I grew up with an old pop-up toaster which always threatened to electrocute you if you stuck your knife in it to extricate a stubborn piece of toast. But for many years it's been the toaster oven that's been the main stay of the kitchen. It once caught fire when we bought a newer more efficient model.
Looking at the electric appliances littering my countertop, I think of the Youtube video I saw of a tent city where people live more or less off the grid. It's hard to consider trading up to a more efficient toaster oven when other people are making toast over a camp fire. My research hasn't quite discovered who figured out in the first place that bread needed to be heated up in order to eat it.
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