Have you ever tried to make toast in a base camp below Everest? Damn chrome toasters keep slipping out of your hands. This is rugged, rugged I tell ya!
"the nubby grips make me want to chuck the appliance across the room—while still hot—in a dangerous, impromptu kitchen football game full of as many burns as it is crumbs."
xTreme Game Night at Mark's place. Everyone bring $3 to compensate Mark for the security deposit he's *clearly* not getting back.
I have that toaster, but in an aluminum model with holes in place of nubbins. It looks nice and toasts like a toaster should. It has a warming rack that I never thought I would use but have I ended up using it all the time.
$80 dollars for a toaster you say? This, friends, is why you get married.
You can cook a lot in a toaster oven, though I am not sure how hot this one gets. While Pizza IS the perfect food, you can do a lot other things with it too.
Toast bread. Spread mayonnaise on bread. Stack lettuce, then tomato, then bacon on bottom slice, lining up where the sandwich will be cut in half. Put top slice on and cut cross-wise. Serve with a pickle spear.
Latchkey Grilled Cheese.
4 slices of processed American cheese (Velveeta or Kraft)
2 slices of white bread
Softened butter
1 can Campbell's Tomato Soup
Toast bread. While toasting bread, begin warming up soup. Spread butter on toast. Layer cheese slices on bread, leaving a little bit of room on margins. Microwave on high for 20 seconds. Cut diagonal. Serve with tomato soup.
Both sandwiches are best eaten while playing video games.
@timak: It's called "Latchkey Grilled Cheese" because us latchkey kids learned to zap up grilled cheese sandwiches in the microwave.
@michaelportent: Put the bowl of soup on the floor beside you. It's assumed that you're sitting Indian-style on the floor, about 4 feet from the TV, which is the ideal way to play Legend of Zelda.
First of all, sliced bread is not much of an invention. The bread slicer - that's a great invention. And, while toast is great, the toaster is one of man's crowning achievements.
Why do I like toast? Because it combines bread with fire. And the resulting toast is greater than the sum of its parts because it can carry soft butter and simultaneously be used as sop for egg yolk. And, of course, as stated, where there's toast there is also bacon.
Lest we forget, bacon and toast are not just breakfast. They are half of one of the greatest sandwiches of all - the mighty BLT. Toasted white bread with a smattering of mayonnaise, carrying beefsteak tomato, crisp romaine lettuce, and crispy, warm, salty bacon. The merging of flavors, textures, sounds, and temperatures in such a simple form is unrivaled in the culinary world.
To toast! To bacon! To sandwiches! To tomatoes! To lunch!
@OMG! Ponies!: I have to disagree with your choice of beefsteak tomato. It's simply too juicy, and that threatens the crunch integrity of the toast and, dare I say, the bacon. Of course, you could separate the tomato from the bread with the lettuce layer, but ideally you want a little of the tomato to blend with the mayo, and I think mayo on bread next to tomato is ideal.
I recommend using a roma tomato. Just as delicious, a little meatier, a lot less juicy.
@redman042: I've been tempted to. I thought that Rev 3 was going to do a cooking show called "Ctrl-Alt-Chicken" but that was about the time I swore off Digg and Diggnation.
Thanks for reminding me that I've been slacking on my blogging duties.
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xTreme Game Night at Mark's place. Everyone bring $3 to compensate Mark for the security deposit he's *clearly* not getting back.
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$80 dollars for a toaster you say? This, friends, is why you get married.
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I am interested in your practical and safe household innovations. Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
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Now stop being such a nerd and make me some toast.
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And if you try to point out this mathematical error to someone serving on the Pegasus, you'll probably be raped.
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"NO."
"I'll rape you!"
"sigh... alright fine."
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God frakking dammit! Who does a guy have to rape around here to get some rackspace?!
How about the new rookie pilot? He hasn't been raped today.
Good point. Hey Fireball - get over here so I can rape you!
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Yeah toast!
03/31/09
BLT:
4 rashers of crisp bacon, split cross-wise
3 slices beefsteak tomato
4 leaves of romaine lettuce
2 slices of white bread
Hellman's mayonnaise
Toast bread. Spread mayonnaise on bread. Stack lettuce, then tomato, then bacon on bottom slice, lining up where the sandwich will be cut in half. Put top slice on and cut cross-wise. Serve with a pickle spear.
Latchkey Grilled Cheese.
4 slices of processed American cheese (Velveeta or Kraft)
2 slices of white bread
Softened butter
1 can Campbell's Tomato Soup
Toast bread. While toasting bread, begin warming up soup. Spread butter on toast. Layer cheese slices on bread, leaving a little bit of room on margins. Microwave on high for 20 seconds. Cut diagonal. Serve with tomato soup.
Both sandwiches are best eaten while playing video games.
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@michaelportent: Put the bowl of soup on the floor beside you. It's assumed that you're sitting Indian-style on the floor, about 4 feet from the TV, which is the ideal way to play Legend of Zelda.
03/31/09
Why do I like toast? Because it combines bread with fire. And the resulting toast is greater than the sum of its parts because it can carry soft butter and simultaneously be used as sop for egg yolk. And, of course, as stated, where there's toast there is also bacon.
Lest we forget, bacon and toast are not just breakfast. They are half of one of the greatest sandwiches of all - the mighty BLT. Toasted white bread with a smattering of mayonnaise, carrying beefsteak tomato, crisp romaine lettuce, and crispy, warm, salty bacon. The merging of flavors, textures, sounds, and temperatures in such a simple form is unrivaled in the culinary world.
To toast! To bacon! To sandwiches! To tomatoes! To lunch!
03/31/09
I recommend using a roma tomato. Just as delicious, a little meatier, a lot less juicy.
I think about sandwiches a lot.
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Thanks for reminding me that I've been slacking on my blogging duties.
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