I used an intelligent toaster of $ 400 to make pop tartes and all I had was a stomach pain

As much as I like my smart fortune house, the idea of a house where everything is connected to the Internet is sometimes at the borde of the absurd. At the age of today, we have everything intelligent: intelligent refrigerations, intelligent ovens, smart vacuum cleaners, intelligent microwaves, intelligent coffee makers and, of course, the venerable intelligent toast. These are stories of the latter with whom I will delight you today, because I know that you are just burning inside (word game), without knowing if you should throw your machine to grill in the trash in the trash and take a giant step and loaded with crumbs in the future.
To help us explore the said future, we have before the R180 Connect more of the Revolution and an intelligent toaster. Like any intelligent gadget that deserves to be mentioned, the R180 focuses on a giant slapped touch screen on the front of the toaster. This is where the intelligent comes into play. Here you will find all kinds of mesh options which include 38 types of bread lightening the eyes, all with seven cooking levels displayed in variable brown shades. To be honest, I did not even know how many different things there were in Toast until I started to exploit the pages of the R180. There is an option for white bread, of course, but also waffles, hamburger breads, English muffins, bagels and (my favorite big bagels). There is even an option for pancakes, which, in my opinion, can be bought frozen at the store, a fact that I did not know. And speaking of frozen stuff, there are options when you become grilled to cook something fresh, frozen or to warm up.
Revolution R180 Connect Plus Smart Toaster
You don’t need an intelligent toaster. Nobody does it.
Pros
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He grills bread!
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A lot of parameters
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No more frightening jump with toasts
Disadvantages
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It’s $ 400!
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Some intelligent features do not relate to toast
It is difficult to say what separates all these options from each other, but it is clear that the revolution has focused on the heating element of the R180 and not only on flashy screen stuff. This is attested by the fact that this toaster has a heating technology protected by copyright called Instaglo, that the revolution claims to be “heated in seconds” and has bread rather than roasting life. The subtlety of the R180 heating coils is supposed to grill the outside of the bread without drying it, depending on the revolution, and I will say, at first glance, the coils are different from your trivial toaster. Namely, they are lighter and hailed, which can be the way they become so hot so quickly. And as for the assertion that he grills bread without drying him, I think he does a decent job, but not all the time.

For your white toast bread and butter (I will see myself for this double hearing), it does a good job. The brioche that I cooked with the adjustment of the “white bread” was pleasant and golden outside using the default cooking parameter, but was actually a little scorching inside. However, when I changed this “gluten-free” setting, it sort of burned the shit of bread, although it may be more to do with bread than the toaster. It did a good job with pop-tarts, but let’s be honest, it’s quite difficult to spoil. Unrelated to the fence process, I ended up with a belly pain, but I think that is what is supposed to happen when you put as many conservatives in your body. This level of variability between the results of the toast, although it is not ideal if you do not choose the right setting, is a kind of sign that the toaster works. There are Differences in predefined toast parameters and they have a demonstrable difference on the final product. I will give you an example.
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For shit and laughter, I decided to try to grill a piece of brioche bread under the framework of craft bread. I mean, what is “craftsman”, anyway? How to know who made this bread? Maybe it comes from a family of bakers in Brooklyn. Maybe there is an independent bread seller ranging from door-to-door trying to cultivate their gluten empire. Never mind. Maybe I was folding the rules. The important part is that I tried it, and the results were … smoked. Trying to grill the brioche under the framework of the artisanal bread was not a good idea, because it started to burn the toast to the point that I canceled the function early for fear of smoking my office kitchen. On the one hand, Yikes, but on the other, there is clearly a major difference in heat and timing between the parameters that makes the presets more suitable for certain things. And that’s all the fucking point.

Overall, I tested three different things: POP Tarts (because there is a specific pastry adjustment for that), gluten -free bread (there is also a frame for that) and white brioche bread. He did a fairly decent job toasting the three and was responsive when I selected the level of the brown. I don’t know who needs to optimize their pop-tart grills, but if it’s your jam, then your time has finally arrived. An unexpected wire advantage with this thing is that there is no fear of jump. When you press “Start” on the screen, the bread goes down to the depths of the toaster like Han Solo Post-Carbonite. Similarly, when the toast is finished (there is a countdown on the circle on the screen, and it flashes the last 10 seconds like the Times Square ball is about to fall), it rises, born again as a slightly burned bread.

Again, as for any appropriate intelligent device in 2025, there are a lot of things you absolutely need, but as the Internet is inside this thing … why not, I suppose. One of those things you don’t really need is time. When you enter your city in the toaster, you can get a local time. Revolution claims that this toaster does not collect data on you, although I cannot check whether it is true or not. If you buy this intelligent toaster, you will just have to believe in their word. Another intelligent frivolous but fun functionality (I suppose?) Is a digital photo album that you can define to browse the photos when you are not busy grilling things. I downloaded a part of myself on the toaster using the QR code provided, and, honestly, is this screen rather nice? No one needs it, but this toaster is not Total socket. Good work, revolution!
One thing I don’t like in smart features is that there is no way to do certain things via an application or a kind of web interface. The use of the touch screen works surprisingly well, but sometimes there are things you prefer to do on your phone, like enter your Wi-Fi network. When I went to enter my Wi-Fi desk in the toaster, he said he was connected, but I couldn’t really go online because of additional security. With a phone, I may have been invited to enter the necessary identification information and I could have connected without using my colleague’s hotspot. It is a minor complaint, to be clear. Most people do not encounter this problem because they will define these things at home, but the option of using a phone or other device would have been good.

I’m going to be honest, I don’t know what someone wants to get out of an intelligent toaster or if someone wants something at all. There are mainly two camps of people when they witnessed the R180. One of them is intrigued (that is to say, wow! What is it?) And then slightly entertained by the existence of an intelligent toaster. The other is almost viscerally offended as intelligent devices have gone as far (that is to say, do we really need to reinvent toast?). One of my friends told me that he “had to go to the doctor” after being published on my Instagram. Regardless of the camp to which you belong, the two share one thing: they are just as disgusted by the price.
This, in the end, is a toaster of $ 400, and there is simply no bypass. For everything he does properly, or done uniquely, no one needs an intelligent toaster, and no one needs to spend hundreds of dollars of grilling bread. Okay, maybe if you buy one of those Japanese fantasy that steam at the same time (these are in particular $ 100 less than that, by the way). But if you want one, who should I stop you? You can type and slide your way into shiny happiness. I will be on the touch of transforming the bread into this pretty, old -fashioned, a fried grilled jumper at the same time.
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