{"id":155826,"date":"2022-01-05T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=155826"},"modified":"2022-01-05T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:33:49","slug":"the-bestest-toaster-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/05\/the-bestest-toaster-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bestest Toaster Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was growing up, I was jealous of the toasters other people had. Because when the toast was done, they went SPROING and flew the toast up practically into the air. Or actually into the air, if you were on TV.<\/p>\n

\"Toaster
I thought this was sooooo cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(It’s such a popular gag that you can find at least<\/a> three<\/a> other<\/a> scenes from I Love Lucy<\/em> using it.)<\/p>\n

Our toaster, however, didn’t do that fun thing. It went “Click,” and the toast slowly, slowly rose. How boring.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I came to value our family toaster for its clean, classy look (and, at the same time, stopped actually wanting to use my toaster as a projectile weapon). And at some point in my life, after I was on my own, I bought one.<\/p>\n

Which wasn’t easy, because it was, y’know, vintage in some fashion. They didn’t make them any more. So I ended up buying one on (if I recall correctly) eBay. And, when it arrived, mirabile dictu,<\/em> it actually worked.<\/p>\n

And Margie got used to my peculiar toaster, and it looked pretty on the counter, and that was the end of the story.<\/p>\n

Except … it wasn’t. Because it’s not just any toaster, it turns out. It’s a Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster<\/em>, first invented in 1949, and according to this article<\/a>, it’s the Bestest Toaster Ever<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Sunbeam<\/a>
Advertisement from 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or, heck, watch this video<\/a>, that talks about not just how it’s the Bestest Toaster Ever<\/strong>, but how all the really cool stuff works:<\/p>\n