And just as an addition...
The idea that someone in the lowest income brackets can still easily afford a specialized automatic device just to brown bread says something about our system of doing things.
Incidentally, whenever I've heard these kind of complaints about the inefficiencies and cruelties of free markets--and I've heard them for years--it usually leads to some ideas on how to "fix" it. I'm kind of waiting for the other red shoe to drop... ;)