Use a wooden fork or knife?

That bandle that you push down? Push it UP instead. This is a solved problem.

Tell your servant to reach in and pull out the toast.

Just wanna say I own a set of medium silicone-tip Tongs which are useful in general but they would be my go-to in this situation.

Also I recently saw toaster tongs somewhere for like $5 … They looked like wooden chopsticks but attached at one end

But also I haven’t owned a toaster in 20y once I discovered the Toaster Oven, which fits more toast, has more granular control, and can cook other things. My current one is like 10yo I got it for $20.

I forgot this was ever a problem actually until I saw those wooden tongs and within a week I see your post.

When my toast gets stuck like that, I just pour my beans directly into the toaster and eat it all like cereal

Most toasters you can lift the pushy-downy-handle up a bit more than it rests at to lift the toast out.

My big problem is that (in the UK at least, don’t know about other nations) the standard sized bread doesn’t fit fully in a toaster, so the top ~3cm is still bread.

The solution is almost as old as the device itself: thin wooden tongs.

Put a stronger spring in it and leave it on a slight angle toward a table at the opposite side of the room.

We have… I’m more impressed that you found a toaster that doesn’t. I don’t think I’ve had a toaster in the last ten years that didn’t give a little bit of leeway on the lever to let you pull up a little bit more to be able to grab it.

turn it upside down, clearly nothing can go wrong

Wooden chopstick(s)

Or plastic I guess, but mine are wooden

Rapidly push the lever up to eject your toast and grab it midair. Works 95% of the time

Pick up a pair of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Anti-slip-Cooking-Coating-Eco-friendly/dp/B089QQGM2Y

Just Yoink it. I have a silicone pair.

There is absolutely a Technology Connections about this.