Toasters

[polygonum]

Sounds like an iToaster with Siri...

[polygonum]

And I am very happy with my Kenwood TTM310 Virtu - extremely wide, adjustable single slot. Toasting is not perfectly even but the ability to handle rolls, croissants (even from frozen), and almost arbitrarily thick slices is very good.

They were very expensive - but we got it as an end-of-line from Robert Dyas on-line. So cheap we bought a second one as a future replacement - currently in loft awaiting duty.

[damduck-egg]

Do you want toast?

Press enter.

Are you sure you want toast?

G.Harman

[damduck-egg]

How many years are we talking about, one of my early jobs was in a brewery and Marmite sent their own Lorry to collect the yeast. Never bought Marmite all the time I was there, Drive would trade a huge jar of Marmite for a couple of pint bottles of Light ale. That would be around 1974- 75 so the large jars were around then.

G.Harman

[damduck-egg]

As I mentioned in my other post the Marmite Lorry would collect surplus yeast from the Brewery I worked in,the Lorry would then go onto a couple of others and collect from them before returning to base. All those brewerys were independent of each other and brewed different beers. I think only one still exists now. so I do wonder if the yeast that Marmite is made from no longer has the subtle differences that the blends might have had one time. Possibly the process is now "too perfect" and the result is now uniform except when they deliberately alter it for a special.

G.Harman

[<me9]

My Dualit Coffee perculator wasn't, it only lasted 18 months. Neither is its replacement, a Delonghi, which I expect will just outlast the 1 year warranty.

[Jason]

I find when the mica films inside get dirty, it does toast unevenly. Take the top off and give the films a gentle wipe with a damp cloth.

[Jason]

You not mixing it up with Sainsburys Yeast Extract from the '80s? That was

*very* thick, and beat Marmite for taste in my youth. Not sure that they have made it for twenty five years now.

[charles]

In the '50s, Phipps in Northampton were one of the suppliers of yeast.

[chris French]

Yeah, I bought one of those a few years back for my parents, after seeing the in-laws one and thinking it pretty good.

However IIRC both have developed the same annoying fault niggling rather than 'get a new one' - though I can't now remember what it is !

Still like our Dualit. Though whether I'd ever feel that I'd want to spend that much on a toaster I dunno (it was a gift) And as someone else mentioned. the timers seem a weak point. I replaced ours for the second time this year (toaster 14 years old)

[Huge]

ooh, but Marmite crisps and Marmite twiglets are yummy.

[Huge]

Weird. Our Dualit percolator just made its (mutter, mutter) 1827th pot of coffee...

[Andrew May]

I guess I am thinking of about that time. Large jars were available but one of the small jars would be fine for a family since it was spread so thinly. Now it seems to need to be spread more thickly and so a large jar is essential even if only one person eats it (me).

I don't know if it is deliberate - it may be related to the gradual decrease in availability of surplus yeast from local brewers that you have alluded to.

Andrew

[Andrew May]

No. I am not sure I have ever tried that.

[Huge]

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..."

[John Williamson]

Don't try Marmite Cashew nuts. Twiglets are an abomination anyway.

[Gib Bogle]

Many things taste less strongly to me than they did 50 years ago.

[Gib Bogle]

I like the toaster that we had when I was a kid. A folding down door on either side, which you opened when the smoke started to come out of the top. Perfect system.

[Huge]

Actually, I have. They spoil both the cashews and the Marmite.

BURN THE UNBELIEVER!

[Huge]

It's one of the multitude of "marvellous" things about getting old.