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Old Toaster Memory

Marp — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:48:57 GMT

As I was waiting for my bread to toast this morning I started thinking about how excited I was as a kid when the family got our first pop-up toaster and replaced one similar to this:

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Big Joanie — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:51:47 GMT

I remember the traingle one that went over a gas burner ....

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:57:08 GMT

When Mom bought our new 4 piece toaster in her "harvest gold" color I thought WOW!!

Extra toast in one swoop.

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Big Joanie — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:58:06 GMT

Now that's high livin.....

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Marp — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:58:49 GMT

@Big Joanie wrote:
I remember the traingle one that went over a gas burner ....

My nana had one like that. Fortunately I wasn't allowed to make toast with it.

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Gram W — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:09:48 GMT

I enjoy going to old/antique shops looking at kitchen products from long ago. I remember helping Grandma in the kitchen and using those old toasters.

Oh my! Wait a minute I have those Corning, Revere, etc products in my kitchen. I still use them everyday. My Rainbow vacuum cleaner is used for the upstairs. Some items I received when we got married in 1962. Does that mean I am now an antique? I am 72. I don't think of myself as an "antique".

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CareBears — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:11:36 GMT

@beckyb1012 Is that an egg cooker ( kind of looks like the one Mark Charles sells), on the left, brown small appliance.

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SaRina — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:14:43 GMT

When I was a child, ours looked something like this...

I love the smell of toast. It just doesn't smell quite the same coming out of a toaster oven. :-)

Speaking of retro kitchen gadgets, we also had this double coffee maker. I still have it.

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:19:51 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@beckyb1012 Is that an egg cooker ( kind of looks like the one Mark Charles sells), on the left, brown small appliance.

@CareBears Yes it is, we did not have one of those but Mom had some special pan for making poached eggs over boiling water on the stovetop. Recently, the home she built when I was in the fourth grade and we sold my senior year of high school went back on the market. They posted 35 photos of our home with all the changes outside and inside. I saved the site on my favorites list and still look at from time to time. One owner actually moved the stove and fridge from one side of the kitchen to the other. It still had my Mom's huge beyond huge patio she added a few years after she built the home then a cover from the sun later. A woman in her early 20's, two incurable diseases, divorced with three children and made that home special always. I loved the 70's.

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CareBears — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:20:40 GMT

@SaRina Forgive me for being so naive, but how do you use the double coffee maker?

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noodleann — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:20:43 GMT

We had forks. You stick the fork in the side of the bread and hold it over the burner and pray it doesn't fall off. Crusts and stale bread worked best. Fresh bread (Wonder cotton wool variety, of course) was too soft and saggy.

Then we had a bank toaster. I think my mother opened a savings account to get that. It was cheap and forgettable, but it worked. No forks were allowed near it, so when it occasionally trapped the toast, my mother had to be called to unplug the thing and use the fork herself.

In my early apartments with gas stoves, I had a stand-up number much like the OP's electric model. It stood over the burner and had asbestos sheets behind the grills to diffuse the heat. We also had asbestos sheets in rings with handles to lay on top of the burner to diffuse the heat for big pots. Those were the days.

I now have a sleek electric chrome two-slot number with exotic settings for things like bagels. It won't allow you to pull the lever all the way down if it's not plugged in and if there's nothing in one of the slots. You can also "pop" things up after they're done by pulling the lever up, to avoid the temptation of using a fork.

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SaRina — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:22:36 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@SaRina Forgive me for being so naive, but how do you use the double coffee maker?

@CareBears, forgive me for being so ignorant... but I don't know! It hasn't been used since I was a very young child. I just have it sitting in my kitchen as "art", lol. I'm going to investigate for sure. :-)

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CareBears — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:25:21 GMT

@beckyb1012 Our childhood home has been for sale twice now since the invention of the internet (LOL) so I too have been able to peek inside and saw all the changes made over the years, honestly I would not recognize the home had they not posted the address, which though it does not surprise me made me somewhat sad, there was nothing left physically that reminded me that I had lived there and made wonderful memories.

BTW, I love my Mark Charles egg cooker!

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CareBears — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:28:41 GMT

@SaRina Thank you for your response, hold on to that, it is so unique, and I love that you display it as art in your kitchen!

I saw similiar toaster's at Target a few weeks back, now if they would only make appliances like they used to back in the 50's & 60's as far as quality goes we would be all set!

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Big Joanie — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:28:45 GMT

Marp .. Gee I wonder why !!!

Once I singed my eyebrows and first row of hair lighting a gas oven ...

Once !!!

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SilleeMee — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:38:52 GMT

My little brother bought this toaster for my mother on Mother's Day when he was just a little boy back in the sixties. She used it for many years and believe it or not it is still on my counter today and I still use it!

G.E. Toastmaster Toaster

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SaRina — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:39:47 GMT

@SaRina wrote:
@CareBears wrote:
@SaRina Forgive me for being so naive, but how do you use the double coffee maker?
@CareBears, forgive me for being so ignorant... but I don't know! It hasn't been used since I was a very young child. I just have it sitting in my kitchen as "art", lol. I'm going to investigate for sure. :-)

@CareBears, this is really interesting and funny -- here are a couple of back-to-back videos of how to use the double coffee pot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llcof12IyLs

Basically, you fill the bottom pot with water. You place coffee in the top pot. Turn the switch on (at base of lower pot). The water is electrically heated and bubbles up through the grating between the pots, dissolving the coffee. It's all sucked back down into the lower pot and coffee is ready to pour from lower pot.

Well, that's the most scientific explanation I can give, lol.

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CareBears — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:53:22 GMT

@SaRina After watching the video and giggling, now I know the machine is old, but if I had to wait that long to get a cup of coffee every monring, I think I would just eat the grounds by the spoonfuls and forget the brewing process, LOL!

FYI, I so just wanted to start cleaning his kitchen, I see my OCD shining through!

Thank you for taking the time to find the video and posting it, I appreciate your time!

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SaRina — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:15:58 GMT

Lol @CareBears. Well, he's a young guy so whaddya expect? You're very welcome. :-)

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Nomorebirthdays — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:19:59 GMT

@SilleeMee. I have this toastmaster toaster, the first and only one. I has a cloth covered cord. I had a new plug put on once and they used a period plug. Still works like a charm. They don't make stuff like this anymore.