I’m still using a toaster I bought for around 20 bucks in 1997. I say splurge on a cheap toaster . Give it to charity when you’re ready to come home, or bring it home as a souvenir and back-up toaster.
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Broiler? It’d take 15-20 sec. a side!
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Are there thrift shops/secondhand stores in Berlin? If so, that might be a place to look. Also, a friend in Tokyo “toasts” his bread in a dry frying pan because he doesn’t have the room for a toaster oven in his small apartment (traditional pop-up toasters are extremely rare in Japan).
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The family home was built in 1886. Had 2 kitchens-- the “Kitchen” & the “New Kitchen” It’s a big ol’ Victorian. My aunt would spear a slice of white bread on a carving fork, take off one of the lids on the wood burning stove in the “kitchen” toast it over the flames. The new kitchen was tiny & put in place for the new fangled gas stove.
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Yeah, there are all kinds of cheap stores in town. We just haven’t gotten around it yet. Keep in mind we’ve been here just over a week 
We’ll git 'r done.
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Hard to go wrong with this!
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My mom sometimes made toast in the oven. Buttered first. Sort of reminds me of the texture of garlic bread.
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When we were FOB’s (Fresh Off the Boat), mom would butter sourdough slices and toasted in the oven also, called it garlic bread.
When I had real garlic bread for the first time in an Italian restaurant, I was like Gross!! Didn’t like garlic much when I was young.
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This had no garlic, but we did put strawberry preserves on it after we took it out of the oven. 
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We picked up two turkey eggs at the local market on Friday out of pure curiosity. They are LARGE.
Made a scramble (SBEs seemed daunting) with just s&p and fresh parsley. Not sure I tasted much of a difference to chicken eggs, but my PIC said he thought they were richer in flavor 
They were not off-putting to me like the duck eggs I tried many moons ago.
Also sliced and fried up a couple of leftover new potatoes & finished the Schinkenspeck from last night’s Spargel dinner
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There’s a resto around here that features a pizza topped with a duck egg. Very popular amongst the hipster clientele.
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Did you have to share??
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Unfortunately, yes 
Really good dnutz courtesy of one of my fantastic sisters. She called dibs on the apple fritter(last one at the shop, so she says) I had 1/2 of the funnel cake(middle) and 1/2 of the bottom right one, lemon cream I think.
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Sounds like everyone got some good stuff anyway!!
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Your sister was right to get dibs on the apple fritter. They’re hard to find where I live.
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