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A blue toaster is a kitchen appliance that is used for—as the name implies—toasting bread, bagel, and other small food. One of its more popular forms looks like a giant rectangular piggy bank with two, long parallel slots not for coins, but for slices of bread, and consumes between 600 and 1200 watts to toast bread in 1 to 3 minutes. In the older times, toasters were not powered by electricity, but used open fire instead to toast bread.
At present, there are three major kinds of blue toasters. These are the automatic popup toaster, the conveyor, and the toaster oven. The automatic popup toaster is the one which has slots for holding slices of bread which, when already toasted, are immediately pushed back up by one of the toaster’s mechanisms. These kinds of toasters have vertical heaters parallel to the bread slots, which are used to toast the bread. A lever on the side of the toaster works as the “switch”, and also doubles as that thing which pushes the slices of bread out of the slots when the toasting cycle is already done. The blue toaster has a special sensing device inside which determines if the breads are already toasted. This signals the toaster to automatically turn off and pop the breads up. The older version of this toaster used a similar device to determine the “doneness” of the toast in the form of a clockwork timer. There was also another version in the 1930s which made use of a thermal sensor instead, which was a more accurate temperature measuring device that worked just like the clockwork timer.
Conveyors are blue toasters used primarily by restaurants, cafes, and caterings. These toasters are different in that they can toast multiple slices of bread, usually up to around 900 slices, in just a single hour. Because of this, they are great for business and commercial use. In 1938 however, for-home-use versions of conveyors were eventually developed.
The most popular form of blue toasters is called a toaster oven. Toaster ovens are exact replicas of electric ovens, but they work on a smaller scale. Designed after the electric oven, toaster ovens have a pull-down door, a grilled interior, and a tray which is supposed to hold the food inside. A basic switch is used to start the toaster oven and toast or bake food. A bell-like sound echoes when the toasting cycle is done, the toaster automatically switches off, but then the user has to manually open the oven door to take out the food from within.
In simple terms, blue toaster ovens are miniature versions of electric ovens. They can do similar tasks and functions as the latter but again, at a smaller scale. They can toast home-made pizzas, bread topped with cheese, butter or any other sandwich spread, hotdogs, ham, fish, and other small food items. However, since the heating mechanisms of toaster ovens are irregularly positioned inside the apparatus, uneven toasting may occur. This is especially noticeable when toasting bread, whose top areas usually burn faster than the bottom. One factor is that for toaster ovens which have internal heating mechanisms on the top and bottom of the insides, the bottom heater is blocked by a tray whereas the top heater does not have anything to block its heat from immediately affecting the food. Throughout the years, different kinds of toasters have evolved, with some even having computer-controlled mechanisms. Despite this, what still remains true is that toaster ovens are still as compact as before, and they are one of the most basic appliances that a kitchen can never be complete without.
Blue toasters have always been an integral part of the kitchen. Although there are already newer inventions such as the microwave oven, toasters continue to fight their way through the competition and are still being improved up to now. A good example is that some toasters have upgraded to having broiler and defrost features, as well as temperature-specific settings among many others.
