The cleverest little kitchen *gadget since – well, long before sliced bread surprisingly – celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

When Frank Shailor, a technician with General Electric, dreamed up his D12 toaster in 1909, it was 20 years before there was such a thing as a sliced loaf.

He invented it so people could still eat bread that was going stale and it was an overnight success. Bits of bread were simply wedged inside the exposed “wire fence”.

Unfortunately, this would prove quite hazardous because the bread had to be turned by hand to make sure both sides were toasted.

After a decade of people getting their fingers burnt came the first covered, pop-up toaster in 1919.

This led to the world’s first *automatic electric toaster, the Toastmaster, in 1926.

When Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented a machine to slice bread in 1928, no home could be without a toaster.

The gadget has been through so many incarnations, there is a *museum in Kettwig, Germany, with almost every toaster ever made, *including the willow-patterned Pan Electric Toastrite and the modernist 1930s Saluta revolving toaster in nickel-plated steel and red Bakelite.


A spokesman for breadmakers Kings*mill said: “Bread has been a staple part of our diet for 6,000 years, but toasting is relatively new and it’s interesting that the process hasn’t changed that much in 100 years.

“The 1926 Toastmaster looks *pretty similar to the toasters we have in our kitchens today.”

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All hail Frank Shailor!!props:

Oh yeah, toast with melted butter also topped with either jam or cinnamon sugar.:liplick::nod:

Well, I haven't had breakfast yet, soooo.....

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I just had some toast with jelly. :liplick:

Happy BDay Toaster.

I celebrated today with thick sliced raisin/cinnamon toast. Yum!


Where would we be without this wonderful invention? All eating blackened, charred bread from our ovens I suppose! ;)

I just used my toaster today, so Happy Birthday! :)

Wow, I couldn't even imagine life without a toaster! So Happy 100th birthday old friend!

I gotta get a new toaster, I miss eating pop tarts.

I gotta get a new toaster, I miss eating pop tarts.

YUM!! Love pop tarts especially the blueberry frosted and the frosted brown sugar cinnamon. They have to be frosted, I can't just eat the plain ones.

Happy 100th Birthday toast!! I wouldn't be able to eat eggs without you!! :D

^ For sure! And I'm honouring it again at dinner with poached eggs on toast with side bacon and orange juice.

I love my Kitchen Aid toaster - it's a big 4 slice jobby and is fire engine RED!!

^ For sure! And I'm honouring it again at dinner with poached eggs on toast with side bacon and orange juice.

I love my Kitchen Aid toaster - it's a big 4 slice jobby and is fire engine RED!!

Mmmm sounds good. Wish I were eating with you. I'm having a bologne sandwich for dinner. puke:

Here's a toast to the toaster!!

Here's a toast to the toaster!!
:cheers: :rofl:

i had some toast for breakfast today so happy birthday toaster

I miss my toaster it went out a few months ago and I haven't had the time to get a new one yet.

happy birthday

Yes, happy birthday! :birthday:

YUM!! Love pop tarts especially the blueberry frosted and the frosted brown sugar cinnamon. They have to be frosted, I can't just eat the plain ones.

I'm the exact opposite, I can't stand the frosted ones.

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The toaster even got into a bit of acting, he played 'Talkie Toaster' on a few episodes of the British series Red Dwarf.

Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
Lister: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Toaster: How 'bout a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Toaster: Aah, so you're a waffle man.

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Holly: [her IQ has been increased to 12,000] Strike a light! I'm a genius again! I know everything! Metaphysics, philosophy, the purpose of being-everything! Ask me a question, any question, and I'll answer it.
Talkie Toaster: Any question?
Holly: Yes.
Talkie Toaster: How to break the speed of light? How to marry quantum mechanics and classical physics? Any question at all, truly anything and you will answer?
Holly: Yes.
Talkie Toaster: OK, here's my question: Would you like some toast?
Holly: No, thank you. Now ask me another.
Talkie Toaster: Do you know anything about the use of chaos theory in predicting weather cycles?
Holly: I know everything there is to know about chaos theory and predicting weather cycles.
Talkie Toaster: Oh, very well. Here's my second question: Would you like a crumpet?
Holly: I'm a computer with an I.Q. of 12,000. You don't seem to understand; I know the meaning of the universe.
Talkie Toaster: That's not answering my question.
Holly: [irritated] No, I would not like a crumpet! Now ask me a sensible question, preferably one that isn't bread related.
Talkie Toaster: Very well. I have a third question. A sensible question. A question that will tax your new I.Q. to its very limits and stretch the sinews of your knowledge to bursting point.
Holly: This is going to be about waffles, isn't it?
Talkie Toaster: Certainly not. And I resent the implication that I'm a one-dimensional, bread-obsessed electrical appliance.
Holly: I apologize, toaster. What's the question?
Talkie Toaster: The question is this: Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?
Holly: That's another bready question.
Talkie Toaster: It's not just bready. It's quite currenty, too.

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Mmmm sounds good. Wish I were eating with you. I'm having a bologne sandwich for dinner. puke:


:lol: Well I made up for it last night and grabbed the leftover container with chili I made up over two weeks ago. It didn't have anything green and fuzzy growing on it so I risked it. With every bite I wasn't sure if I was poisoning myself, but I didn't afterall. hehe I just hated throwing it all out.