Lets assume you’re toasting white bread and you want it a little bit toasted - a long way from burnt. Which way do you turn the dial? Towards the black toast picture where the indicator is thickest? Or towards the white toast picture where the indicator is smallest?
It’s not what you’d hoped and you’ve just burned 6 slices of bread.
Does the dial stop turning when it hits the maximum distance in either direction? The only thing that would make it hard to know what it’s set to is that the dial has no indicator of which setting it’s at.
If it has a maximum turn limit, just crank it all the way to one direction and then mark the dial with a white out pen or something.
If it just goes 360 degrees in both directions… Get a new toaster oven. This one is shit.
Edit: Wait there is a little dot above the knob; does the whole knob and the hashmarks around it turn? Line up the pictures with that white extrusion above the dial.
It seems to currently be set at a lower setting. The selected power is indicated by the dot above.
White square = full (power) = hottest
Black square = empty (power) = coldest
The line being wider seems to be an optical illusion due to the black dial covering the lower part, making it look thinner.
Turn it counterclockwise.
No optical illusion, it really gets smaller
OK, thinner meaning more power can’t have been intentional. That is indeed very crappy design.
Perhaps the dial was designed and made by a different team or company from the rest of the toaster, and they hadn’t come to a consensus on which way to turn, and they ended up screwing it up, but by the time they noticed they had already mass produced the toasters and dials?
The wider the segment, the more cooked/burnt the bread gets. So, for black bread clockwise, for warm bread anti-clockwise.
You’d think. But no! Its the opposite of that
You’ve told people guessing both ways that they’re wrong. Does the dial just not work?
Ok, I think that’s because the knob is the whole black part, right? I thought that the indicator (the segmented part) was fixed and only the center part of the knob could be moved. But, if you have to move everything yes, it’s the other way round: clockwise to get warm, anti-clockwise to get burnt bread.
Now I’m confused.
Here you said “clockwise is more burny”
I think what you’re saying is there’s no indicator of where the knob is currently at. Does it at least stop at the ends or can it spin in 1 direction indefinitely?
Edit: I see it now, little nub above the knob. It is a little odd but hopefully consistent
The little nub is fine. The indicators are just the opposite of what you’d expect them to do
Counter clockwise - this seems straightforward.
Clockwise is more burny!
That’s seems less like asshole design and more like broken toaster.
Turn the knob to each extreme and choose the fastest movement. The icons are useless.
A. Thicker line = more cooking B. Filled in white toast = bread slightly warmer than room temp; toast outline with black on inside = charcoal
Both signs point to the same scheme to me… I know numbers are clearer but this is decently obvious.
If the entire knob including the bars turn, then align it with the dot on top.
Wrong
