I WANT ONE !!!
Check out this cool slide toaster design by Daniel Thomas, who says he wanted to design a toaster where you could see the bread toasting and where you didn’t have to pop it up.
Like many of the rest of us, Thomas says he rarely used the timer on conventional toasters and instead hung about waiting for the bread to toast before he popped it up. Yes, me too.
We’ve moved on from the very first methods of toasting bread, like holding a fork in front of an open fire or grilling it on wire racks, ever since the first electric toasters appeared on the market.
The first pop up toaster was actually invented way back in 1919 by Charles Strite but the modern pop up toaster we know today didn’t make an appearance until around 1926 when the automatic pop up ‘Toastmaster’ became available to the general public. It was a phenomenal success and soon became a must have item in most kitchens.
However, the basic design of toasters hasn’t really changed much in the last eighty odd years. Ok so we might have a few fancy gadgets and timers to play with and multiple spaces for bread, but the method is still the same. You pop the bread in and wait while it silently and invisibly bronzes your bread and when it’s done it pops up.
We either have to adjust the timer each time for different preferences and degrees of ‘burning’ or we have to wait and pop it up regularly to see when our toast is done to our liking. If we get it wrong then we end up with a blackened slab of crumbling charcoal and we have to start the whole process all over again.
Now this concept design by Thomas really moves toasters to another level. Here we can actually see the bread as it is toasting so no chance our toast accidentally blackening itself. When it’s ready we simply slide the toast out. How cool is that?
My only concern is pulling the rack out. I suspect those metal bits at the end would get pretty hot so you would either need a cloth or a handling tool to slide the rack out, but other than that it looks deliciously perfect to me.
I love this toaster, I want it, and if it ever becomes available I will have it.
