast, but not mine, no no no, mine became a turbo toaster. Fully toasted bread in 10 seconds flat
Hahaha Photonic Induction style 👍
@@BlahBleeBlahBlah where has he gone, its been a year since the last yt post
Let me guess. Your $20 toaster has a physical dial on it that allows you to pick settings between the numbers.
Lol
Fully toasted apartment in 10 minutes flat.
I feel like Alec from Technology Connections would have some words about this. There’s is literally a toaster from the 50s that automatically *softly* lowers and raises the bread and cooks it to perfection - all mechanically.
Technology Connections fan +1
Yea I was just thinking that too
Will be painful for Alec to buy TWO of them just to be able to disassemble one of the 400 dollar toasters.
He even did a video called "How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's" and yet they screwed it up.
@@MrJleonp at the time I think they were worth a lot less
A $400 toaster that does everything but toast a piece of bread properly.
Just buy the Mitsubishi toaster for 400$ 😂
Imma just get a battery and use it as a phone
I’ve got this toaster and it’s not great. After a few months it often doesn’t turn on the heaters and requires a reboot. Kind if annoying considering the cost
digital dementia
The Nintendo Switch oled is a better toaster
This is the kinda toster if I worked in an office building I'd convince my boss to get for the break room since it would be "convient for everyone" and "will save time"
But only cause Id want my coworkers and myself to be able to experience this train wreck of a product without any of us wasting our own money on it.
This is exactly the demographic they are looking for
It's a conversation started in the break room and no one in their right mind would spend their own money on this
But company money is a different story
Same would love for the office just as a conversation piece but would not even consider at home
Toaster technology already peaked in 1949 with the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster
hello fellow Technology Connections enjoyer
In japan it peaked a couple years ago with the Mitsubishi TO-ST1-T.
Technology connections fan as well?
@@FoxMccloud42 now THAT's a toaster for short circuit
Mitsubishi would like to have a word with you.
Sadly, this doesn’t come close to generating as much desire to purchase as the 70 year old Sunbeam toaster that Technology Connections presented did
Glad I'm not the only one thinking about that during this video.
This toaster is still just a timer
I just watched a video on the radiant control toaster. That is a technological masterpiece. This itoaster can't compete.
Automatic Beyond Belief!!
Came here to say just that..
Sarah single handedly wrecked this company's aspirations for selling people the best toaster ever. No matter how fancy you make the toaster, it cannot even toast the bread all the way.
Sarah can toast the toaster company better than their toaster can toast bread.
No, whoever designed a $400 toaster that can't toast bread wrecked this company's aspirations. Sarah just put a video of it on youtube.
For sure. I vote Sarah for all product reviews from now on.
They probably did that themselves with the $400 pricetag, but if you're receiving bad news about your product, you could do much worse than having Sarah deliver it
Sarah needs to be on more her sarcasm towards the toaster is downright hilarious
Well, there is also this 60 year old toaster called “Sunbeam radiant control toaster” that doesn’t even have a start button and still manages to deliver your toast quietly. You just put your bread in and it can even tell when the toast has the perfect crispness to your liking, because it uses a thermal sensor that checks the temperature of the surface of the bread instead of waiting for a specific amount of time.
I highly recommend watching Technology Connections video about it!
Bought one of those and I totally recommend it. Worth the hundred bucks on ebay no question!
I am so happy about seeing so many Technology Connections comments here in this video !! :DDD
YEAH TOASTER SUPREMACY!
I'm going to quibble slightly and say that it's not a sensor in the sense that most people imagine (the toaster is a purely electromechanical devices with no processors to speak of). It uses a bimetallic strip to sense the temperature of the bread in the same way that many old thermostats did.
@@daedalusspacegames a sensor isn't necessarily electronic in nature. It is simply something that does something when conditions are met.
I wish they made a "dumb" toaster that had the same capability of slowly lifting out the bread. I've been waiting for something like this ever since watching the Technology Connections video on that old Sunbeam toaster.
@@Avendesora oh I’m so dumb, never mind lol
This is a dumb toaster-- in every sense
I saw that too, it did look like a great toaster
Exactly this! Since this episode I am on the look for toaster that uses this technology... without results so far?
Wouldn't this basically be a dumb toaster with a touch screen?
I would love an entire series of Riley & Horst. Seriously the most underrated and unlikely duo.
They were so good together!
honestly if Taran was still working at LTT, they would be the perfect Misfit Trio
it does make me wonder who are the besties in the office
A LTT double act I didn't know I needed.
or Riley and Sarah
or Riley and James
or Riley and Alex
or Riley and Jake
actually, Riley should just be in every video.
I absolutely love the content that Sarah delivers. Her looking at the Pantone set is still one of my favourite videos.
same
Imagine spending $400 on a toaster and it doesn't even toast the bread evenly across the entire slice. I can't say from my cheapest to most expensive toaster I've ever had a problem so fundamental.
Right? Like even my 20 dollar CAD toaster has more even browning.
I would return the toaster with the half toasted bread still in it.
2022 is the year of disappointment
Seriously, how come they messed that up. Mind boggling.
Gotta use the official _bread_ too! 🍞
If it had a simpler UX, and a more homogenous toasting, and for 1/4th of the price, then maybe I'd consider buying one when on sale for 1/8th of the price.
I ain't getting one of those for free
i dont care about the ux, but i 100% care about the homogeneous toasting. I think $100 for a toaster is still really expensive but at least it is the acceptable kind of expensive, 400 is just crazy....
Or it could be bought by apple and become the "iToaster" with icloud integration and sell for 400 :P
YOUR TOASTER SHOULD NOT NEED FIRMWARE
@@MrAcuriteOf1337 so you just want to hard code your toaster? Do you know what a pain it is to upgrade an EPROM in a toaster?
"The Sunbeam Toaster"
Yes! Toasters peaked with the Sunbeam and we've been regressing ever since
Yes, this
True
I remember seeing that on Technology Connections. I was amazed by it
Retro or not it's just a toaster lol
@@manoz6194 Get it man. Trust me it worth the hundred bucks on ebay!
I can hear Technology Connections all the way over here. Sunbeam has had the best toaster ever made for decades.
Was honestly waiting for Linus to come in yelling "I PAID HOW MUCH FOR THIS?!" and then panning to camera with a thousand yard stare.
And then immediately goes "oooh 😮 it's got a X feature?", comes over and starts messing with it himself.
The slow descent of the bread made me hopeful that this would be a spiritual successor to the sunbeam but the half cooked output shattered that thought. Technology connections would have a field day roasting this thing.
Horrible reliability of it too if you look at the reviews
It's sad when a toaster is better at getting roasted than roasting bread.
@@swecreations yikes
We need to buy him one so he can review it! Or Linus, can you send yours to him?
Crazy that still nothing can hold a candle to an over 70 year old toaster!
RUN DOOM ON IT!
This guy has the right idea
Great
Yes a 1000 x yes.
It doesn’t have wifi or firmware updates so can’t run Doom
when it makes toast it displays an attacking arch-vile
I kind of like the spring sound of normal/old-school toasters. Because in the morning, if I'm busy after I have put the bread in the toaster, I can most often hear the spring-sound when in bathroom or living-room, getting ready for the day. Noiseless smart-toasters or alike, I would have to take a look in the kitchen from time to time (not that it's oceans of time, but you get the idea).
If you like old school toasters then look up the Sunbeam toaster from the 50s
The fact that many $20 dollar toasters can cook better then this 400 dollar one is the last nail in the coffin. I mean who would pay that much for bread that isn't even evenly cooked?
B-b-bbbbut, it's smart!!!!! Don't you want a toaster that calls home?
cuz it has a tablet on the front, you can run doom while you wait for your unevenly burnt bread
They'll also continue to work if the wifi goes down, if the manufacturer goes bust, if app doesn't get updatedm, if the vendor drops support in 3 years time and is unlikely to get ever get hacked or bricked. Basically, it's vastly superior
I'd say heterogeneity is good, but it's advertised to toast more even
I’ve had it for about a year. Bought it just because it’s hilariously unnecessary. Mine works evenly so I’m not sure what that’s about.
I want more videos with Jonathan and Riley together. They're a real dream team.
There is a new episode of Talk Linked with both of them together
@@rowtag7837 Yeah, I saw it at then thus video, now I want more.
Riley and Horst together gave a chaotic/destructive twins energy in this video, they should host a WAN show or review a Framework laptop in front of Linus.
jonathan always sounds like he’s got a runny nose 😂 but yes MOAR J + R CONTENT PLZ
Can we just take a second to appreciate how Sarah, even if she’s annoyed with a product, still radiates an insane amount of positive energy?
I want more tech cooking with Sarah omg
@@jorgebustillos8469 I want your mom hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ok
Some people just be like that
Agreed.. On the ltt secret shopper2 uploads. I was shocked how sitting on customer support/ hold all day, over several companies call, had literally no impact on dampening her vibe -- she actually even coached them along, in order for them to succeed rather than not care about random workers on other line of calls..
Sarah is brilliant we need more of her.
Yes, I like the way she say bagel lmao
i agree
I know she’s cute right
She's unbearable imo. But w/e..
6:05 they actually made that back in the sixties. And it was able to consistently toast to the exact same degree regardless of whether the toaster was pre-heated or not. It's amazing how toasters keep evolving backwards, nowadays they apparently need microprocessors and a giant touchscreen to poorly emulate what a cheap toaster from sixty years ago did with just a bi-metallic strip, if memory serves correctly.
Check out Technology Connections' video on the Sunbeam toaster, to find out what I'm talking about ;-)
It was as far back as the 1940s! I have one.
The Sunbeam wasn't cheap at the time it was manufactured and the reason why Toasters are backwards as you say is because Sunbeam patent the Technology and prevented it's proliferation. No adays the Sunbeam's tech is seen as too expensive for the cost to value ratio that toaster manufacturers want and we make do with "good enough".
Just wanted to chime in Technology Connections' video about this :)
I'm still using 60 year old appliances from my grandparents. I'm willing to bet that thing wouldn't last 5 years.
They should make a video comparing the old technology to this. I bet the Sunbeam wins.
You should look at the Mitsubishi Electric toaster. It's "only" 300$, and actually seems to toast bread perfectly.
It's not really a tech thing though. It's just an appliance.
I’d like to see someone do pop tarts and toaster strudels with this one.
@@garystinten9339 If im buying a 400 toaster with a screen it better be DOOM approved.
Tbh I would consider spending $300 on a toaster if it meant I could have perfect toast every morning.
That's my dream toaster.
We need to see more videos hosted by Sarah. She's a natural presenter. Also loved the special guests, especially Riley and Horst. As a duo they seem to work really well together.
I really honor the amount of chill they have. Bruh a 400$ Toaster that completely FUCKS UP THE TOASTING EVERY TIME WTFFFF IS THISSSSSSSSSS
over on "Technology Connections" he has a toaster med in the 50s. It stops based on the breads COLOR, rather than time. And it's by far the most consistent way to toast a piece of bread.
It also automatically lowers the bread when you insert it, and pops it up when it's done. its amazing.
Personally i use those flat toasters. It fits any bread size and if you know what you're doing the timer is easy to set, so that you get consistent results
not color but it has a bi-metalic strip that turns off the heat when its up to a specific temprature in the toaster IIRC
My missus still can't get her head around the fact the second round of toast will be more toasted than the first because the toaster's already warm....
@@Bobis32 The bread reflects the heat and based on that the bimetallic strip opens the circuit
It's not the color, it measures the heat radiating from the bread's surface.
Jonathan Horst started talking about it at 12:16 but it got cut out
I'd expect a $20 toaster to toast my bread more evenly than that.
Yes but its NOT a 20 dollar toaster, you have to pay extra to get your toast with a gradient toast. That way its heterogeneous and each bite is different so you don't get bored.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 its not a bug, its a feature. 😂😂
@@MyckleMendoza
Indeed, thank for making it clear.
It’s not stupid, it’s adva~anced.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 Your description is so perfectly bullshit enough for PR management to actually say that. Good job, dude.
So fun to see the whole crew come together and give it a try with their own special touch! :D
(obviously not even close to whole crew, but it felt like it)
@@_pitaph_6392 Riley is one of the most likable guys there, according to most
@@_pitaph_6392 What do you have against Riley?
Yeah this is only episode that i feel want to sub floatplane just to see the whole thing..
@@_pitaph_6392 what did both of them do to u?
@@_pitaph_6392 dude Jonathan Horst is awesome and Mac Address is the most unique LMG channel
2:55 "We got bread, b*tches!" LMFAO I don't know why that was so damn funny
I actually really enjoy Sarah content. She just has the biggest smiles
And she is attractive
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@@McSleuthBurgered bro, if she's not a lesbian I'll eat my hat.
You guys are desperate
down bad
Sarah should be in more videos - the energy she brings can make almost anything interesting.
This, but also can we recognise the chaos energy of both Riley and Jonathan on camera at the same time?
Naw
Sarah's chaotic energy is 100% something I can get behind.
thats what she said
She's chaotic good
getting behind Sarah is something I can 100% get behind.
Bring her back.
I got a 4 slice toaster at a garage sale 10 years ago, still works like a charm. Had to replace a heating element in it one time. Toaster was 5 bucks, the new heating element was 20 bucks. Toasts my bread perfectly every time. Stuff like this is for people with more money than common sense.
Does it by any chance have the branding Sunbeam on it?
This is probably the best video format you guys have done yet. When you involve a wide range of your team it adds a dynamic that is very entertaining!
$400 toaster does a worse job than my $15 Amazon special boi. Love it.
Does a worse job than my $10 one I got from Walmart 3 years ago
Some day a brand will actually ditch the apps and return to glorious radiant control. (Also waiting for the rest of the Technology Connections crew to descend)
Very much this.
TC crew is here to upvote Sunbeam
Horst (mac address guy) must be a fan as he mentions that particular toaster.
You gotta remember they were 500 dollar toasters. Appliances have become cheap commodities these days.
I love her enthusiasm and cheerful she always is :)
This *should* become a series "Cooking with Sarah". That would be great - random bits of tech cooking stuff.
Brooooo💀
Perfect for kitchen gadgets!
Only if it involves Jonathon telling us how this multilayer forged stainless steel saucepan doesn't inspire joy as much as that cheap stamped stainless thin-walled saucepan. Is Jonathan getting too cynical about cookware? No, he's just expecting better from his heroes!
Anyone remember the Community episode where Britta pronounced bagel like “bah-guhl” instead of “bay-guhl”? Sarah just pulled a Britta.
LMAO I thought I was the only one who noticed!
totally caught me off-guard as well lol
For a second I thought it was a joke reference to Community. Maybe it's just Canadian?
It functions just the same
@@mitchleonards a lot of New Jersey people say it like that, as well. I saw a video about it from one of the original tech bloggers called David in like 2009. His friends from other states made fun of him for it and he went round his whole family asking them how they say it.
And here's me (and many others) just wishing someone would make a new Sunbeam-like toaster, because it was already near perfect.
Philips did one. Bought it about ten years ago for about $40 I think. A year later I saw it advertised as this amazing new thing and they wanted over $70 for it which made me laugh. Don't know if they still make them or if they anything similar in their product portfolio.
Mine works well. It has a sensor that measures the "toastyness" by how much energy is reflected from the toast, much like the old SunBeam toasters only done electronically. It has a few "programs" for frozen toast, reheat and heating up buns on the rack that can be unfolded over the toaster, but frankly I can't be bothered to remember what the figures on those buttons mean.
Also it doesn't have the nice lift mechanism that the SunBeam has, it's just the standard toast catapult if a little weak as the bread can't get much altitude. But it toasts well with predictable results and does it evenly on both sides and without that top to bottom gradient this $400 toaster had.
Oh and one time when I tried to use it there was some kind of software glitch. Suddenly the heating elements got turned on, the LED's started blinking in different patterns, and then I pulled the cord. It only happened once, and I couldn't figure out why. My best guess is that it was some kind of self test that I triggered that was used at the factory to test all the functions. But that's just my guess. Still it was kind of interesting to see, and reminded me that there was some kind of micro processor in the toaster, which is pretty wild when you think about it. Would be fun to know what kind of processor it is and what the clock rate is. It certainly doesn't need much as all it does is read the IR sensor and compare to a value from a lookup table. Sensor feedback meet or exceed the value from the table and it kicks out the bread. Well there's some LED's that's showing how far the toasting has come but that's just about once per second so a clock rate in the kilohertz range would probably do fine, but odds are it's at least in the megahertz range as it seems hard to source anything much slower than that.
Fun video! Great to see Sarah and others on camera, when they are usually behind the scenes. Sarah's got good stage presence :)
_Cooking with Sarah!_
this better not be a joke, Sarah needs a show. 🥺
I refer to her as "excited nerd". Her energy is awesome.
Today: baggles
i've never had a person make me smile/laugh so much lmao, its crazy
I find people like Sara annoying but I don't know what is it about her that I don't find her annoying at all
There's a "go make me a sandwich" joke just waiting to be thrown at a perfect time in that series...
I love when Sara hosts videos. She has the same account of chaos energy as Linus and it's incredible!
She's like the female Riley
@@BornObsidianGaming well, Riley is the male Linus so, by transitive property...
@@squidjam riley is the adult linus and she is the female version of him...
"Is it on? < G A A A A S P ! > WE GOT BREAD, BI***ES!!"
@@LegionRRTX man the people that are new are gonna have their brains fried by this.
I do enjoy Sarah's videos. She has a 'different' way of looking at stuff that's refreshing. :)
I feel like she's the perfect contrast to the rest of the "nerdy gamer boys" at LTT 😂
The way she says bagels 8:51
@@ColorOfTheDay 😂
Bahgel
She be a regular human rather than a nerd, it's refreshing indeed
I just took a bite out of my escape key….i can confirm my mechanical keyboard is in fact gluten free!
Totally need more Sarah reviewing regular items. The more weird the better.
She's great! Very funny
reviewing the over engineered costly versions of regular items
There is nothing regular about this toaster.
Her review feels very genuine. You can see where she is skeptic but curious and how it turns to less curious and more skeptic to hopeful to confused
"Sitting and staring at the toaster, waiting for my bagel in the morning, it can be scary sometimes " - sarah Ltt. Words to live by.
Begel
@@MrSmore yes that was my favorite part! "bag-oles" lol
She really Britta'd the pronunciation of "bagel."
Was looking for this comment
As a gluten allergic, the gluten free option doesn't worth a thing if you toast regular bread in it... as there could be contaminants/crumbs on the inside of the toaster from previous toastings
Imagine Linus' reaction when he finds out that Sarah spent 400$ on a freaking toaster haha
Linus would have a heart attack if he found out how much she spent on that toaster lol. 😂
Deffo returned haha
Imagine the company supplying the toaster only to have it trashed by the entire Linus crew
Can just imagine linus’s credit card bill is like ijustine’s first phone bill, it comes in a box.
771k views as of today... toaster paid for itself lol.
I love Sarah. Every video she hosts is pure gold. "We got bread bitches" might be my new favorite catch phrase. 🤣
Also, I agree with Sarah. A toaster is like the adult version of a jack in a box when you're staring at it waiting.
Yes!
My 20 dollar Target toaster toasts bread symmetrically, quickly, and I've had it for 8+ years.
I took a toaster when I left home 12 years ago and it still works. Why would I want one that has a screen? It's one of those things I use for 5 minutes about 3 times a week
Mine was a gift from my girlfriend's mother. I broke up with the girl but kept the toaster ... that was 20-ish years ago.
Symmetric Toast
New band name
This is literally the precursor to Corey Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread"
I can't imagine the stress of sending a product to LTT/ShortCircuit for review. Will we be sold out for ever or will our company flop because our product is roasted by a group of 20 somethings.
Toasted*
True but consider that these developers have invented a toaster with a touchscreen at a roughly 10x markup
@@urbanarmory "Invented" is such a strong word...
@@TheRealFoxFire I'm sure they used "innovated"
I'm so glad to see that Horst has clearly also seen the Technology Connections Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster video
No matter how much i spend on my toaster, i'll never be able to say "Bägel" like Sarah does
She Britta'd it
@@MrAntares13 literally just commented this 🤣
@@MrAntares13 Maybe she's been to New York.
Considering they're Canadian, I'm surprised she didn't pronounce it as "beygel"
baggul
The way Sarah pronounced Bagel!!! She totally britta'd it
love seeing sarah on this channel, such a lovely change of pace and she does a fantastic job!!
"A product like this without a touchscreen, a quiet toaster".....so a Sunbeam toaster from 1949.
70 years later, 400 dollars and still not as good
Gotta love the Sunbeam ... does the thing like, _ever_ die?! LOL my friend has the same one his parents (or maybe grandparents?!) bought brand-new and it's going as strong today as that first day it came out the factory!
this needs to go up
I love the Sunbeam toaster, do thee stil make tham?
@@dantediiorio7547 the sunbeam was $500 adjusting for inflation…
I really hate when I put gluten-free bread into my regular toaster and it just refuses to toast it
Can it run Crysis? Also where is the RGB?
Sarah should really do more of these Short Circuits. Her positive vibes and good humour make her videos a pleasure to watch.
How is Sarah so freakin' HAPPY all the time?! She must be so fun to work with
I think Sara should host more LMG videos she’s a very positive kinda person and generally has a more regular view than the ultra techyy people
Nah she kinda tries too much and isn’t even close to funny as the other crew 😭
she got horse teeth
the one with the iphone repair was just great 😂
I think it depends on the product. You don't really want someone to be over-positive when a product may have real drawbacks that they might miss.
We perfected the toaster a long time ago. The Sunbeam radiant heat toaster (has the auto down feature and toasts to a darkness, not a random time algo) and the Mitsubishi toaster if you're insane
I love the way Sarah´s roasts the toaster, while still being so cheerfull, from the price, to the screen, no having wi fi, even the bread :)
I could literally buy my superior toaster 20 times over for this price and set each of them for a different type of bread.
Plugging and unplugging, plugging and unplugging, plugging and unplugging...too soon!
Sarah roasting an overpriced toaster is exactly what I needed today, I mean I'm sad that it was disappointing but the bluntness of the review is hilarious to me XD
Dad joke approved
This was way more positive of a take than Linus would have lol
The fact that just toast half of every single bread makes it even worst than a normal cheap toaster
Which is weird because a friend has one (one of the cheaper models) and it toasts the whole bread. Either the more expensive on is actually worse or their model is defective.
@@lumoneko299 well if this particular one is bad it means there’s some quality control issues. Also a bad sign for the brand. Either way, the half toast is very bad sign.
I feel like after this video, the company stocks are going to tank so hard
LTT effect usually means their site crashes first, then the free publicity hits and then they get forgotten fast.
Its quite interesting to watch tho.
Manufacturer boasts, LTT roasts, stonks are toast
@@ChristopherWoods hahha
The point about not waking up people with the “loud” toaster is… interesting? Who has the disposable income for a 300$ toaster but a sleeping arrangement where people, like, sleep in the kitchen?
I put my toaster by my bed because I want fresh toast smell when I wake up, sue me!
@@AmericanEulogy666 this feels like a fire hazard-
Seems like at that income level. The bedrooms would be at least a few hundred feet away from the kitchen.
Have you tried keeping a George Forman grill by your bed to cook bacon in the morning? You could do the same with a toaster. I’m sure you would never accidentally burn your foot.
Everyone in the same house probably pitched in for the toaster
I clicked on this video only to see Sarah. I really like her making vids
Toaster strudels definitely require some experience with pre microwaving the correct amount of time before toasting if you want a fully cooked center without burning the outside .
Like 15-20 seconds in a 1200w microwave then one cycle in the toaster at a medium setting works well.
You sir are some kind of animal, microwaving such a fine pastry... I'll have to try that sometime.
Technology Connections did a Toaster roundup and discovered that the best toaster ever made, was made in the 1950s.
they dont make em like they used too
Sarah is definitely the person to unbox this kind of gadgets 😂
I just watched Sarah not know how to toast bread and bagels (which she mispronounces) for 15 minutes, lol. Loved it
It’s a shame, I was really hoping that someone finally built a toaster that would compare to the classic Sunbeam Radiant Control toasters that were better than anything you can get today. Sadly it didn’t do bagels or other wacky stuff, but if you don’t mind dealing with a toaster that’s always connected to the mains and is slightly dangerous, those things could toast perfectly every time and they didn’t pop up and startle anyone or fling bread and crumbs across the counter. No buttons or dials to adjust the temperature, it would just cook your toast perfectly every time and it did it much more evenly than this thing did.
We have been trying to find a replacement for our toaster but they are all made very cheaply these days. Online reviews aren't helpful because they mostly seem fake.
Those didn't even have fancy microcontrollers or wifi connected or anything. A simple bimetallic strip and some clever ingenuity.
Yes yes we've all seen Technology Connections
@@richardpolson7831 still, the more comments the bigger chance LMG will buy one or five off of eBay!
I have 5 dollar toaster, and it works like a a charm
I can already hear the Technology Connections ranting how $400 toaster is against decades old Sunbeam.
Because I am already laughing how much more useful my ~$40 toaster with a whiteboard on its side is compared to this and it doesn't even come with stylish gradient toasting option.
As everyone is saying, Sarah is really made to host videos. Great positive and lovable energy, and a contagious smile. I am really think she needs to be one of the main host of LTT
Cooking with Sarah deserves its own TH-cam channel. Sarah has a delightful voice and a gorgeous smile:)
Being both a cooking nerd and a tech nerd this product interests and offends me on so many levels
Buy a Breville toaster oven instead
This is the first video I've seen with Sarah presenting. She is absolutely brilliant, completely natural in front of the camera and has an infectious enthusiasm I can't help but smile at. You should definitely keep her presenting.
Here's an existential question for you: at what point does bread become toast?
It does take a certain skill to be able to get words out with out looking totally awkward or messing up over and over. I did a voice over once and realized just how hard it was.
The moment is starts crunching.
Bread that goes into a toaster is toasted bread. Toast, before it goes into a toaster, is untoasted toast. If it is made to go into a toaster then it is toast
Once it's toasted.
Mitsubishi made a crazy toaster as well, but that one was actually good
Give Sarah her own channel. Now. I don't care what it's about. I'd watch it regardless of topic just so she can brighten my day.
This product is insane! I am totally with Colton, a $20 'dumb' toaster wins every single f'ing time. Waste of money, waste of e-waste, waste of energy, waste of creative intelligence, for something that does absolutely f'all to enhance the final product!
I love Sarah's reviews she always makes everyone laugh
Ah man! Sarah is so precious and hilarious! She needs to be on here more!
I have a 4 slot Wolf toaster…it’s brilliant, and it’s just built well…no touchscreen, no nonsense
Ok, more Sarah please. She made a toaster interesting. That is talent. Put her up front people.
God I love Sarah she's just an unstoppable ball of happiness
I love how you guys keep experimenting with the format. It's great to see so many staff members get involved.
Bruh, you can get a full size toaster oven for the same price that can do pizza, bake cookies, meals, etc, and best of all it will evenly toast your toast every time. Toaster ovens are underrated af.
I can't believe it was $400 and they didn't have even toasting. My $15 toaster is even end to end/ side to side, and the 1-4 1/2 setting equals the minutes within a few seconds. At ~4% of the cost, you can't beat that. Hopefully it's just a defect, because if they got that result testing, they should give up
Hope to see Sarah more often-- she has a nice positive energy despite the thing not working how it should be 😂
And I thought when I spent 80 dollars on "just a toaster" i was making a bad choice. It does a way better job than cheap 20$ ones.
It was actually worth the purchase at the end of the day. It's toasting is very even and consistent. And it works on all breads without special settings.
This has a shit ton of useless settings for breads as if they each need to be handled with some sort of care. And it doesn't even toast evenly for like 4+ times the price I paid.
WTF.
I have a Tesco toaster that I bought for less than a tenner about 3 years ago - it's great. For the price, nothing to complain about.
@@Locutus I'm sure there's anomalies, but before I buy things, i tend to do a lot of YT research, and these days, cheap stuff is many times just that: cheap. Most of the cheap ones wouldn't toast evenly. But the 150+ ones wouldn't do any better than the 80$ one I bought but were marked up for stupid gimmicks. Sooo, settled in the "middle".
I have a 5 Dollar Toaster, does the job well enough
No Complains, just perfect for the price
Some people just likes getting scammed for 400 bucks Toasters, i almost pity & feel sorry for them
@@uhm175 there's always a limit to how expensive something is vs the gains. usually there are diminishing returns. but on the other side of the coin, cheap can literally be cheap. just because something gets the job done doesn't mean everything else is pointless or doesn't create a better experience.
here's another example. go to the store. buy a 30$ keyboard. you're content. it gets the job done. I always thought the same thing. then I spent money and put together my own keyboard from scratch. the non-mass-produced keyboard is an entirely different and satisfying experience that you can't even begin to understand until you actually try it.
is spending . ore for some better quality for everyone? no. but just because you are fine with a cheaper product (doesn't imply it is always junk, but it will inherently still be likely it doesn't have as good of quality) doesn't mean something slightly more expensive can't be better.
The way Sarah says Bagels I'm almost sure is a subliminal trick to sell LTT backpacks by saying "Bag-lls" I SEE YOUR GAME!!!
I was looking for this comment. She says it like Britta from Community
I went to uni in Vancouver and people genuinely say it that way
@@raymondguarino7094 SHE KNOWS HOW TO SAY BAGLE, SHE LIVED IN NEW YORK
Baggle
@@shibasurfing I am from Seattle, common here as well and many other words with similar features