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Caught Fire
by b22j26 ,Jan 27 '06
Pros: Nice looking black plastic toaster Cons: The control for darkness is to easily turned. and difficult to read.
We have, or I should say "had" a Sunbeam 3910 two slice toaster. We leave it plugged in, and covered with cloth toaster cover.
It spontaneously started up, after we had been in bed for over an hour. We heard the smoke alarm and the kitchen was filled with an acrid smoke. For some reason the toaster started and caught the cloth toaster cover on fire, which in turn melted the plastic shell of the toaster.
After unplugging the toaster and cleaning up the kitchen I plugged the toaster in and it apparently worked perfectly. I have no idea what happenend.. I do know that nothing had fallen into the toaster, and nothing had pushed the "start" lever down to initiate operation.
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