Dave Smith > wrote:

>On 12/06/2012 5:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> I have heard that there are people that like their toast very dark. Very
>> strange indeed. I remember back in the old days, the toaster would burn
>> the toast every so often and we'd have to scrape, scrape, scrape, the
>> toast. I'm glad those days are gone.
>
>Most people here were probably raised with a pop up toaster in the
>house. When I was a kid we had a manual toaster. My grandmother had one
>until she moved out of her house at the age of 97. Both sides opened up
>and you put the bread in, one on each side. You waited a while, opened
>up the sides and flipped the bread around to toast the other side.

We had one of those in our 'summer cottage'. It was a step up from
the one that held 4 slices and sat over a gas burner on the range.

Like the Vulcan toaster here-
http://www.toastercentral.com/non.htm

The electric one looked like the GE 'cloud' model at the top of this
page-
http://www.toastercentral.com/toaster30s.htm

We liked the other because it made the bread pretty.

Jim