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Sunday, December 6, 2009

IDEA: toaster with butter well for the perfect coverage

Hi,
as it is Sunday - here is my 'decadent' idea. According to a superficial search in google there is no toaster that also does apply the butter after the toast cycle is done. As this appears to be the most common of spreads and traditionally applied manually with the knife. This could be a chrismas present for those who do have everything else -- or just hate to break the toast applying cold butter.

Technically, the butter flows almost at room temperature. Therefore the application of a thin layer of butter can be done fairly easy. So leaving with some options, such as roll on, spray on or even a fully flowing well.

Rolling on can be tricky being that toast warps under the heat. A well to run the toast through does apply too much butter for me. Spraying butter appears to be a good way. Practically, I would think a double height toaster would do the trick. The bread enters a semi-conventional four slice toaster. On finishing the toast cycle it will drop out on the bottom. Whilst dropping through it will fall through a blade of butter spray.

The butter is heated at the same time as the toast flowing into a reservoir. Then gas is applied (maybe from a carbonate gas cartridge or generated using a mini compressor or various other means) to the butter propelling it onto the toast. To control the amount of butter you could finely adjust the butter pressure or let it fall through several times.

Cleaning is likely be done using some kitchen towels strategically mounted to catch the excess or some baking paper box.

Is it healthy ? Maybe we need less butter with the spray on as it would be distributed very thinly. But, I readily admit, this is a more decadent idea of doing toast the posh 'Sunday' style. Health is less of my motivation -- otherwise I wouldn't use butter.

Applying low fat cream cheese likely requires a completely different approach. But that is the topic of another 'decadent' post.