Author Topic: An insane amount of thought went into early toasters.  (Read 485 times)

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Re: An insane amount of thought went into early toasters.
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2021, 09:46:15 PM »
It obviously took a lot of bread to get these working right.

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And half the toasters out of China* still do a lousy job of toasting bread.



*- and just try to find an ordinary consumer toaster made elsewhere!
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Re: An insane amount of thought went into early toasters.
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2021, 10:02:34 PM »
It obviously took a lot of bread to get these working right.

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That's the toaster my folks had when I was a kid.  I thought it was perfectly normal.
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Re: An insane amount of thought went into early toasters.
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2021, 07:13:03 AM »
I still like the gas-powered toaster I've seen at a restaurant.  It was a big device that could toast 8 pieces at once.  Looked a bit like a vertical rotisserie.
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Re: An insane amount of thought went into early toasters.
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2021, 12:50:49 PM »
I still like the gas-powered toaster I've seen at a restaurant.  It was a big device that could toast 8 pieces at once.  Looked a bit like a vertical rotisserie.

I used to frequent a breakfast place in Culver City that had something like that.

They were so busy that they had to make their toast that way.

Back in the day when I worked for McD's we used a drop through toaster for the buns, it was fast but I don't know if it was faster than that conveyor-toaster from that restaurant.

The difference was through-put. The McD's device had a wider mouth and you could drop a lot more slices into it at once.

So maybe even if it was slower at toasting its total capacity was higher.

Took up more space though. 
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