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Posted by Rob Sherwood   •   Friday, 2008-June-13 • 15:05
My friend, Mike, gave me a toaster in 1993. In 1988 or 89 I did a bridal registry at several department stores but never got a gift from that. I am not sure why Mike gave me a toaster and a very cheap toaster to boot. Even he admits this was a $7 toaster. All during my time in SF I used that toaster. I couldn't use the toaster and the micro-wave at the same time without blowing a fuse. It only had two narrow slots and was definitely a low-tech toaster. In 2003 it was time for an upgrade. It still worked, but I was fascinated by new toasters. A year ago I plunked down $49 dollars for a new toaster. The Mike Toaster went in the thrift store pile.

My new toaster has wide slots, warming, defrosting, and a toast-only-one-side-bagel-setting. This toaster was sketch from the start.

1. When finished it didn't pop up enough to grab with fingers and I had to use tongs to retrieve almost everything

2. To really toast something you had to double push. Unless you weren't after toast but merely warm bread

3. It was bulky and took lots of room.

4. Things seem to burst into flame frequently.

And now...it is stuck on Bagel! To toast both sides of ANYTHING you must rotate the item and since everything is a double push anyway that means to make two slices of toast you have to quadruple push! It was so much trouble that instead of making my own lunch I ate at the Olive Garden.

What really bugs me is that some special person who works at Goodwill had some really good toast for lunch.

Have a good week-end!

Rob
  1. axmanzman wrote on 2008-June-16 19:44:48:
    Yes Rob... Theres nothing like the old style toasters... When i got married.. my wife and i got a two slice toaster for a wedding gift from her little brother. It was cheap and we never opened it because the wife loved those new style toaster oven type toasters.. so the old two slicer went in the attic.. and eventually when we got divorced.. it went into my pile of split up goods.. I WAS GLAD TO GET IT.. FINALLY !!!!! I COULD HAVE TOAST THE WAY I WANTED IT... it was the first thing i set up in my new Single house and i been using it for the past 14 years... always does perfect toast.. bagels heck even waffles!!!! AHEM the ex has gone thru about 4 of them new style toaster ovens ha ha ha ha!!!!
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