Hello Kitty Toaster

Use bread that has little age on it. The problem is, your bread is typical super market stuff, really high moisture content. It's made that way because water content =3D higher profit. Or find someone to make up a batch of real home made bread and odds are it will do much better in the toaster.

Joe

Sorry I can't help with electric stuff. But if nobody else can solve your problem you might try a cat stencil. Lay the stencil on the bread and brush some butter on before you put the bread in a toaster made for sane people. Not sure if the butter will catch on fire, but if it does move on to marmalade and other things until you get it right. Or see if somebody sells one-sided bread so there's no other side to burn.

--Vic

Just use aluminum foil. The basket that holds the bread to be toasted is made out of metal, right? Just cut the foil to the exact size of the bread and put it flat against the side that would burn. If you keep the foil inside the basket, there should be very little shock hazard, but don't let your local safety nazi find out. ;-P

Cheers! Rich

Asbestos.

So you want less power on the plain side, relative to the stencil side.

- capacitor across plain side. But this will increase Pout on other side, so add a series choke to the toaster, or run it off a small transformer to cut a bit of voltage off the supply

- snip some of the R wire out of the plain side, and wire it in on the stencil side

- convert the lead to 3 wire, with a wire for the centre tap, and run it off a CT transformer plus a small series tf on one side, so the 2 element sides get different votlage

etc etc. How do you want to do it?

NT

Magnets!

What a waste!

I'd have made a toaster that prints an image of the Virgin Mary. I'd have the believers lined up for a slice.

Flop the bread halfway through the cycle. The image won't be as strong, but at least the toasting will be even.

Does it have a "bagel" setting? -----

- gpsman

Use an atomizer to apply a fine mist of water to the plain side before toasting?

An asbestos pad?

We use the one sided bread in ours, works perfectly fine. Mikek

Mica sheets.

Excellent. I've looked through many boiler water level sight glasses which were mica lined, but didn't think of it. I see eBay has mica sheeting for sale, and elsewhere.

--Vic

Not bad, not bad at all.

--Vic

Is it a 100 volt Japanese model you are trying to use on 120 Volts in the US?

Geoff.

It would be a lot easier to make a moebius bagel.

Stay away from the Klein bagels. You have to put the toaster inside to heat them. ;-)

I think one of those special toasters came as a built-in in Heinlein's tesseract house.