Waaaaaayyy OT: Toast

We will probably need John to check the toaster temperatures for us. Our toaster oven has a dial that can stay on toast; another dial that is a timer (don't need that) and then a 3rd dial wanting to know what color toast you have in mind. It, too, is a B and D and is so slow we can go out and rotate the tires on the truck while we're waiting for breakfast. I guess the only thing we like about this little oven is that it is very easy to clean. Toaster ovens are famous for setting kitchen fires so it is worthwhile to keep it crumb free. Unplugged when not in use is also good. Polly

Yeah, DH tells people he starts the toast, takes his shower and shaves and comes out in time to butter the toast.

It's not quite that bad, but close. I need a FAST toaster oven.

Cindy

I use a pop-up toaster with slots big enough for bagels and croissants

-- four slots. We use the toaster a lot.... typical life-span is pretty short. So when one dies, I just go looking for another with four big, wide slots. We experiment the first week or two to find each person's perfect toasting spot on the little dial and that's that. When the toaster gets older and no longer pays attention to the numbers, it turns into a "pop it up to see if it's brown enough".

Now, I have a little one-cup Hot Shot that boils one decent tea cup full of water in 30 seconds or so. So I put bread in the toaster and start it going, boil water and get tea started steeping, put sweetner in tea, dunk bad couple t imes, put milk in tea and stir. About this time the t oast pops up and the tea cools to perfect drinking temp while I put whatever on top of the toast (or toasted bagel or other form of carb calories).

This system has worked pretty well for years and years. If some part of it gets "broken" I stop life until my morning routine is put back to rights. And everybody helps me. Sunny without her morning tea is not somebody you want todeall with.

My boys learned by the age of toddlerhood that Mommy sat in the morning with hot tea and a paper and they did NOT bother her until the paper was folded and put down. It was the one civilized thing I created for myself in parenthood. And by 2 they both learned to get up, get handed little cups of warm, sweet, milky tea and sit at the table looking at books or parts of the newspaper until we had all had our tea. Wonderful times were had that way.

Sunny think i'll make myself some tea and toast

I got fed up with electric toasters and got a "camping" toaster that you sit over a fire or a stove burner -- under $6 at the hardware store. And I love it! You do have to turn the bread since only one side is toasted at a time, but that's OK with me.

I have a glass top stove, so that won't work for me. Glad I didn't have that when I smoked, I'd a driven myself batty. :-)

My grandparents had this huge old gas cook stove. It had the 4 burners and on the left side was a lid that lifted up, it was really a broiler, I guess. That's where Grandpa made the best toast ever. He had to turn it part way through so the other side could get browned, well, blackened on the edges.

That toast with thick homemade jam and his boiled coffee were worth the trip next door in my pj's in the winter time. I still drink my coffee just like he fixed it for me. With lots of sugar and cream. Only difference is I mostly use a French press.

Now Grandma made coffee in an electric percolator. Does anything smell better than that?

Pop up toaster or my oven in broiler mode. You are welcome to come and get the bulky toster oven I have that's taking up cabinet space. It is too big to leave on the counter so we don't use it at all. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Cindy, I have a GE toaster oven. I bought it at Walmart, cost $60 bucks. It has a toast button, pizza button, bake button, and broil button. I never actually timed my toast, but I don't think it takes that long. Makes great toast and if you throw in a slice of pizza and hit the pizza button, by the time the oven is heated up the pizza is done! Yummo! Launie, in Oregon

Mine's a pop-up, fat slots, not too bulky, works fine for me, since I'm the only one who wants toast. Roberta in D

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The same thing happened with me. Had a great toaster oven (one of the smallish kinds) and it made wonderful toast in just a few minutes. It died and I purchased another. I got a convection one since I like to cook in it also. (I live in Florida and hate to heat up my big oven) Unfortunately, it is veeeeeerrrrrrrrry slow. I don't like it for toast at all!

When I make eggs, I first put in the bread and start it. Get out the frying pan, While the pan is heating I get out the eggs, butter and jam. Cook eggs, Put on plate, just in time for the toaster oven to ding. The toast may or may not be done. I like mine crispy and well browned while DH like his slightly brown with no crisp.

Give me the old drop in toaster! If only I could heat pizza in it.

I was eating toast (a brie sandwich) when I read that.

I made it on a ridged cast iron grill pan over a gas flame. Takes a few minutes for the pan to get hot enough, only takes two slices at once, but it does a good job and MUCH quicker than the grill in the oven, drying the bread out less.

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I've got a Windmere toaster with four wide slots. There is a constant battle with the adjustment knobs, though there is a knob for each half. I prefer my toast on the dark side, and everybody else prefers it in varying shades down to slightly warm bread. I've never particularly fancied having a toaster oven. So no help to you there.

NightMist

i have an ancient Sunbeam. it's about 12-15 yrs old. i love it. it has two smaller slice holes and one big one for bagels,etc. we never adjust the color selection. it just "knows" how we like toast. creepy, eh? really it does! now i have to knock on wood so it doesnt die on me!!! ;) amy in CNY

P.S. i really like onion dip and bacon sandwiches on toast. weird huh?

Not of any help, but possibly amusing: My old toaster would pop the toast higher and higher as it warmed up. The first slice popped up normally. The second slice or set of slices would jump up a bit more. When it got really warm it would launch the toast. You'd hear poomf! plop! and find no toast actually in the toaster. If you weren't watching to see where it landed, you'd have to go and hunt among the cannisters or in the dish rack to find the toast.

Monique in TX with a better behaved but more boring machine now.

This last one is HUGE, it's bigger than my microwave. People are going to walk into my kitchen and say, "what the hell is that?" and I'm going to have to tell them it's my toaster??

I don't think so - this ones going back.

I guess I'll try to find the one that Launie has.

Cindy

Toaster ovens make really good toast. Plus, no worries about how thick I slice the homemade bread.

I want my old oven back, darn it. Like Sunny, my mornings just aren't quite right.

Cindy

Toaster ovens don't exist over here - never heard of one before.

I have a 'pop up' variety that has wide slots. We also have a grill (broiler?) in the top of our top oven of the double oven cooker that you can toast or grill (broil?) with.

In fact way back when cookers only had one oven there was a top compartment with a grill in the top just below the saucepan rings. We've also had cookers with a grill element in the top of the only oven - they are a pain - can't grill and oven cook at the same time.

My microwave seems to have everything in it - combination convection and microwave, convection on its own and a grill which I must admit I've never used as I am happy using the other appliances.

However the pizzas cooked in it using the special Pizza button are way better than ordinary cooker oven cooked ones, and this evening I cooked oven-chips (French fries) in it. Not as good as real potatoes and hot fat - but slightly more slimming!

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If you are buttering after the bread is toasted you only need a pop-up toaster. Much faster than a toaster oven, and more economical too. Debra in VA See my quilts at

If coffee tasted anything like that smell, I'd be a coffee drinker today. Since it doesn't I drink Pepsi. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Please check out the pop-ups. Almost all pop-up toasters now have wide slots that will take a 1 inch thick slice of bread easily, and you have to search high and low to find one that has narrow slots for store bought loaves. So unless you are slicing thicker than an inch, most pop-up toasters will work for you. Debra in VA See my quilts at