Toaster tech

Why hasn't toaster technology kept up with most other everyday items? The standard toaster you can buy at a store has the same knob to control how dark your toast is that it did when I was a child. I can rarely get a good piece of toast the first time with that knob, and if I change the kind of bread, or the humidity in the air changes, I'm back to square one. I know there are expensive toasters out there that do a better job, but they are not the common toaster.

Let's look at automobiles. When I first started driving, you weren't really sure if your car was going to start on a cold day. I remember many times begging my car to start in the morning. Fast forward twenty-some years and that is not an issue--I never wonder if my car is going to start in the morning now. It is commonplace with cars now that you don't have "start roulette" in the morning. Why can't we do that with a toaster?

It can't be all that difficult to inexpensively make a toaster that is automatic -- it just has to check the moisture content of the bread. I'm not asking for my toaster to butter the bread (although, I won't complain if it does), I just want it to remove the guesswork.

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