Dec 29 2009Watch Your Bread Brown: A See-Thru Toaster
Let's face it: the problem with modern toasting technology is that it doesn't use lasers. A far less significant problem is that you can't see how burnt your bread is getting until it's a f***ing shingle. Enter Le Toaster Vision from Magimix.
Despite its toaster moniker, Le Toaster Vision is really more of a vertical toaster oven, using two toaster elements per side that are positioned above and below the slices of bread. Reflectors behind the elements make sure that the bread gets toasted evenly while keeping the windowed sides (mostly) clear to see through.
Hey, with as much toast as I eat this thing might be worth it. I've been using the same toaster for like four years and there's absolutely no consistency to the level of browning. You know what I'm thinking? A poltergeist. Now touch me while I sleep!
Hit the jump for a video of the thing.
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Reader Comments
1. Que - December 29, 2009 12:09 PM
Que wow batmen.,
2. jdi - December 29, 2009 12:10 PM
how much?
3. Tennist0 - December 29, 2009 12:16 PM
STOOOOOOOOPIT
4. whistle - December 29, 2009 12:18 PM
I gave this suggestion to a kid on Yahoo! Answers a while back:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqvouEp9wTDr8uGUkMvsuDjty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090608133909AA54lhL&show=7#profile-info-uGnqwWDAaa
5. whistle - December 29, 2009 12:19 PM
Except my suggestion had about 10% more awesome (and was way less plausible/more costly).
Notice I got 100% of the vote! That's right. Bow down.
6. Asperflux - December 29, 2009 12:26 PM
Long live the robots. We do not eat toast
7. LSDiesel - December 29, 2009 12:41 PM
@5, and by awesome, you mean that you have a tiny penis.
8. Closet Nerd - December 29, 2009 12:43 PM
Toasters! Toasters are good! Like them, like toast, mmm… You’ve got a toaster there, but it has a turny-dial knob thing on the side… and it lies to us. It does not tell the truth! For it has numbers from one to six, and they lie… You set on four, you put bread in on four, and boom, comes up three! Three! This is three toast, not good at all! Hardly done. You set and change to five, and it comes up six! Six! This is six, all burnt! All burnt! Scrape, scrape, scrape- oh, fuck it! Forget it! ‘Cause the toaster is in there, going,
“Stay down, lads! Stay down! Stay down, go for the burn! No pain, no gain! No fish, no fowl! No socks, no shoes! No hair, no haircut!”
And the other toast is going,
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I don’t know… I felt like saying it.”
I think, with toast, it’s one and a half times for each piece of toast. Correct me if I’m wrong here. Toast goes in, comes up; immediately, you don’t even look at it, you whack it straight down again… and you wander around the kitchen with one eye on the toaster… The whole automated idea is lost, as you have to… (mimes running to check on the toast)
‘Cause the toast waits, and it’s going, “Wait, wait until he looks at the cup of soup… wait ‘till he looks at the cup of soup…” And you’re there, going, “Cup A Soup? Pot Noodle? Cup A Soup? Pot Noodle? Oh, no, it’s burning! It’s burning! Oh, no! In the bin!
And it gets stuck in there, and you know you’re not supposed to put a knife in… But you’re an adult now! It’s your toaster! You wanna live on the edge! “Get knives in toaster! Get knives, and forks and all cutlery in the toaster! Use a whisk as well! Whisk, whisk, whisk… Get it in! Take it and do it in the bath! In the bath! Turn the water on! Eat a jam sandwich at the same time! Light matches, burn the house down!”
The same people who make toasters make showers… for they have a turny button too that lies. For we know “turn-turn-turn” for hot, “turn-turn-turn” for cold, but the only position we’re interested in is the position between there… and there. One nanomillimeter between fantastically hot and fucking freezing! Everyone who gets into a shower, they immediately become like a safe-breaker. (mimes safebreaker moves) You have two positions in the shower, one position is this… (mimes safebreaker stand) and the other position is that! (mimes standing away from piping hot shower) “Aah! Jeez! What the hell?” (mimes getting in water, and moving away) Aah! Stop using taps! Everyone in West London, stop using taps!”
And there’s someone in the same bathroom as you, going (mimes washing hands)…
“Hey, stop using taps, I’m in the shower!”
“ I’m not using taps, I’m running a mouse over my hands. See, we need a generator in the Ark, and the mouse is gonna run around. Noah is downstairs with the Ark.”
And Noah is shouting up the stairs, (as Connery) “Hey, the Ark is double-parked in a puddle. We gotta move on.” It’s true, it’s in The Bible.
9. Closet Nerd - December 29, 2009 12:45 PM
@5 yeah.... 100% of 1 vote..... just sayin
10. naas - December 29, 2009 1:02 PM
That toaster would make a great aquarium for a few lucky minnows.
@Closet Nerd receives the longest comment of the day soda machine supreme coupon for @8, well done
11. Closet Nerd - December 29, 2009 1:18 PM
@10 I couldn't resist posting Eddie Izzards skit on toasters. It was the first thing that popped into my head.... just sayin
I actually just found a pretty funny animation that someone did of that skit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZO2RZua6kE
12. Pat - December 29, 2009 1:48 PM
I use a toaster oven, which of course allows you to see how your toast is cooking. And at $30, it probably cost a lot less than this gimmick.
13. Paul? - December 29, 2009 2:06 PM
that's some good industrial design right there
14. Falco - December 29, 2009 2:26 PM
Hands off my bread!
15. Jiakasuma - December 29, 2009 3:23 PM
I do my toast right on the kitchen stove LOL
16. Mags - December 29, 2009 3:41 PM
@ Falco - But its tasty tasty bread...
17. whistle - December 29, 2009 4:48 PM
@7: LSDouchal:
I might invite you to study up on sarcasm a bit.
And I'm a girl, btw.
I wait with baited breath to hear your next sanctimonius comment/overcompensation effort....
18. mike - December 29, 2009 7:41 PM
want
19. Sandy - January 4, 2010 1:49 PM
Oh, brother! A toaster with glass sides, offering no better visibility than a toaster oven does, at much greater expense (over $150). And who wants to keep that glass sparkling? This appears destined to end up in every over-privileged household's collection of Things That Looked Good At Williams-Sonoma, an assortment of expensive disappointments that is usually kept somewhere out of sight in the four-car garage.