I have seen this before at resorts I have stayed at. A Thai person will take bread and put jelly on it and put it in one of the rotating toaster ovens. The jelly falls off the bread the sugar starts to burn and makes a mess of the toaster. At least 4 times I have seen this while at a resort.

Now my house maid put jelly on some bread put it in our two slice toaster, of course the jelly fell off the bread making a mess, so what did she do, she put more jellly on another piece of bread and tried it again. What gives here. Then of course she said no it wasn't me. Well either you, wife and me are the only one using this and we are not that stupid. My toaster is a mess, two days cleaning out the burned sugar off the metal.

Are these just stupid people I run into or is it something I just don't understand.

Edited March 9, 201214 yr by bonobo
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Don't be so harsh. I liken it to a birth defect. The people you are referring to (notice I don't specify nationality) have a missing gene. It is called the "what if?" gene. i.e.:

What if there is a bus coming at us as I pass another bus at high speed on this blind corner?

What if a vehicle is coming down the lane I want to pull into without even looking?

and your example...

What if I spread jam on a piece of bread and then turn it on it's side or upside down?

Happens all around the world just seems to be an intense concentration of the defect in this general area...

I don't have a toaster.

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

Toast is not a major part of Thai culture

Toast is not a major part of Thai culture

Not 100 years ago, but it certainly has been for the last 20 years. How long does it take to figure it out?

Toast is not a major part of Thai culture

Not 100 years ago, but it certainly has been for the last 20 years. How long does it take to figure it out?

Maybe they'll get it figured out this year.

Do you think that's bad , have you ever witnessed the uninitiated trying to babeque a living frog on a split stick over an open fire ? Messy I'll tell ye , messy .

Edited March 6, 201214 yr by onionluke

I swear this is a true story.

I once saw a British guy in the Ambassador hotel in Bangkok do the following at the breakfast brunch area:

1. Take two pieces of bread. Apparently he wanted a toasted cheese sandwich.

2. Spread butter on one side of both slices of bread.

3. Take two pieces of sliced cheese and put them on the two slices of buttered bread, then placed them together with the cheese inside.

4. Put the entire thing into the revolving toaster and set it on "high" (so it would "toast better" he later said).

5. And let the whole thing toast.

Of course, the cheese melted inside the toaster, ran out of the bread, and ran on to the hot toaster elements inside.

He got his "sandwich" out, but most of the two slices of cheese was "missing". Shortly afterward, the toaster began to smoke. A few of the staff came over to look at the snoking toaster. No one apparently thought of unplugging it. After smoking for a while flames began to come out of the toaster.

Then one of the staff, thinking quickly, grabbed a nearby pitcher of Orange juice and emptied on the toaster to stop the flames. That didn't work to well, but it made an impressive display of sparks when the water in the Orange juice hit the heating elements in the still plugged in toaster.

Eventially someone had the idea of unplugging the toaster...which stopped the show of smoke, flames, and steam.

Good comedy though while it lasted.

and people trying to get a piece of stuck toast out of the toaster using a knife. hair raising.

I can't post links, but if you Google toaster on it's side you will see how cheese or Jelly on toast should be done

Culture?

I don't have a toaster.

nor do you have pants it would appear

and people trying to get a piece of stuck toast out of the toaster using a knife. hair raising.

A knife??

I had the same issue as the OP with my wife a couple of years back when she tried to make toast and jam the first time. It is a big learning curve but she has the order right now so the next step is to get her to stop using a fork to put the marg and jam on with.

Don't be so harsh. I liken it to a birth defect. The people you are referring to (notice I don't specify nationality) have a missing gene. It is called the "what if?" gene. i.e.:

What if there is a bus coming at us as I pass another bus at high speed on this blind corner?

What if a vehicle is coming down the lane I want to pull into without even looking?

and your example...

What if I spread jam on a piece of bread and then turn it on it's side or upside down?

Happens all around the world just seems to be an intense concentration of the defect in this general area...

Those are the same people that get toothpaste out by squeezing near the top of the tube.

Turn the toaster on its side and try again.

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

It's sort of like farangs trying to get a handle on the Thai language. Or driving in Thailand. Or still complaining about the use of the word "farang." Sort of like that. Of course, not all farangs have these problems. And not all Thais have issues with the toast/jelly thing.

How many people here made the faux pas of tasting the water with lemon in used to clean your hands after eating seafood?

I know I did. Perhaps that was my culture?

Edited March 6, 201214 yr by Moonrakers

Two days to clean mess from your toaster. I think you need a new maid or was it you cleaning and thats why your ranting?

How many people here made the faux pas of tasting the water with lemon in used to clean your hands after eating seafood?

I know I did. Perhaps that was my culture?

You're supposed to wash your hands in that?

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

and yet another

Please tell me this comment was made sarcastically....

It's the same with butter.

It gets spead on the bread and then put in the vertical 2 slice toaster where it all runs down and burns on the base!

Don't be so harsh. I liken it to a birth defect. The people you are referring to (notice I don't specify nationality) have a missing gene. It is called the "what if?" gene. i.e.:

What if there is a bus coming at us as I pass another bus at high speed on this blind corner?

What if a vehicle is coming down the lane I want to pull into without even looking?

and your example...

What if I spread jam on a piece of bread and then turn it on it's side or upside down?

Happens all around the world just seems to be an intense concentration of the defect in this general area...

Now aint THAT the truth. The missing "what if" gene. Yup, that's got to be it. I've got to remember that one.

I'm standing at the top of this high cliff... what will happen if I take two more steps forward?

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

and yet another

Please tell me this comment was made sarcastically....

I think Samran was humoring the OP, perhaps suggesting that he'd never seen such a thing but will take the OP at his word. I've also never seen such a thing, but...

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

and yet another

Please tell me this comment was made sarcastically....

I think Samran was humoring the OP, perhaps suggesting that he'd never seen such a thing but will take the OP at his word. I've also never seen such a thing, but...

Hope so, reminds me of th Lazlo letters if anyone's familiar, heres a link to a taste

http://www.sullivansfarms.net/s1dneycom/lazlo/

Its quite funny the measures companies have to take with their products to avoid being sued by idiots.

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

and yet another

Please tell me this comment was made sarcastically....

Do tell me what I should have said so that I can hang out with the other cool kids please.

if you can afford a maid you can afford a new toaster...

You may have missed that jam and toast isn't really a Thai dish, nor are toasters commonly used, you are going to have issues with the unititated using them.

and yet another

Please tell me this comment was made sarcastically....

Do tell me what I should have said so that I can hang out with the other cool kids please.

Perhaps if you had ended your sentence with "brah" or "dude"...........

I'm sure Ralph Wiggum would have done the same with the toaster as the op's maid..

It was me cleaning out the toaster, I wouldn't let her touch the dam_n thing again. But thanks for your replies I just it just people do the stupidest things sometime and nothing to do with the culture.

Don't be so harsh. I liken it to a birth defect. The people you are referring to (notice I don't specify nationality) have a missing gene. It is called the "what if?" gene. i.e.:

What if there is a bus coming at us as I pass another bus at high speed on this blind corner?

What if a vehicle is coming down the lane I want to pull into without even looking?

and your example...

What if I spread jam on a piece of bread and then turn it on it's side or upside down?

Happens all around the world just seems to be an intense concentration of the defect in this general area...

Now aint THAT the truth. The missing "what if" gene. Yup, that's got to be it. I've got to remember that one.

I'm standing at the top of this high cliff... what will happen if I take two more steps forward?

Film at 11 Ian...