Almost every one likes to eat toasts for breakfast or as an aperitif snack during daytime. It is a very popular type of food in almost every country in the world. Everyone whether adult or children will love to put some butter and jam on a piece of sliced toast in order to eat it. The idea of making toasts is an old one as ancient Romans used fire to toast the bread in order to preserve it for longer periods of time. Thus a toasted bread would be edible for several days. In fact, the word toast itself comes from Latin meaning “Burned or scorched”.

However, it was not until 1893 that the first toasted bread was done by a manual Toaster. The process was invented in Great Britain, but the slice of bread had to be toasted manually on each side and thus it was a process that required effort and time. The same process was also invented in the United States in 1909.

But when it comes to Toasters, most of us think about the modern two way toasters that pop op the bread once it is toasted. Almost everyone has these toasters in their homes. Hence this type of modern pop up toaster was invented in Minnesota, United States by an inventor named Charles Strive. This person invented the pop up toaster that we all use in our homes today. However, as the years passed by big companies like Krups, Bosch, General Electric and other perfected the process and nowadays it is possible to find toasters that toast many slices of bread at the same time. Especially in the United States, it is very common to have family size Toasters that toast 6 bread slices at the same time and most toasters also have built in ovens that allow you to reheat your toasts.

Tags: electrical, house additions, plumbing, home fix-up, diy