"toaster" news and stories

We seem to have an odd fascination with toast here at Slashfood, not the browned bread itself, but how people make the somewhat mundane morning meal into something fun. I just came across the Totenkopf Toaster, which imprints a skull and crossbones onto your toast! Sure sure, skulls were a big thing last season in fashion, showing up on everything from rhinestone-bedecked accessories to imprinted on scarves, but that's fashion. And that was also last season. Skulls on food? It kind of makes me think of....poison.

The toaster is available from a German site, so I'm not exactly sure what all the specs are, but at the very least, I do know it costs 32.95EUR.

[via: TasteSpotting]

I have a confession to make. I don't own a toaster. It's not that I don't like toast, mind you. If I were to own one, it would probably be a chrome number with a decidedly retro feel. But only because the futuristic one pictured here may not be for sale. Not to mention that if it were available, I could neither justify nor afford the price.

Glide, as British designer George Watson calls his toaster, just won a contest called Ceramics for Breakfast over at designboom. As he puts it the bone-china device "brings life and joy to a stagnant domestic appliance." Not only that but you don't have to worry about electrocution, since there's never a need to stick a fork inside to grab your toast.

[via Random Good Stuff]

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It may not be available just yet, but you can put our names on the list for the ROLLERtoaster when it hits the market. It is definitely the toaster of the future. Sleek and compact, the toaster was designed by Jaren Goh of Singapore and won a 2006 Red Dot Design Award for innovation. Goh was inspired by the change of televisions from large and bulky boxes to streamlined flat-panels which retained all the functionality of the larger unit in a much more compact product. He applied that to a common appliance,the toaster, and the ROLLERtoaster was born. Slices of bread are "fed" into one side of the machine and are rolled through, fully toasted, to the other side where your plate awaits. The only potential problem is that it doesn't look like it will be able to handle bagels easily. Then again, neither do a lot of other toasters, so perhaps it's not as big a problem as one might think.

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We love toast here at Slashfood, but we think that toast is a little more fun when you can customize it. We're not referring to whether you like your toast light or dark, with butter or with Nutella, but to actually using a design for the toast itself. So far, we have see snakes on toast, pop art on toast, love notes on toast and Disney characters. None of those can top the Zuse Toast Printer, though. This wall-mounted toaster can burn - by which we mean toast - any 12x12 px image onto your toast using "a technology similar to early matrix printers," working line by line until the image has been reproduced. The toaster comes with some images already uploaded, but it sounds as though you would be able to add your own to the image inventory, too.

I have no idea what that little cube guy under the toaster is supposed to be, but I can think of at least a few designs that would make my morning toast a little more interesting.

[via SciFi Tech]

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A bagel lover can spend days, even weeks, trying to find a toaster that will comfortably fit extra-wide bagel slices. With most toasters, you end up having to stuff a bagel half in a too-small slot, which inevitably results in a bagel that is burned on one side. And that's all after you contend with those plastic "bagel slicers" that squish the bagel more effectively than they cleave it. The Westinghouse ToasterSlicer both toast and slices - and it is designed specifically for bagels.

The bagel is loaded whole into the slot at the back and, after pushing the machine's "slice" button and closing the slot, the bagel pops out fully toasted (and sliced!) from the other end after a few minutes. It can also toast regular bread, but it is more of a single-purpose gadget. But if you eat a lot of bagels, it is a gadget that would certainly come in handy! It's $43 at Overstock.com.

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