Polishing up Dualit toaster flanks

T-Cut?

But why are you polishing your toaster like a crazy person?

Dismantle it (they’re properly fully rebuildable) and get it on a buffing wheel. It’ll shine like a Kirby vacuum cleaner. Wouldn’t want to do it assembled as you’ll get bits of polish and mop inside everything.

Bar keepers friend would return it to how it was.

It's great stuff. Will take off the burn marks etc no bother.

And clean the burnt bits on the glass hob etc.

And the kettle.

And any stain on the worktop.

Peek cleaning paste or Method stainless cleaner; apply either with soft cloth and for initial wipe.
To finish E-cloth stainless.
Sorted!

Barkeepers friend is amazing stuff.

Ta, the center part is stainless but the flanks are aluminium so wanted to get a few ideas on chemicals before I ruined either part, or both, as would be usual.

The Peek stuff looks like it'll do both

silver brasso will polish it up to mirror finish. It worked for my laptop.

Pink stuff, very cheap, very good but I can’t remember where from. Poundland, Home Bargains? I’ll ask my wife but I’ve found it a lot better than Autosol but probably not as nice smelling when the exhausts warm up!

Never mind a like button, we should have some sort of ‘peak STW this week’ voting button. Name dropping toasters. Polishing toasters. Obscure cleaning product appreciation. This thread has it all.

I’d post a photo if I knew how to do it. Anyway Pinkstuff, all you need to know, about £2, buy the white version from caravan suppliers and it’s about 8 quid! Polishes my kettle a treat!

Charlie should do a deal to stock some of the cleaning products in the STW shop.
STW own brand!
You lot would clean up!!

You lot would clean up!!

I see what you did there.

This would be so far down my to-do list. It's scary to think of all the things you must already have achieved before this comes up next.

Hmmm, now the growing season is over, maybe I should have a go at polishing my asparagus steamer. </peakstw>

I use ash and moist news paper to clean the glass on the log burner. Wonder if that would work on the toaster?

My gran never had a toaster. She used to use the eye level gas grill. Best tasting toast ever.

Is that singletrack enough?

That's patina built up over years of use!

Polish it up and people will think you are 'new money' and you'll be ostracized from your social circle. 🙂

Obscure cleaning product appreciation.

Wait what?

None of the things mentioned are obscure?

I used bar keepers friend on my toasting fork but only the show fork I dangle from my rucksack. The everyday user I keep hanging up next to my wood fired toasting oven.

Bar keepers friend would return it to how it was.

The other half loves a bit of that on the hobs...

the center part is stainless but the flanks are aluminium

I'd go brushed aloominum. Classy flanks.

Slightly embarrassed but, inspired by this thread, I polished up my toaster at the weekend. I used Hob Brite as we already have it for cleaning the stove. It was very, very satisfying. The toaster came up like new, even the scorched/rusted bits right on the top.

I need to get out more.

I'm about to try the stuff I have for cleaning the hob too. 🙂

Ooh - that's done the trick. used it on the flanks too. Looks like new as frank says. 👍😎

It's very rewarding isn't it?

It is indeed - I keep admiring it as I walk past! 🤣

I use ash and moist news paper to clean the glass on the log burner.

Hold on a second...what kind of ash? 🧐

Gentlemen, thankyou. there was not time today to give my own a quick tidy. I was considering Autosol as it's about the easiest thing to get hold of, then was going to give Hob brite a go...but it weirdly looks like they've stopped making it. Astonish look like they do a pound shop copy so I'll grab some in the morning and hope for the best!

Hoping to get before and after photo's up before the end of the week. 🙂

Hold on a second…what kind of ash?

Ash ash, obviously.

Inspired by the reference to here on the show tea towel thread we've just polished our toaster. Only got so far with stainless steel polish but bar keeper's friend fully sorted it.

It's only a Breville, not a Dualit, so I'm too ashamed to post a photo

I've often wondered why toasters can be turned up so high as to cremate the contents being toasted. Is there a culinary need to spread butter on charcoal 😕

Depends what you're toasting. Boggo sliced white will toast if you leave it near a window. Sourdough needs a good blast, and that dense dark seeded rye stuff that comes in a loaf about the same size and shape as a housebrick, only heavier, is almost immune to heat

Crumpets don't really toast until they are nearly on fire so need at least one round at maximum.

Polishing a toaster, I really have heard it all now.

Bugger it, I'm not too embarrassed to polish my toaster (not a euphemism) - as posted in the tea towel thread:

I’ve never felt more “peak STW” than this moment – guess what I was doing earlier…

No show tea towel though.

My gran never had a toaster. She used to use the eye level gas grill. Best tasting toast ever.

Wrong, Aga cool plate with toast made from my mum's wholemeal bread - we even ground the flour bitd too

Polish the toaster?
I don't even like emptying the crumbs out.
Weirdos.

That grouting needs sorting ASAP. 😉

I’ve often wondered why toasters can be turned up so high as to cremate the contents being toasted

Also how the toasting scale...depends.

You've just had some perfectly done toast out of it at number 3 on the dial, so you go again at number 3.

But oh no. The toaster technology is unable to account for the preheating of the last batch and your next number 3 toast comes out like a piece of charcoal.

3 is not always 3.

Toaster scales

My ex MOD Dualit is on its 2nd set of elements still. The army trashed it. I bought it late 80’s for £20 and cleaned it up. Needed one element so they’d retired it.
White (cream?) painted ends. No modern polished alloy here.
Still going nicely although I note that the later elements aren’t as “toasty” as the 80’s originals IMO.

mrsheen - given your user name I was hoping for something more informative from you.
Disappointed.

The last time I took apart a Dualit toaster to give it,"a dig out", there where two nicely cremated mice in the thing.
Mice removed, Dualit cleaned within an inch of his life and put back into action.
Was in the kitchen of R23 for those in the know.

They're my flanks and I'll do what the bloody hell I like with them thanks very much!
A year on they could do with another going over, and those 3 elements still need replacing...at the moment I'm getting one and a half slices per go (from a 4 slide toaster)

I may try Peek rather than autosol this time around, the previous rubbing was not really up to scratch