Every Tea Room needs a toaster topic…

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Posted by John Harding on 09/02/2019 12:18:22:

This style was around in the mid 50's. The flat top was probably intended for keeping toast warm. But with the top the same width as the base meant the toaster could be turned on its side to make a toasted cheese sandwich, it required caution.. Try that with a pop-up.

JH

But if you aimed it carefully it could shoot the finished sandwich directly onto your plate surely??

[Trevor Crossman 1Participant @trevorcrossman1]

Many years ago a former wife owned a toaster almost the same as Robin's which was shown in the original post, it worked perfectly and without fail turned the toast when the lid was lowered. It was slightly different in one detail however and that was that the ridge upon which the slice of bread rested when in the closed position, was curved i.e. convex, so that as the lid was lowered the slice easily slid off of the curved base toasted side downwards. When the said wife departed, the toaster departed too- – -and despite looking for many years, I never saw another ( toaster that is &nbsp until last year our mutual friend Google found this ………….

which is not bad at all, but not automatic, though with a bit of additional metalwork could be made so! It is Moulinex, seemingly only available from Spain where they are sensible enough to not worry that stupid people might be able to electrocute themselves by being able to touch the elements, or burn their house down because the only control requires enough brain function to be able to operate the OFF switch.

I suppose that really it's a just a posh version of Duncan's electric fire and coat hanger, but you can do perfect toast on it………………………………………or burnt

Trevor

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