My toaster just triggers the toast catapult when he's done with his thing. Noise notifies me, toasted bread flies around, what's not to like?

My rice cooker plays twinkle twinkle little star and I always dance to it when it’s done.

Does it require a Bluetooth connection? Lol I wish that was entirely a joke question

as if the house rattling launch of the toast wasnt enough to tell you, your neighbors, and the russian seismograph monitors on the other side of the world that the toast was ready.

All of my Korean appliances sing the songs of their people once they have accomplished the most menial of tasks.

Mine goes ding. Still has the mechanical clockwork timer switch with a bell in it.

but think: what if you could tell the toaster what tune to play?

and what if the toaster played La Llorona instead anyways, in different styles every morning, because The Toaster has better taste in music than you

Wouldn't help the people in the office that go toss a bagel in the toaster then never come back for their burnt charcoal that got stuck because it was too plump to pop up

beepn't. Excellent.

Yeah I just moved from an apartment with a washer like that. It's cute for the first 2 seconds, the first couple of uses. After a while it feels almost passive aggressive

Okay cool. Allow me to turn it off without a super complicated process.

i prefer the tactile vibration with "button" presses, but that takes more battery than a beep. i'd rather have the battery life.

my favorite science fiction future I/O bullshit was from Mass Effect, where you could have little haptics implanted in your fingers, what would vibrate on "impact" with the virtual panel (yes, i read allllll the journal and codex entries can you tell). one of the reasons i like science fiction is some of those dreams (the well-dreamt ones, anyways) eventually become realistic.

That kind of beeping is fine by me. What I hate is when it's done it will beep every few seconds indefinitely.

keep track of which goes where

Is it a legit repair if you don't have some parts left over after reassembling? 🤔

Is there no need to replace it with a resistor of equal value?

Yeah! Yeah! CUT ITS FUCKING LEGS OFF!

Will it still work even though there's no longer a connection across where the beeper used to be? Got a toaster that beeps so high that even our cat gets freaked out

if only they used the same damn knobs they used in the 1980s. what measured analog resistance instead of checking for bumps and shit. there's a damn chip in there, use it to convert the analog to digital. the analog dials have SO MUCH BETTER tactile response.

My 20 year old microwave has multiple beeps? Like soft ones when you press stuff, a couple of loud ones when it's done. Some acoustic feedback is nice.

My recent kitchen appliances just beep the same volume regardless of what's happening. To loud when using the device, to soft to properly notify you when completing a task. That air fryer experience hits close to home. Fuck modern appliances. Although my new washing machine is a shitload more efficient.

I don't want smart tech, I want old fashioned pre 2008 dumb tech. Just make it home assistant compatible, kthx.

Rage the fucking machine?

How dare you.

Maybe so, but give me a way to turn off the beeps then. I'm not disabled, and don't need my airfryer to yell at me for every single minute I adjust its timer.

What's wrong with making it optional?

I can't use half my kitchen when having a migraine.

I await your explanation of how the second and fifth beeping after a microwave stops is accessibility or safety. Other than the designers conflating microwave ovens and oven ovens.

and like all accessibility features they should be removable

Does not help. If you don’t notice the burner is hot, you’d think the flame would be obvious. It’s not

My new stove beeps when it is on but there’s no pan which seems like a good idea at first, but that means it yells at me when I pick a pan up such as to help the butter or oil spread around

It is a nice fryer, but what you are telling is exactly the behaviour of mine. Also, I have tinnitus, beep yeah.

it's set to "my phone lives in my purse and my purse lives in a closet and i close that closet door as soon as i get home"

What about a smoke alarm?