The problem is that you're trying to use a fork or your finger. Bread goes into the toaster. You're obviously supposed to fish it out with a bread knife.

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I don't know about your toaster, but mine is built so you can lift the handle slightly from the standard position, which lifts the bread mechanism and allows you to access the bread without poking into the toaster.

My toaster came with plastic tweezers.

Toaster oven. Solves this problem entirely.

Get better bread.

Use a toaster oven

Just levitate it out with psychokinetic energy, duh.

I think your toaster might be broken.... The pieces are supposed to rise half way up after it's done toasting

The solution is on your end, don't put in slices that are too thick.

There's more than one way to toast a slice.

There are toasters with wider slots:

Here's a conveyor toaster:

https://youtu.be/GEOCBukuwK4

Here's another cool, old toaster, you push a lever to flip the bread, toasts one side at a time:

https://youtu.be/ABbmJSfwMoY

This would work over your stove:

A glass sided toaster that splits in half:

https://youtu.be/Fv__lSiMmZA?t=29

Just unplug it

They sell wooden tongs specifically for this purpose.

For example:

https://a.co/d/01nKXQ7X

https://www.amazon.com/toast-tongs/s?k=toast+tongs

Gravity. Flip it upside down.

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What you need is a better toaster, like a 2 slice dualit. They are amazing, you still raise the toast when it's on and has a longer popup

If i remember correctly, this is a gimmick so you can have a romantic toast breakfast where it releases your toast at the same time (British culture, eh?).

But when I heard about it, i instead honed in on how its design provides a FABULOUS solution to getting ALL-CRUmBED-oUT, which is recurring the problem you identify in your post. See, since the sweetheart toaster suspends the toast in the air and heats on one side at a time (a more elegant solution, I may add), it doesn't trap any debris of any sort into any part of of the device at any time - Try saying that with a mouthful of jammy bread!

This particular toaster design is from 106 years ago I think.

Visual example via Redlib:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/vintagekitchentoys/comments/1kk2un4/this_is_ny_1929_sweetheart_toaster_it_works/