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Talkie Toaster would disagree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

As much as I love technology, I have my personal limits and can relate to your post. Whenever this subject comes up, I'm reminded of this (Red Dwarf);

https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec

It'd be like giving it to your toaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

For those that don't get it:

https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec

AI enabled toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

(from Red Dwarf)

I go the middle ground. I get a toaster that toasts with a dial that goes from 1 to 10, and set it to 4 for my toast.

Result: toast goodness.

I don't need a toaster like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

It really does get as annoying as you'd expect. The Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf has a toaster that does essentially this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

We'll end up with toasters like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

"But i'm a toaster. It is my raison d'être. I toast, therefore I am!"

>> "we're going to have AI toasters by the end of the year."

I hope not. It seems they can be a real pain in the ass:

Red Dwarf toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Check out Paul Robinson's comment for a general refutation. Given the popularity of 'artisanal'-type portable food preparations in both the UK and the US I think it unlikely the market could get away with such standards even at the low-end.

I find your comment valuable though for the insight that bread products may be cut by waterjets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrhThBHOGrU

This is astonishing: surely sogginess ensues?

Bonus bready humour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

⬐ contingencies

He discusses how the packaged sandwich industry has improved in his perception based upon a single store (M&S). I was discussing the IMHO base reasons for the popularity of packaged sandwiches. Chalk and cheese. Regardless, on cost as a driver we explicitly concur.

⬐ erasemus

IMO the scandal here with these triangular containers is the 'three slice' sandwich, for example:

https://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/441/5051140265441/IDShot_...

The naive customer felt that he was getting two traditional sandwiches but course he only actually got 1.5

⬐ foldr

>He discusses how the packaged sandwich industry has improved in his perception based upon a single store (M&S)

Britain has a lot more food chains with national reach than the US does. M&S has a huge share of the 'food to go' market in the UK.

But in any case, the overall quality of prepackaged sandwiches definitely has improved over the past couple of decades, as I can attest from personal experience.

Americans eat plenty of equally cheap and gross foods for lunch.

I would personally much rather eat a prepackaged sandwich than something from this:

http://8-food.com/product.php

To bring us closer to this future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

It could have been even worse. At least it didn't have ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM K177.

Does anyone want any toast? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

⬐ dwd

Cheers for the video.

Saved me searching for the episode. Thinking out loud - maybe being neurotic is the true Turing test?

At least it will say something before just not working one morning.

I prefer Red Dwarf's http://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec

⬐ facepalm

Brilliant, thanks!

Spoken like someone who hasn't learned the lessons of Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf :)

( http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc... )

A computerized Dualit [1] would be awesome especially if all it did was impersonate Talkie Toaster [2]

[1] http://www.dualit.com/products/classic-toasters [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

⬐ julian_t

Not for me, thanks... The appeal of having a classic Dualit is that I can replace any of the three parts that might fail (elements, on/off switch, clockwork timer) in a couple of minutes with a screwdriver. Everything is serviceable and fixable, and it isn't really that hard to learn how to make toast manually...