Toaster Museum
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee visits the virtual Toaster Museum. International Online Toaster Museum (BB Gadgets)
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee visits the virtual Toaster Museum. International Online Toaster Museum (BB Gadgets)
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Y'all wrote about this three years ago. I'm not complaining—you know how fast toaster fashions change. :)
Good catch, Waldo! Thanks! I may as well leave it, since Cory's post was focused on the toy toasters. ; )
I went shopping for a toaster and started laughing. Every darn box has a picture of the toaster with bagels. I guess it's to prove that "yes indeed potential customer, bagels fit here!"
What drives me crazy with toasters today is the Cancel button. Most of the new ones I've seen require you to hit the button to stop toasting. If I think the toast is done, just let me tug the handle to pop the bread. And don't call it cancel; it doesn't mean I don't want toast, and it couldn't un-toast the bread even if I wanted it to.
It's salvation! Toast!
@4 perhaps "Mission Abort" button? Ever watch Red Dwarf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZslRQvv5zM
Ah, the Toast-O-Lator...we had one of those when I was kid. Feed the bread in one end, and toast comes out the other. The little window in the center allowed me to watch the bread-toast as it marched through. I still remember the eerie orange glow of the heating elements through the window.
The bread usually would get stuck in the middle and just slowly bounce up and down on the conveyor, requiring us to fish it out with a fork, or prod it from behind with a butterknife. (Yes, we stuck utensils in our toasters -- carefully.)
It was kind of crappy, but I miss that toaster.
My grandparents used the a toaster like one on the left until a few years ago, when I brought them a second-hand "modern" toaster (the kind that ejects the finished toast out slots in the top instead of burning them for infinity).
@6 Red Dwarf is fantastic! I has forgotten about that little guy. And a "Mission Abort" button is even farther from what I want than a cancel button. Which I suspect was the point.
I have seen the toaster (non pop-up) in action. It's basically a bread-cage and will only do one side at a time.
Incidentally, the one I'm familiar with was filthy, caked with years of soot. Don't worry, it was "show toast". A community theatre used it for stage toast that people threw at each other in a play.