reminder that there's a video where Barry Lewis tries a US grilled cheese toaster on European mains power and it just catches fire https://youtu.be/H66Fbg9nrk4
@noiob I'm surprised it seemed to work at all, and not sure how I feel that anyone can think just plugging something in from the US (that's not a phone charger or something else marked for 240V) is ok.
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@noiob Now I'm morbidly curious on what would happen if you plugged something like a 240v toaster into an American outlet.