How many slices does your toaster hold?

[spookyload]

I have a dual slot one type, and another that is a toaster oven where I could cram the whole loaf if I tried hard enough. Does than make my toaster HyperThreading enabled, and if so, how do I enter the bios to turn it on?

[DeMenAce]

Originally posted by fischyfinger
I have a Black&Decker Toast-R-Oven, Continuous Clean model, B(r)O(iler) stepping. It's rated @ 4 TPC (Toasts Per Cycle) but with a 220 V-Core and some HPWB (High Performance Wonder Bread) I can OC to 20 TPS!

LOL!! I have the 110 Vcore model!

[La_Pieuvre]

ok, I guess I'll bite. My toaster holds 4 slices...

[zsaz1029]

Only 2 lousy pieces here.

[KingTermite]

This was probably my most off topic one: POLL

Speaking of toasters....Here's and oldie but a goodie

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"
One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."

The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of your kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. They will need a breakfast food cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years."

"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork divided into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelet classes." "The ham and cheese omelet class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs."

"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too."

"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v. 8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook."

"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to lock us into a four-bit microcontroller!)."

The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after.

BTW...mine holds 4!!

[Wingit]

Originally posted by zsaz1029
Only 2 lousy pieces here.

Why don't you upgrade to a Crustywood or a Singedale, they should do wonders for your FSB (fundamental slice of bread)?

[Vheox]

Originally posted by zsaz1029
Only 2 lousy pieces here.

Don't complain... I don't even have a toaster...

[c_white_wolf]

Originally posted by KingTermite
Speaking of toasters....Here's and oldie but a goodie

After reading your quote: I'm throwing out my toaster and going back to basics. Bread. If I want toast, I'll throw it in the fire.

[Cogar]

Originally posted by Wingit
Why don't you upgrade to a Crustywood or a Singedale, they should do wonders for your FSB (fundamental slice of bread)?

This stuff is too funny!

[Monkey Hanger]

Mine holds 4.
But, can you explain why the heat control (on every toaster I've ever had) is graduated 1 to 10, when 3 is just right.
Putting it on 2.9 equals no toasting at all, and, 3.1 equals cremated bread. What happens at 5 or 6 of 7 etc.

[k0NG0]

Mine does 2. Rarely eat toast, though. Prefer dark breads...

I know what you mean, MonkeyHanger. It's very strange, maybe the highest setting opens a portal to a parallel universe (Simpsons style)...

-kONGO

[Rickwell]

Originally posted by Monkey Hanger
Mine holds 4.
But, can you explain why the heat control (on every toaster I've ever had) is graduated 1 to 10, when 3 is just right.
Putting it on 2.9 equals no toasting at all, and, 3.1 equals cremated bread. What happens at 5 or 6 of 7 etc.

The settings above 3.1 is meant for future upgrades.Like Dual channel toasting.Or network toasting in the office.With multi people wanting it now at the same time requires higher settings to please those that want black toast.
They are going to come out with a Hyperbreading model for the home user.I think I may try that one and water cool it as well.

[guiness]

4 slotter here, 3.1 in the morning and 2.9 in the evening

[Monkey Hanger]

Just had another thought.

If 3.0 is just right, and 3.1 is "burnt out", what happens at 9.5 or 9.8?
I can't see ME or XP on the control. Is it upgradeable???

[KingTermite]

Originally posted by Monkey Hanger
Mine holds 4.
But, can you explain why the heat control (on every toaster I've ever had) is graduated 1 to 10, when 3 is just right.
Putting it on 2.9 equals no toasting at all, and, 3.1 equals cremated bread. What happens at 5 or 6 of 7 etc.

It's for the occasional oddball who likes charcoal (even they call it toast). My mom is one of these oddballs. She wants it BLACK and crispy.