We love our new Krups toaster.  You have never seen a family so excited about a new toaster. OSFO toasted something like 16 slices of toast the other day. That’s how excited she is. Even TS loves it. It’s the perfect toaster.

Our new Krups takes big, thick items like bagels. and has a button to turn off the elements so that you only toast one side of the bagel (AKA the bagel button).  It can eject toasted items out of the toaster no matter how small. As OSFO said, the toast comes out "golden" not burned.

HC now informs me that our toaster is  made by the same company that made the world’s largest gun (Big Bertha) for the Nazis. Maybe it’s not the world’s most perfect toaster…

Pre-Krups we had a Proctor-Silex 4-slice that stopped working about a month after we got it. It was so frustrating/ HC thinks that the computer was pocessed, which caused it to randomly barely warm or completely incinerate baked goods. It had a computer designed to toast bread to a desired color of the toasted item which meant that it would barely warm a slice of pumpernickel and white bread would burst into flames.  We threw out that toaster last week.

Prior to the Proctor-Silex we had a stainless steel dye-cast aluminum, built to last forever Dualit, the classic, restaurant supply toaster. We got it for $75 dollars at a Pottery Barn outlet. Amazing. They usually cost $340 dollars or more. Sadly, we had a couple of toaster fires and I threw it out but HC thinks he could have fixed it. We’ll never know.  It’s gone.

Luckily, he loves the new Krups. Which is amazing because he usually has nothing but complaints about the appliances and electronics that I buy. But the Krups has won his heart, too despite its past as a Nazi collaborator (see Gunter Grass).