Does anyone know if theres an actual reason why toasters forcibly eject bread – and by association crumbs damn near everywhere?
Are there any toasters that bring the bread up slowly?
I assume it’s easier to make them like that - there’d be a spring at the bottom which is compressed when you push the bread down, and then when the timer runs out it’s released and pings back up. Going slowly would require a motor or something, which would be one more thing to go wrong.
But I’d be surprised if no-one’s invented a super-toaster from which the toast rises gently and inexorably. It would look kind of cool.
Toasters that bring the bread up slowly? Yes, these ones. You press a little lever to bring the bread up when it’s finished toasting.
figured as much, thanks guys.
thanks for the link too
You’re welcome. Dualit toasters are expensive, but they do last a lifetime (and no, I don’t work for them).
I use a toaster oven for toasting bread/bagels/whatever. Not only does it not eject the toast automatically, it’s also big enough to easily toast bagels, unlike my old toaster that finally died at age 12.
Funny, the only toasters I’ve seen which actually send the toast up into the air have been on TV. My toaster pops the toast up, but only enough so that you can pick it out with your hands.
I have a 30 year old toaster that brings up the toast very slowly. Sometimes, not at all.
Ah, what you want is a 1930’s-style Toast-O-Lator, a toaster that works like a car wash. You put your toast in one side, and it moves slowly through the heating elements until it emerges peacefully from the other side.
More innovative advances in toaster technolgy in the Cyber Toaster Museum.
My mother in law has a beautiful Art Deco-era toaster that she uses every day. When the toast is done, it rises slowly and with great dignity up to where one may grasp it. I covet her toaster.
Whilst they don’t look like the elegant model to which Fear Itself links, “car wash” style toasters are common in breakfast buffets in hotels around the world. I’ve seen car wash style pizza ovens too.
Heh. From that link:
I didn’t they marketing that good back then 
I always assumed that the toast poped out so hard because that way you would be able to hear when the toaster was finished after the bell broke.
BTW, there are cheap (the cheap is important) toasters that raise the toast slowly. Take my beater of a toaster, the spring broke a while ago, so the toast rises as slowly or as quickly as I want it to. I have to actually pull the lever up to get the toast out.
Is there some way to annoint a thread so that I can see if there are replys without using email? And where is the search function?
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Thanks, I’m playing with those tool bars now, I think I’ll figure them out soon 
I think this style is how pretty much all places that toast stuff “commercially” do it. Most every bagel shop I’ve seen uses this setup. They toast a lot better than slotted toasters, also.
FWIW, I recommend toaster ovens. You can toast bread, broil stuff, cook stuff you’d normally do in an oven, etc. Great devices.
I want one like that. I wonder if replacing the stock toast-lifting spring with a 26-pound recoil spring from an automatic pistol would be sufficient… 
That is so ‘Tim the Tool Man Taylor’.
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When I was growing up in the '60s we had a toaster that raised the toast slowly. I was always fascinated by its slowness and quietness, and I remember it had a slight ‘springy’ noise as the toast rose. That may have been the heating wires cooling, though. I don’t remember the brand, but it wasn’t a cheapie.
Twenty-some years later, when I was deciding on which brand of VCR to buy, I chose one that had a slow-rising load mechanism that came up when you pressed the open button instead of just popping up quickly. I’m still fascinated by mechanisms that deploy slowly.