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A few weeks ago, Time magazine ran a little article about a toaster that burns images onto toast. At first I was horrified, because that kind of tool could drive people like me out of business. I was about to fly into one of my mindless rages, but then I had a drink and thought about it. And I realized that I didn't need to worry about it at all.
You can check it out here: http://www.poparttoaster.com/retail.htm and you can buy one at Amazon.com for about $30. These things burn the image onto the toast using premade plates, so you can't actually alter them to create custom pictures. There are smiley faces and similar things, but it doesn't look like they have plates with pictures of Jesus. That's a good thing. Can you imagine if the market for miracle toast was flooded with toast from these things? Prices would plummet. eBay would come crashing down and GoldenPalace.com would lose its source of cheap PR. It would be catastrophic. Still, it would be fun to get one of these and hack around with it, see if I could make my own plates. I have never been able to get satisfactory miracle toast - it is just too mushy for browning sauce. I tried using a wood burner a few times, but that didn't look very good. The burning was too uneven to make for a convincing miraculous image. I might just have to give it a try. |
