[joey_spaztard]

An acquaintance of mine has a fairly expensive Sage brand toaster that has an LED bar graph showing remaining time and an 'a bit more' button. Overall it is a nice toaster, but the linear variable resistor for the slide control that sets the toasting time has become noisy so the LEDs light up unexpectedly now and again. We are hesitant to spray aerosol switch cleaner into a food appliance, sliding the time control end to end a few times clears it for a few days.

[marssaxman]

The office I work in has that brand of toaster. The countdown timer is a nice feature, but the push-button interface seems needlessly fussy. People routinely need to be shown how it works the first time they encounter it.

Perhaps a mechanical twist-timer like this would make a nice toaster interface:

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/twist-timers/wall-mount-ti...

[adamomada]

There is another brand that works like you want it to, Breville smart toaster. It generally gets the toast to a consistent toastiness, but if you want a bit more you just twist one of the two wheels on it