Fire Hazard toaster oven
Found by: Malia on Humboldt Craigslist
This is a working toaster oven. The problem is it doesn’t shut off automatically, so if you walk away and forget about it, it’ll keep toasting, and toasting, and toasting …. Yours for free if you think you can keep an eye on it. You will sign a liability waiver form if you want to take this toaster.
On any given day, week, or at worst, month, there are gonna be quite a few toaster ovens being given away. Something about the nature of the thing – maybe that we don’t clean them, and ultimately decide the collected crumbs, etc., are just too icky – but you can always find the toaster oven you need in the free classifieds.
Ugly, maybe, but you can find one that works.
Since free toaster ovens are common, why would I take the one that stands a fair chance – depending on how drunk, tired, or distracted I am – of killing me, my family, or the whole neighborhood? Are there people looking for the excitement of a highly dangerous appliance? The toaster-user equivalent of basejumpers? Free solo’ers? The kind of people willing to get into this pool? I think you’d have to be a pretty serious adrenaline junkie to take a shot at this one.
i suppose this is the same as an un-fired gun, or unstarted chainsaw — only unsafe if you use it. aha. i guess i’m unclear on the concept about broken stuff – it works but doesnt shut off??? that says broken to me. THROW IT OUT!
You have to sign a liability waiver?
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If the thing is that dangerous, wouldn’t it be better to just throw it away? That way, you don’t have to make people sign waivers in order the damn thing explodes and blows up whoever takes it. Then again, if they get blown up, you won’t have to worry about the waiver in the first place.
Some people can’t differentiate junk from salable items. This same seller is offering (in a “digital garage sale”) the following items:
“Subwoofer – $20
Sony, 135 Watt subwoofer. Works great, except for one thing. After 20 – 45 minutes or so, it must overheat or something, and it turns itself off. Just get up and turn it back on, and you’re good for another 20 – 45 minutes. You could probably even find a way to fix it.”
and
“Microwave – $5
Panasonic microwave in good condition. Clean and works. The one thing about this thing is that sometimes it just shuts off when you push start. Give it a good whack on the side, push start again, and most of the time it starts. This is why it’s discounted to $5.”
unbelievable. but without these witless wonders, where would this fabulous website be?? keep em comin’. we love to read about teh stupids.
For the arson-minded, it would make the perfect homicide vehicle. No indication of accelerants, no sirree.
Police Investigator: “It appears the fire was started by your faulty toaster oven.”
Burn Victim: “We don’t OWN a toaster oven!”
CSI dude onscene: “Quick, run this through our improbable Toaster Oven database!”
(Sings) Burn Baby burn Toaster inferno….
@Carmen T
Hmmmm – wonder if I cross the sub-woofer with the toaster oven if I get an oven that turns itself off after 20-45 minutes? Or a sub-woofer that never turns off? Or just a pile of parts that needs to be whacked???
Not sure, but whatever it is I’d want the blast shield the Mythbusters use while determining it…
Hey, no probs. Just set your smoke alarm to medium rare.
Just buy one of those wall timers that turn off the electricity at the wall plug. Better yet…the clapper.
had one of these. the lever that had to be pushed down for toasting never stayed down. sooooo…dad (being the chronic genius that he is) placed a phonebook on said lever and hopped down the hall for a long hot shower before work one morning. the inevitable fire burnt through the toaster and the bottom of the cabinets. mom put it out with some leftover pepsi that had been left on the counter the night before. that annoyingly sensitive fire alarm became my hero that morning.
Good gift to someone you really hate >:)
LMAO…
Jeez, how hard will some people try to make a buck? I know we’re a throwaway society, but if you have something in your house that doesn’t work right and is a fire hazard, throw it out. I love the fact that it looks like the toaster oven hasn’t been cleaned out in years. That and the fact that it’s a fire hazard makes me want it that much more. So much better than buying a brand new one for $15 at Walmart.
That thin line between toasting and burning has been crossed, and there’s no going back!
Ever try to sell a microwave oven at a yard sale? You can’t sell working ones.
Ha, we used to have a toaster oven like that! We called it Doom Toaster. The On button broke after only a year, and you had to plug it in to use it, and unplug it to shut it off. We were too broke to buy a new one so we lived with it for a while. But jeez, I wouldn’t try to give it to someone else! When we could afford a new one, we threw Doom Toaster out.
Yeah, progress is good. For our dorm in the ’80s, a friend gave us an old T.O. she’d had since she got married. It was an avocado green steel box with an open front. Stick food in hole, plug in, it’s on, unplug, it’s off. So I guess that used to be the standard, but thankfully, no longer.
I’m the one who posted this thing on craigslist. I’ve got a deep aversion to sending anything to the landfill. But, I am gonna throw this baby out. Thanks for all the comments, made me laugh.
Um… Toaster Over User FAIL? Or, to put it another way, “ur doin it wrong”… I have this exact same unit… BOTH of the controls in the photo are set in such a way that the toaster oven indeed WILL NOT shut off… ever… the thermostat (top) and the the timer (bottom)… um… are both set to the equivalent of “always on.” Stick a fork in me, I’m done… but never stick a fork in the toaster.
dude I had the same brand toaster oven. It caught on fire when I was cooking with it and I had to put it out with a fire extinguisher.
You know, a lot of toaster ovens have a design feature that the timer has to be turned PAST twenty and back again to the desired time, otherwise it will just keep going and going and going … and to make this design feature even more dangerous, sometimes the toaster oven doesn’t even say this on the knob. Our current toaster oven (Black & Decker) explains this strange requirement right above the timer, but my old one didn’t, and I torched many an undeserving piece of bread before I figured it out. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with this toaster at all – except the design.
I miss my toaster oven. But you’re right about tossing them when they get to icky. They must invent one that self-cleans like my regular oven.
@Carmen T
I got a wife like that for sale! Just hit her on the back of the head and she’ll shut up. Worked perfectly, otherwise. Make an offer, Your Honour.
Gosh, you dudes are all whining sissys. I noticed that general incompetence Americans show when using electric appliances when I worked some months overseas. If it’s not fully automatic and self-cleaning, you start acting weird. My regular oven is running on natural gas, and it turns off when you cut the gas supply. Perfectly normal.
No wonder you freaks are only driving auto transmission cars… hell, I really like you, but you’re all incredibly inpractical nevertheless. Where I live, no one would never sue any company just because he’s too stupid to properly use their product. Just ridiculous.
So, I’m finished, you may start flaming now, I don’t care.