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As you know my husband gave me the toaster to end all toasters for Christmas. Leverless, digital and to be honest, pretty full of itself.
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I say this because my husband came home from running an errand the other day with this:
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A fancy stainless steel expandable dish drainer…
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With a removable cutlery holder, knife slot, cutting board rack and multi position drain spout.
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Did we need an expandable stainless steel dish drainer with a removable cutlery holder, knife slot, cutting board rack and multi position drain spout?
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We did not.
But I’m guessing that fancy new toaster was embarrassed by the old Rubbermaid drainer and told the husband to kick it to the curb.
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River's world..... 
I do, I do! I have a cheapy expandable dish drainer. Works well enough, I was too cheap to go for the fancy one. No, I don’t have a dishwasher (nor do I want one) but I’ll take that fancy dish drain rack any day.
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It’s funny.. the people who lived here before us removed three drawers and put in a dishwasher. When we moved in we removed the dishwasher and put back a cabinet with a sliding shelf. I don’t like them either.
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Ahh, when I had my kitchen renovated 3 years ago I had them remove the dishwasher and put in a trash bin drawer/cabinet howsoever they call it – it’s a small kitchen in an apartment and I needed places to put things not some dishwasher that I would never use – there is only the 2 of us? Everyone who worked on the kitchen said ‘But I never heard of anyone taking a dishwasher out!” Yeah, well it’s MY kitchen and it needs to work for me…
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There’s only two of us as well, a dishwasher just doesn’t make sense in a small kitchen.
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We run the dishwasher we inherited periodically to make sure it is still good-to-go, but it is so conveniently located it actually became the dish drainer. Load the hand-washed dishes on those racks. I think we’ve had the same toaster since the 80’s…
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How is that possible? I think this is our fifth since we moved in here alone…
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Sure . . . blame the toaster. 😀
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I have to. It’s such a fussy thing…
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The toast status checker is what’s missing in my life! 😂
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Okay most of the stuff that you get I know you can do without. If that toaster is being snobby, chuck it into the basement for now, lol. I am going to look for that expandable dish rack as I have very limited counter space (for now) and that’s actually something I could use.
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To be honest it’s not that great. Bowls don’t stack properly and the cutlery holder is in the wrong spot. I usually slide my drainer in the sink when I’m done but you can’t with this one. And if you don’t extend it properly, water leaks out the back. A good waste of $50 in my opinion.
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$50!!!!!! Never mind I’ll stick with my microfiber dish dryer. That’s a bit much for a dish rack!
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Actually I think it was $55… plus tax.
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😵💫
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I did some research on your toaster. Yeah. It is patented by some guy name “Elon Musk”, and it was tested in outer space. Actually, it LAUNCHED the spaceship all by itself (see the third button from the left, marked “launch”?), and was programmed to place the toaster in a perfect synchronous orbit so that it could track all the other like toasters for a future “toast” rebellion. You are now ground zero.
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*gulp*
If I suddenly stop posting, you’ll know why.
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The husband and I watched this. I would prefer a gift certificate to the health spa for the day, y’know. I will have to let him know. I would advise letting your hubby know, also.
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I’ve been married for 39 years, he knows. I’ve literally told him – don’t buy me appliances! And yet, the toaster.
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.Don’t blame the husbands, per se. Blame the men who have to buy every new gadget that comes out. I don’t do gadgets. The first toaster I ever used you had to turn the bread around to toast both sides. The first dish trai er I used was called a tea towel. I still use them.
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Drainer, not trai er.
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The funny part is, he’s not a techie. Hates the computer and curses his iPhone daily. But if it’s an appliance? He wants every extra feature.
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Cuz he thinks you really want them, even if you say no. He wants your life to be easy as possible.
Tell him I said to wise up! Listen! Your wife doesn’t lie to you! (Do you?)
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It’s more a classic case of him buying what he likes instead of what I’d want. He’s totally in love with the self closing microwave door.
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In love, no. Obsessed, yes! It is easier to be obsessed than in love. You don’t have to expose your inner self to a toaster.
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e recently removed the dishwasher in favor of storage. The dish drainer has some benefits, but it seems a little over the top.
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My toaster is one small step up the evolutionary ladder from the base model. It holds two slices and has the little lever you push down to get started. The thing that makes it better is that , if your toast is too light, you can drop it back down and it won’t pop back up in ten seconds. Hooray.
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If this toaster made the perfectly toasted slice I suppose I wouldn’t mind, but it doesn’t .
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Roger that.
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As I watched the husband use our regular ol’ toaster this morning, I couldn’t help thinking, “What a letdown.”
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Which button do you press for the toaster to butter the toast ?
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I believe that’s next year’s model..
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That Toaster is actually pretty cool although a bit much. When I moved in my mobile home, I took out the Dishwasher and replaced it with a cabinet. Like most, I needed the storage area, more.
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If it lived up to the hype and actually made perfect toast I’d understand , but to be honest our old toaster was better.
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I had a toaster but gave it up for a toaster oven. Then I missed the actual toaster, so I gave up the toaster oven for a toaster. Now I miss the toaster oven again.
I might be the exact type of consumer the toaster folks are targeting.
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It shouldn’t surprise you to know my husband gave me a giant expensive toaster oven with all the bells and whistles… convection, air fryer etc… a few years ago. I’m running out of counter space.
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Oh dear. I wonder about how humanity would evolve with this sort of stuff. No arms, no legs because there’d be no need.
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I remember your special, fancy toaster! Do you use it much?
Dish drainers. I remember those but didn’t think people still used them. That one looks super fancy too.
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We use the toaster all the time, can’t say it makes superior toast though.
As fur dish drainers… we took our dishwasher out years ago from lack of use.
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