OT Just bought an English made toaster

[thermite]

Looks like toast master is out of the home market. I meant one like this video. The guy in the video is a toaster collector. I guess that is a thing. Notice he drops i t he bread and the toaster turns on with no hands. Claim is it senses how brown the bread get not temperature to determine doneness. Ther eis n ohandle to mov ethe bread up or down.
Bill D.

Sunbeam AT-W Radiant control adjustment and the right way to get out crumbs. - YouTube

BFD.

Dad bought one 1951. It served well for fifty years. The no-hands sensor became commonly copied, the rounded shape nearly so as well.

Designer Raymond Loewy had won an award on the SHAPE of it as "art" !!!

...and it ended up the first toaster put on display in the Museum of Modern Art!

Go figure the same judges probably thought vaginas were ugly, so WTF did THEY know about what really matters?

 

[norb]

My toaster arrived today and WOW this thing is nice. Great British craftsmanship. It is like the Moore Jig Grinder of toasters.

 

[thermite]

My toaster arrived today and WOW this thing is nice. Great British craftsmanship. It is like the Moore Jig Grinder of toasters.

Welll... s**t.

If nothing else?

"American-made ..." hyperbole... is alive, well, and thriving....at least in Tonawanda, New York.

Good job you weren't looking to buy electric lighting products out of Blighty?

Let us explain "Lucas" .... and the invention of "the Dark"?

 

[DavidScott]

Toaster = Lucas Electrics?????

That would explain the fires.

 

[thermite]

That would explain the fires.

Lucas? Lack of fires?

You mean explain having to eat really stale bread and PRETEND it was stiff and dry because had been toasted?

The Devil ever acquires a Lucas-equipped vintage British Motor car, the fires of Hell itself will go cold and dark.



Why d'yah think a British Defense firm now owns Lucas? It's that strategic patent on "the Dark!"

Putin messes with Blighty?

All of Russia's energy sources will be "Lucasized" .. and he'll freeze to death in the dark.

 

[Bill D]

A coworker bought a house built in the 1960's or 70's. It has a built in toaster that folds out of the wall in the breakfast nook.
A student overheard and asked if that was safe. I told him I am sure it is well insulated with asbestos and the wires probably protected with lead conduit. So it will never burn down the house.
Bill D

 

[Milland]

A coworker bought a house built in the 1960's or 70's. It has a built in toaster that folds out of the wall in the breakfast nook.
A student overheard and asked if that was safe. I told him I am sure it is well insulated with asbestos and the wires probably protected with lead conduit. So it will never burn down the house.
Bill D

I wonder if it was even older than the 60's. My grandparents had something like that in their breakfast area, in a house built in the 1920's or so. Perhaps it was a later remod, don't know.

Damn, now you've got me all nostalgic...

 

[Thunderjet]

I always liked the Elwood Blues style toaster. coat hanger and a gas stove.

"We've got two guys out here dressed like Hasidic jews
One of them wants dry white toast, and the other one wants four whole fried chickens and a coke."

God dam, I miss Aretha.

 

[thermite]

I always liked the Elwood Blues style toaster. coat hanger and a gas stove.

That.. and Miss Millie-Malice "nostalia" remindin' me of woodstoves and Euro "solid fuel" / dual-fuelers with warmers & ovens, ancient mini-gas burners with an "oven" tray underneath.. and my penchant for round loaves, unsliced, also nan breads, parathas, "etc"...about does it!

The last two-slotter, four-slotter, six-slotter, long WIDE slotter "slice style" toaster is going out the damned door!

Pain in the anatomy, the lot of 'em!

Time to recycle the space, drop a coupla more branch circuits, and double-up on the toaster OVEN style that JF WORKS, bread style, size, shape - or anything ELSE as needs made HOT .. freakin' FLEXIBLE!

 

[awander]

....[I kid, all you Lucas defenders]

Are there really such people?

 

[john.k]

Lucas automotive is now owned by Bosch...Lucas was a good example of the union insanity of the 70s......

 

[DDoug]

Why would anyone go to England for a Kia Soul ????


You running a rural mail route ?