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In this house we bake bread and make toast all the time. Not many toasters can keep up with the job. Our cellar and garage are a graveyard of burned-out broken toasters. A year ago we got a package out of the blue; a restaurant-quality stainless-steel heavy-duty four-slot toaster!! After emailing everyone we knew trying to find out who sent it we finally called the kitchen store that shipped it and they tracked down the mystery sender with the message he intended to go with the gift.
A month ago we smelled burning plastic and heard electrical sizzling noises while making toast. We ignored it, not wanting to face what was coming. Then it stopped working completely. I was heartbroken. We'd burned through YET ANOTHER TOASTER!!! We went to the toaster company's web site and discovered they had recalled this particular model of toaster. It wasn't our fault after all! They had us mail the bottom plate sticker and the cut-off cord in a prepaid padded envelope that they had sent us. They promised us a new toaster would be shipped out in a few weeks. Meanwhile we broiled our toast every morning; timing it for three minutes a side.
Yesterday I heard someone open the screen door. Lily dog barked. It was the UPS man with the new toaster! We had toast with cold summer soup for supper, and we had a toast to toast!
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Hi Emily! Your toaster adventure had you re-discovering oven toast! What a marvel! I've been making lots of (winter) soups -- corn chowder, black bean, thai pumpkin -- and started doing oven toast (with my home-made cracked wheat bread) with a bit of grated romano cheese and serving it up to friends who couldn't believe how crunchy it was. So, maybe having a toaster melt-down every now and then isn't so bad!
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