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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Breakfast time is now the most fun time!, September 15, 2006
Breakfast at our home used to be a real drag. My wife and I would both struggle to get up, and waking the dead would have been easier than waking our kids. After sleepwalking through our morning ablutions--brushing our teeth, shaving, and showering in a leaden stupor--we would all gather at the table for a family breakfast. I would make eggs and toast, my wife would make coffee and prepare some fruit, and the kids poured glasses of milk and juice. Once we all sat down, we methodically chewed and slurped our way through breakfast, still half-asleep and barely speaking, until the school bus came and both my wife and I had to leave for work.
That was how we thought breakfast should and always would be, but all that changed after we got the Pop Art Toaster with 6 Design Plates in black.
I purchased the toaster as a gag gift for my wife on Mother's Day. At first, she was not very happy that I had chosen a kitchen appliance as a symbol of my appreciation for her motherly talents. Fortunately for me, I had opera tickets at the ready, and after a magnificent performance of La Traviata, she grew to see the humorous side of the Pop Art Toaster with 6 Design Plates.
The next morning, after shuffling through my usual morning routine, I prepared to put four slices of bread into the silver Cuisinart toaster when I noticed the Pop Art Toaster with 6 Design Plates box had not yet been opened. As I was the first one in the kitchen, I thought I might surprise the rest of my family with some Pop Art toast, so I removed the toaster from the box, inserted the smiley face design plate, and toasted two slices of bread. After about a minute, the toaster popped out two slices of lightly toasted bread with a large, smiling face in the middle of each one. Immediately, a large grin formed on my own face, and I toasted another two slices of bread.
The rest of the family eventually came to the kitchen and shambled through their usual breakfast preparations, not yet noticing the unusual toast on their plates. I could barely contain my excitement, which was in sharp contrast to the zombies surrounding me, and once everything was ready, we all sat down to eat. The first to notice the Pop Art toast was my six-year-old son Timmy. "Hey, what's this?" he asked, and immediately his eyes lit up and he began giggling uncontrollably. His nine-year-old sister, Susie, looked down at her plate and exclaimed, "My toast is happy!" My wife, who is normally not very silly, picked up her slice of toast and in a very silly voice called out, "Helloooo everybodeeeeee! My name is Mr. Happeeeee!" Everybody began cracking up, and Timmy laughed so hard he fell out of his chair!
After five minutes of more silliness and laughing, Susie wanted to see what other Pop Art designs the Pop Art Toaster with 6 Design Plates could make. I showed her the toaster and the design plates, and she immediately wanted to try them all. We toasted all the slices remaining in the loaf from the opened bag and then opened a fresh bag so everyone could toast their favorite designs. When we ran out of bread, I drove to the store and bought six more loaves. We ended up making over one-hundred twenty slices of toast, which, you can imagine, took a while, factoring in toasting, cooling, and design-plate-exchanging times. Susie and Timmy both missed their buses, I missed a morning meeting, and my wife missed all her morning appointments, but we were having so much toasting fun, we didn't care!
Now mornings are the best time of the day for all of us! The minute the alarms go off everybody jumps out of bed full of energy and joy in anticipation of their morning Pop Art toast! Why simple designs scorched onto slices of bread should prove so endlessly entertaining I have no idea. What I do know, however, is that "the Pop Art toaster brings fun and excitement back to breakfast" exactly as advertised!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pop Art Toaster, January 9, 2007
This definitely puts an end to drab morning breakfasts! The fun designs transfer easily onto white toast, not so well on whole wheat. But since the kids don't really eat wheat toast anyway, I'm fine with that. Without the plates, the toaster works very well and toasts evenly. I'm glad I bought it!
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Cute Idea, Awful Execution, January 13, 2007
I received this toaster as a housewarming gift, and was pretty happy with the gift. It combines both toast and levity! I soon found, however, that the actual usage of the toaster left me depressed and empty. First, the plastic lip of the toaster casing is so high, you can't just grab the toast extruding from the actual toaster- you have to reach in, resulting in many a singed finger. The actual toast-branding results in a pretty uneven toast, and- finally- there is the question of toaster pastries.
If I just wanted a toaster for toast, MAYBE I could deal with the design flaws and my smoking, ashy fingertips. I could remove the metal plates to even the toast.
But I don't just want toast. In fact, if toast were the only thing you could make with a toaster, I'd probably pass on it. However, we have been blessed with Pop Tarts and other, similar toaster pastries, that marry filling with a crispy shell and, occasionally, some frosting. These are why one needs a toaster. In fact, if the toaster industry more fully understood my viewpoint, toasters would be called "Pop-Tart-ers", and toasting would be a secondary function, just like doorstoppery and acting as a crude cudgel.
And Pop Tarts just don't work in this toaster. Oh, they get hot! But then you have to play Operation, trying not to burn your fingers on the sides, and then the slim Pop Tarts will fall into the toaster, getting trapped between the heating element and the little stand thing it sits on. I'm writing this review because I just lost half a Pop Tart, and it's stuck in the bottom of the toaster, and I'm basically just calling it quits. Too bad, toaster. You were cute, but CRAZY.
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