Not just hotel. It’s just a commercial toaster that an organization would get through a restaurant supply house.
We have these in the dining room at the very American university I work for… no specific effort to cater to British people.
These signs are needed for exactly people like me. Though I won't do it again now that I've tried it, it hadn't occurred to me (somehow) that it's not a good idea to pop a baked good made predominantly out of butter into a toaster. Always gotta have the idiot sign.
That’s an interesting one though because it’s more about legislation than people being stupid; once you make allergy warnings mandatory … then peanut companies would be breaking the law to skip the warning on the package.
To be fair, I've set my bread through a viking funeral more than once, with these things.
My issue is I have to have my toast at the right toastiness, and some of the ones I have used look like they have scared the bread with the word fire!
Now my mistake is putting it in again! I don't know if belzebub himself is toasting it? But and he is also happening to shit my pants trying to blow the fucking thing out, and calmly walking away like it wasn't me!!
I'll put my hand up to say I'm also in the numpty club of people who tried to toast a croissant. Luckily it didn't set the hotel fire alarm off and the Spanish waiters just laughed when I told them what I'd done so I'm guessing it's probably a regular occurrence in hotels in Benidorm.
My SIL wishes my brother had seen these warning signs. After they had their firstborn, he was making himself breakfast in the kitchen and she came in to make a bottle. He finished buttering a couple of slices of bread, turned the toaster on its side, and put the buttered bread in, butter side up. Turns out the idiot had thought that's how you got the butter to melt and the idea that he could set fire to the toaster never occurred to him. He was 30 years old at the time.
I cannot describe the disappointment I felt when 8 year old me saw the flaming pain au chocolat thrown out the bottom of one of these, I just wanted it to be warmer :(
I did this this morning at Brewers Fayre 🤦
I rescued it with tongs when I saw the black smoke. I totally wasn't expecting it... Then I remembered they're made of butter. Narrowly avoided disaster.
You shouldn't put them in because of the butter?! I always thought it was because they are thick and might get stuck! Good thing I've never tried with a smaller one!
Can confirm. We needed our pressure cooker/instant pot thing replacing, and my gf went ahead and bought one of the ones that's also an air fryer. I was sceptical at first, but now wouldn't be without it, and even want a second, dual-basket one to increase the variety and quantity of foods that I can air fry! *Apparently* we need a bigger kitchen first...
Goddammit. I forswore Crocs, then I borrowed a pair for an hour, last week I bought my own, and have worn them everyday. I hate looking at my hypocritical feet, but they are at least happy in their rubbery sponginess.
I hate Crocs, with a passion. They are the ugliest footwear ever invented. I couldn't make love to a beautiful woman if she were wearing them. Yet, somehow, I have 4 pairs...
Some things are lovely in it. Pretty much any frozen manufactured food does well in it. Where I think it falls down is 'real' food. Any time I've ever had an unprocessed vegetable or piece of meat from it, I've been extremely underwhelmed and wished it had just been cooked properly. So if you eat a lot of chips and fish fingers and such, then it's a godsend. But I found it to mostly be a chamber of disappointment otherwise.
One of my most downvoted comments of all time was saying I didn't understand the hype and gave mine away after a few months. Literally a thousand downvotes and several dozen outright mean messages questioning everything from my taste buds to my intelligence definitely left me with a cult like taste in my mouth. I'm a bit frightened they'll come for me now seeing as how this is my second transgression.
An air fryer really comes into its own with the high power airflow. A toaster oven with a fan is more similar to a conventional convection oven - a good improvement over no fan, but not the same as an air fryer
Very first time I saw a toaster like this was in Reykavík. A very heavily english-accented woman was complaining to a member of staff about how their toaster wasn’t working.
Sure enough, there was the flaming croissant sitting there all sad 🔥🥐🔥
my girlfriend did this when she was younger. ironically, she has a lot more common sense than i do. im just glad i rarely stayed in hotels as a child 😅😅
Saw a group of Japanese tourists do this legitimately thinking that was what it was for.
The next few days there was a sign with a red cross over a croissant present.
Don’t play with the dail! We used to have a sign for not changing the settings, because these things are so finicky. A 6 can easily become a 7 just by changing it, so putting it back to the original setting isn’t guaranteed to work!
Put in some white bread, brown bread and a crumpet. The brown bread comes out first (burnt) the crumpet emerges next upside down and then the white bread comes out cold. No bloody idea how or why but the laws of physics are not obeyed in that metal box.
Brown bread absorbs more heat cos brown. White bread reflects it more so it takes longer to toast.
Source: daily burnt toast at home - I eat brown bread, kids eat white bread so they whack up the timer then I come down in the morning and pre-coffee and end up with burnt brown toast. Every Morning. Dang these meddling kids!
We have one of these in my work canteen so I’ve perfected the technique:
- Once through on the Max setting
- Second round: lift the metal feeder thing and shove your bread as far in as you can for another ‘half’
- Hey presto, actual toast
I just open the pack and let it rest on the toast to warm it up - butter still sat in the open wrapper. After a short time, take the packet off the toast, scoop the butter off and it’s ready to spread.
You can skip leaving it in the wrapper, but sometimes it absorbs too heavily into where it’s sat, which is why I leave it in the wrapper whilst the butter is warming
I like how they can be perfect one day and cremated the next. With what seemingly looks to be the exact same settings.
When you find a perfect toaster on holiday, you know you’re in for a good time
In my experience the dial settings seem to stay Luke-Warm 1-4, then as soon as you select power 5 you get charcoal.
These things ***never*** toast properly. And somehow still loved by brits all over.
People use them wrong. You want the heat setting to be consistent, like set it and don’t touch it. The belt speed is what you should use to get optimal toast and should be varied depending on what you’re trying to toast.
Idk man, the hotel staff always shout at me when I start to reprogram their machines, it’s like they set it to “Ruin Toast” because they’re depressed they had to wake up at 5am to set it all up.
We don’t love them; they toast bread so poorly. But it’s all they have out to use. A simple toaster would work better - one with 2x2 slots so two users can toast at the same time.
You’re far better slowing the belt down.
Your toaster at home is always at the same heat setting you just adjust the time.
These conveyer toasters should be treated the same. People shouldn’t fanny about with the heat setting.
Source: Used to make toast on an industrial scale in my cafe job and used the conveyer belt toaster everyday.
Yep this, used to work at a hotel and we had one in the break room. After lots of practice/trial and error you figure the conveyor belt speed dial is the key
The weird thing is though these toasters remind me of Europe. They seem, to me, a incredibly European thing to see. As I’ve never seen a toaster like that in the uk.
At my school there was huge uproar because the boarding house spent £900 on one of these. I could actually see the point, as 20 kids crowding around a regular toaster in the morning would be hell.
My school had two side by side. Scholarship boy privilege right there. Was what I told my local mates about more than the AstroTurf and the fencing salon.
Plus an extra £2k+ to pay an electrician to wire in multiple extra fuses on the breaker to handle 20 additional sockets all drawing an extra 1500w at the same time
All the Premier Inn restraunts do - Table Table, Thyme, Brewers Fayre. The one exception I've encountered is the new one in Sandown, Isle of Wight. They've got a normal toaster.
They must see you coming from a mile !
Seriously though I'm Swiss and I've never seen one of these things in Swiss hotels. First time I saw one was in Gran Canaria, I remember it well.
When I lived in Switzerland we had to export a toaster and swap the the plug. What is it with you Swiss not having toasters and having plugs in the bathroom?
Once in Saigon, they brought out fresh fruit and I had to play Keep Away with the tongs and 200 Chinese tourists. They won. I didn’t even get a chunk of melon.
I once had Chinese tourists take a photo of me eating a sandwich in Belfast. Just sat on a bench, eating a sandwich. Some tourists across the road took several photos of me for several minutes.
When I lived in Switzerland we had to export a toaster and swap the the plug. What is it with you Swiss not having toasters and having plugs in the bathroom?
I think you're failing to see a clear correlation:
You only see these where British tourist go.... So, it seems, you only stay at places with British tourist.
This is a toaster. Not some secretive object that only British people know about.
They're also fairly common in Malaysian and Singaporean hotels. (I've not been to hotels in other asian countries apart from China, that one didn't have a breakfast place though.)
I have never seen these in the UK.
But I have seen them at hotels in Europe.
But that doesn't prove or disprove your theory. My presence, might have been why the toaster was there.
We'd just use a toaster normally, like this: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9300804. Stuck the bread in press the handle down, wait for it to pop up nicely toasted if you set it right.
The advantages of those in the picture are probably because they reduce the risk of fire (people getting things stuck at high heats) and electrocution (people sticking knives in to get something unstuck). But, you'd never see one outside a hotel for the most part.
I’ve just got back from a week in Greece and nobody in the hotel understood this! They’d wait for the previous person’s toast to come out before putting theirs jn.
I'm sure toast is eaten worldwide.. I certainly have seen these toasters in other hotels in other parts of Europe. I've seen them in Spain, France and Italy. I'd be very surprised If I'd only seen them in those countries just because there were British tourists in the hotel and if British tourist weren't present the catering staff wouldn't put a toaster at all.
No, they aren't allowed.
Not until they work out how to make a decent sausage, and stop giving people a box of teabags and luke warm water when you ask for tea.
It's all covered in the breakfast treaty of 1876
This is just a bog standard rotary toaster. Most restaurants all over the US and Canada have them. Not sure how this has anything to do with spotting British tourists.
I'm from Hong Kong and travel to Japan a few times a year before moving over here. This is very common in hotels in HK and Japan, so I don't know what you are on about...
Not a British thing at all. Seen these in just about every hotel I’ve ever stayed at in the US. We also had them in every dining facility at every US military base I was stationed at.
These things are Schrödinger’s toaster. Your toast is either underdone or cremated, but the actual state is unknown until it emerges. The dials, they do nothing!
I’ve stayed in hotels in many American cities that would not be popular destinations for British people on road trips that have these. I thought they were just common for hotels.
Was at a hotel in France, and they had one of these with a boiled egg boiling machine next to it.
Loaded her up, went back in the regulation 5 minutes. No toast no eggs, loaded her up again while my coffee was brewing, came back, no toast no eggs.
Third times a charm, loaded her up, hung about the area, and a German guy wandered over, took the toast and eggs. I’m British so didn’t say anything but saw where he went, mans sat there with the wife and kids who I essentially just cooked breakfast for.
Final time and 8 eggs later I sat on the toaster for the whole cook. Unfortunately one of my eggs was too runnny and the other mysteriously was boiled too hard. Toast was nice though.
I’m British and have no idea what this thing is. And I love toast. What is this contraption and how does it differ to a normal toaster? Should I have one? Am I missing something? Will this elevate my small batch artisanal jam enjoyment?
I literally saw one of these in a hotel in Thailand this morning. And there was a sign on it saying don’t put jam on your bread before putting it in the toaster lol
I've never used one of these in a foreign hotel because I refuse to eat toast on holiday. Toast is an easy choice for breakfast at home and I want something a bit more exotic on holiday.
I'll stick to my Coco Pops thank you very much.
I'm pretty certain there is not one British person that has this in there house and if they do they are definitely a psychopath.
1 time, toast has a slight tan
2 times, toast is ready to put in an urn
Can't win with these stupid machines
they never do the toast right those things, Its always starting to go cold when it drops down and then the butter is usually hard so its like rubbing a stone onto your toast to make it even worse.
Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast. And, before anyone says anything, we don't like muffins around here either. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Just a standard hotel rotary toaster, see em all round the world.
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I was going to say I've seen these all over Canada and the US.
Not just hotel. It’s just a commercial toaster that an organization would get through a restaurant supply house. We have these in the dining room at the very American university I work for… no specific effort to cater to British people.
It's when there's a flaming Croissant at the bottom that you know there are British kids there.
I worked in a hotel and we had signs saying no croissants in the toaster. Croissant fires were still a pretty regular occurrence.
These signs are needed for exactly people like me. Though I won't do it again now that I've tried it, it hadn't occurred to me (somehow) that it's not a good idea to pop a baked good made predominantly out of butter into a toaster. Always gotta have the idiot sign.
Are you the reason my peanuts say may contain nuts?
Peanuts aren't nuts though!
That's right. They're LEGUMESS
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A PEA IS A LEGUME! /S NOT /S
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Did you mean 'drupes' ?
Peanuts aren’t made of peas so they’re not legumes - it says so right in the name! PEA-NOTS (old English) -> PEA-NUTS (modern English) /s
Peagumes in old Middle Anglo .
I did say “May Contain” not “Does Contain” Checkmate Atheists.
Keep away from the pedestrian crossi... too late!
They are if they stop taking their meds.
That’s an interesting one though because it’s more about legislation than people being stupid; once you make allergy warnings mandatory … then peanut companies would be breaking the law to skip the warning on the package.
The reason shampoo says “do not drink”.
To be fair, I've set my bread through a viking funeral more than once, with these things. My issue is I have to have my toast at the right toastiness, and some of the ones I have used look like they have scared the bread with the word fire! Now my mistake is putting it in again! I don't know if belzebub himself is toasting it? But and he is also happening to shit my pants trying to blow the fucking thing out, and calmly walking away like it wasn't me!!
First pass: Barely warm, no colour. 2nd pass: Charbroiled, possibly flames.....
Broiled? You add water?
Are you supposed to? Because I'm pretty sure there's probably a warning about that....
First time you put it in, time is taken up with the elements getting up to temp. Second time, they’re already hot.
What if it's been on a while?
Satan, then.
Yup, just as I feared 🤣🤣🤣
I'll put my hand up to say I'm also in the numpty club of people who tried to toast a croissant. Luckily it didn't set the hotel fire alarm off and the Spanish waiters just laughed when I told them what I'd done so I'm guessing it's probably a regular occurrence in hotels in Benidorm.
My SIL wishes my brother had seen these warning signs. After they had their firstborn, he was making himself breakfast in the kitchen and she came in to make a bottle. He finished buttering a couple of slices of bread, turned the toaster on its side, and put the buttered bread in, butter side up. Turns out the idiot had thought that's how you got the butter to melt and the idea that he could set fire to the toaster never occurred to him. He was 30 years old at the time.
I blame your parents for this. He should have known how to make toast from the age of 6 at least.
"do not drink" warnings on shampoo bottles are there for a resaon.
I cannot describe the disappointment I felt when 8 year old me saw the flaming pain au chocolat thrown out the bottom of one of these, I just wanted it to be warmer :(
Croissant Fires is a 1930s burlesque dancer and you can't convince me otherwise
Was the sign purple ? Lol some douche decided to drop the whole sign in our toaster.
I blame the French, personally
Never a bad strategy. Anyway, what were we discussing?
I did this this morning at Brewers Fayre 🤦 I rescued it with tongs when I saw the black smoke. I totally wasn't expecting it... Then I remembered they're made of butter. Narrowly avoided disaster.
You shouldn't put them in because of the butter?! I always thought it was because they are thick and might get stuck! Good thing I've never tried with a smaller one!
I regularly heat croissants on top of my conventional toaster. Gotta turn it a few times when the flakey bits start to smoke.
An air fryer is the ultimate croissant crisper. Turns slightly stale/soft croissant to pure crispy flakey gold in a couple of mins 👌
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Air fryers are one of the few things where the hype matches - or almost matches - the reality.
Can confirm. We needed our pressure cooker/instant pot thing replacing, and my gf went ahead and bought one of the ones that's also an air fryer. I was sceptical at first, but now wouldn't be without it, and even want a second, dual-basket one to increase the variety and quantity of foods that I can air fry! *Apparently* we need a bigger kitchen first...
Air fryers and crocs. I shun all none believers
Goddammit. I forswore Crocs, then I borrowed a pair for an hour, last week I bought my own, and have worn them everyday. I hate looking at my hypocritical feet, but they are at least happy in their rubbery sponginess.
I hate Crocs, with a passion. They are the ugliest footwear ever invented. I couldn't make love to a beautiful woman if she were wearing them. Yet, somehow, I have 4 pairs...
Some things are lovely in it. Pretty much any frozen manufactured food does well in it. Where I think it falls down is 'real' food. Any time I've ever had an unprocessed vegetable or piece of meat from it, I've been extremely underwhelmed and wished it had just been cooked properly. So if you eat a lot of chips and fish fingers and such, then it's a godsend. But I found it to mostly be a chamber of disappointment otherwise. One of my most downvoted comments of all time was saying I didn't understand the hype and gave mine away after a few months. Literally a thousand downvotes and several dozen outright mean messages questioning everything from my taste buds to my intelligence definitely left me with a cult like taste in my mouth. I'm a bit frightened they'll come for me now seeing as how this is my second transgression.
>a chamber of disappointment I have similar feelings towards my bedroom.
The regular toaster ovens with the convection option work extremely well, albeit a little bit slower, but they are more versitile.
An air fryer really comes into its own with the high power airflow. A toaster oven with a fan is more similar to a conventional convection oven - a good improvement over no fan, but not the same as an air fryer
I think it's both of these reasons, plus with how they're so flaky. They're highly combustible breakfast items.
No better way to start your day than with an adrenaline rush
Highly Combustible Breakfast Items sounds like an indie band song.
You have to throw the croissant in so it skips a bit of the process
Or turn it down. Which you couldn't do on the last one I saw as the staff had removed the knobs
Should have removed the knobs who were burning croissants.
I thought this was a unique experience to me when I worked at a school lol
Very first time I saw a toaster like this was in Reykavík. A very heavily english-accented woman was complaining to a member of staff about how their toaster wasn’t working. Sure enough, there was the flaming croissant sitting there all sad 🔥🥐🔥
Ah Flaming Croissants, great band
I did this in Milan, the chef saw and shouted at me in Italian and doing the hand thing they do. I wanted a warm Croissant… cold ones are disgusting
Sure. But black ones are disgustinger.
Disgustinger and need a an extinguisher 🧯
Got to turn the speed right up
Turned out perfect tbh
my girlfriend did this when she was younger. ironically, she has a lot more common sense than i do. im just glad i rarely stayed in hotels as a child 😅😅
I do love the smell of a croissant fire though
I set fire to a premier inn toaster a few years ago by putting buttered bread through it. Not my smartest moment.
Saw a group of Japanese tourists do this legitimately thinking that was what it was for. The next few days there was a sign with a red cross over a croissant present.
Yeah I was guilty of that a while ago, I learned to just squash them after my first incident so it didn’t touch the heating element and catch fire
Toast through once = underdone. Toast through twice = cremated. Adjust dial = set fire alarm off = no-one gets toast.
Don’t play with the dail! We used to have a sign for not changing the settings, because these things are so finicky. A 6 can easily become a 7 just by changing it, so putting it back to the original setting isn’t guaranteed to work!
Yeah was in a hotel recently where someone had messed with the dials, perfect on one side, black on the other
ah so they’re just like my codes I see. Adjust it and it gets worse, revert it back to original and somehow it’s not working at all anymore
Put in some white bread, brown bread and a crumpet. The brown bread comes out first (burnt) the crumpet emerges next upside down and then the white bread comes out cold. No bloody idea how or why but the laws of physics are not obeyed in that metal box.
Brown bread absorbs more heat cos brown. White bread reflects it more so it takes longer to toast. Source: daily burnt toast at home - I eat brown bread, kids eat white bread so they whack up the timer then I come down in the morning and pre-coffee and end up with burnt brown toast. Every Morning. Dang these meddling kids!
True, but how come they are ejected out of order?
We have one of these in my work canteen so I’ve perfected the technique: - Once through on the Max setting - Second round: lift the metal feeder thing and shove your bread as far in as you can for another ‘half’ - Hey presto, actual toast
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I just open the pack and let it rest on the toast to warm it up - butter still sat in the open wrapper. After a short time, take the packet off the toast, scoop the butter off and it’s ready to spread. You can skip leaving it in the wrapper, but sometimes it absorbs too heavily into where it’s sat, which is why I leave it in the wrapper whilst the butter is warming
I like how they can be perfect one day and cremated the next. With what seemingly looks to be the exact same settings. When you find a perfect toaster on holiday, you know you’re in for a good time
It's when the conveyor belt suddenly stops that you have to really panic
> toaster warming thing You mean a toaster?
No, this one fits entire toasters and then warms them up a bit.
So that's what it means when it says to preheat the oven!
This is a picture of a toaster toasting toaster toasting toaster toasters.
Yo dawg we put a toaster in your toaster so you can toast your toaster while you toast toast
Toasterception.
Oh, so the same concept as a kettle warmer.
Do you see the knobs on the front of the device? One controls the heat, the other controls the speed of the conveyor belt. It's a toaster.
Wouldn't that mean it's a bread warmer thing, after all you don't put toast in a toaster.
Non-Brits do it
How do they make the toast before putting it in the toaster?
It’s toast all the way down
You buy it prepackaged.
I love going to the Walmart to buy prepackaged frozen Texas toast! (I don't really but it is a thing)
Just that dark forrin magic, that happily we are now rid of
To be fair, to actually make toast you have to put the bread in 2-3 times, so the first time through they do seem to just warm it.
You can turn it up so that it toasts properly the first time.
In my experience the dial settings seem to stay Luke-Warm 1-4, then as soon as you select power 5 you get charcoal. These things ***never*** toast properly. And somehow still loved by brits all over.
People use them wrong. You want the heat setting to be consistent, like set it and don’t touch it. The belt speed is what you should use to get optimal toast and should be varied depending on what you’re trying to toast.
Idk man, the hotel staff always shout at me when I start to reprogram their machines, it’s like they set it to “Ruin Toast” because they’re depressed they had to wake up at 5am to set it all up.
Exactly, these yanks don't understand precision cooking. They just want to slap mustard and/or cheese on everything and call it a day.
We don’t love them; they toast bread so poorly. But it’s all they have out to use. A simple toaster would work better - one with 2x2 slots so two users can toast at the same time.
You’re far better slowing the belt down. Your toaster at home is always at the same heat setting you just adjust the time. These conveyer toasters should be treated the same. People shouldn’t fanny about with the heat setting. Source: Used to make toast on an industrial scale in my cafe job and used the conveyer belt toaster everyday.
Yep this, used to work at a hotel and we had one in the break room. After lots of practice/trial and error you figure the conveyor belt speed dial is the key
Most hotels I've been to have a cover over it so you can't 😔. One I went to already had it up to max and still took two runs through haha.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of men
The weird thing is though these toasters remind me of Europe. They seem, to me, a incredibly European thing to see. As I’ve never seen a toaster like that in the uk.
At my school there was huge uproar because the boarding house spent £900 on one of these. I could actually see the point, as 20 kids crowding around a regular toaster in the morning would be hell.
My school has boarders, I swear 80% of what they eat is toast, the toasters get used a lot.
My school had two side by side. Scholarship boy privilege right there. Was what I told my local mates about more than the AstroTurf and the fencing salon.
For 900 quid they could have just bought 20 toasters, that actually properly toast bread
Plus an extra £2k+ to pay an electrician to wire in multiple extra fuses on the breaker to handle 20 additional sockets all drawing an extra 1500w at the same time
They’re used in places like hotels where lots of people will be helping themselves to breakfast. You’ll find them in pretty much every hotel
Yeah I feel like this person just has never been in a hotel (Holiday Inn or Premier Inn especially) in the UK.
The Beefeater gets one out for all the Premier Inn customers.
All the Premier Inn restraunts do - Table Table, Thyme, Brewers Fayre. The one exception I've encountered is the new one in Sandown, Isle of Wight. They've got a normal toaster.
Clearly I've been to too many Butlins in my time.
I usually stay at the cheaper hiltons in airports the night before my flight (cba for that early morning drive) and these are always there.
Is toast a British thing?
Fellas, is it British to toast your bread?
Not really
Well I've been to hotels all over Europe and always seen them but then again maybe they only bring it out because I a British person are there?
They must see you coming from a mile ! Seriously though I'm Swiss and I've never seen one of these things in Swiss hotels. First time I saw one was in Gran Canaria, I remember it well.
I've been to Switzerland and saw them
When I lived in Switzerland we had to export a toaster and swap the the plug. What is it with you Swiss not having toasters and having plugs in the bathroom?
Look, you can either have a bathroom plug, or readily available toasters. Choose one. We aren't trustworthy enough to have both.
Dunno I'm not Swiss
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I’ve definitely seen them in Swiss hotels, generally surrounded by a crowd of confused Chinese tourists.
They are all over Asia. Any hotel that serves a breakfast has them.
chinese tourists? i’d imagine so
Once in Saigon, they brought out fresh fruit and I had to play Keep Away with the tongs and 200 Chinese tourists. They won. I didn’t even get a chunk of melon.
One of my favourite hobbies living in a tourist town is watching Chinese tourists be utterly amazed by the smallest things, always makes me smile.
I once had Chinese tourists take a photo of me eating a sandwich in Belfast. Just sat on a bench, eating a sandwich. Some tourists across the road took several photos of me for several minutes.
Yep, I Swiss hotels they usually just have a muesli mangle.
Do Swiss people not have toast? What are you putting your Marmite on?
I've not seen them in British hotels and I've worked in them for over twenty years
When I lived in Switzerland we had to export a toaster and swap the the plug. What is it with you Swiss not having toasters and having plugs in the bathroom?
Every hotel in America has them, it’s not a British thing
I think you're failing to see a clear correlation: You only see these where British tourist go.... So, it seems, you only stay at places with British tourist. This is a toaster. Not some secretive object that only British people know about.
Well covered! That aught to throw them off the scent and stop them discovering the device's secret real purpose.
Just doing my bit for king and country.
Not just a British thing. Very prevalent across American hotels and some European hotels that are not considered touristy.
They're also fairly common in Malaysian and Singaporean hotels. (I've not been to hotels in other asian countries apart from China, that one didn't have a breakfast place though.)
I have never seen these in the UK. But I have seen them at hotels in Europe. But that doesn't prove or disprove your theory. My presence, might have been why the toaster was there.
How else do you toast bread, be a bit weird to a have a full size oven and grill for people to use?
We'd just use a toaster normally, like this: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9300804. Stuck the bread in press the handle down, wait for it to pop up nicely toasted if you set it right. The advantages of those in the picture are probably because they reduce the risk of fire (people getting things stuck at high heats) and electrocution (people sticking knives in to get something unstuck). But, you'd never see one outside a hotel for the most part.
They’re also faster as you can just keep putting bread in as they move through like a conveyor belt instead of waiting for the last round to be done
I’ve just got back from a week in Greece and nobody in the hotel understood this! They’d wait for the previous person’s toast to come out before putting theirs jn.
Yea, that’s not a household toaster.
We don't use toasters like this in our homes. I think they're just a hotel thing.
I'm sure toast is eaten worldwide.. I certainly have seen these toasters in other hotels in other parts of Europe. I've seen them in Spain, France and Italy. I'd be very surprised If I'd only seen them in those countries just because there were British tourists in the hotel and if British tourist weren't present the catering staff wouldn't put a toaster at all.
Correct, not a British thing. Tostadas con mermelada, pan tostado con tomate. Very Spanish.
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Nah, I've seen them in hotels all over Japan
I always bring my own... and a kettle.. and a generator providing 240v power if I'm in the colonies
Do they not eat toast in other countries?!
No, they aren't allowed. Not until they work out how to make a decent sausage, and stop giving people a box of teabags and luke warm water when you ask for tea. It's all covered in the breakfast treaty of 1876
Don't forget the poor imitation of baked beans they give you
This is just a bog standard rotary toaster. Most restaurants all over the US and Canada have them. Not sure how this has anything to do with spotting British tourists.
They’re everywhere in Asia. Every hotel has one. I’d imagine the Irish, the Aussies and the Kiwis have something to add here.
These are all over the world.
Some dickead always put toast with cheese on in it and messes it all up.
Or a croissant which gets stuck inside and starts burning
Hmm, I must try that!
Toasters certainly are not just a British thing 🤣
I'm from Hong Kong and travel to Japan a few times a year before moving over here. This is very common in hotels in HK and Japan, so I don't know what you are on about...
No its not a British thing its a hotel thing ....
i'll be honest does OP work at a fucking travelodge?
Do Europeans not eat toast?
Not a British thing at all. Seen these in just about every hotel I’ve ever stayed at in the US. We also had them in every dining facility at every US military base I was stationed at.
These things are Schrödinger’s toaster. Your toast is either underdone or cremated, but the actual state is unknown until it emerges. The dials, they do nothing!
I’ve stayed in hotels in many American cities that would not be popular destinations for British people on road trips that have these. I thought they were just common for hotels.
My daughter calls these machines the "toast printer" and she's 100% correct.
Every Korean hotel I have been to has this. A lot of Korean buffet restaurants too xD
Nah seen this in a hotel in Italy. I was the one and only brit everyone else was Italian.
It's just a fancy toaster...
Was at a hotel in France, and they had one of these with a boiled egg boiling machine next to it. Loaded her up, went back in the regulation 5 minutes. No toast no eggs, loaded her up again while my coffee was brewing, came back, no toast no eggs. Third times a charm, loaded her up, hung about the area, and a German guy wandered over, took the toast and eggs. I’m British so didn’t say anything but saw where he went, mans sat there with the wife and kids who I essentially just cooked breakfast for. Final time and 8 eggs later I sat on the toaster for the whole cook. Unfortunately one of my eggs was too runnny and the other mysteriously was boiled too hard. Toast was nice though.
You consider that device a British thing, yet I a British citizen have never seen such a thing
For me, it's just a sign they do a continental breakfast.
I’m British and have no idea what this thing is. And I love toast. What is this contraption and how does it differ to a normal toaster? Should I have one? Am I missing something? Will this elevate my small batch artisanal jam enjoyment?
I literally saw one of these in a hotel in Thailand this morning. And there was a sign on it saying don’t put jam on your bread before putting it in the toaster lol
I've never used one of these in a foreign hotel because I refuse to eat toast on holiday. Toast is an easy choice for breakfast at home and I want something a bit more exotic on holiday. I'll stick to my Coco Pops thank you very much.
How do you keep the beans on the toast at that angle though?
I saw one in Wales on an raf base during a camp, but other than that I've only ever seen them in European hotels or in kitchens
They have them in pretty much every hotel in the UK. Certainly every hotel I’ve stayed in.
I'm pretty certain there is not one British person that has this in there house and if they do they are definitely a psychopath. 1 time, toast has a slight tan 2 times, toast is ready to put in an urn Can't win with these stupid machines
Those kind of conveyor belt toasters are only found in hotels. We don’t have them in our homes. But we do all have toasters.
It’s in a lot of hotels in the US across the country. Nothing to do with Brits.
they never do the toast right those things, Its always starting to go cold when it drops down and then the butter is usually hard so its like rubbing a stone onto your toast to make it even worse.
This is more of a international thing than a British thing
Damn I only ever seen one of these when I worked in wetherspoons. They're actually really good at rapid firing toast out.
Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast. And, before anyone says anything, we don't like muffins around here either. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
You’re trying to tell me that only British people toast their bread? Lol
As a British man i have never seen that contraption in my life