Transparent Toaster
This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you never surprised by toast that comes out too dark. This idea is based on the transparent heating glass featured in this issue. Although the glass does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, some day this application may be possible

We're suckers for a good piece of toast, and this concept design would be able to make every piece of toast perfect. It uses heated glass to toast bread to perfection. Inventables, the design company behind this masterpiece, says that currently the glass doesn't get hot enough to toast bread, but maybe in the future.


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Four Slice Wide Mouth Toaster

This is the best four slice wide mouth toaster because it earned the highest marks in the Hammacher Schlemmer Institutes tests for consistency of toasting, toasting quality, ease of use, ease of cleaning, and useful features. The 1,500-watt toaster has two independent rotary controls for simultaneous toasting of different breads or for different user setting preferences. It evenly toasts across the whole bread surface, and easily accommodates thin and thick slices, as well as bagels, frozen strudels, and frozen waffles.

Eight browning settings and one defrost setting allow you to easily achieve your preferred toast level, and the unit has a removable warming tray for quickly heating rolls, muffins, and other items too large to fit inside w ithout drying. A bagel setting allows you to toast the cut side of a bagel while gently warming the crust side to produce the perfect bagel.

Two high-lift levers have three lift positions to ensure toasted foods clear the top for easy retrieval, and a stop button halts any toasting cycle with one touch. Brushed stainless steel control panel wipes clean, and the warming tray is dishwasher safe to simplify cleaning. Plugs into AC. 8" H x 12 1/2" W x 10" D. (8 1/4 lbs.)

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Pop Art Toaster





Leave messages with your toast. This toaster comes with six design plates that leave patterns on your toast. Messages include: double hearts, "LUV U," flower, snowflake, cake, and smiley face. It also has 12 toasting levels, reheat and frozen, and a slide-out crumb tray.

Product Features
Toaster with 6 design plates
Creates patterns on your toast: double hearts, "LUV U," flower, snowflake, cake and smiley face
12 toasting levels, reheat and frozen; slide-out crumb tray
7-1/2Hx6-3/4Wx11L"
Also available in black and white; click View Collection button above for images

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The Back to Basics Egg & Muffin Toaster

What's the difference: Not only does it toast bread or English muffins, it also cooks eggs and heats breakfast meats. (Hey, the drive-through breakfast experience in your own kitchen!) It uses steam to poach a single egg in a shallow pan or soft- or hard-boil as many as four eggs in a rack. It can make toast at the same time.

What we thought: "Back to Basics," our Aunt Frannie. This gizmo is an awful lot to deal with first thing in the morning. The manufacturer instructs you to spray the poaching pan with nonstick cooking spray, break an egg into it and then break its yolk with a fork (so it will have that authentic mass-produced drive-through breakfast sandwich quality). Then you measure water into the heating tray, insert the steaming tray and set the poaching pan on that and top it with the optional meat-warming tray. Finally, you put the lid on the egg gadget and insert your bread in the toast slots.

Still, it works (although the center of the slice gets decidedly browner than the edges), and it's cleverly timed so that the poached egg, warmed meat and toast are all ready at the same moment. (You can't make toast while steam-boiling eggs, though.) It might be useful in a dorm room.

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Toasters - how do you make your toast?

Toasters are one of the most useful kitchen appliances, and at the same time also one of the simplest. You put bread in the top, push the lever, and a few minutes later it pops up: toast! The most basic toasters are very cheap indeed, and worth every penny for all the use you can get out of them. However, unlike with many appliances, you will see visible improvements for every extra little bit of money you spend on your toaster. You can go from two slices at a time to four, from two minutes' cooking time to one, get a bun rack for toasting things like croissants, get the capability to toast frozen bread, extra lift to allow you to toast smaller things like crumpets and muffins, and all sorts of other features besides.

Whether or not you need these features will generally depend on what you want to toast: if you just want toasted bread, you should be fine with a normal toaster, but if you want to toast all sorts of bread products, you start needing some other features, especially the extra lift and the bun rack. It can also be difficult to find the exact combination of features you want in a colour and design you would like, but don't give up: just about every combination is out there somewhere.

One thing to be aware of with toasters is that, if toast or something else somehow gets stuck, you should never try to remove it with a metal knife or other metal object, because they conduct electricity and can lead to an electric shock. You should also make sure to keep the toaster away from water, and be careful not to use frozen bread unless the toaster is capable of it. Another popular kind of toaster is the sandwich toaster, which differs from the usual slot toaster in that you put in more slices of bread, usually four, with things in between, and they then become sandwiches. This can be especially effective if you use things that will melt, like cheese, in the sandwiches - the traditional toaster's inability to melt things onto the toast has long been considered a disadvantage.

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Small Home Appliances: Way Beyond Toasters

As the trend toward gourmet, chef quality kitchens continues, people are purchasing not only high end large appliances like refrigerators and stoves, but small appliances too. Simple old fashioned coffee pots and toasters are giving way to espresso machines and panini grills. Do you need them? Probably not, but they can be lots of fun and can definitely up the quality of your morning cup of joe and your grilled cheese sandwiches. Read on for all the things you didn't know you needed, until you found out they existed.

Coffee and espresso machines are now available so that you can have coffeehouse quality coffee drinks in the comfort of your own home. The latest trend is toward coffee makers that make individual cups of coffee using pods, or small airtight packages that stay sealed until opened by the coffeemaker. In Europe these have been popular for a while, and they will get you close to a European coffee experience. The coffee tends to be strong, more like espresso, but is very fresh since your serving stays sealed until you make it, unlike that big tub of Folgers. They are more common now, but finding the pods can still be difficult sometimes, and you may not have as many varieties available to you as there are for regular old ground coffee.

What could be better than the promise of a grilled hamburger on a snowy February day? Indoor grills are becoming more and more popular both because grilled food tastes good, and because grilling can be a fast and relatively healthy cooking method. If you are looking to add one to your kitchen stable, here are some factors you'll want to look at. One is size, at both ends of the spectrum. If you live alone or with one other person, a smaller grill will probably suit your needs just fine and take up less space, unless you intend to use it for entertaining. If you have a large family, you could spend the whole evening cooking burgers on a smaller grill like the original George Foremans. A feature that is available on most newer grills is variable heat, which makes your grill much more versatile. Removable plates that are dishwasher safe also make your grill much easier to use and increase the likelihood that they will be used often. Some of the grills with removable plates also come with several sets of plates so your grill can double as a waffle iron or electric griddle as well.

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Slate tackles toasters

Toasters have been around for more than 100 years and the Slate took on the task of testing eight toasters to see which one was really the toast of the town. Using a highly scientific scale which judged toasting quality, ease of use, cleanup and value, the toasters were put to the test. After too many loaves of bread to count, the results were in.

The high-end toasters like the DeLonghi Aluminum 2-Slice and the KitchenAid Pro Line 2-Slice finished with the best scores, though they were low in the "value" category. Generally, the less expensive toasters, like the T-Fal Avanté Deluxe 4-Slice and Michael Graves 2-Slice, did not perform as well as their more expensive counterparts.Their list is a great way to start a toaster search, but Cooking.com and Amazon.com's customer reviews also provide great feedback.

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Dualit Lite Toaster - Glacier Blue

A lighter version of the classic toaster with a polypropylene body and Soft Touch® finish. Even though it's half the price and over 1kg lighter than its cousin the Vario, it still benefits from Dualit quality and design and will product fast, crisp toast.

Each extra wide 36mm slot automatically accommodates thicker products such as waffles, bagels, or teacakes and there's a high lift mechanism for easy removal of smaller food.

With soft touch handle, pull-out crumb tray and cord storage.

Brand: Dualit

Dimensions: H20 x W27 x D17cm

Finish: Coloured

Slices: 2 slice

Wattage: 1100W

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