Toaster Report

There is always something that surprises me daily. Maybe it’s because I haven’t bought a toaster in a long while that I didn’t know about this, but I learned today that there are single-slice toasters. In fact, there are many varieties of single-slice toasters.

Any toaster worthy of the name should be able to toast bread for a sandwich. If it can’t toast two slices of bread at the same time it’s not a toaster – it’s half a toaster. To make toast for a sandwich, you’d have to make one slice in your half-toaster and then wait while your half-toaster makes the second slice. Meanwhile, the first slice is getting cold.

An alternative would be to make your sandwich using one slice of warm toast and one slice of plain bread. But frankly, that just seems weird.

And how tiny is your kitchen if you only have space for half a toaster? I picture someone living in a tiny apartment with a cramped kitchen, with their half-toaster on an itty-bitty counter next to their single-cup coffeemaker. That seems just a little sad.