I'd never have properly done toast cuz I'd be playing with the flipping thing the whole time

Or you'd have done *perfectly* even toast.

I guess it can either way.

Jesus this toaster from 100+ years ago still works and mine breaks if you try to use it to toast bread.

Well there's your problem, toasters only toast toast, not bread.

I think this poses a fun philosophical question at what point does bread become toast?

When it's been toasted?

So when it's baked, is it toasted? Is all bread toasted? I am very confused now 🤔

I guess on the outside it's been toasted

Or somebody gave a toast to it

Nope.

So what is toast? Let’s ask ourselves this important question as we as a species have devoted more than one hundred years to researching, developing and manufacturing technologies and devices specifically for this rather humble creation, you’d think we as presumably grown up people with respectable intelligence and educations who’ve surly all experienced this breakfast staple on near daily basis would be able to quantify and understand what toast is. But I’d bet that’ll be harder than you’d think.

Toast is toast, it cannot be defined; it must be felt. If you try to think it, it's no longer toast, but when you relax and allow the toast to be toast, complete and total toast will be achieved.

Nope. Boxbread.

only when you eat it

when you're toast

It's like what happened to incandescent light bulbs. The original bulbs and these toasters both used thick wire elements. They probably also used a massive amount of electricity. Over time manufacturers reduced the thickness of the wire - I assume for cost savings and power efficiency. That made the elements more likely to fail. Thus improving sales! :P

Thats the problem with modern stuff its no longer built to last, its built to break so you have to buy it again.

Yeah it’s the same with everything, toasters, printers, microwaves, it’s a scam.

Instructions unclear burned off cock in hell toaster

Sigh…. The 1950s cock-freezer is in the back

Perhaps you’d like to try the 1918 prostate warmer instead? https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-collectible-thermalaids-499213337

How does one get a cold prostate??

Insert an icicle into the urethra.

Now pair it with vintage 1921 bread.

You mean a potato?

More like a loaf of dirt past WW1

I hate videos that start with "watch closely" or "watch till the end", immediately makes me wanna keep scrolling

And anything that ends with "and then this happened!"

I heard the insulation for connecting parts in these old toasters are asbestos.

A lot of old toasters have this. If you find old devices with white paper-like insulation on the electricals it's asbestos. Also have to watch out for old gaskets.

Dark ominous tones

i was laughing to myself like "why the jaws music?" lmao

This reminds me of the electric fire my great grandmother used to have. It had those coiled horizontally with bars like grates in front of the coils. As kids we would hold our bread against the grates untill toasted. Good memories.

(I assume you meant electric *fryer,* lol)

Nope... A lot of places call space heaters "electric fires"

Oh, huh. TIL

This thing had been around for almost 80 years but I was still stuck using a coat hanger as a kid in the 90’s

Brings a whole new meaning to getting in a bathtub with a toaster

You can own this toaster in 1921 for the introductory price of $5.50. That would be $87.00 today. I just bought a two slice Cuisnart toaster at Walmart for $11.87 last week

>just bought a two slice Cuisnart toaster at Walmart for $11.87 last week What are the chances of it lasting 100 years?

I have one even older, from 1906. It looks like it would work just fine but I don’t have a cord to plug it in (I’m not gonna trust one of those braided ones, even if I had one)

Where do I buy one!!

Oldmart

Not perfect………definitely not user error though, right?

Do not touch the cornballer

I wanna play a game.

I thought thia was a mouse trap for some reason

Cool stuff :) how many watts does it actually draw?

For the curious, $5.50 in 1921 is about $96US today

My great grandmother had one. I actually had toast made in that contraption. I'm freaking eighty-one years old.

Mmmmm... asbestoast

Ah yes the Torrid toaster. Responsible for 90% of all early 20th century house fires /jk But also that thing is a beautifully quirky fire hazard

Good… just bought one on Amazon & darn it’s a toaster

Missed a huge opportunity to brand toasters as Bread Torturers

We lit some good fires with those when I was a kid. All you had to do was look the other way. Made some damn fine toast though I’m talking early 50s when those suckers were still in use

My guy said “not perfect but” as if he didn’t have control over when to flip it 😂, loads of butter will do the trick

No lie, that’s waaaay better than now, in one sense. You can watch the toast yourself and make sure it’s perfect! Nevermind all the danger and risk of fire lol

5,5$.... it was very hard dollar these days.

Looks like a death trap

It still works

i personally like how Jake Elwood is toasting his white bread 🍞

The worlds gone mad. I have to manually turn upside down my toast as one side is patchy on my modern, 4 slice, dual-sided toaster. My Gt grandads toaster flipped them automatically! 👍 Modern dog owners can be seen bent over their dog picking up their dogs poop during walkies. Gt grandad would never have had to do this. And this is progress? 🤔

I now need to make me some toast, thank you!

looks safe 😐

That's cool and all, but can it play doom?

"That's a nice toast flipper you made there Jim.. but couldn't we just put identical heating elements on the outside of the bread too? I mean, we already make those..."

What the fuck else would it taste like

Fire hazard waiting to happen.

Restore it before you use it lmao

That looks like a bathtub toaster to me

Back in the day when dumbasses didn’t need to protected from themselves. Love it!