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We have a very elaborate Keurig and Electric Kettle setup in our airbnb shared kitchen - but no oven use, only a microwave. I have a toaster available and am wondering if this would be a good addition or simply a way to annoy?
We do not regularly have guests who bring supplies, but have a fridge. Would we need to supply (for example) butter?
We would probably not supply bread.
Thoughts? We are super anal about providing services, and the toaster is free to us - lmk if this addition would make senseâŚ
Have any of your previous guests mentioned that they would have loved to have a toaster? If next to nobody ever said anything (or mentioned it in a review) I wouldnât see an urgency or importance to add it.
However:
2. Adding additional amenities like a toaster shouldnât be considered as an annoyance - on the contrary: You offer the basic setup for preparing a breakfast. A toaster would be surely appreciated by some guests who take their breakfast at your place.
Beautiful set up, very thorough. Personally I would add a toaster, but the one I would add is the mini toaster/oven/air fryer. We LOVE ours as it not only toasts but you can bake stuff in it. They donât take up a lot of counter space and provide so much functionality, and arenât that expensive.
YESSS!! However - I have a toaster oven in my home area and it takes 6 or 7 mins to toast a bagel with a toaster oven, and less than 2 minutes in a toaster. It makes a big difference in your enjoyment.
But the reason I do not supply toaster ovens or fryers is that I do not want (or want to minimize) any cooking or cooking smells in my airbnb; we have a 5 day maximum and are only private rooms, so I found in the past that the less noise (also no TVs) or smells, the better experience for my guests.
@Rolf Can you explain how providing a toaster has the potential to be an âannoyanceâ?
I can certainly understand how a TV could be annoyance in a place with several private rooms (I hate having to hear a TV going in the background myself), but a toaster?
As far as providing things like butter, I wouldnât do that in a shared kitchen. I visualize the butter ending up with crumbs or jam or peanut butter on it by guests who use the same knife for all of that, making it unappealing to other guests.
Agreed - that is the main âannoyanceâ factor I see for having the toaster as well. Guests are usually ok, but the potential for a burning toast to smoke up the area, the sloppiness of the âadd onsâ, make me concerned.
OTOH, it is zero cost for me to add it at this time, soâŚ
Iâd do it and see if it really does provide the annoyance you expect. You can always remove it and since it doesnât cost you anything, why not try it?
Well, if guests provide their own butter, it doesnât matter if they get crumbs, etc. on it, as it wouldnât be a shared item.
I suppose a guest could burn their toast, but itâs probably not all that likely. (Although I had a friend back in junior high school who used to ask her mom to burn the cookies, because she liked the taste, which was weird)
Just provide the toaster and leave the âtoppingsâ to the guests. We provide sunflower seed and olive oil for cooking and itâs unreal how many guests ârequireâ other oils to cook and donât touch the ones we provide.
Iâd expect the same with any butter @Rolf would provide. Some guests prefer salty butter, others sweet or it has to be churned within the last 2 hours to please the guestâs palate. Itâs a minefield.
A classic toaster increases your chances to gain crumbs everywhere. But can be a nice addition for your guests. If you donât offer breakfast - better donât supply anything more than coffee/tea/sugar/condensed milk. In my area you need a secondary authorization to provide food, itâs risky for you. One day a guest will say that he got blisters from the food in the fridge⌠So be prepared with expiry date of the butter
I have a whole rental and the kitchen has a toaster. I would say that 9 out of 10 guests use it. When I have stayed at Airbnbs with a kitchenette with a toaster, I do use the toaster. Especially if thereâs a grocery store nearby, I will buy bread and have toast in the morning. I personally think it would be a nice amenity.
I find the same. Although our apartments have full kitchens, guests on vacation often donât want to spend ages cooking, so toast (with butter and marmalade preferably) is a perfect breakfast.
Every toaster Iâve come across has a tray in the bottom to remove crumbs so doing that, and giving the body of the toaster a wipe-over takes less than a minute. yet offers a good amenity for guestsl.
Be sure to see if your electrical supply will support it. Itâs likely a toaster would be used at the same time as your Keurig or another appliance, and that might trip the breaker. Kitchens are (well, they should be) designed with extra circuits for lots of appliances, but your kitchenette might not be.
Well, it depends on who designed the kitchen as to whether it has or should have extra circuits for lots of appliances. I designed my kitchen, and it is all on one circuit because I donât have nor want lots of appliances. I have a toaster, a blender and a coffee grinder, thatâs it.
Thereâs code in the US for how many outlets and circuits kitchens need. I havenât read it recently, but Iâm pretty sure your single circuit wouldnât meet US code. (I know you are in Mexico and they probably have different rules.)
We have three 20amp GFI protected circuits feeding 6 outlets over the countertops; yes, serious overkill, but SO glad we spent the money for the correct electrical.
Thatâs for sure. Like none. When my house was built, I did have to get a building permit, and someone from the building dept. came around, but all they were interested in was that the square footage didnât exceed what was stated on the building permit. There were no electrical, plumbing, or any other kind of inspections.
The shop I rented in town for many years for my upholstery business had only two plugs in 2 12x12 rooms and they werenât even grounded. Why pay for 3 wires when you can get away with only 2?
That said, my house was wired to US codes by a licensed American electrician who lives here, aside from not having as many circuits and plugs as might be required up north. And never had any electrical issues, including no overloaded circuits or blown breakers in the 16 years Iâve lived here.
I designed my kitchen, and it is all on one circuit because I donât have nor want lots of appliances. I have a toaster, a blender and a coffee grinder, thatâs it.