Do The Numbers On Toaster Dials Mean Minutes?
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- tomscott.com - / tomscott - There's been a "Life Pro Tip" going around the internet lately saying that the numbers on toaster dials are actually minutes. I was so sure it was false. Oh, I was so sure. I got four toasters set to "2", and I had one take to film it all in a back room at my office. This is that one take.
Thanks to Dan W (@iamdanw) on camera and Jonty (@jonty) on toaster-wrangling!
UPDATE: An error pointed out by a couple of folks in the comments: modern toasters likely don't use bi-metallic strips. They either use a capacitor charged through a variable resistor, or specialised silicon. See this great Technology Connections video. • The Electromagnet in Y...
There's now a full corrections page for this channel at www.tomscott.c...
I gotta say those few seconds before the two minute mark were intense
Ok
Nice
Silvio?😂
Signor Burlosconi?
Yep
"Someone is wrong on the internet and now you can correct them."
Office Toaster: *corrects him*
Der Stock he’s not an elf
666 likes
UNO Reverse Card
Also Tom was some one wrong on the internet
The office toaster didn't pop at two minutes though.
"Someone is wrong on the internet and now you can correct them."
Office toaster: bold of you to assume that person isn't you
@Dan K whut
@Dan K Kids say the darndest things these days
@@Beastofdestruct dirly danged digle dangle dung, them kids just dont know how to do it to em my boy
@@Beastofdestruct yes, kids, the origin of all evil.
@Josh r/technicallythetruth
That office toaster has mastered comedic timing.
Apparently the toaster has also mastered regular timing.
That toaster is more precise then i am tbh
At 2 minutes I'll be about 10 seconds off
Well duh
It watches nothing but the office
@@harlekingnapmaster3986 niceee
* The Office theme starts playing *
I did not expect to be so emotionally invested in this video that I would rejoice aloud at the savagery of a timed toaster.
Yet here we are.
Sarah Kerr hahahahhahahah am laffin
Yesssss
Oh Sarah, that makes two of us. I enjoyed that madlad toaster more than I should have probably
@goggles789 get on my shelf bro
same her I LOLd
"Tom?"
that was the funniest "I don't want to disappoint him but I need to tell the truth" question ever
Indeed
indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Lmao I love how they were so confident that they apparently didn’t test it at all before recording
They didn't have the budget for another loaf of bread
Also, I bet if they did repeat it, all the toasters would pop up at slightly different times... Those cheap nasty bimetallic strips are highly inaccurate.
@@tedferkin if they did it again immediately afterwards then they would all pop significantly faster as the strips still have residual heat
I dont really think you can test for a coincidence happening
@@TheBrandonn????
Yes you can
That's why you test it again......
for some reason I have always had a part of my brain that said "the numbers are the level of toastiness", in retrospect, it would make sense to assume it was minutes
Level of toastiness
I mean... you're not exactly wrong
Same
Same here
Same and... we're right? It is the level of toastiness.
i always take it as levels of toastieness. its my default setting
One of the smartest guys on CZcams, defeated by a toaster.
Gratulation to 100 likes
250 now :D
@@The_Tornado how.
What does that tell us about the internet?
Guess he's toast now
That twist at the end of the video! Ingenious!
Just that moment when the cameraman goes "... Tom?" Dead.
It's almost as if the toaster heard him and went "So I don't know what 2 minutes are?! I'll show you two minutes bish!" xD
Who didn't see that coming?!
Well, not ingenious. Olny coincidence.
charoak well, it was most likley planned.
This guy was right about everything but didn't account for one thing: The office toasters comedic timing
*Insert office theme*
3.4K likes and only one reply? Let’s change that
@@Melonbanana shut
@@stippystips9418 no u :(
Or that like he said maybe the higher end ones do have timers in them.
2:01the way the camera guy said Tom was hilarious, it was very british, concerned but also calm.
"We are literally waiting for toast to pop up now"
MK8 Master! not you again ;-;
@@MK8MasterJunjie how do you have 100k subs but such bad viewcounts?
MK8 Master! lmao deserved
So sorry😕
Hey! It's my CoD mods and playthrough guy! (Or gal, idk)
Finally CZcams understands my recommended play preferences
Same
Not your spelling abilities though.
J-Dog776 new TOOOOO
also CZcams : Would you like to see PRANKING MY GF (GONE WRONG)
Right? I also don't watch ANYTHING like this so I don't know how or why it recommended it to me, but I'm glad it did.
Once everything has popped but the office toaster, this video becomes really suspenseful, and it pays off beautifully. Quite the arc for a 2 minute video
The office toaster arc of an anime
"Because they're far too cheap to have timers in them"
Office next door : bold of you to assume our toaster is cheap
Tom: none of these toasters will pop up at exactly 2 minutes
Office toaster: mmmm best I can do is 1:59.9
😂
I like how the video length is about the same time as the timer
kaike95 maybe because the timer starts when the video starts?
kaike95 were you expecting the video to be less than 2 minutes ? ...
Office toaster: 1:59.9, take it it or leave it
This has posed far more questions than it answered.
Do expensive toasters have timer or not? And what does it look like from the inside?
I ruined your lucky number 777
D.J. Dan legend
What kind of question u got?
I need to know whether the office toaster was a coincidence or not. I need scientific testing! This sample size is too small
From this day forth, Tom never called action on a video without several weeks of intense, well referenced research
"Tom. I think that one was 2 minutes."
The real mystery is why this video has subtitle options for over 20 languages
Right? I went to turn off the English subtitles and I was stunned at how many I had to scroll through just to turn it off.
The people want answers
The whole world needs to know about this
Does that make CZcams suggest your video more often?
@@JackOLanternBob No, but it makes it more accessible and in theory means more ppl can watch the video. Consider how many non-English videos you never watch because you can't understand what people are saying.
*Tom:* None of these toasters will pop up at 2 minutes
*Office Toaster:* Are you sure about that?
it didn't stop at 2 minutes, it stopped at 1:59.9 :)
Office Toaster: I'm about to disprove this man's whole hypothesis.
1.59.999999999999999999999
I'm abouta ruin this man's whole career.
-Office Toaster
@@deadpineapple 1.59.999999 means 2
That very quiet almost scared voice behind the camera saying "Tom..." is absolute gold!
“Someone is incorrect on the internet and they will be corrected”
- famous last words
My Toaster only has two settings, bread and charcoal.
+Charles Miller My toaster has 3 settings. It cost me $120.99.
Toast
Char
Burn
The last option is good for arsons.
*****
:D Burn all the houses!
couldn't have said it any better lmao
+Charles Miller My toaster just says:
Bread
Slightly warm bread
Bread that turned brown on one corner
Charred bread that melts your hand off if you try to take it out
+Charles Miller so true it brought on the gigglefits :)
None of these will pop up after 2 minutes.
Office toaster: *hold my removable crumb tray*
The removable crun tray is for the black one not the office one..
Well technically it didn't pop up *after* 2 minutes but right before it.
I laughed way too hard at this, I think I should go to bed...
XD
@@true_neutral3378 gonk
The little "...tom" at the end is priceless
"Tom, that was two minutes" is proof the people who say comedy is dead never had any idea about what made something funny.
No it wasn't the video shows it was 1min59seconds
@@stephensnell5707 it was 1 minute and 59.9 seconds i think thats close enough to 2 minutes to count
@@stephensnell5707 1/10th of a single second off. It's 2 minutes.
Timing. And comedic timing is something that all Britons seem to have naturally.
@@stephensnell5707 don't forget: the timer was placed on the screen, it wasn't made by the toaster.
I always though it went from “Bread” to “Charcoal” I’m a 1 to 10 scale
Could always go my route of: losing the toaster and then sticking the bread in the microwave, then forgetting to watch it until it was hardened charcoal
Sam K wait how do you lose the toaster?
How many toasters are lost in what im going to assume is a mansion due to the sheer size a building needs to be to lose a toaster?
Same.. 😂😂
Mine goes from "Bread" to "Charcoal" somewhere between 2.15 and 2.16
I was like 1,000
I’ve never thought of the dials as “minutes”, but thought of them as levels of toasty-ness... like a survey
1 being “not toasty at all” to 10 being “very toasty”
Me too.
Yea I always thought they were levels of how high the heat is
@@saskia6620 or how brown the toast gets
Just wanted to be the 100th thumbs up.
@@saskia6620 but then all then numbers would pop at the same time
When you're so confident in your hypothesis that you post the study on CZcams.
I now want an experiment with that expensive toaster at various levels to see if 2 is just an anomaly or if it is indeed minutes on that particular toaster.
I love how he's partially wrong in this video yet he still uploaded it without being embarrassed about it. Shows great humility.
+vibra slap Or that he's happy to spout any old nonsense without fact checking.
Well actually, he proved his point. The numbers on toasters don't correlate to minutes. It happened to 1 out of 4 toasters in this experiment, which without a larger sample of toasters, really doesn't tell us a lot about why that toaster popped at the 2 minute mark, it could just have been a fluke.
Regardless, his point was that the information online about the numbers being minutes was rubbish. At least for the majority of toasters in this world.
indeed, most likely it was indeed not intentional that it was 2 minutes.
Because he's an entertainer and an educator, not a politician.
...
*Tom* : none of these toasters will pop up at 2 minutes
*Office* *toaster* : hold my toast
naf
Na it’s hold my bread
Kai H ...
@@toasty8547 nope. You are wrong. You are an idiot sandwich.
Underrated comment lmao
@@Tokaji1703IKR what a frucking legend
I have a vintage sunbeam radiant control toaster that was made in the 40's it has a slide that controls the darkness of the toast, it doesnt matter the condition of the precooked bread frozen or otherwise itll always pop up at the darkness level that has been set. It is truly a marvel of engineering. Its tragic nobody makes them anymore. And another cool feature is you just place the bread in the slots and it automatically pulls the bread in slowly. It is soooo neat.
I think technology connections did an episode about how awesome they are.
"Aaaargh! Call an ambulance, call an ambulance!"
"...but not for me!"
*"None of these toasters will pop up at exactly 2 minutes"*
Well yes, but actually no
Good guess*
2 min approx*
It was technically 1second off. So not exact.
frank234561 second?
@@frank234561 most timers are not actually exact, as humans make them and they are prone to errors. Only digital clocks can maintain accuracy and even then not all do.
Why does scott look like a 20 year old college student and a 60 year old professor at the same time
because tom scott is the college
he's like a mobius strip but for age- 1 person, all ages
(that doesn't really make sense, does it?? I'm trying!)
@@astrangemann262 you’re in a whole new level bro
I think its his voice
Why do you look like small me
I swear I was watching that last toaster with the most intense apprehension ever. I KNEW it was gonna do it, it was too good of an opportunity for the universe to let that slide
Tom: 2 DOES NOT mean two minutes on these toasters.
"Office" toaster: Hold my butter...
"... and now you can prove them wrong!"
The last toaster pops... after 2 mins.
one minute 59 seconds... And there's a few seconds of inaccuracy in that as well. So not exactly 2 minutes but close enough for government work.
+CaptainDuckman one minute, 59.9 seconds, actually :D
*close enough for government work*
-0.1sec is not good enough?
+InsomniPop The levers weren't all pressed down at EXACTLY the same time.
Obviously, the office toaster is the superior one, because it has blue LEDs.
I have that one! :D
it also toasts 4 slices at once
None of that red or green bs...
Philip Johansson wtf are you talking about?
Michael Scott Blue LEDs
Yesterday the radio told me the dial on toasters was for minutes. Today this video from 6 years ago shows up on my recommended list. I swear the algorithm is watching you
No it's from ads your phone listens to you and gives you ads based on what you say, search and view this will effect CZcams
I appreciate the fact that you explained the experiment whilst doing it saving everyone's time, thanks m8
Tom: someone is wrong on the internet
Office toaster: **pulls out uno reverse card**
office toaster: makes the *toast* with a reverse card symbol on it
@Justin Nowaczynski ok *cough*
Well, Tom himself IS on the internet, soo
@Plumjet09 My phone got wet so that happened and yes it is
I think
@Justin Nowaczynski @QmelZ the Void
Coronavirus?! Got get a test.
I can not believe I was actually excited by the fact that the office toaster managed to achieve an accuracy within one-tenth of a second.
I pointed at my monitor and exclaimed "Ooh!"
TheOfficialCzex i love humans hahahaha
That one tenth of a second could be due to human error in pressing the timer one tenth of a second too late....
It's true I was the toaster
I did the exact same thing🤣🤣
Wait for it… Wait for it… Two minutes! (I saw that coming!)
I love the guy at the end, whispering "Tom...I think that was two minutes"
The office toaster had a machine learning algorithm that was trained to do what people expected it to do.
Additional test you could do: test the office one at 3 to see if it's minutes or if it just takes 2 minutes.
Also now that the toaster is warmed up, surely the next round of toast will pop up sooner.
@@TanMadScientist ye, or, it pops at 3 min, couse it dosent use a metal strip, sure it still has the same outside pull function, but that could be an illusion to give it that toaster look, and inside it could have a real timer chip, think about it, when you go and wanna buy a toaster, you probly wanna buy something that looks like a toaster, wich is has to things you pull down. so it could be by design to just look correct but inside could be diffrent.
@@Dennan Sure, but why waste the extra few cents on a timer chip when the bi-metallic strip does just fine?
@@TanMadScientist no it isn't, it has been eight years, that's enough time to cool down a toaster
Given it popped at 1.59.9 it’s fair to say that it is the minute counter also timer chips aren’t expensive
Office toaster: I’m going to do what is called a pro gamer move.
Office toaster is a pure badass
Shout out to FB memories for making me realize that I discovered Tom Scott long before I discovered Tom Scott.
Bro, young Tom Scott had some chaotic energy about him that just isn't there anymore. Nu Tom is still amazing, but Young Tom had something about him that led him to do this stuff. God, this is amazing.
*Tom:* Someone is wrong on the internet.
*Office toaster:* That someone is _you._
🕷️🕷️
1 comment ok
Wow, I’ve never seen someone so angry about toasters....
You've never heard about James Veitch? :P
I am angry.
ANGRY ABOUT TOASTERS
😂😂😂😭
You live a sad life then.
I was the 1000thvlike 🤪
That office toaster is the exact same model I have at home, so it's good to know that the 2 really is 2 minutes for that one!
I come back to this every couple of years to have a chuckle
Person creating the toaster:
"Put the numbers from 1 to 6, except that you can really only use 3 and 4"
If you freeze your toast you need 5-6
@@ForumcoldiArchon who freezes toast?
@@nise6699 i do. Buy two loaves at half price and freeze one for next week
@@ForumcoldiArchon I freeze my bread, not my toast.
@spindletea so it becomes fuel for your eye?
That office toaster should become a stand up comedian, its comedic timing is godly.
Toasters have comedic timers confirmed.
I don't know why this old video from Tom 7 years ago popped up but I'm so glad!
Tom: "none of those is gonna come up at exactly 2 minutes"
Office Toaster: *pops at exactly 2 minutes* - "and that is something you might not have known'
underated
@@Aa-wq3ef so what. It's close enough
@@Aa-wq3ef 1:59.9 is 2 minutes if you only care about seconds
@@supernt7852
Refer to my reply to @John Watts
@@JameyMcQueen I am just providing a more detailed version of your replied, I have specified ‘seconds’, while your reply says ‘close enough’ which has a very broad meanintg
"It is completely, utterly untrue and I shall now prove it."
Top 10 haunting statements said moments before disaster
I've never waited something so keenly than if the office toaster would pop at 2:00 or not
He's so confident the office toaster wont popup it 2 minutes
Lmao
Ikr 😂😂
And they didnt, did they?:)
@@robertjusic9097 well, you round up, it's 2 minutes. So they did.
@@denoriacorporations It isn't about "rounding up" so it didn't pop up at 2 minutes
Les Anderson jr maybe the timer of the toaster and the one on the screen didn't start at the exactly same time. Would be enough, if it just started a millisecond before the toaster
So if the dials mean level of toastiness, there needs to be some kind of official scale that all toasters follow. It would make my life a lot easier.
Sounds like a trading standard that the EU might enforce.
+TheOneLichemperor Hmm... would that be a good thing or a bad thing? I know people don't much like EU regulations, but this seems like one of those times it's more convenient than annoying.
Probably the latter, but perhaps we'd rather live life on the edge and burn our toast once in a while! =P
Except that it will be different based on your bread type, how well the heating coils work and so many other variables.
Use fire Instead duh
I love to imagine that seven years ago there was just a wildly popular trend about toasters having minutes that went viral
Tom: *Talks smack about the office toaster being the slowest*
Office Toaster: I'm about end this man's whole career
Not to mention that the second round of toasts needs less time because the toaster is already hot.
I run my toaster constantly to avoid thos problem. I hardly ever eat toast though
+micomator The power company must love you.
I just run mine for like a minute with no toast in it so it's already warm
Many a blackened butter knife knows this truth
Good point
Me Before Covid-19: i think this guy has too much time on his hands.
Me During Covid Lockdown: *standing in front of my toaster with a stopwatch waiting for my toaster to toast bread*
Ok that's good. : )
Correction : "this guy has 2 minutes on his hands"
Update: turns out 2 mins on my toaster is actually 1:45.
@@tylerbookwood4002 congratulations - you have scienced
Tobias Arboe GLaDOS would like to locate your lab.
IM NOT EVEN FKING KIDDING THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN BUGGING ME FOR THE PAST LIKE 2 YEARS BUT I WAS NEVER BOTHERED TO FIGURE IT OUT
YOU ARE A SAINT AND I WISH YOU A GOOD DAY
Dualit toasters have a clockwork timer. You set the time on them, the longer the time the browner the bread.
They are "Levels of tostiness", and no one can tell me otherwise.
Thats a lot of LoT's
I could not agree more.
His [TOAST] Level, it's over 9000!
GlintTheStrong It's true
He's not wrong
1: warm bread
2: slightly toasted
3: toasted
4: burnt toast
5: burnt toast
6: burnt toast
7: burnt toast
8: burnt toast
9: burnt toast
10: burnt toast + house on fire
10, please.
11. lighting strikes the toast and pulverizes it
I usually go for 6.
I usually go for 10
Where is bath tub setting?
i like that the toasters finish in sync with Tom’s cadence
Me to my toaster, "The numbers Mason, what do they mean!?”
Exactly
idk
LMAO
Deserves more likes
This is gold :D
I am supposed to be doing my masters thesis and I am watching a video about toasters.
Bachelor thesis for me x)
Done mine and it sucks Ass
love your work 😅
Same here
@@ArbaazPatwari Well, is it?
Tom: "Someone is definitely wrong."
Office toaster: ".... and IT MOST DEFINITELY IS NOT ME."
No, it's obviously the level of toastiness. I could'a told y'all that.
I never thought of those dials were the minutes dial. Because when I was a kid, if you toast the second bread batch, it'd be quicker. I always assume it's the "toastness" lever or something.
I always thought they are heat settings...
Mine isn't quicker, just the second batch of toast has a higher level of toastness.
I'm going to have to time it now, aren't I?
Cheshire Cat same here
Wait, you had at least three pieces of toast? Wild thing
@@danearl8328 Lucky Deelusion might have had siblings.
This guy: *gives lots of reasons about toasters not having timers in them*
The office toaster: *I'm about to end this guys career*
@George Corbul not fair
@George Corbul it's cause they didn't start all the toasters exactly at the same time but they were using the same timer for all of them
Because the timer in the screen is actually not perfectly synchronized?
Eazy as.
@@ashk.7463 that's what I wanted to say but couldn't find the words haha 😆
@@sophisticatedserpent1512 From what i see the timer started as soon as they pressed all of the toasters at the same time.
Office toaster is slowest for the same reason that a modern space heater is less speedy than one from the 1980s.
There are limits on the current that an appliance can draw these days.
Older heaters used to heat a space much faster, but today they have to heat it slowly. This uses less power but takes more time.
Likewise that "office" toaster that toasts four pieces of bread instead of 2 takes twice as long.
There is a timer, so to speak. It isn't inside the toaster itself, but it's in the electrical code.
Toaster D can't draw more power than toaster A, B or C, despite having a larger capacity.
If I know this, you should know this.
"You know what they say: 'All toasters toast toast!'"
This video is almost 6 years old and I still love the fact that Tom so flamboyantly declares that none of the toasters will be 2 minutes, even going so far as to say "Someone is wrong on the internet and now you can correct them" only to be himself corrected by one of the toasters.
& today, I get to use the word "hubris"!
Rarely is hubris so endearing :)
Two words:
*Transparent toasters.*
Still waiting to get my hands on one...
***** Transparent toaster, with some sort detection of bread color to terminate the toasting.
zrajm
Exactly. Colour is a far better metric than time.
Could even be automated, but I prefer to use the eyeball method.
zrajm
wow thats a good idea
+ROBwithaB what if u r using brown bread?
You can use toaster _ovens_ and get the same effect. And they cook more than just toast or waffles.
Your descriptions for the buyers of each toaster were immaculately perfect! 😂
My dad had a case involving a toaster. Most toasters we worked with took around 1 minute at any setting, a few seconds less if you have just used it
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
It was 1:59.9 minutes.
Tom is still right.
(Seriously though, that ending was kinda funny)
they were trying to start them all at the same time, so you must factor in human error. by all reasonable standards, the office toaster went at 2 minutes.
klieu90210 I was joking.
Joking? On the internet? No such thing. Stop trying to dismiss accountability for what you say and stick to your guns.
I think I'm doing a sarcasm you fucknut.
TF2 Commando he started the timer late
"Tom I think that one was two minutes"
and the bread had zero color after 2 minutes.
Those might be the weakest possible toasters on planet.
@@hardowider5054 on 2? Obviously. If I want my bread properly toasted I usually do 4 or 5
My toaster does it on 3 minutes
Actually it was 1:59.9
@@regularusername5516 ? Mine burns on 1
I tried this. To this day I always used it on 2. A 30 year old Bosch toaster. On 4, breads caught on fire. On 5 they magically turned into diamonds and gems. On level 6 it started screaming Auschwitz.
One of our toasters broke so I decided to take it apart and look inside at the PCB. I found out that the numbers don’t represent minutes but the higher the number the longer it roasts for. The dial is a potentiometer it seems
Finally a recommendation that recognises my great passion for toasters
You know what they say.
All toasters toast toast
toaster gang rise up
OLEOLEOLE
Yes Gamboa
@@Pikana all toasters toast bread
I was building anxiety as we closed in on the 2 minute mark bc I was hoping it would debunk his theory!
Opposite for me, I was praying for that toast to pop before the 2 minute mark
Same
Might've been a set-up for the video. You can kill the power at the wall and it'll pop up.
Camberwell86 no...no it wouldn't...
@@Matthew.Morcos It technically did :P
I'm not sure why I'm being recommended old Tom Scott videos but I'm glad It happened
THIS IS 8 YEARS OLD? WHY IS IT ON MY RECOMMENDATIONS? WHY DID I WATCH IT? WHY DID I ENJOY IT? WHY WAS THE SUSPENSE SO GOOD.
Everybody: *talking about the toasters*
Me: "here we have the extremely rare sight of Tom without the red shirt
Lmao
No, the red shirt is still there, under the hoodie, it is not visible, but it's still there
When Tom’s not wearing the red t-shirt, it’ll be the gray hoodie.
That's just his winter outfit
@@dersps5905 Winter Plumage?
I always thought those numbers represented the "intensity" of the heat
We are apparently both wrong
I always thought they were minutes
I just thought it was an arbitrary number that related to the length of time the toaster would be on for.
sasha rama
I thought
1=slightly warm
2=a little crisp, but barely
To 10=BURNT, DO NOT EAT THIS, ITS DISGUSTING YA NASTY PERSON. 😀😂
@@molly.dog8brooke792 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a $27 toaster that does in fact have a timer. The dial has a screen on it that tells you the amount of time remaining. There are 9 different settings ranging from setting 1 at 1:08 to setting 9 at 3:03. And if you change the setting mid toasting cycle it knows how much time has passed and will only add enough time to the cycle (and the screen) so that the new cycle will still be the total time for that particular setting.
I used to work at a toaster manufacturer. The numbers are shade levels, or how brown a piece of white bread will get while toasted. Many toasters today have tiny cheap microprocessors in them that make sure they end at roughly the correct time to get that shade.
hey there, I'm looking for a long lasting toaster that evenly toasts the bread (nothing more), not interested in these way too expensive ones. Do you by any chance have any suggestions? Thank you! Rosie
Lesson learned: Don't tell expensive toasters that they can't tell time; they will prove you wrong.
You don’t mess with toasters
777 likes mi amigo, congrats
"I'm the office toaster and I take my job very serious."
The fact that I saw this video so many years ago and I'm only just realising it was Tom Scott???