HUGE TOAST COMPLAINT!

[NeO6874]

Well, I just finished my first kit-built toaster this morning.  Took me a couple of tries to get the resistance on the elements right though...

Now that I know it works, I'm gonna take it apart again and see if I can cram a MRC decoder in there to control toasting from across the room.  It's also lacking some really needed detail..

Dave - I'm gonna need your help getting it to put a PRR keystone graphic(?) onto the toast as it's toasting.  I aslo have two questions about the details.

1. What's a good mix-your-own color for either Brunswick Green or Tuscan Red? 

2. Do you have any insight as to adding a toasterphone antenna? (pics would be really great)

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Vollmer]

Hey.....what the????.....this thread activated my pop-up blocker.

The new toasters don't pop up any more...  That's a DC thing.  Digital toasters allow you control the speed at which your toast comes out of the toaster.

[jblackwelljr]

Hey.....what the????.....this thread activated my pop-up blocker.

[Dave Vollmer]

So, do you think Thomas the Toaster will  have an influence on the future of toasting?

As we all know, toasting is a declining art, especially compared to the fifties.  When I was young, you weren't cool unless you had a toaster under the Christmas tree!

No.

As an example, "The Brave Little Toaster" movie was released in 1987, 20 years ago, yet manufacturers have yet to see any increase in toasting since then.

NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!!

[Midnight Railroader]

So, do you think Thomas the Toaster will  have an influence on the future of toasting?

As we all know, toasting is a declining art, especially compared to the fifties.  When I was young, you weren't cool unless you had a toaster under the Christmas tree!

No.

As an example, "The Brave Little Toaster" movie was released in 1987, 20 years ago, yet manufacturers have yet to see any increase in toasting since then.

[ranchero]

i blame the delcine of toasting on those cheap toaster set you get at large store. they single -handedly killed the toasting hobby...

bought a cheap tyco toaster once.. almost made me hate toasting. the bread would go in cause the slots werent rp-25 compliant, then it would either burn too fast or not slow enough... finally i just threw it out and bought a good athearn one. as reliable as ever...

[Arjay1969]

Does anyone know if you can download a sound file for French Toast for a DigiToast decoder?

 

Well, I've heard of such things being available, but by all reports, the crunch sound effect isn't very realistic.  

[BATMAN]

Sorry Dave your wrong... My experts say they are likely to move on to something harder like CHEESE Toast or RAISIN TOAST. I have seen houses full of 4 slicers grinding this stuff out for the street level butterers.

[TheK4Kid]

I take the "Mister Wizard" approach

 

1. One each slice of bread -wheat, rye, or white will work.
2.One each propane torch
3.One each standard fork eating utensil
4.Light torch
5.Take one each fork, pierce one each slice of bread
6.Hold one each slice of bread near one each propane
torch flame
7.Toast one each slice of bread to your own preference
8.Extinguish one each propane torch flame
9.Consume your one each slice of toasted bread, or place
upon one each breakfast plate and add any condiments
of your preference by using one each spreading knife or one each spoon.

Problem solved!

 TheK4Kid

 

PS- Be sure to wear "Mr Wizard" white lab coat and eye protection
      while making your toast, that way you look  very cool
       and intellectual like you know what you're doing!

PS#2 In the abscence of one each propane torch, you may substitute
one each Bunsen burner, if you have a one each safe natural gas source.  
 

[secondhandmodeler]

I can say authoritatively that there's no connection between young kids easting toast today and whether they'll eat toast in the future.  I have classified data which is flawless (but I can't reveal its source) and indicates, beyond refute, that toast is dying.

[Dave Vollmer]

I can say authoritatively that there's no connection between young kids easting toast today and whether they'll eat toast in the future.  I have classified data which is flawless (but I can't reveal its source) and indicates, beyond refute, that toast is dying.

[secondhandmodeler]

So, do you think Thomas the Toaster will  have an influence on the future of toasting?

As we all know, toasting is a declining art, especially compared to the fifties.  When I was young, you weren't cool unless you had a toaster under the Christmas tree!

[Midnight Railroader]

We also had to build our own fuses.

I just used pennies.

 

[Cox 47]

My toaster is made from parts from a scrapped Illinois Central E-7....Toast domes out Illinois Central brown every time...Cox 47

[andrechapelon]

I'm still waiting for drop-in decoders for my toast...

You young whippersnappers have it WAY too easy. Back in my day, we had to scratchbuild our toasters because they weren't available commercially. Not only did we have to build the chassis, we had to make our own heating wire and if you didn't get the resistance right, all you got was a short circuit and a blown fuse.

We also had to build our own fuses.

The last time CTT (Classic Toy Toasters) had an article on scratchbuilding one was back in 1982/83. It's about time there was another one.

Blame this guy: http://www.toaster.org/hoskins.html

Andre

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I just got a T-2-a 2-10-2 toaster. I wonder what tiny decoder I can get to put in it.

[Dave Vollmer]

Haven't seen French Toast... but they do have English Muffin

English muffins look decidedly different than their North American counterparts.  It could be the buffers, or that they're smaller, or maybe it's the overall clean lines of an English muffin.

I'm sure our resident English muffin expert will correct me if I'm wrong here...

English muffins are an acquired taste!

[NeO6874]

Haven't seen French Toast... but they do have English Muffin

[MisterBeasley]

Does anyone know if you can download a sound file for French Toast for a DigiToast decoder?

[Dave Vollmer]

I'm still waiting for drop-in decoders for my toast...

I still run an analog toaster.  It fills my simple needs, and doesn't confuse my simple mind.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

Get with the program!  Analog toast is so 1950s!  The future of toast is digital!  If you can't hang with the digital toasters, then you may as well quit toasting now!

DCC lets you toast different slices of bread to different levels of brown (or black) at the same time!

Jeez, you DC toasters are just scared of new technology...

[tomikawaTT]

I'm still waiting for drop-in decoders for my toast...

I still run an analog toaster.  It fills my simple needs, and doesn't confuse my simple mind.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[Dave Vollmer]

I'm still waiting for drop-in decoders for my toast...

[Anonymous]

I sure wish I could afford one of those 9999 slice toasters that allows you to burn a 4-digit number into your toast...but you have to have special house wiring to run it.  Plus it costs over 500 dollars, and you have to put it in a seperate building because of the sheer heat it generates.

[SOU Fan]

Toastmaster model DC143 4 slice toaster

A Toastmaster DC143 4 slice toaster??  I have heard that they have up to a DC159 now!!  And I can only afford a DC147.

 

-Smoke

[Anonymous]

We were cleaning out the basement tonight when I found a Toastmaster model DC143 4 slice toaster from the 80s!  I immediately thought of this thread.

By the way, our new toaster is a 4 slice DC with the Uberbutton package (it includes over ten buttons and has the classic resistor based throttle control.)

[SteamFreak]

I tried putting the butter on before I toasted the bread, but my dragon keeps licking it off.

So Sad

Paul 

ROFL

I got a stupid dragon who keeps burning his own tongue, so I don't have that problem.

[IRONROOSTER]

See dragon-fired unit above.

What I hate is that butter goes rancid if you keep it on the counter, so you have to keep it in the fridge. But then when you want toast it's hard as a rock and tears up the bread, and then you have cold toast with colder butter on it. If you try to soften it in the microwave, it turns into yellow oil and is no good for spreading, which is a lousy way to start off the morning.

 

I tried putting the butter on before I toasted the bread, but my dragon keeps licking it off.

So Sad

Paul 

[cheese4432]

See dragon-fired unit above.

What I hate is that butter goes rancid if you keep it on the counter, so you have to keep it in the fridge. But then when you want toast it's hard as a rock and tears up the bread, and then you have cold toast with colder butter on it. If you try to soften it in the microwave, it turns into yellow oil and is no good for spreading, which is a lousy way to start off the morning.

Doesn't happen down here........

I'll look into that dragon fired unit and see.........

[WCfan]

Well you guys asked for it and I did it. You wanted a DCC toaster that makes the pefect toast and have a UP paint scheam. I did it. Now I can controll my toaster from 100 feet away! Even better when I moutned it to some track and added sound to it. It was pretty cool untill the engery bill came.

[SteamFreak]

Sinc we have another HUGEcomplaint thread I couldn't resist bumping up this thread.

With a complaint about toast!

In our toaster if you only toast one slice of bread the other side is burnt so you scrape it off and by the time you do that your toast is cold. So you stick it back in on the shortest setting to warm it back up again in the other spot this time then the oppisite side.So by the time you finish scraping off the burnt stuff it's cold again and since you realize that this will go n untill the bread isn't there anymore you have cold dry toast with burnt spots on it .

Get a new toaster.

See dragon-fired unit above.

What I hate is that butter goes rancid if you keep it on the counter, so you have to keep it in the fridge. But then when you want toast it's hard as a rock and tears up the bread, and then you have cold toast with colder butter on it. If you try to soften it in the microwave, it turns into yellow oil and is no good for spreading, which is a lousy way to start off the morning.