On Oct 27, 8:39*am, JohnW wrote:
On 26 Oct, 23:17, Bob Eager wrote:



Are there any Internet-capable toasters yet?

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These are a bit old hat. I am surprised no-one has suggested the
ground breaking talkie toaster.

I was just about to do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec



Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster,
your chirpy breakfast companion.
Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?

Lister: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast.
In fact, no one around here wants any toast.
Not now, not ever. No toast.

Toaster: How 'bout a muffin?

Lister: *Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here.
We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or
bagels, no croissants,
no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and
definitely no smegging flapjacks.

Toaster: Aah, so you're a waffle man.

John

On 27/10/2011 21:48, polygonum wrote:
Further, it is amazing that a standard jar is £2-68 in every shop I ever
see it in. Not a penny difference in the last few months. All matching
Tesco's inflated price.

Dunno about them, we go for the 600g tubs from Costco. I think they were
a bit over 4 quid but it's months since we last needed one so I can't be
too sure of the price.

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Mike Clarke

On 28/10/2011 09:29, Huge wrote:
My parents live in the USA. Many years ago, I took them a large catering
tin of Marmite. The US Customs insisted on opening it and poking a
screwdriver in - I assume to check for drugs. I offered to allow the
guy to taste it and his response; "No thanks, I've*smelled* it..."

I remember needing to walk past their factory in Vauxhall on the way to
Strand Electric's warehouse in the mid sixties. That smell was really
disgusting - but didn't put me off the product though.

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Mike Clarke

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:44:30 +0100, Mike Clarke
wrote:

On 27/10/2011 21:48, polygonum wrote:
Further, it is amazing that a standard jar is £2-68 in every shop I ever
see it in. Not a penny difference in the last few months. All matching
Tesco's inflated price.

Dunno about them, we go for the 600g tubs from Costco. I think they were
a bit over 4 quid but it's months since we last needed one so I can't be
too sure of the price.


There's only me who eats it (partner doesn't eat the things that Marmite
can sensibly go on like bread) so 250 g is as large a jar as I want.

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Rod

On 28 Oct,
Chris J Dixon wrote:

Not only that, as you folded it down, fingers on the door nudged
the bottom of the slice so it flipped over ready to repeat the
singeing of the other side.

I much preferred toast made on the large coal fired toaster with fork for
attaching bread. I've never found an electric toaster to equal it,

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In article ,
Jules Richardson wrote:

I think you're right - the "trick" is cooking the outsides nicely without
drying them out all the way through.


Having been camping this year for the first time in ages (kids wanted to,
can't see the point now I can afford hotels with real beds :-)) I was
impressed with my new camping toaster.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000QH2V40

Stick over gas burner, stainless mesh gets red hot in seconds. Bread on top.

Really fast so you get a crisp outside, and soft middle. If only someone
could build a home toaster that did that...

Darren

On 28/10/2011 17:44, polygonum wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:44:30 +0100, Mike Clarke
wrote:

On 27/10/2011 21:48, polygonum wrote:
Further, it is amazing that a standard jar is £2-68 in every shop I ever
see it in. Not a penny difference in the last few months. All matching
Tesco's inflated price.

Dunno about them, we go for the 600g tubs from Costco. I think they
were a bit over 4 quid but it's months since we last needed one so I
can't be too sure of the price.


There's only me who eats it (partner doesn't eat the things that Marmite
can sensibly go on like bread) so 250 g is as large a jar as I want.

SWMBO often uses a bit of Marmite (among other things) in mince for
applications like cottage pie etc. Seems to work rather nicely. ;-)


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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:25:51 +0100, wrote:

There is another possibility though I don't want to put people off.
The collection bins when I was involved were metal not much different
in appearance to those plastic 4 wheeled bins used for commercial
rubbish collection from shops etc.
They were square and had a loose lid (brown with Marmite embossed on).
The surplus yeast from brewing was tipped into these where it was
wheeled outside whatever the weather. The yeast was fairly runny at
that stage and the contents of the bin looked like a bulk delivery of
cat poo and in hot weather the contents would get a bit warm. The lids
were not a particulary tight fit and flies etc could get in.
The lorry did not come every day. Sounds awful but if this was being
repeated all over the country again it might have had an influence on
the final flavour. Can't imagine the yeast is handled like that now
and todays product may be too pure.

What didn't kill us made us stronger, eh?
Pah, today's mamby-pamby generation don't know what they're missing.

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:32:13 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 28/10/2011 17:44, polygonum wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:44:30 +0100, Mike Clarke
wrote:

On 27/10/2011 21:48, polygonum wrote:
Further, it is amazing that a standard jar is £2-68 in every shop I
ever
see it in. Not a penny difference in the last few months. All matching
Tesco's inflated price.

Dunno about them, we go for the 600g tubs from Costco. I think they
were a bit over 4 quid but it's months since we last needed one so I
can't be too sure of the price.


There's only me who eats it (partner doesn't eat the things that Marmite
can sensibly go on like bread) so 250 g is as large a jar as I want.

SWMBO often uses a bit of Marmite (among other things) in mince for
applications like cottage pie etc. Seems to work rather nicely. ;-)


Funny thing is, I really only like Marmite as is traditional, on some form
of bread or biscuit. As soon as it comes to adding into a dish I prefer
many of the other brands of yeast extract. But our shepherd's/cottage pie
ends up with Worcestershire sauce... Or even Bovril.

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Rod

On 29/10/2011 16:53, polygonum wrote:
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:32:13 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 28/10/2011 17:44, polygonum wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:44:30 +0100, Mike Clarke
wrote:

On 27/10/2011 21:48, polygonum wrote:
Further, it is amazing that a standard jar is £2-68 in every shop I
ever
see it in. Not a penny difference in the last few months. All matching
Tesco's inflated price.

Dunno about them, we go for the 600g tubs from Costco. I think they
were a bit over 4 quid but it's months since we last needed one so I
can't be too sure of the price.


There's only me who eats it (partner doesn't eat the things that Marmite
can sensibly go on like bread) so 250 g is as large a jar as I want.

SWMBO often uses a bit of Marmite (among other things) in mince for
applications like cottage pie etc. Seems to work rather nicely. ;-)


Funny thing is, I really only like Marmite as is traditional, on some
form of bread or biscuit. As soon as it comes to adding into a dish I
prefer many of the other brands of yeast extract. But our
shepherd's/cottage pie ends up with Worcestershire sauce... Or even Bovril.

Normally use some Worcestershire as well... ;-)


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Funny thing is, I really only like Marmite as is traditional, on some form
of bread or biscuit. As soon as it comes to adding into a dish I prefer
many of the other brands of yeast extract. But our shepherd's/cottage pie
ends up with Worcestershire sauce... Or even Bovril.



Favorite meal is granary bread toasted, spread withy marmite and topped with
poached duck eggs ...

I collect the single serving Marmites form Hotels on business trips .. and
take them on holiday ... was on a Dive boat in Red Sea ... and lots of
people wished they had Marmite for toast.
Only thing I add it to is tomato soup.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:02:05 -0000, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:



Funny thing is, I really only like Marmite as is traditional, on some form
of bread or biscuit. As soon as it comes to adding into a dish I prefer
many of the other brands of yeast extract. But our shepherd's/cottage pie
ends up with Worcestershire sauce... Or even Bovril.

Sainsburys do a reduced salt yeast extract which does remarkably well
in a breadcrumb-based stuffing for large mushrooms (including garlic,
lemon juice and Olivio (or whatever it's called this week)).

The breadcrumbs I use are from Burgen "Soya and Llinseed" loaves.

Topped with loads of parsley before blackening under the grill :-)

Yummy!
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"jkn" wrote in message
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On Oct 26, 2:27 pm, Huge wrote:
On 2011-10-26, fred wrote:

In article , Huge
writes
On 2011-10-26, Gordon Henderson wrote:

So is it Dualit and be done,

Yes.

)

Do they all have that silly, non resettable clockwork timer?

On the grounds that they don't have a "silly, non resettable clockwork
timer",
then no.


Hmm - really? We have a 3-slot Dualit (not 'Lite') and I hadn't
realised that the timer could be turned anti-clockwise (ie. reducing
the time set).

As fred says, it gives the impression of not liking the idea. My
attempts have been pretty gentle though; if the consensus is that you
can indeed do this then I'll give it more of a bash.

As others have mentioned in uk.d-i-y, they work better with a short
'warm-up' period; I set the timer for (say) 3 mins, then actually put
the bread in at about 2mins.

Cheers
Jon N

We have the 4 slice Dualit with the mechanical timer.

Very pleased with it now that we have got the hang of setting the timer
appropriately.

Yes it feels like you're forcing it when turning it backwards to 0, but it
says in the instructions that that's OK.

My youngest found an alternative method last weekend. If you want to end the
toasting prematurely just switch it off at the socket. The timer carries on
whirring round but no more heat.

Regards,
Simon.

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"Gordon Henderson" wrote in message
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So... It's getting on for new toaster time in the Henderson household -
our 20+ year old Philips Sunrise with it's single long-slot, while still
functional has lost some of it's appeal as well as it's ability to pop-up
in a timely manner.

I recall from some postings here some time back that Dualit is the choice
of many, so wondering if that's still the learned opinion.

I don't want the Formula-1 of toasters, but neither do I want the
Morris Minor either. The ability to take 1 or 2 slices of irregular
sized home-made bread and produce toast in a moderate time period is
the requirement. No fancy settings for defrosting, bagels and the like,
nor an add-on egg poacher.

So is it Dualit and be done, or something else?

Cheers,

Gordon


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Just don't get an intelligent one with lcd screen and usb connection..
grin

Brian

Are you thinking of the good old King's Toaster? ...
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html

Regards,
Simon.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:18:26 -0000, "Simon Stroud"
wrote:



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"Gordon Henderson" wrote in message
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So... It's getting on for new toaster time in the Henderson household -
our 20+ year old Philips Sunrise with it's single long-slot, while still
functional has lost some of it's appeal as well as it's ability to pop-up
in a timely manner.

I recall from some postings here some time back that Dualit is the choice
of many, so wondering if that's still the learned opinion.

I don't want the Formula-1 of toasters, but neither do I want the
Morris Minor either. The ability to take 1 or 2 slices of irregular
sized home-made bread and produce toast in a moderate time period is
the requirement. No fancy settings for defrosting, bagels and the like,
nor an add-on egg poacher.

So is it Dualit and be done, or something else?

Cheers,

Gordon


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
Just don't get an intelligent one with lcd screen and usb connection..
grin

Brian

Are you thinking of the good old King's Toaster? ...
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html

Regards,
Simon.

Does this have any connection with "The King's Breakfast" (A A Milne
(When we were very young)) (q.v.)?
It doesn't specifically mention Toast, but there are allusions to
bread at breakfast time, so there's a good chance that the King liked
his bread scorched a bit.

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On Oct 26, 10:12*am, Gordon Henderson
wrote:
I don't want the Formula-1 of toasters, but neither do I want the
Morris Minor either.

If anyone knows of a Morris Minor toaster, I'll take two.

One for myself, for staid reliable toasting. Another for a Moggie
fangirl.

On Oct 26, 10:12*am, Gordon Henderson
wrote:
So... It's getting on for new toaster time in the Henderson household -
our 20+ year old Philips Sunrise with it's single long-slot, while still
functional has lost some of it's appeal as well as it's ability to pop-up
in a timely manner.

I recall from some postings here some time back that Dualit is the choice
of many, so wondering if that's still the learned opinion.

I don't want the Formula-1 of toasters, but neither do I want the
Morris Minor either. The ability to take 1 or 2 slices of irregular
sized home-made bread and produce toast in a moderate time period is
the requirement. No fancy settings for defrosting, bagels and the like,
nor an add-on egg poacher.

So is it Dualit and be done, or something else?

Cheers,

Gordon

Russel Hobes has a good one... I bought this from Amazon a few months
back and works like a charm. This is the link on Amazon for £26.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobb...0436951&sr=1-3
-John

On 11/4/2011 4:05 PM, wrote:

Russel Hobes has a good one... I bought this from Amazon a few months
back and works like a charm. This is the link on Amazon for £26.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobb...0436951&sr=1-3

I bought that one from John Lewis some years ago - it's still working well.

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:51:08 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 11/4/2011 4:05 PM, wrote:

Russel Hobes has a good one... I bought this from Amazon a few months
back and works like a charm. This is the link on Amazon for £26.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobb...0436951&sr=1-3

I bought that one from John Lewis some years ago - it's still working well.

OTOH I had one of those and it only toated one side of the bread so
was taken back for a refund.
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