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Toasters are gross! How to clean?



 
 
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Old 10-08-2007, 05:17 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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Default Toasters are gross! How to clean?

I have the typical cheap Walmart toaster

Works fine except there is no good way to thoroughly
clean a toaster's insides out!!

To me they look like a roach motel waiting to happen!!

Does there exist other devices that will make toast
well..... toast English muffins, etc..... yet can be
THOURHOUHLY cleaned of crumbs and such?

Or..... is there some trick to cleaning my current
toasters insides I'm not aware of?
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Old 10-08-2007, 08:02 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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Default Toasters are gross! How to clean?

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:16:53 GMT, "l, not -l" wrote:


I use a Toastmaster Coolwall Toaster Oven, the non-stick oven lining (top,
sides, back) is removable as one piece for easy cleaning. I pull it out
regularly and hand wash - works great.


Cool looking product -- where are the heating elements?

Do you have the patent number, by any chance? Thanks.

BTW, another solution for the OP is to simply use your broiler for toasting.

-- Larry
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Old 10-08-2007, 09:58 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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"l, not -l" wrote:

No crumb tray? Perhaps not in the cheapest Walmart varieties.


yes it does have a removable crumb tray.... but still
no way to get inside the thing and clean all the stuff
sticking to the insides!
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Old 12-08-2007, 01:13 AM posted to rec.food.equipment
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Default Toasters are gross! How to clean?

One of the restaurants we are involved with has the same problem with
the commercial 6 & 12 slice toasters. They too have the crumb trays
and still get loads of bits stuck inside. Their head chef if very
fussy and he has special tool for cleaning the toaster and various
other little gaps. He has a liitle flexible tube with an opening
around 6mm which has a funnel shaped fitment on the the other end that
fits a domestic hoover. Its amazing the places he can get into and it
comes apart for easy cleaning. On the other hand I have a 4 slice
toaster with a clean tray and I never look inside.

Stu
www.cateringappliancesltd.co.uk

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Old 12-08-2007, 05:07 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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Default Toasters are gross! How to clean?

Stu wrote:
One of the restaurants we are involved with has the same problem with
the commercial 6 & 12 slice toasters. They too have the crumb trays
and still get loads of bits stuck inside. Their head chef if very
fussy and he has special tool for cleaning the toaster and various
other little gaps. He has a liitle flexible tube with an opening
around 6mm which has a funnel shaped fitment on the the other end that
fits a domestic hoover. Its amazing the places he can get into and it
comes apart for easy cleaning. On the other hand I have a 4 slice
toaster with a clean tray and I never look inside.

Stu
www.cateringappliancesltd.co.uk


Good for that chef. I've decided that what I can't reach actually
isn't there. ;-0

dORA

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Old 12-08-2007, 05:29 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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Default Toasters are gross! How to clean?


"limey" wrote in message
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Good for that chef. I've decided that what I can't reach actually isn't
there. ;-0

dORA


You're my kind of thinker. Reason and logic! ;-))
Dee Dee


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Old 13-08-2007, 04:05 PM posted to rec.food.equipment
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"limey" wrote:

I have a Cuisinart and have the same problems, even with the crumb tray.
Loads of stuff hanging around in there which shaking over the sink
wouldn't dislodge. Having tried to clean it and becoming frustrated, I
decided to put up with it and not look. ;-)


ha!

same here... try to ignore

BUT...even tho I don't seem to have a bug/roach
problem...still don't like the idea of so many crumbs
lodged inside the toaster waiting for them (bugs) to
find it. Hence the questions on buying a diff device
that CAN be cleaned
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Old 14-08-2007, 01:50 AM posted to rec.food.equipment
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wrote in message
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"limey" wrote:

I have a Cuisinart and have the same problems, even with the crumb tray.
Loads of stuff hanging around in there which shaking over the sink
wouldn't dislodge. Having tried to clean it and becoming frustrated, I
decided to put up with it and not look. ;-)


ha!

same here... try to ignore

BUT...even tho I don't seem to have a bug/roach
problem...still don't like the idea of so many crumbs
lodged inside the toaster waiting for them (bugs) to
find it. Hence the questions on buying a diff device
that CAN be cleaned


I have no cleaning answer, so read no further, me@privacy

But I am wondering if everyone does leave their toaster on top of the
counter. I do because I don't want any crumbs inside cabinets. But now
that I'm getting new countertops, I'm trying to clear up some countertop
space (yes, I know, that won't last long).

Dee





 




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