The humble toaster doesn't last forever. Eventually the element which spends its life browning, crisping & sometimes burning, ceases to light up.

The death of a toaster generally tends to coincide with the point when you finally become comfortable with the little control on the side which determines how long before it fires the contents airward.

In the case of the latest extinct machine, to cook two slices of thick raisin toast required the control on "four" & once it popped, you flip the toast, go again & the end result was perfection. My morning objectives were built around this process & now it's completely ruined by a new foreign toaster.

To be conservative, I started with the new toaster on "three" & went out to get the paper as normal. I can then usually unwrap the paper & get a glass of water before the old one popped. A few minutes later, this toaster was still toasting & eventually, I just had to manually pop it & keep checking on the progress.

Based on this simple analysis, "three" is now a longer time period than "four" & my mornings are buggered until I can adjust.

Why don't the numbers on the control represent minutes, instead of some random numbering between cold & cremated? Is that too much to ask?