Get a piece of bread into a toaster

Task stats

Points

12

Disquals

2

• Martin initially takes the toaster outside and tries to throw the bread straight in, before realising he needs some kind of funnel to assist it. He tapes a tennis racket, a plank, and a child's plastic spade to the handles of a wheelbarrow, and angles them towards one of the slots to serve as guides. However, they do nothing to help him get the distance or trajectory right, and he just ends up throwing slices of bread between them, and missing the toaster. He takes the toaster back inside and puts it on the floor in the kitchen, using the wall behind it as a backstop. He throws multiple slices of bread at it but is unable to land any on target. He then asks Mark to stand next to the toaster and help nudge the bread into one of the slots with his hands. After many unsuccesful shots, one slice eventually bounces of the wall, then off of Mark's hand, and lands in the toaster. Of course, using Mark breaks the rule about the contestants' 'sole responsibility', so Martin is ultimately disqualified.
• Simon heads to the shed to collect supplies, and claims to have competed professionally in 'toast immersion'. Using string and wire, he is able to rig up a pulley system, attached to the lampshade above the toaster, so that he can smoothly lower a slice of bread into the toaster from a distance (at least, as far away as the string he is using will allow). His total distance is not specified, but he earns second place in the task.
• Julie takes the toaster out into the garden, and suspends a slice of bread over one of its slots with string, from a tree. She then places a couple of sparklers along the top of the bread so that, once lit, they will burn the string, releasing the bread into the toaster below. Lighting one of the sparklers, she then runs as far away from it as she can, while Mark keeps an eye on it. Unfortunately, the bread is not released smoothly when the string burns, and simply falls backwards to lie across the top of the toaster, rather than into the slot. Julie therefore fails the task, and earns zero points.
• Identifying that the task brief specifies 'a piece' of bread, rather than 'a slice', Eva decides to use a water gun to squirt breadcrumbs into the toaster from a distance, using a piece of colourful card as a backstop for the toaster slot. Lasse accepts her interpretation of the task brief, so her distance of 6.85m is accepted, and she earns third place.
• Sebastian immediately decides that he is going to lower a piece of bread into the toaster on fishing line, from a high place. He takes the toaster and bread to a fire station, and goes up in the basket of a fire engine's crane arm to a height of at least 30m. He then lowers a slice of bread using fishing line, with Mark guiding him from the ground, and is able to get it into a slot. In the studio, Lasse congratulates him on his teamwork, hinting at the fact that perhaps he did not have 'sole responsibility' for getting the bread into the toaster, with a fireman operating the crane, and Mark guiding from below. He gives Sebastian the opportunity to take all the credit for the success, which Sebastian duly does, avoiding disqualification, and winning the task.