- This has been a success, nobody died. (upbeat music) Hello everybody, it's Barry here. Hope you are well. There are no mistakes with toasters, only happy little accidents. That's the only quote I've ever seen, well, it's not even the real quote, from a chap called Bob Ross. Why do I say that? Because in today's kitchen
gadget testing video, we are looking at, this
is the Bob Ross toaster, very kindly sent to me by my friend, Paul, who lives in New York. I actually met him in
Massachusetts years ago, when I worked over there,
and he sent me this. I don't know much about Bob Ross, so let's have a little summary. I see him on like internet
memes and stuff all the time. Robert Norman Ross wasn't, was (gasps), was the creator and host of "The Joy of Painting",
an instructional. Yeah, I'm aware that he does painting. I've seen that he does all this. I mean, the box basically,
it summarised it quite well. Right, okay. If I just talk over it slightly, then it's not going to
really pick up too much, and I won't really be copyright striking, 'cause I'm literally just
talking over the sound. - I'm Bob Ross. - Oh hello. Look at him. There's his little agro. - Our instructional technique. - Oh wow.
- Designed to take. - This is amazing. Well, that's pretty much it. It just means that I can
actually like put a name to a face, or toast to a face. We should be able to get his face, all being well, on to bread dough. Hello folks. Unfortunately, there's a little splodge on the screen right now. If you watch the Oreo
cookie dough brownie video, when they were cooling, I
actually filmed this video, so it's brilliant if you like
little splotches on lenses, and I do clean it before the
start and end of each video, and I think I spot it
halfway through this video. So I just wanted to interrupt
and say, sorry about that, but you kind of get used
to it after a while anyway. Cheers. And the one thing that I did see when I Google imaged Bob Ross
was that he wears a shirt, hence the only reason I
am wearing a shirt today, that's literally it, okay. Weddings, funerals, and
Bob Ross toaster videos. But I have actually opened this, because it's a giveaway for
my latest Patreon video. I've got the instructions here. It's still in the packaging, but I do sign the ones that I give away to my Patreon followers. So it's quite weird to open something up, not use it, but actually sign it. There we go. A happy little toaster, that was the best reference I could find, 'cause it's a happy
little, that's all I got. Actually, I wonder if
there's some other quotes. "Find freedom on this canvas." Maybe that's what we'll
do with some bread. "Make love to the canvas", okay. "I think there's an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us." If you saw the recent hacks video, I did the chocolate spelling, no. "Talk to the tree, make
friends with it", okay. "I like to beat the brush", right, okay, that's enough. But most importantly, safety first. I asked you guys to give me some help, in terms of making sure that I don't set my house on fire this time, and I have got myself. (groans) Well, I think it was the
first time I ever did it, I used just a travel converter, when you go on holiday, and
just stick it in the wall. That didn't change the voltage, and I had a smaller one
that you plug in the wall, that popped, literally
popped when turned it on, but this thing is a beast. It was fairly expensive. There seemed to be
loads of them at Amazon, but apparently this will
help me drop the voltage to the US needed
equivalent, so effectively, we won't have a lightsaber etching Bob's face, bless
him, onto the bread. So as always, safety first. Toaster artwork and burn mark may vary. The instructions, although there are 32 separate points, are fairly generic. I mean, it's a toaster. You have your brownness level, which is basically kind
of like your timer, which feels very flimsy,
like it might fall off. You've got your cancel button, which is gonna pop up
the pressy down thing. What's the official term for a pressy down thing on a toaster? We didn't really look at that, do we? Start knob, nope. Yes, start knob. (laughs) I've never called it a start knob. Pretty much it, but
that, that is so light. Oh my gosh. Don't put it in a bath. Don't do that with a toaster. Let's try not to set our house on fire. I really want a Barry Lewis
toaster with my face on it. That would be amazing. But I don't, I'm not confident. So this thing, we have a kettle plug. It came with three different ones, one for the EU, US and the UK. So that just goes in here. But the thing that confused me, and I'm glad that I read
the instructions on, is it's got 220 volts,
which we apparently, because this is coming in
at 220, it needs to be that. I was thinking, oh no, it needs to be 110, but apparently that would
just completely break it. House fire territory. Yep. (laughs) It feels like I'm making a
flux capacitor or something. That goes in there. Is this like the most
bizarre toaster set up ever? It's just like. (laughs) All right, so for context, like I say, it went like bright orange straight away when I did the grilled cheese toaster. Hopefully this, if we. (machine buzzing) I hear a humming. Let's start off with a
standard slice of bread. I'm not sure if this is gonna work. So there's been no smoke so far, which is always a good sign, Barry. But like the fact that we
haven't powered it up yet, which we're gonna do. We're gonna go for four. Okay, that's like a medium power. (gasps) Oh wow. That
was like a mouse trap. It clamped the bread. It clamped it. You see that? That sort of sprung and pushed the bread. (Barry sniffing) I smell smoke. Pushed the bread both sides
against the centre channel, so not against the far sides, where it is starting to go orange and heat it up. This is amazing. Oh my gosh. So it's only been about two minutes, and there's that smoke coming off, but smells more like burnt bread. I can't see, like I'll bring you back in. Look, you can't, the
backs of the bread there aren't doing anything,
but there's something happening there. Like that smoke is
getting worse, actually. I'm going to press. (groans) (toaster rattling) What? (laughs) What's going on? (angelic music) (laughs) Is that it? (gasps) Look, it's even got his eyes slightly lighter and his moustache. Oh my gosh, that's so weird. You can't see what's happening. You can see this before me, hang on. Is that any good? (Barry gasping) Oh my gosh! That is outstanding. Oh a little happy little accident. Oh I just ended up with some bread. Mm, tasty. But there is a clear difference between the two there, look. One of the heating
elements is really strong. (laughs) It's actually worked. The disappointing thing
is that, you can see, like the mouse trap where it's clamped it, this is very lightly toasted. It's not, not toasted, but
it's all this side. (laughs) Now, my backup was, if this failed, I was thinking, oh, maybe the surface is too like rough and bumpy, so I was gonna do this. So you might remember that recent video we did where we made the
three courses in a muffin pan. Bread, as we know, we rolled it together like this, it made it, you can actually join pieces together and make like a cloth. Yeah, this was kind of like my plan, because now that is like nice and smooth and flat, bump free. Is it gonna fit in the toaster? Just about, okay. I'm going to try and film it, so you see the clampage. Sounds wrong. And if I press down, watch what happens. You see? (groans) That's clamped in like
doosh, there and there. We must remember though,
it's so light and delicate, this is a very dangerous appliance. We don't want to do anything crazy, but we're actually having
fun with a toaster, and for me, I feel like
we've got something back. All right, so we're up to about the three. Oh my gosh. The three minute stage,
and it just stopped for me. That was the ability of
Bob's popping up there. Here we go. Again, I'm turning it off, so let me see the one that's by me. Oh dear. Hm. Not so good, but will this one that faces you be any better? Do we have a biassed heating element? That is still the champ, isn't it? Look. (laughs) It's amazing. Right, will it pitta? Yes, it looks like a sole of a shoe. This is a pitta bread, and it's, yeah, only gonna. (laughs) I've never understood that with toasting a pitta bread. They never fill full, not even, my standard toaster normally tastes it. But yes, well stick these
in, and I think for me, a pitta is a more stubborn type of dough, and I think we'll crank the power up to not 11, spinal tap style, but we'll go the full whack, okay? And see, I want a nice
singe mark on my pitta. Boom. We are gonna push it for the
full amount of time though. These like brownness buttons, it's just, it's not really the heat, it's just how long it's gonna stay pressed against Bob's face. This really awkward. I'm so glad that I
Googled it, but it's like, yeah, you gotta tweet him
and tell him that I loved it. Barry, he's dead. Okay, sorry. But his programmes live on, and his memory in the form of a toaster, just what he would have wanted. (Barry groaning) My gosh. It has an amazing spring sound, but it's not rising much at all. Right. Let's look at this one. No. It won't pitta. That looks like one of
Bob's trees, doesn't it? What about the one that's
been stronger, powerful? Oh, that is better. That looks like Bob's brother, Peter. Last one, let's see if we
can toast an English muffin. A perfect circle with Bob face, like a coin, stamped right in the centre. I'll turn it off. I'll turn it off. At the centre of it. Let's line it up. Make sure, the toast
tongs are helping there. On, and then down we go. Okay. That one, which is the one that is not toasting it so well, does look
like it's clamped perfectly. That one, the hair is at the top. Oh no. I love how else you're waiting, you can pretend, you can line yourself up with Bob and be like. (laughs) Smells, oh it's smoking. Oh, we've got, it's coming. (claps) Come on! Oh my gosh, I need to stop this. Oh no. Oh no. (toaster rattling) I can just see burnt
edges right at the top, and I didn't, oh gosh. I'm gonna have to dig deep here. (laughs) Yes. Yes! We've made. We've made a coin with Bob's face on it. Oh, I'm pushing that one further down, no. Oh no, it's wedged right in. Oh no, this was the better side as well, so this could be burnt. (laughs) Look. He's actually smiling on that one. Bob, we've made you your own crypto. (laughs) Bob coin. Just because it was so fun, and the bread just nailed it. It just worked so well, and I like toast that's not cold. We're gonna have it toasty, and spread butter on Bob's face. All right, Bob, this
is going to be weirder for you than it is for me. I do like toast a little
bit charred anyway, like these scorch marks, I think that's what, you
know, like with a barbecue, that's what gives it a
flavour. Not completely burnt, but there's that sort
of battleships chart, isn't there, about how do you like your toast and your coffee, and that always causes
huge debate when I post it, and I love that, but this is looking good. (toast crunching) It's toast, amazing. So in conclusion, that toaster is amazing, but you are gonna need
one of these transformers that does cost a bob or two. Sorry, we went there. This has been a success. Nobody died. It tasted good. It worked, and most importantly,
I think the best thing out of all of it was
this converter, right? So thank you to everyone that suggested that I get that particular model. It worked an absolute charm. There's some pretty rogue ones out there. I've got five or six
other American appliances in my garage that I want to test, and the other thing that's just hit me is wouldn't it be awesome, with my history of toasters, to actually have, for Bob, a Barry Lewis toaster,
where we can actually change the inside bit. Maybe my face. Maybe a grilled cheese toaster on fire, just for parody, or maybe some pugs. I think that would be amazing, so if there's anyone out there that thinks they could help me bring that to life, whether it's a fellow
YouTuber that you guys know, put us in touch together, or
you yourself, please reach out. I think that could be hilarious, because everyone needs
their face on toast. ♪ Check your level player ♪ ♪ No matter what your style ♪ ♪ The kitchen's for me ♪ ♪ Sideburns, moustache, goatee ♪ ♪ Maybe all three ♪ - In the words of Bob,
anytime you learn, you gain. I've just looked, an original Bob Ross art goes up for like a hundreds and sometimes millions of dollars. So, does this count? Can we start hanging this on our walls, as actual, authentic Bob Ross? I don't know, but hey,
this is a lot of fun, and I want to see if
it freaks my dogs out. Right, meet Bob. Have a look at my photo. No, just a look. Amy! (laughs) Give him back. Oi!
