Butter up your appliance fetish at the Toaster Museum
Posted at 5:18 PM Aug 04, 2008
By Bonnie Ruberg
The internet is an amazing place full of LoLcats, dancing grandmas, and now this: an online toaster museum. Created by a "toaster fanatic" who sees the site as a study of household appliance design through the decades,The Toaster Museum documents the breakfast-makers in one private collection -- a collection that includes everything from $3,000 floral, ceramic toasters to old-fashioned, 50s diner, Americana toasters.
Personally, while we agree with the site's creator that the idea of a toaster collection makes us pause awkwardly and then fill that pause with even awkwarder laughter, we can see the appeal of toaster porn. Check out all those shiny machines. Some of them even look like little torture devices. Beware, toast!
Of course, our favorite toaster of all time is still the Hello Kitty toaster, despite the fact that no matter how much we burn our bread, we still can't get the smiling visage of Ms. Kitty herself to appear on our toast.
[Via Boing Boing]
Comments
What my friend Simon said when I showed him the Toaster Museum:
"I think toasters were the last true steampunk objects to exist in the modern era. All the way up until plastics they were gorgeously worked, ingeniously constructed, and total fucking deathtraps. Who would put swinging metal plates next to ridiculously hot coils? The very last victorian, hiding in his brass-lined bunker, trying to figure out a way to turn the clock back on the middle class and burn the help."
Posted 08/05/2008 at 05:22:44 AMas an owner of the hello kitty toaster (and matching coffee maker) I can report one glorious instance of the hello kitty face toast function actually working. I believe I may have taken a picture of it. The key is to make the slice in question for a male. That they will be creeped out and/or unimpressed is the key to making it happen.
Posted 08/05/2008 at 10:11:52 AM