Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of this but it sounds like just a silly fad so I would let the teen buy a cheap one with the assumption it will get little use.

They've been around for years. This one has great reviews but is $300
https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/revolution-instaglo-r180-connect-toaster/

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and I’m PP with the cheap toaster friend.

I once had an appliance person explain it to me, as we were having our expensive appliance repaired for the millionth time. Cheaper appliances are mechanical, and mechanical things don’t usually wear out as easily. They’re just parts. The newer things rely on electronics, which we all know with phones and WiFi and the like, are super glitchy and finicky and prone to problems. That same expensive appliances has electronics governing what’s probably good mechanics, but it doesn’t matter because the electronics are in change, and they are more or less always going to fail.

It was really eye opening to me that he put it that way.