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I have yet to encounter a toaster built to hold a full slice of bread.
The act of toasting results in a slice of mostly-toast; a sorry chimera with the body of toast, and the head of bread. It is not meant for this world, and is to be done away with immediately.
Of course, as the toastmaster,
I always have the option to set up a toast workflow whereby bread is half-toasted, then turned upside down and the toasting finished - but this takes time and constant supervision of the toasting apparatus, thus, I propose my 100% toasting machine.
The device consists of a rotating drum to which can be attached four of the aforementioned toasters, at regular 90 degree intervals. These toasters point toward the centre of the circle.
When bread is placed into one toaster and the toaster activated, the bread is held in place by toast clamps (so far, so standard).
Over the course of the toasting, the drum rotates by 180 degrees. As the first toast is completed, the toaster pops, firing its half-toasted payload into the opposing (empty) toaster.
By means of some simple automation, the secondary toaster can be activated without the toastmaster's supervision, allowing them simply to wait until such time as they can hold their plate in the centre of the drum and receive fully prepared toast.
(?) Extra wide toaster
http://www.google.c...BQ&ved=0CPEBEPMCMAc
Will even toast sourdough slices. $16.00 (£10.18) [Klaatu, Nov 17 2011]
Low-Wattage Rasterized Scanning Toaster
For [kamathln] [pocmloc, Nov 20 2011]
In fact there's an entire category for this stuff.
http://www.halfbake...0Toast_3a_20Printer
[pocmloc, Nov 20 2011]
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Have you ever seen a commercial toaster? |
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only today I noticed that whichever way I put the bread in there was a 5% tail wagging at the top... |
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MechE, you mean the treadmill ones?
They're OK, I suppose, but who has room for that in their kitchen? You could probably fit this contraption into most washing machines. |
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The treadmill ones are horrible: the toast always comes out variably blackened instead of properly toasted. |
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You can buy most loaves of bread in miniature form these days. Even the most skimpy of toasters can accommodate the entirety of their being. Of course, each slice is smaller than a regular slice of bread, so you do have to eat more slices to get your fill of toast. |
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Toaster oven. Additional benefit of horizontal
toasting: toasted cheese! |
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I agree with [bungston]- I always use a toaster oven, better for bagels, pizza, etc., too! |
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The grill works fine for me, plus the cheese doesn't slide off when you make Welsh Rarebit. |
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This is -almost- a rotisserie for toast, just missing a great portmanteau. |
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Why was this idea not brought to my attention
sooner? |
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we'll try harder next time MB. |
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//Have you ever seen a commercial toaster?// |
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Yes, and also a toaster commercial. |
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[+] for the use of the word "chimera." I didn't even read the rest of this. |
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[+] because Shapu gave it one. What's "chimera"? |
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A device for exciting vacuums. |
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Actually it is sort of an unholy combination of both of the above. |
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slice the slice into 2. That would ensure the complete slice is toasted, with ur ordinary toaster. |
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On a more halfbakeryish angle, how about a slightly modified inkjet printer and cartridge that can toast any bread you put into it? You could even "toast" the bread with patterns fed from the computer! |
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We've done that, [kamathln]. |
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If you cut the toast parallel to its toasted surface after toasting, and retoast the cut faces, you get very yummy toast melba. |
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To be honest I assumed this idea was for toasting bread all the way through, since the problem of toasting all of the surface is easily solved. |
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I once went to a craft bakery who were showing off their latest discovery - a cob loaf that they had found at the back of the oven; it was completely black. As it was being passed around, someone dropped it on the floor and it shattered into black dust. Perhaps that is the ultimate toast. |
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