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A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat to brown sliced bread into toast, the color caused from the Maillard reaction.It typically consists of one or more slots into which bread is inserted, and heating elements, often made of nichrome wire, to generate heat and toast the bread to the desired level of crispiness.
From 1913, another of Copeman's inventions, a toaster with bread turner, was also produced by the Copeman Electric Stove Company. Electric toasters were a recent invention at that time - the first commercially successful version was patented in July 1909 - and the bread had to be turned manually once the first side had been toasted.
While electric toasters existed at the time, they had to be constantly watched to avoid burning the toast, and could only toast one side of the bread at a time. Strite's toaster, which he started working on in 1919 and patented in 1921, solved both of these drawbacks. It contained heating elements on both sides of the toast, and a spring to ...
After the lecture, Alan and his friends visited the toaster article on Wikipedia, where one of his friends, Alex, edited the article to replace the lecturer's friend's name with Alan MacMasters, claiming he invented the toaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1893. [1] [2] [3] A year later, Alex contemplated the extent to which he could escalate the ...
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
It was followed by other major companies when they saw how the bread was received. By 1932 the availability of standardized slices had boosted sales of automatic, pop-up toasters, an invention of 1926 by Charles Strite. In 1933 American bakeries for the first time produced more sliced than unsliced bread loaves. [4]
Recipes and Tips To Remember. Inside the cover page, I find the words scrawled: “cole slaw, page 217.” When I flip open the book, it falls easily to that page, as if the past owner frequented ...
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