>Life hacks can look exciting, and leave us wanting to try

>>7100442
I tried this in college to make a tuna melt. It went well until the toaster thing popped and ejected the melt and it landed cheese down.

>>7100442
How the hell did it set the toaster on fire?

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>>7100475

>>7100459
My idiot coworker did this last time I went to his place. He just kind of stared at it and sat back down. Didn't clean it up or anything.

>>7100475
She probably put on a lot of cheese which then melted off on to the heating element. The cheese ignited and that's basically a mini grease fire.

why are people so stupid /ck/

are british people so poor they don't have broilers as standard kitchen equipment?

>>7100509

no, we have toasters in addition to broilers (which we call the grill)

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>>7100475
>How the hell did it set the toaster on fire?

The toaster is designed to vent heat up and out of the bread slots but when you turn it on it's side, the heat can't escape easily and eventually causes the toaster to melt and burst into flames.

>>7100442
Why the fuck would you do that?

We have fucking grills for cheese on toast. It's not even any slower. Put it onto the wire pan, and stick it under the grill. Takes less time than turning your toaster on it's side

reddit: not even once

>>7100518

the grill is often slower as it takes some time to heat up.

>they dont have toasters ovens
i pity those who will never know the joy of a toaster oven

>>7100523
Based toaster oven homemade mini pizzas.

follow up questions

why do you guys still have pop up toasters? america moved on to convection ovens a long time ago
I cant remember the last time I saw an old toaster like that. Honestly it was probably around the same time I last saw a rotary phone

>>7100543
wot, simple quick way to make toast, pop it in, and it pops up when done, literally no easier way to make toast

>>7100518
I'm not going to dirty up a pan with greasy butter or pam spray if there's a faster method with less clean up.

>>7100543

because pop up toasters are more efficient for the purpose of toasting bread than convection ovens?

>>7100543
You'd probably see more of them if you ever left your basement you asocial tardwagon

I have a cast iron tawah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tava) that my grandfather made. Best god-damn grilled cheese sandwiches I've even had.

>>7100543
Come back when you have electric kettles

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>>7100557

>>7100543

lol no, i still see toaster oven in peoples homes, and rarely small ovens. Its as common as a microwave or vacuum. dunno what chinks, niggers or spics homes youve been around

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>>7100566
>just jew my budget up

>>7100557
It's a pan with a wire grill on it. Put bread on it and when that side is cooked, flip it, put your cheese on, and finish it off. There is literally zero clean up and no spray needed

>>7100487
Is this supposed to mean something?

>>7100543
All the convection ovens I've seen are big clunky things only hotels and offices have them. Toasters are much smaller, useful if you live in house with a small kitchen or an apartment.

>>7100561
ad hominem

>>7100565
but I have an electric kettle too, and a deep fryer, panini press, rice cooker, air popper, and bread machine

yup, my kitchen is full of appliances you may use once or twice for the novelty and then never again

>>7100585
oh and a cake mixer too

>>7100565
>Come back when you have electric kettles

American homes have shitty power supplies and cannot use electric kettles.

>>7100585
>panini press

Toastie machines

>only using rice and bread cookers once or twice

>>7100598
The US keeps sounding like a worse place to live. Also wtf is up with their plug-points not having switches

>>7100565
You're kidding, right?

>>7100584
add homosexual

oh wait you're already here :^)

>>7100599
honestly the rice cooker is shit. Its supposed to be easy, but its more work than just putting a put on the stove, takes longer, and results arent as good
its always too mushy or too wet

>>7100543
I live in Japan and only have a convection. It takes twice as long to toast just one side and then you have to flip it and do it again. Toasters are much better

>>7100543
Pop-up toasters are still available and widely used in the US and I have no doubt that they have toaster ovens in the UK.

>>7100565
They sell electric kettles, they are just not popular.

>>7100598
It's funny how appliances are one of the most vicious fronts of fighting in the US vs Europe 4chan war. It's also funny how much stuff people are willing to make up regarding appliances.

>>7100625
Minute rice tends to turn out badly in a rice cooker

>>7100585

>may use an electric kettle once or twice for the novelty

as a brit i find this sentence incomprehensible

>>7100648
To be fair, unless he drinks tea often or uses instant coffee, he won't be using that kettle very often.
I drink both though, so my electric kettle sees a lot of use.

I bet the same woman ends up mixing ammonia and bleach

>>7100654
I have an office sized water cooler with hot and cold water. I pretty much drink exclusively bottled water because I buy 5 gallon jugs from poland spring directly and have them deliver it to my house twice a month.

I'm not kidding when I say I have a kitchen full of useless things

>>7100671
Seems like a lot of money to go through for no reason. How does your kitchen even look at this point.

>>7100442
The shit I don't get is grilled cheese are some dumbass easy shit to make. Why would you need to life hack it. Like that lifehack on cutting a strawberry stem with a straw. Why? You can cut off the stem with a knife in less than a second. It's not even hard. It's not even easier with a straw.

>>7100677
its fine, everything is rotting in a cabinet pretty much

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>>7100625

>Put in rice
>Put in right amount of water/broth
>Turn on
>15-20 minutes later rice is done
>Not dry
>Not burned
>Delicious

Maybe you should read the manual of your appliance again and make sure you're using it correctly.

>>7100565
I have a toaster and an electric kettle

>>7100941
I can do that in a pot though, so what does the rice cooker do for me?

>>7100991
you don't have to hover around the kitchen keeping an eye on the rice cooker.

>>7100565
Americans don't drink as much tea
you'd probably be better off saying coffee maker, which is almost literally the same thing

I'm wondering why people don't just make coffee makers that have tea settings and just spoon loose tea in

>>7100565

I'm American and I use it pretty often. It's easy for tea, pour-over coffee and instant ramen.

>>7100582
oil from cheese is oil
toaster is heat
and air is oxygen/fuel

>>7101037
Stop lying

>>7101162

Eh, it's a useful device.

>>7100442
i wonder how many people followed the life hack to make super cool crystals

>>7101214
kek

>>7100584
>ad hominem
this is 4chan your fag words don't mean shit here ur still gay

>>7100518
I put a bagel in a toaster and walked off, came back to a toaster in flames. I think the bagel was too thick for the toaster to pop up so it just kept cooking.

>>7100610
>outlets not having switches
For what purpose?

one time my little brother set the microwave on fire because he put a toy car in there
he was like 4 years old at the time

>what are you doing!!?
>cookin cars

cant even be mad, was cute

>>7100599
yea, what, I use my rice cooker 4 days a week, and my slow cooker at once or twice. id probably use an electric kettle every day if i had decent, cheap tea to make with it

>>7100459
This has always been my thought about it.

Like wtf you going to do when it spits your cheesy toast out

Seems like a lot of trouble when I can just use a pan

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>8 year old me
>parents buy toaster with grilled cheese holder
>kinda like pic related but fully closed
>lets you compress bread and cheese
>bread can be buttered from the outside
>toaster never burns
>mfw i figure out you can put as much cheese in there as you want
>start eating grilled cheese all day
>start waking up at night to make more grilled cheese
>within 2 years i'm fat
>by the time i'm 14 i'm obese
>20 years old, weight 360 lbs
>grilled cheese ruined my life

>>7100999
I'm not that person you were responded to but "oh..."

I had a rice cooker me and some friends shared a few years ago until it broke cause we used it so much

Guess I completely forgot about that. But now I guess I'm usually doing other stuff in my kitchen so it's easy for me to keep an eye on my pot

>>7100625
I had the same problem with mine. I followed the directions but it was soggy and nasty. Gave it away to Goodwill. Good riddance.

>>7101296

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

>>7100657

"I read that the strange combination would make an aromatic surprise. The people on Facebook said it was a great idea, and they did it often!"

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Wonder what other /ck/ newfag tricks she has fallen for

>>7101296
>someone offered me a nail with which to pierce through a different part of my body every day
>say yes every day because it's only one nail
>within one week I have multiple infections
>within two weeks I've contracted AIDS
>within three weeks I've lived as long as modern medicine will allow
>nails ruined my life

Life hacks are fucking stupid

>>7101522
ok

Toaster Oven > Toasters

>>7101534
Just like you, pussy.

>>7101296
you gotta stop, it's hard but it'll kill you
I knew a similar feel due to my parent's refusal to buy anything healthy. It certainly creates an addiction to you. In the end, I managed to quit cold turkey two big things, anything sugary/overly sweet, anything overly salted and anything even remotely overly fatty. Not saying fat and sugar have to be such an evil but chances are with your lifestyle, like mine had been, it is. Now I eat healthily and the only non-alcoholic drinks I consume is water (preferably ice cold) and tea. It's hard but in time you wont miss it.

>>7101652
i'll die anyway, might as well enjoy some grilled cheese before i do

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>>7101506
can we get more of these fuck

Why are 'life hacks' so infuriating? Why do people get such an erection over "if you do this weird thing in just this particular weird way then you can save 0.001 seconds!" bullshit rather than just learning how to do things properly and not having to learn a different trick to get every single thing done?

If we were only doing one thing then perhaps your kewl little trick would be better. But in the real world where people want to do hundreds of different things, it's enormously more efficient if we can learn a smaller number of techniques that can be broadly applied.

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She should have got one of these

>be retarded
>set something on fire
>and nothing of value was lost

>>7101708
that may be true, but I'm still looking for a way to easily open clam-shell packages.

>>7101667
Dumb fuck. You deserve what's coming to you.

>>7101754

Scissors, you halfwit.

LIFE HACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlA_YXDm9bg

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>>7101754

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>>7101817

i just use a knife. i hold the package in the air and try to pierce a hole in one spot. from there, i can slice the sides.

>>7100509
>being you
>being able to read

pick one.

>>7101875
what other reason would there be to do this?

>>7101889
Stupidity.

>>7100475
she put the cheese down, and on that, the bread

>>7101260
>For what purpose?

To turn off appliances.

Britain uses a higher household electrical voltage than most countries (230V compared to America's 120V) so most electrical things are over engineered for safety.

But it does mean that appliances such as electric kettles are more practical.

>>7101296

>grow up in single parent household
>normal weight up until i'm 7 and my mum starts to work a lot more including weekends and later into evenings
>she teaches me how to make fish fingers or chicken nuggets, chips and beans
>2 years later i'm like 14 stone

>>7101889

because toasters are better at making and toast and require less attention. are you stupid

>>7101955
But 230 is the standard in pretty much all developed countries.

>>7100543
I come from a family that doesn't eat toast that much and usually uses a panini press or the griddle to make "toast" (grilled cheese or paninis). When I moved out and met other people and found out how much toast other people eat, the need for a pop up toaster oven made sense. Some families/cultures just eat a shit load of toast (Brits come to mind, but I'm sure they're not alone) so the need for convenient and fast toast necessitates a dedicated appliance.

>>7101820


i didn't even remember this was maddox until the end breddy gud

>once I knew it was him game over

>>7101506
Tumblr.

>>7100522
It's also true for grills.

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>Greater Manchester

>>7101708
Nobody remembers them anyways, otherwise they wouldn't have to be in fucking infographics

>>7100459
Are you brain dead? Have something in the way to stop the toast from shooting out. It's obviously going to shoot out.

>>7100442
pasta

>>7100442
>griddles
busted. should of been
>grills

>>7101224
You're pathetic. I can't even believe how stupid your post is.

>>7100625
>>7100638
>>7100941
>>7101333

Japanese families use one of these every single day for the past decades, and they don't have any problems. You guys are doing something wildly wrong.

>>7103133
> should of
Should've

>>7100442
lol fucking brittards

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>>7103130
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12010433/Warning-as-toaster-sets-on-fire-after-woman-follows-Facebook-life-hack.html

>>7100610
He's an idiot, most Americans just don't drink enough tea to find one useful. I actually have one myself.

>>7103185
I can't find japanese rice anywhere

>>7103406

how bout a japanese shop

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>>7103406
It doesn't have to be nip rice you fuck.

>>7101957
You turned into 14 rocks?

>>7103406
just buy texas rice
its just rice. even the weirdest kinds of rice are pretty similar

>>7103454
>modern nationstate
>aren't measuring weights with rocks like the stone age

u wut m8

>>7103406
I can't find short grain rice anywhere

Everywhere here sells that shitty long grain Indian/Paki slop

>>7103464
i dont know why people hate on that rice
its not terrible, but it's definitely not top tier
it doesn't deserve the shit reputation

>>7103454

it's like 200lbs

>>7103464

try using that thing you use to post on the internet with. it can help you find any kind of rice you may want.

>>7100475
oil and gravity.

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>>7101694

my pleasure

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>>7101694

>>7100566
Litterally this, and aluminum foil. rarely have to clean my pans.

>>7100598
>>7100610
>>7100636
I got so fucking pissed off about the shitty plugs one day living in America. Then I watched this and realised it was completely justified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

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>>7101694
not the same, but relevant

>>7103185

Nah man, I'm >>7100941 and I was telling that OTHER guy he was using his rice cooker wrong. I'm using mine just fine.

>>7100506
you have to understand that the average person these days when it comes to cooking are #wifeymaterial level at best so of course they will be incompetent

>>7100442
I tried that and the toast launched off the counter and onto the floor, cheese down.

I felt pretty dumb, desu.

>>7103480
Them some heavy rocks m8

>>7103935
That was really interesting actually.

This doesn't surprise me at all.
Hell, when I was at uni, we would have to frequently vacate the dorms because people would burn baked beans.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU BURN BAKED BEANS?

Jesus christ. Just put the fuckers in the microwave for a few minutes or eat them cold if you can't follow basic instructions on the packet.

>>7100475
A toaster is a hollow box.
If its tilted, what would be the top, turns into a angle which traps heat.
At some point, either the plastic casing ignites, or the cheese for the bread.

So if you want to tilt your toaster, you need to make sure the heat will still escape.
If the side is flat, you need to put something under it.

>>7101029

You can make tea at least with some regular coffee makers

>>7103125
>Are you brain dead? Have something in the way to stop the toast from shooting out. It's obviously going to shoot out.

lel.. or don't fucking point it off the counter at the floor. turn it sideways and have a plate sitting there. not enough distance for it to flip cheese side down.

>>7103480
>it's like 200lbs

so you're normal now. congrats.

>>7103935

don't they have circuit breakers? poor brits, having to open their ancient plugs up and replace fuses everytime they overcook their fish sticks.

>>7105351

yes we have circuit breakers.

>>7100523
Only way to make cheese toast. I thought the slot toasters were just things of the cartoons and didn't see one until I was at a hotel when I was 11.

>>7105351
>don't they have circuit breakers? poor brits, having to open their ancient plugs up and replace fuses everytime they overcook their fish sticks.

We have both.

The circuit breakers trip first but if that doesn't work the fuse in the plug itself will burn out.

British electrical systems are the safest in the world.

>>7105345
>200lbs
>normal

I'm ashamed to share a country with you.

>>7105522
not who you are replying to but you know being a skinny bitch is the ideal fitness level right?

>>7100495
kek

>>7105517
>British electrical systems are the safest in the world.
unless you step on the plugs

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>>7100495
Fuck
Thats funny

>>7101138
So, the toaster is like a metaphor?

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>>7103947
How would one 'unthaw' something? Refreeze it?

>>7103947

holy fuck is it 2006

Here's a real life hack.

Eat a tub of yogurt in two portions.

For the second portion, you can put your cereal/fruit/nuts/etc. directly into the tub and save yourself some dishes.

>>7103935
Wow, more British nanny-statism.

A couple of you guys could use a good shock.

>>7100599
You can cook tons of shit on a panini press.


Make or buy pesto

Cut tomatoes

Use a nice fatty fish like salmon

Smear pesto on fillet, place tomatoe on pesto, wrap in tin foil, put on press for 3 mins max and bam easy dinner with a bed of rice and steamed vegs

>>7100941
Buy a pressure cooker instead of a meme cooker.

>>7100459
>>7100495
Keking hard in the break room at these. People are probably wondering what the fuck is so funny

>>7100636
>They sell electric kettles, they are just not popular.

Electric kettles aren't popular in America because at 110V it takes about five years to boil enough water for a cup of coffee.

>>7103935
>>7105351
>>7105479
>>7105517
1. The fuse/breaker in the consumer unit protects the circuit. It is fused to the maximum current for the entire circuit, which in a standard UK mains ring is about 32A.
2. Each BS1363 plug is capabable of delivering a maximum of 13A. At 230V that's around 3kW. The fuse in the plug therefore protects the flexible power cord that is plugged into the socket. The fuse is sized appropriately for the size of the wires within the cable.
3. If the device has a fuse, the fuse in the device is there to protect the device. It is sized appropriately to protect the device.

So at each step you down-fuse to only the appropriate rating. This means that if you plug in say, a 100W laptop power supply:

1. The circuit is fused to 32A
2. The cable between the socket (13A) & the device (0.5A) is fused to 3A
3. The device is fused to 0.5A

If you didn't have the fuse at the plug you'd either need all cables capable of carrying 13A max. (which would mean everything had big bulky cables) or you run the risk of the cable catching fire.

>>7108630
>People are probably wondering what the fuck is so funny

First, you have to convince yourself they give a shit about you.

>>7108639
No, yeah, they do. They fawn over me and shit.

>>7101652

Half a stalk of celery, please!

>>7107848
retard

>>7101264
underrated post

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>>7101722
>four pieces of toast in 30 minutes

I hope the firemen took her to jail for being stupid.

>>7109585
They don't have jails in the UK.

>>7109585
>firemen
>jail

You're about as bright as a wet match.

>>7109617
>>7109605


Firemen aren't militarized in the UK? Lel fucking Eurokeks!

>>7109623
How fucking ignorant are you?

>>7109644

Why would I need to know about irrelevant countries like the UK? I mean, there are actual important countries like China or Russia that are more relevant.

>>7109654
>Why would I need to know about irrelevant countries like the UK?
well, it stops you looking like a retard on internet image boards for one.....

>>7109660

>You're retarded because you don't know the petty minutiae of an irrelevant bong country

Wew, the narcissism is too much for me to handle!

>>7101754
Have you tried using a can opener?

https://youtu.be/3WHRr1w05pM

>>7101138
You kind of fucked that up.

The fat from the cheese is fuel
the coils are the heat source
and the oxygen is... oxygen.

>>7100518
My mom threw our grill away after her grandfather said it was dangerous because he got shocked by it when sticking a fork in there.

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>>7105522
I'm sorry that you're a manlet, bro.

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>>7110006
I'm sorry that you're a literal whale.

>>7100442
This is the most mom thing that has ever happened

>>7100442
You have a lot of women who will believe anything they read on fucking facebook..

>>7108638
>need all cables capable of carrying 13A max. (which would mean everything had big bulky cables) or you run the risk of the cable catching fire.
No. No you wouldn't. Electrical devices running on the same voltage with different amp requirements can use different size cables without risk of fire. You were doing alright up until you said that.

>>7101506
>Frying up some ramen with a bud here
>Waiting for it to heat up
>He pulls out an ice cube and tosses it in there