I have been using a really cheap toaster for many years which, had it lived in the middle ages, would have been burned at the stake for being possessed. Browning is irregular and haphazard. It seems to reset the browning level on it’s own. And sometimes it flings toast around like pea soup on the set of the Exorcist.
So I finally decided to look for something more civilized and got this - Kitchen Tools | Kitchen Supplies Store | kitchen-universe.com– Kitchen Universe - the Breville, die-cast, electronic smart toaster. I was disappointed that it didn’t have an ethernet port and its own IP address, but otherwise, I’m pretty happy with it.
There’s no mechanical, spring loaded mechanism to load the toast. Instead, you press a button and the slices are automatically lowered into the body. The browning slider is lighted and shows a count down to when the toast will be ready by blinking successive LED segments. Some of the other buttons are also lighted and there is one button, my favorite, for ‘just a little bit more’ browning. There is even one to raise the toast for inspection part of the way through without interrupting the cycle.
If the next model they come out with does have internet connectivity, I will probably get that one too.
I really want one with a built-in egg cooker. I shudder to think what kind of technical bells and whistles the company that produced the OP’s toaster could add to the egg-cooking process.
Oh that was too funny. Were I not still sick and it hurt to laugh I would have lol’d hard. All I managed to get out was a dopey Ed Muntz ‘hee . . . . hee, hee . . . owwww’.
One fave quote “This sucker has more computer power than the entire world did 20 years ago,” Chuck boasted proudly.
No worries, I would surely have done the same in my eagerness to show off an awesome toaster technology development. I was just curious as to what neato tech that company could apply to cooking an egg. Auto-cracking the shells using little suction cup egg grabbers? A light slowly changing in color as the eggs go from soft-poached to hard-cooked?
I have not yet decided if this is real, but if it is, then you can combine your web surfing with your toast making without all the hassle of actually leaving your computer desk with this toast drive.
I’m so tempted to buy it just to see if they actually ship me a real product. But I’d probably be too chicken to actually install it and try to make toast…
I don’t see why it couldn’t be real. I once rigged a car style cigarette lighter in my computer. However, I really wouldn’t want crumbs in my case or all over the floor right in front of the computer.
Oh, I don’t think it’s technologically infeasible, I think it’s weird, maybe a practical joke like some of those empty boxes for prank gifts that you can order from The Onion’s website.
It does claim to have a crumb tray “like any other toaster” so crumbs in your case are probably not a problem. Floor, however … yeah. You’d want a dustbuster handy
I was just curious as to what neato tech that company could apply to cooking an egg. Auto-cracking the shells using little suction cup egg grabbers? A light slowly changing in color as the eggs go from soft-poached to hard-cooked?
