Manual or electric, simply place the toast in the tray, burnt side down. Rollers move it over a vibrating serrated knife-edge at a low angle to remove excess carbon. If both sides were overdone then - predictably - turn it over and send it through, again.
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 14 2018

Toast Planner Toast_20Planner
A half-baked design that could be improved by the cunning application of a Toast Planer. [Wrongfellow, Mar 15 2018]

While I respect your idea (+), I happen to like burnt toast ... Orbital_20toaster
[normzone, Mar 15 2018]

Wood planers use a rotary cutting wheel. Surely that would be more stable?
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 14 2018


//rotary cutting wheel// sounds more complicated than a simple automation of the usual method: scraping a serrated dinner knife over the toast over the sink.
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 14 2018


[+]

Your civilization (?) is advancing ... one tiny step at a time.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 15 2018


A plurality of vibrating serrated knife-edges could be arranged to move slightly up and down with respect to each other.

If the cutting action occurred precisely at the toast-carbon boundary, this adjustment would result in a visible modulation of the perceived darkness of the toast.

This could allow the Toast Planer to offer all the same functionality as the Toast Planner. [link]
-- Wrongfellow, Mar 15 2018


What's needed, shirley, is a full toastal CNC. It could be used to plane, but could also create grooves to hold additional butter.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 15 2018


I'm sure that Computerised Numerical Toasting is almost certaintly baked already, probably.

I think.
-- Wrongfellow, Mar 15 2018


Can the CNC shred the toast, spray melted butter, and then reassemble it resulting in a precise percentage of butter in any range from "dry as a matron's sheets" to "it's a stick of butter"?
-- Voice, Jan 06 2019



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