And methinks the Lotus toaster utilizes microchip technology.
Microchip+heat=almost certain appliance failure
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Their oven looks like a Breville clone. Evidently they did a run on HSN. I’m just trying to find out who the company is.
Give me analogue or give me appliance death!
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I have several analogue appliances on my kitchen counter. One is from the sixties, and two are from the seventies. The new FP is only there because the original Cuisinart fell, suffering an ignominious death. The 1953 waffle iron is in the closet.
Sometimes I think that I’m an analogue appliance.
Hah! I’m still an irresponsible teenager between my ears!
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I read an article about the Toast-R-Oven. Its price, when it was widely introduced in the 1960s, was, on an inflation adjusted basis, the equivalent of about $350 today.
Reminds me of my best friend’s dad, who went through a period of always needing to have the latest tech. In the mid-'70s, he bought a new-fangled calculator that added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided, but had no memory. That four-function calculator set him back $100, which, per some online estimators, is around $600 today.
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My brother did likewise. He was a math major. His did all manner of things, way beyond my mathematics vocabulary.
Gary was a cop. No need for him to have the gadgets. He just wanted the gadgets. He was easily distracted by the bright and shiny.
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Here in cookware-land, we are all familiar with the call of the new and shiny.
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You inspired me to start a new discussion of “new and shiny” - those we regret.
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A whole frickin decade in the development. I gotta git dat!
They were looking at the Breville for 10 years, thinking:" how did they do that?"
