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Murray_PhD t1_j0b9o9s wrote

A toaster that gets hot enough, fast enough, to toast a slice of bread, would likely be so hot that it would carbonize the bread (fancy term for burn the shit out of it lol.)

You would need to lower the pressure greatly for the water to boil that quickly, without risk of rapid deconstruction of your kettle. Even then when you went to poor it out it would cool rapidly because of that pesky law of thermodynamics and the fact that it boils at a much lower tempature at the lower pressure levels.

tl:dr Physics!

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_j0blm5i wrote

Well, duh, you obviously need to use a 4-dimensional toaster to evenly deliver toasting all over the bread thickness, then it won't carbonize.

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Murray_PhD t1_j0db6a6 wrote

Well, I never thought about that. I mean, would a slice of toast fit in a four-dimensional toaster? Would you need a four-dimensional piece of toast?

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_j0dd61t wrote

You talk like you've never seen a 4-dimensional toaster!

Obviously the toaster itself is regular, it's the heating element configuration that delivers the power in 4 dimensions thanks to the Physical Effect of the Updog.

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