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The Toast-N-Serve Magic Bag

Jason Perlow

By Jason Perlow
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hollywood

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Made me some breakfast, toast, 2 scrambled eggs, grits

Grabbed my keys, grabbed my purse, grabbed my jacket

Off to work, beaming all the way down 3rd

Yes, Hollywood is intensely dreamy! :wub::wub::wub:

Must be the sleep deprivation.

I'm hollywood and I approve this message.

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bloviatrix

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Interesting. Mom is from New England, and when I was a kid, she fixed our grilled cheese with a sprinkling of worcestershire sauce. I've never met anyone else that does that.

Doesn't welsh rarbit (sp?) have worcestshire as one of the ingredients? Sounds like mom was riffing on that.

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FoodZealot

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I realize that the $7 toaster is a minor purchase, but I happen to already have a toaster oven, and I'm trying to be selective in adding clutter to my kitchen (mostly unsuccessfully). I'm curious about these - the bags seem to have a nice effect on the sandwiches.

I'm sorry if I missed this question earlier in the thread - does anyone have an opinion on how they'd work sideways - i.e. is the vertical orientation/gravity a part of the magic?

~Tad

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Jason Perlow

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I realize that the $7 toaster is a minor purchase, but I happen to already have a toaster oven, and I'm trying to be selective in adding clutter to my kitchen (mostly unsuccessfully). I'm curious about these - the bags seem to have a nice effect on the sandwiches.

I'm sorry if I missed this question earlier in the thread - does anyone have an opinion on how they'd work sideways - i.e. is the vertical orientation/gravity a part of the magic?

~Tad

We haven't tried them in the toaster oven yet. They should work on their sides, but it might not work as fast as it does in a toaster because the heating elements arent right next to the bag like they are on a popup toaster.

Jason Perlow, Co-Founder eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters

Foodies who Review South Florida (Facebook) | offthebroiler.com - Food Blog (archived) | View my food photos on Instagram

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I just don't see the point, and I don't think they'd work as well. Part of what makes them work is that the teflon is right there next to the heating elements of a pop up toaster. If you don't have one, just grill sandwiches in a pan or on foil in a toaster oven.

Do what? In a what? I have no idea what you're talking about.

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I just don't see the point, and I don't think they'd work as well. Part of what makes them work is that the teflon is right there next to the heating elements of a pop up toaster. If you don't have one, just grill sandwiches in a pan or on foil in a toaster oven.

Do what? In a what? I have no idea what you're talking about.

Work in a toaster oven as opposed to a popup toaster.

Jason Perlow, Co-Founder eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters

Foodies who Review South Florida (Facebook) | offthebroiler.com - Food Blog (archived) | View my food photos on Instagram

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woodburner

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True Value has a two slice toaster on sale right now for $4.97 (after a $5.00 mail in rebate)

That puts the little black bags for about $14, coupled with the toaster and then some shipping costs, your in the game for about $20.

Seeing my sister's eye's lay upon me, opening this treasure up, from a brotherly wrapped Holiday package.

Priceless

:biggrin:

woodburner

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jhlurie

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Well the Rite Aid chain of Drug stores (big in the Northeast) has the Windmere line of cheap ass shit on sale this week ($8.88 minus $2 rebate = $6.88). The line includes a crappy cheap coffee maker, a crappy cheap food chopper, a crappy hand mixer, a crappy can opener, a crappy iron (the one non-food item) and a not so crappy looking bagel-sized toaster.

That's a bit more that $4.97, but not much. Then again, Jason's Target special was only just under eight bucks (he showed me the receipt).

In other news: Jason's photos are poppin' up like crazy on the Toast-N-Serve website.

I guess the big question is... have the Toast-N-Serve people kept up with the sudden demand? I mean if its one guy sitting at a table carefully patching together Teflon... :biggrin:

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Woah.  So, was that their deal?  Free bags for photos?

Don't be such a conspiracy theorist!

I actually think its 'cause the Toast-N-Serve guy visited here and saw Jay's pictures. "Hot Dog", he said, "I'ze gots to have those!". And Jason is the giving sort... you know... the whole Egullet for free thing. :biggrin:

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Well the Rite Aid chain of Drug stores (big in the Northeast) has the Windmere line of cheap ass shit on sale this week

Ok,

I just checked, and True Value is going with the lesser piece of shit, Proctor Silex unit for under $5.00. It should be good for a minimum of 100 cranks on the handle, and considering you never eat one sandwich, ever, both sides will always be loaded with little black bags and bread, or two hundred sandwiches.

Doing the math works out to less than .025 cents per sandwich.

Problem is when it stops working and you send it to the recycle center, they want $5.00 to dispose of it. :hmmm:

So cheaper is better, right? : :sad:

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Woah.  So, was that their deal?  Free bags for photos?

Don't be such a conspiracy theorist!

I actually think its 'cause the Toast-N-Serve guy visited here and saw Jay's pictures. "Hot Dog", he said, "I'ze gots to have those!". And Jason is the giving sort... you know... the whole Egullet for free thing. :biggrin:

Der. I am ashamed. I was actually looking at the bottom of the page, and below the photos. :rolleyes:

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