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A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat to cook sliced bread into toast. When cooked the bread browns due to the maillard reaction. It typically consists of one or more slots into which bread is inserted, lowered, and cooked using heating elements, often made of nichrome wire, to generate heat and toast the bread.

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A toaster is a small electric appliance that heats sliced bread using radiant heat from nichrome wire elements, causing the bread to brown through a chemical process called the maillard reaction. It works by inserting bread into slots, lowering it to be cooked by the heating elements, making it a simple and convenient way to prepare toast for meals.

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Product.title
Toaster
Product.image
Consumer Reports - Hamilton Beach Digital toaster.tiff
Product.caption
A toaster from 2008
Product.inventor
Crompton & Company of Chelmsford, Essex
Product.manufacturer
Various
Product.available
Globally

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Toasters
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Toaster
MCN code
8516.72.00
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15 sections
Contents
  • Types
  • Pop-up toaster
  • Toaster oven
  • Conveyor toaster
  • History
  • Non-electric toasters
  • Development of the heating element
  • Dual-side toasting and automated pop-up technologies
  • Toasting technology after the 1940s
  • Toasting technology from the 1990s to the present
  • Similar inventions
  • Hot dog toaster
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat to cook sliced bread into toast. When cooked the bread browns due to the maillard reaction. It typically consists of one or more slots into which bread is inserted, lowered, and cooked using heating elements, often made of nichrome wire, to generate heat and toast the bread.

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