The toaster will not be damaged nor you will be zapped. If you find that any piece or a toast is stuck inside your toaster and you need to take it out immediately then at first, switch off the main switch of the toaster and not just switch off the button on a toaster. It might happen that the current is still passing in your toaster, take any wooden blunt object and push the toast out through the bottom after opening the crumb tray.
In case you have a higher model and this process is not valid. Take a butter knife and gently poke into the edges of your toaster so that the toast would loosen up and instantly pop up. It is always advised that to let the toaster cool for sometime and then to use any non metal, blunt object to release the stuck toast out of it. Always be gentle while taking out the jammed food from the toaster to prevent any harm to you or your family.
Trust me, it will not cost you much. A toaster has many styles of inner wiring and coating which is very brittle or thin and can be easily broken if you do not care about it. It is advisable not to use a sharp knife or fork to pop your toast up. Let the machine cool and then if you want you can use a blunt near to plastic material. It is better to use blunt wooden tools gently to get the jammed food out.
However, I think you must have got an idea how the toaster works. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Like Save. The above pics remain me of garage doors. Don't ask me why? It's been years since I posted the comment. I didn't end up building an island - our kitchen was too small for it.
I'd say now though that if I did have an island I would buy a fancy looking kettle and toaster set and display it on the counter - there are some really nice ones - vintage ones, modern designs, bright colors, copper color etc.
The tea, cocoa, sugars etc I would probably put in a drawer though as canisters on the side too may be too much clutter. Hope this helps.
Maybe google images of kitchen islands and see how they're displayed. Or may googling 'kitchen islands with hot drink station' and see what that brings up. Good luck. If you do find a good idea I would like to see. Cobalt Blue Toaster Q. Most double insulated and low voltage fixtures do not require a separate grounding wire. Ron Natalie 12 years ago.
Actually your more likely to smoke your knife and trip the breaker if the case were grounded. However, if you've got case leakage, grounding it will not solve the problem. Thank god for GFCI's in the kitchen. HTH David. Thanks for all the information. I'll get back to you about what we do. Say Ghost five times as fast as you can I'm not sure I'd want to touch any toaster or appliance new or old with damp hands.
It's a sensation, sound, and smell you never forget. Ron Natalie 8 years ago. These have no exposed hot elements and often also lack a ground. Related Stories. When is an appliance not just an appliance?
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A yellow and black pair of wires? Is it possible to wire a wire to a breaker box Who would I call to install a range hood? You can tell how well it has been working by considering our current president.
You come down to a basic question: Which is more likely - that a someone will go fishing in a live toaster with a fork, or b a toaster will become broken such that the case is live? Apparently, the powers-that-be have decided it's a in the US, and b in Australia. In other words, we have more idiots, and you have more broken toasters. The point is they are almost certainly steadying the toaster with their other hand. When they hit the live wire, they then have a circuit from hand-to-hand, which conducts electricity across the chest - the so-called "heart path".
Not many people survive that type of shock - it's why electricians are taught to test a circuit with one hand in their pocket. I can't get our UL standard for toasters without paying for it, but I would imagine that new toasters for the US market have insulated outer cases, and power-cutting switches.
When I lived in Australia, only low-current double-insulated appliances were sold with 2-pin plugs. Well, I've seen plenty that have a 2 pin plug no ground prong, including the one I bought within the last 2 years. Could it possibly be because the toaster manufacturers want to sell toasters to the millions of people who live in homes without grounded electrical outlets in their kitchens? In particular, that applies to toasters and anything else with exposed conductors.
Consider: if you touch the heating electrode in a toaster, and you're not grounded, nothing will happen. If you're slightly grounded, you'll get a small shock; the resistance will be too high. But if the case were grounded, and you were holding it, you'd be the perfect path to ground I'd been using a toaster all my life that was probably designed in the 's.
When I got tired of repairing the elements on my original, I bought a replacement at a flea market. I finally got tired of its performance and bought a new one not long ago.
The best thing about it aside from the overkill on controls is the clamping action on the meal, work, food, whatever you would call it usually a slice of bread. It accommodates VERY wide bread, indeed, and holds whatever you put in there in the center of the slot. The spring-loaded mechanism that grabs the bread only goes into action when you press down the start lever.
Thus, I no longer get stuck toast. In Australia All V AC power Outlets have been Grounded for at least the last 30 years we have no such thing as an ungrounded outlet. Also I have been on a visit to several Electrical Retailers with a Multi Meter and we have no such beastie as an ungrounded Toaster Reason 5 is probably only valid in a V country as I note people have mentioned that the earthed chassis provides a good earth against being 'slightly grounded' whereas with V a higher resistance ground is still likely to be fatal.
Evidently one where they don't teach people not to stick a knife into a toaster. Rich "We have met the enemy, and he is us! My Brazilian made toaster is two prong and has a hard plastic shell, like most all tabletop appliances around here. The case gets only slightly warm, and there are no exposed metal parts anywhere, not even on the underside. The heater turns off whether the toast is stuck or not.
The reason for all this insulation is that most all residential electrical installations are a shamble and grounding is used only in IT setups, if even then. I've never seen a toaster that had a 3-wire cord. Also, the manufacturer saves a lot of wire that way. You can make something foolproof but not damnfoolproof -- Don Kelly dh Generally, the case of the appliance is connected to the ground lead.
If there's an insulation failure that shorts the hot lead to the case, the ground lead conducts the electricity away safely and possibly trips the circuit breaker in the process. If the case is not grounded and such a short occurs, the case is live -- and if you touch it while you're grounded, you'll get zapped. Animo vernali Lasciviens. O, o, totus floreo, jam amore virginali totus ardeo, novus, novus amor est, quo pereo.
I just bought a new TV today Deep fryer Electric shaver Are their any lunatic-fringe hobbiest approaches to making toast? I remember reading once about a guy who had built a propane-fueled jet engine in his garage. Not mounted to anything, mind you. It just sat where it was and sent a thirty-foot flame down the driveway. The builder thought it was of no practical use until he discovered how well it worked at cooling his beer.
Are there any similar devices that could be used to toast bread, without burning down the neighborhood? It covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.
Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupifies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepard.
Jeffrey C. It takes energy for propane to go from liquid to gas. That energy could come from a tank of water, lowering the temp of the water. Just add cans of your favorate beverage. Actually, I kind of suspected something like that, I just thought my quip would be clever. What kind of thrust, fuel consumption, bought or built, that sort of thing.
It'd be cool! If you got something stuck in the toaster and tried to pick it out with a fork or a knife, wouldn't the FIRST danger to you in holding the case be a burn?!? I would think this would stop most of us in our tracks before we got to the point of contacting the element. Is this an American thing? Or are you just an incredibly thick and Ignorant individual who is not reprasentitive of the US as a whole? The Soviet's also got on the "Space Shuttle" band wagon.
They thought we were building one because it would be cheaper and better in the long run. Truth was, you could launch several Saturn V rockets for the cost of one Shuttle launch. The Soviet shuttle did fly once, but it nearly bankrupted their space program. It now sits in Gorky Park on static display.
If only they has stuck with that pencil mindset. One should also remember that our glorious space program has been the world's most costly in terms of morals, money and human life. How about one that gives you the day's weather forecast by burning a picture of it onto the toast?
Sorry, I grant you membership in the human race. My mistake. You are clearly from planet Earth. The topic of grounding devices is a controversial and ever changing issue in the NEC national electric code. For example I believe electric stoves are required to have the chasis grounded, yet they seem like a big toaster to me. I trust there is sound reasoning behind all the rules of grounding. Seems the grounding requirements are different for different devices, but are nevertheless, essential for safety.
Notice that your PC is 3 prong and many other modern devices. Nope doesnt work either the majority of Toasters on the Market in This country 1 are Metal 2 are Earthed 3 get bloody hot which melts a lot of Plastics No you have it all wrong.
In Europe they run everything on Between the 2 phases of a single phase system, they get something less than but I don't know what it is. At any rate, residential services in Europe only get one of the hot phases anyway I believe all they're plugs are 3-pin, even if the appliance attached doesn't need a ground. It ensures proper polarization since every plug also contains a fuse. What I'm saying is, in the USA we get 2 v legs which, to neutral yield v, or, v between each v leg.
Overseas, they only get 1 leg and 1 neutral, and that leg is v to neutral or ground They don't get both hot legs like we do. Also they have no outlets in their bathrooms. Also, split-buss panels in homes are the norm there, with the main and permanently connected lighting fixtures on the top, and then an "ELCG" Earth leak circuit breaker, or GFI main which will protect every outlet in the house. ALL countries use a two prong cord that has one prong bigger than the other to force you to plug into an outlet in a SAFE manner..
Then you are fairly safe.. If you have a 3 prong cord , you risk the danger of touching one side of the heating element to the chassis, which is earth ground, and it is the same as touching the sink frame and a hot mains wire..
So the 3 wire is not safer.. The UK uses 3-wire power cords including, on my toaster.
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