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This simple kitchen gadget would slice your bagels in half using a laser whose heat would toast the bagel - all in one easy go! An added 'feature' is all the wonderful 'secondary' uses you can think of for the powerful laser unit - once you get bored with just doing bagels of course.
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To toast something quickly (which I assume is the target here) is for it to be toasted only on the very surface. To get the toastiness deep within the bagel, you need a lower temperature applied for longer. Which of these would be better for a bagel I leave for the bagel-eaters of the world to judge. |
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Bagels have a quite dense texture so you could probably get away with a fast toasting |
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I like it. It would only be useful for unfrozen bagels though. |
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Maybe the thing to do would be to make a large array of reflected lasers, which would move *over* but never *touch* the surface of the bagel, at a high temperature but also very quickly, and do this several times. |
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I'm pretty sure lasers make too much noise anyway. Every movie I've ever seen with lasers, they make too much noise to be used in the household. |
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The laser in my CD player is remarkably quiet. Also, the laser pointers used by people demonstrating things in meetings often fail to wake me up. |
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That's a phaser he's thinking of, as in, 'Set phasers to toast'. Strange warbling noise required for operation sadly obligatory. |
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While I can't see using this as a bagel toaster, a laser bagel slicer, maybe modelled after those bagel guillotines (sp?), would be cleaner and easier than knives. |
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But a laser powerful enough to "cut" a bagel would cause heavy charring on the cut surface. (Maybe some people like the flavor of charred bread, but I detest char in any measurable quantity.) Meanwhile the bulk of the bread will still be cold. Feh. |
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The guys behind the new Hitchhikers' Guide movie appear to have been lurking here. |
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