His Master's Toast is so named because it resembles the famous name sake record label in appearance.
It is of course a toaster, which only toasts one side at a time (which is how I like my toast)
Here's how it works: you place a piece of the special preference circular bread on the turn-table, then lower the pick up arm in place. Instead of a stylus head, this has a heating element, so that as the bread rotates, it gets toasted. The faint aroma of the delightfully browning bread is vented out through the funnelled attachment, where a seated mechanical dog starts barking when it's done to pre-set perfection.
see pic-- xenzag, Apr 29 2010 His Master's Toast https://www.art.co....EAQYAyABEgKPqfD_BwE [xenzag, Apr 29 2010, last modified Dec 01 2018] With appropriate modulation of the power applied to the heating element, you could draw pictures on your toast too.-- Wrongfellow, Apr 29 2010 Splendid idea. A seperate nozzle behind the heating element could be used to dispense your choice of delicious preserve or spread onto the toast whilst it was still hot.-- DrBob, Apr 30 2010 Right clever, this.-- whatrock, Nov 30 2018 Will it not be the case that by the time the heating element has tracked across the disc, the starting point will have cooled to ambient temperature ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 30 2018 This would be better implemented as a CD player. Existing BluRay laser diodes are quite capable of toasting.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 30 2018 Possibly the platter could be a heated element, keeping the bread nicely warm whilst the top surface is being lased.-- whatrock, Dec 01 2018 This idea has too many unrelated elements to it. The basic idea of one-sided toast can be accomplished simply by breaking one heating element in a common toaster. [+]-- Voice, Dec 01 2018 random, halfbakery