I'm bored, I'm gonna say some random thing is reactionary to get y'all to have a struggle session over it. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Ummmm... uhhhhh... Toasters!

That's right toasters are reactionary! Using energy to make your bread crispy, bourgeoise decadence! Really all forms of baking are counter revolutionary, communists should only eat oatmeal!

Okay, fight about it.

Edit: we'll now that enough people have commented, I want to make a snarky edit bemoaning the fact that anyone here would disagree with me. I'm really let down by this community for not validating ever take I have and will probably stop participating here for like two days before resuming posting as much as ever.

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

You can use your oven to toast bread just fine! You don't need a specialised bit of equipment just for cooking bread!

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Okay you're like the 3 person to say this but, wouldn't heating up a whole gas or electric oven just to toast two slices of bread for a sandwich use A LOT more energy than one small machine that just heats up some small filaments? I feel like that would only be efficient if I was also baking something else at the time.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Okay you’re like the 3 person to say this

Sometimes I don't read the comments before jumping right in.

And NOW you're suddenly concerned about energy usage and wastefulness, but what about the assembely lines that poduce toasters? Not to mention all the shipping them around! An oven is a multi-purpose tool, a toaster is not. It's far less effiecient overall.

Not to mention it is discriminatory against people will small kitchens, I don't have the room for a toaster, and all you toaster-stans are making me feel bad!

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah but toasters are pretty durable, as are ovens, once you buy one you're unlikely to have to replace it for the better part of a decade. So I feel like the efficiency gain from using a toaster rather than heating up a whole oven (which also has the knock on effect of heating up your house a bit which can also be bad in warmer months) probably covers the production cost pretty quickly. IDK, kinda feel like we'd have to have an actual engineer chime in here to do a real analysis on whether using a toaster or toasting in the oven is overall more efficient or not.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I don't actually have a response to this, so I'm just going to call you an ignorant liberal so I can continue without needing to challenge my blind toaster hate.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Despite this being an anonymous site where I have no way of confirming anyone's race I'm going to argue the only reason you disagree with me is because you are white. lmayo