It seems that the heating element would have significant capacity to
ground since the coils cover a large area. How about measuring capacity
at the power plug, line to ground, and neutral to ground? I'd expect a
unit with a stuck switch to have considerably higher capacity. Hopefully
this is considerably higher than random variations due to cord bundling,
etc.  You could just plug the plug into a tester and not have to remove
the bag around the toaster.

Harold


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