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.
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
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”
You’ve told people guessing both ways that they’re wrong. Does the dial just not work?
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Seems pretty clear to me, but I am old
How do you think it works?
With a rheostat.
Turning it clockwise increases it’s resistance which decreases the current flowing through the heating element, in turn decreasing the heat generated by the element; vice-versa for rotating it counterclockwise.
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How’s it work then? Clockwise means???
Align the black toast with the white dot and you have black toast, align the striped black and white toast with the white dot you have half toasted and align the clear toast with the white dot and you have warm bread.
Nope
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Clockwise - this seems straightforward.
Clockwise is more burny!
That’s seems less like asshole design and more like broken toaster.
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.
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Wrong
Anti-clockwise for burnt toast please.
Clockwise for warm bread.
Nope
The real trick is that this toaster has a track of wire that moves inside the toaster to move the bread under heating elements. The knob changes the rate the track moves at. Counter clockwise gets you a slower track and more time exposed to the heat.
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.
Turn the knob to each extreme and choose the fastest movement. The icons are useless.
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The little nub is fine. The indicators are just the opposite of what you’d expect them to do
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No optical illusion, it really gets smaller
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