"If it's not one thing ... it's another."
Lost my Internet a week ago. Then found a puddle of water under the boiler in the basement. Faucet broke in one of the bathrooms. Just another day at the office.
The water turned out to be a pinhole in a copper elbow, so I don't need a new boiler. That's the good news. But the tech found that the expansion tank is waterlogged, so that needs to be replaced. I can replace the faucet -- but the shutoff valves don't work, so I'll have to shut off the water to the entire house while I do that job.
After a week's outage and two cancelled appointments, the cable company finally sent a tech out yesterday (Monday). 15 minute fix. Cool. Except that I woke up this morning with no Internet, so I'm back on cellular WiFi until further notice.
And then, yesterday evening, I put some fish sticks in the toaster oven and set the timer for 13 minutes. When the timer rang, I went to put my dinner on a plate ... and it was cold. So now I need a new toaster oven.
So what's a good, basic 4-slice toaster oven? The one that failed was a GE/Black & Decker. It worked "okay" as an oven, but it never toasted evenly, regardless of whether I wanted to toast one, two, or four slices. One side always burned before the other side browned. So I'd like to avoid Black & Decker. Leaving them out of the equation, who makes the best affordable, no frills toaster ovens?
