It's not broke. I unplugged my entire room and it now works fine. Is there an electrician who can explain?

    At the end of this toaster oven trilogy, it all works fine now even with everything else plugged in. My only guess is the light misty rain that fell on it when I brought it home did something wacky to it.
    I'm not leaving that thing plugged in when I'm sleeping, and I'm buying a fire extinguisher.
    If anyone has advice on obtaining a low watt toaster oven, I'm listening.

    packrat Maybe it broke something connected to the low power coils at the bottom. If anyone has advice for poking inside a toaster oven without breaking what's left, I'm listening.

    I wouldn't be too concerned about breaking it further, but I would be concerned about getting electrocuted by the transformer or some capacitors in there so unless you know how to be safe, I wouldn't poke it.

    packrat It's not broke. I unplugged my entire room and it now works fine. Is there an electrician who can explain?

    Might have had some charge in it that was dissipated after unplugging.

        packrat It's easy to live on 30 dollars for a month, just go to walmart and buy 5 lbs of brown rice, 8 lbs of beans. A quart of tomato sauce. 5 lb bag of flour with baking powder and oil. A box of macoroni noodles. 5 lbs of potatoes. A bag of carrots. A large tube of old fashioned oatmeal, might need 2. That's probably more than 30 dollars. Make stew with the potatoes, carrots and sauce. Cook beans ahead and keep them in the refrigerator. Basically, you use beans for meat, I eat pinto because they kind of taste like meat. If it's more than thirty eliminate some of it like maybe carrots and noodles. You can just basically eat biscuits, beans and oatmeal, but it would get pretty old.

          Not an electrician, but maybe the toaster's wiring is faulty. Has it a metal casing ? Watch the fuses, especially the RCD if it triggers, e.g. when you touch the switched on toaster.

          And tell your brother that if a switch doesn't work, it just doesn't work. Trying to make it work will break it.

          Uh, do you have access to a garden ? I could share a few recipes for green stuff :-)

          You can live off of nothing but ramen noodles. Actually, you can get udon from the supermarket, this one cost like $5 and it tastes like the real thing.

          Kind of expensive if you're on a budget, but the normal ramen you can get for cheap in the 6 pack.

            cybereality Ramen noodles aren't too bad, but those sauce packs don't taste the best. I just bought a pack a while back to decide if I should take it camping, but changed my mind. Lot better off with whole grains like whole wheat flour, brown rice, and oatmeal, if you add beans you get a fairly balanced meal high enough in protein so you don't feel like you are starving.

              You have to get the Korean ones. They are way better quality.

              Kojack Probably good but it's like 400 calories. If you are 6 ft you need about 2000 a day minimum. I make about a cup and 1/4 of dry brown rice with a nice sized piece of chicken and about a cup of stir fry veggies. That would be like an entree.

                Coincidentally, looking in my pantry:

                It is a bad idea to eat pizza left over in a toaster oven from a fuzzily remembered night. My stomach is uncomfortable.

                That just means that your body is absorbing the nutrients.

                I have a question at last related to game development. It's related, I promise.
                What's your favorite fur pattern? Maybe not even fur, any color pattern you can find on an animal. I'm out of ideas and all I got is calico spots, tiger stripes, and different shapes of that tuxedo belly pattern.

                  @Megalomaniak It is disgusting.

                  @cybereality There's a pitch black one in the cat colony in the road where I live momentarily, with bright orange eyes.

                  So that's my suggestion to @packrat :-)

                  Could also be a sky dome from a mouse pov ...