On everyone’s toaster there are adjustable settings for the how well toasted you would like your toast. No one I know puts their setting past 5. I don’t put mine past 3. I’m not totally sure why toaster companies think that any actual person likes burn instead of toast, but they do. Maybe it’s all mind control and it’s just to make us users think that we have power.

Anways, I was curious to see how burnt the toast gets on the highest setting of my toaster.

Here I have the toaster, half of a whole wheat bun, and a watch to see how long it takes.

I set my toster to the highest setting.

Here’s a close up of the bread before I toasted it.

Here’s the bread after the toaster was finished with it.

Here’s the back side of the bread.

It took 3:25.28 minutes

Note: At the 2:20 the toaster started crackling and I was afraid that an electric fire would start. The toast started smoking around the 3 minute mark.

Peter Walker - Young Gravity