perfect toaster :)

[wayward bob]

simple, right? it has a sensor that detects *how brown* the toast is, and pops at the required brownness. 2 settings: white and brown bread

why doesn't it exist yet?

 

[Ax^]

 

[Cid]

Do you need to talk to someone bob? It's ok if you do you know.

 

[wayward bob]

if you google there's no such thing as the melting point of toast

 

[wayward bob]

control panel

 

[Belushi]

I'm stealing this idea, its going to make me millions.

 

[pesh]

http://jesustoasters.com/

 

[Cid]

if you google there's no such thing as the melting point of toast

Is there a toasting point of bread?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[wayward bob]

Is there a toasting point of bread?

i dunno have you googled?

 

[wayward bob]

now i'm thinking programmable toasters: any picture you like

 

[Belushi]

I've just invented the glass toaster so you can see when the bread reaches toasted perfection

 

[sheothebudworths]

Oh, bob!

 

[ringo]

I've just invented the glass toaster so you can see when the bread reaches toasted perfection

Already been done, but needs doing properly; this one is all aesthetics and no control, which should be the point.

 

[trashpony]

Is it true that the numbers on toasters refer to minutes of toasting time? My nephew appears to think this is so but apparently my toaster's 2 mins doesn't look like his toaster's. Unsurprisingly.

 

[ringo]

Manual toaster - you decide when to withdraw.

 

[wayward bob]

Manual toaster - you decide when to withdraw.

that requires *watching* not automation. toaster fail

 

[Ax^]

if you google there's no such thing as the melting point of toast

Unfortunately Bread doesn't melt. It sublimes (skips straight from solid to gas) at a few hundred degrees Celsius. This 'Gaseous Bread' is what actually burns. Bread cannot be a liquid because it's structure is (largely) a polymer of glucose molecules forming Starch. In order to take on a liquid state the glucose molecules would have to detach themselves from each other and slide around. The temperature required for this to happen is so high that Glucose (which is not a very stable molecule) just breaks up, forming a gas (which arguably is not really gaseous bread but gaseous glucose).

 

[ringo]

Not right is it? Why hasn't this been done properly? Can we get a development grant? From the Lottery or the Duke Of Edinburghs Award or something.

 

[purenarcotic]

I would like to know why most toasters don't actually fit bread slices. So the top of the toast comes out untoasted.

 

[Belushi]

I would like to know why most toasters don't actually fit bread slices. So the top of the toast comes out untoasted.

You can put the slices in sideways, but then risk electrocution while trying to pull them out with a knife

 

[ringo]

Sorry, wrong kind of toaster

 

[purenarcotic]

You can put the slices in sideways, but then risk electrocution while trying to pull them out with a knife

Exactly! It is so annoying. </major first world problem>

 

[blairsh]

 

[UrbaneFox]

that requires *watching* not automation. toaster fail

Ditto the glass toaster.

 

[Epona]

Manual toaster - you decide when to withdraw.

Blimey, not keen on that - I reckon my (extremely narrow) little blue cat could fit inside it, it would be a disaster waiting to happen. I have enough trouble with the mad black and white one inquisitively sticking his paws into toaster slots when the element is still hot (this is the one that broke my aging VCR by posting a toy mouse into the slot ), I dread to think what might happen with that! It does have a nice look to it mind you

 

[mentalchik]

Is it true that the numbers on toasters refer to minutes of toasting time? My nephew appears to think this is so but apparently my toaster's 2 mins doesn't look like his toaster's. Unsurprisingly.

yes

 

[gentlegreen]

I went Googling before, and bizarrely there's no record of Heston Blumethal ever having investigated the perfect slice of toast .

 

[ringo]

These are the best toasters:

 

[wayward bob]

do they work on the brownness principle?