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Most toasters come with a little toaster tray underneath
that catches the crumbs, sesame seeds, poppyseeds, etc.
Whilst this is a wonderful little tray it’s very much of a
pain to clean it every couple of days.
What I propose is a modification to your countertop where
your toaster is placed.
You must cut a Rectangular hole
about the size of the toaster, and install a grate with metal
slats. Beneath this you will install a 5 gallon metal box
which is removable from under the cabinet... now remove
the silly little toaster tray that came with the toaster and
place the toaster over this grate. Depending on how often
you make toast, this should collect the crumbs for quite a
while. When you choose to empty it you may feed the
birds or make your toasted papier-mâché, Or what ever
other purposes you find.
Crumb feeder
http://inventorspot...r_bird_crumbs_29828
[xenzag, Mar 10 2021]
[link]
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I don't have time to read this, but probably should (due to my
alias). |
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OK I read it. + for the idea although not relevant for Israel
where most Jews attend to the ritual of cleaning up from
bread crumbs once a year before passover, and then living for
7 days without any regular bread, only Matza crackers which
the ants cannot digest (and every year a few youngsters are
hospitalized for). |
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This is without a doubt the crumbiest idea I've read all day. |
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I just sluice the toaster out with a hose then hang it from the
washing line to dry. |
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The trick is not to leave it plugged in while you do it. |
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Crumbs are quite a problem in toasters. I don't know why they don't simply sell them with a pre-installed captive crumb eating beetle who will happily eat them all day. |
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I get around the problem of cleaning the tray by taking it out of the toaster before I make the toast & putting it back in again after I've finished. |
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Instead of just a hopper, you could also have a mechanism that soaked, moulded and pressed the crumbs into slice-of-bread-shaped blocks, ready to be packaged and sold as "instant toast" to gullible punters. |
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Surely after about 500 slices of toast there will be
enough crumbs for the toaster to compress them all
together with some edible adhesive to create a 501st
slice of toast? |
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oh my ‘bakers I love you all. now that I have
finished laughing at all of your annos, I want to
thank you for those ideas! |
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[hippo] Yours was sort of my idea when I said
toasted papier-mâché, but yours is more witty! |
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//edible adhesive//
Branston Pickle? Well, it's adhesive at least. |
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Honestly I just wait until it's cool and shake it into the garbage. |
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My favorite, (not sure why that flags as a misspelling), crumb quote; |
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"You don't make bread crumbs silly, they just happen in your bed." |
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~Chrissy from Three's Company~ |
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Well however anyone chooses to clean their
toaster, I still say that crumbs are a major nuisance
for being such little things! |
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You could use Branston Pickle or Marmite to glue all
the crumbs together but I see an opening for a range
of specialist products - e.g. "Tesco's Finest
Asparagus-flavoured Crumb-Mastic™ - now with improved
particle adhesion!" |
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I love your idea because I dislike cleaning out that tray so
much. I don't know why. I clean the microwave without a
thought, but the toaster, I avoid that beast as long as humanly
possible. |
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Several co-ideas placed here seem good too. Toasted buns for
all then, but you gotta clean up after yourselves or else! |
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I agree [bliss] Because the minute you think you
have
cleaned up all the crumbs another one appears out
of
nowhere on a perfectly clean countertop! |
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yes! [hippo] great ideas! |
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Crumbs are one of the two forms new mater takes when
it pops into existence. |
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The other is paperclips of course, no
one ever buys them but there they are in your draw, or a
random lone clip under the chair when you move it to hoover,
no one knows where they come from, it's the only plausible
explanation. |
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Hmm... perhaps crumbs and/or paperclips are an alternative
form of socks; socks inexplicably disappear, crumbs &
paperclips inexplicably appear. |
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Yes, & with population growth it's beginning to happen faster
than the paperclips appear, I've been saying for years that
we've got to stop making
socks & start going barefoot, it's the only way to avoid a
shrinking universe & the the eventual depletion of all matter
in it. |
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Mmm, technology to make us more nakedly balanced with the emergent properties of all those intersecting fields. |
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A tall ask given the shape of the human race. |
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As for the idea, yes, I would like a bread pellet for the bird feeder. |
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An alternative way would be to recess the toaster into the
kitchen wall, such that any crumbs simply fall into the
empty space behind the plaster. This metal tray approach
has several advantages. |
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I have prepared a dozen croissants from balled up
crumbs and some gelatin with some pasty frosting
on the top. I will deliver one to each of you for
your great comments and ideas. I will send two to
Mr.[2fries] So he can crumple one up in his bed! Ha
ha |
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What if you operated your toaster upside down? |
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It would need little jaws to retain the slices while they were being
toasted, and a safety net to catch them un- shattered when they
were done, but that's OK: if the safety net were made from the
three- dimensional webs of non- orb- weaving spiders, then it
would be soft enough you break the fall of the completed toast
slices, while also providing a substrate for accumulating the
crumbs. |
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Have you ever eaten spider web [pert], it's not very
tasty, other than that the idea sounds fine, best make sure
the spiders have vacated the web first, they aren't just
not very tasty but have an actively unpleasant flavour, the
mushy
texture
isn't up to much either. |
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Maybe the toaster location on the countertop needs a vacuum
system. |
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Ooh... dry countertop cleanup as a side-benefit. |
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