October 12, 2004

Photos from the Toaster Collector's Association I especially liked (read: covet) the Fiesta toaster. I'll confess that I have a thing for toast.

Not as much as I used to (I no longer consider toast my totem), but it is the best snack food in the world (I'm obviously dating myself to before the time when carbs were bad). There's also the collector's site, which is pretty dry (sorry). Better still, Dr. Toast's Amazing World of Toast, which includes Ask Dr. Toast, Internet Toast Resources, and Toast Haiku! There's also The Toaster Museum Foundation, which BTW, is engaging in a fund-raising campaign to bring toaster history to the public. Finally, if our early MF history ever returns, there's Toast Portraits and Toast Art and Fashion

posted by ecomuseboy 20 years ago
  • Summer in New York Children frying sidewalk eggs Beside my French toast There are toast haikyu!
  • Carmelized bread slice Butter gleams in crevasses A good beginning
  • I never imagined I'd say this, but those are some damned cool toasters.
  • I can't believe they had this in Toledo and I missed it! (Actually, seeing all of these old toasters, and talking to the collectors, would have been a hoot.)
  • The mechanism for putting a slice of bread in the one toaster (third from last photo) is unique. Very cool.
  • Carbs aren't bad. Carbs are good. An unbalanced diet is bad. Mmmm... toast and taramasalata...
  • Curried croutons in salad -- not bad.
  • Damn! I'm all over that ceramic white toaster in the first large photo. I also dig old electric hand blenders.
  • Yeah, but isn't one slice cold before the second one is done?
  • And you can only put skinny bread in it. USELESS!!
  • Philistines. That's what the back-up, warmer, and level 2 toasters are for. Bagel toasters and croissant crispers go over the steel crumb rack on the left, and the jam cubby just off of there. Dang, it's like you only have the one or something. Haters.
  • I dunno. Looks more like a fax machine than a toaster to me. And before I've had breakfast, I don't trust myself to not burn my documents and digitally transmit my bread to Albany.
  • I've had my toaster oven for 7 years now and I ain't needed nothin' different! Can yer newfangled toast faxer melt CHEESE? I thought not!
  • *kicks santoprene-loving industrial designer repeatedly*
  • yeah, i'm all about the ovene du tostere m'self. still there's something about a freshly faxed bagel with cinnamon staples.