Toast is one of life’s great comfort foods. Any amateur can make it. Put bread in toasting device, push button, wait, remove and slather with something. But it’s also trendy: In recent years, toast ...

Heated wires powered the first electric toasters, whose patents were filed in 1906. More than a century later, toasters have almost become artisan tools, enabling the user to choose shades of toast, ...

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