Keeping Work surfaces tidy: or how to hide a toaster

[ToughButterCup]

We're trying to hide our toaster. Why?

Not much work surface. And clutter annoys me (us).

 

Has anyone found a way to hide a toaster? I think we can sort out our microwave, oven, dishwasher, coffee maker, easily enough, but has anyone found a way to 'disappear' a toaster in a way which allows everyone to use it easily?

 

Of course we can just stick it in a cupboard: but how do you deal efficiently with the inevitable smoke, crumbs and usability issues?

[Crofter]

MiL had a 'tambor' unit with a roller door installed in her new kitchen.

Another idea I've seen is a 'breakfast cabinet' which is like a dresser, and opens up to reveal toaster, bowls, boxes of cereal, coffee machine, etc.

 

Or you could just use the grill...

[Stones]

Depends how often you use a toaster. Prior to toast hungry kids, we put ours away in a cupboard. Kept the toaster on a tray to catch all the crumbs / mess and to make it easy to take back out the cupboard again.

[Barney12]

+1 on the tambor unit. 

Of course it needs to be one of the those funky electric ones!

 

[ProDave]

Forget the toaster and do your toast under the grill.

[Temp]

The real problem appears to the getting the robo toaster to figure out when to make the toast..

 

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-on-toast-and-his-robot-butler-2016-7

[Guest Alphonsox]

16 minutes ago, Temp said:

The real problem appears to the getting the robo toaster to figure out when to make the toast..

 

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-on-toast-and-his-robot-butler-2016-7

 

That problem was solved long ago - just get the toaster to ask if you want toast  

 

 

[MikeSharp01]

Better yet, give up toast - cut down on the carbs, the carcinogens in the blackened portions, the fat in the butter and just live a miserable life

[Onoff]

Can't believe nobody's taken a router to a worktop and inset their toaster! 

 

How about this "invisible" one?

 

https://www.yankodesign.com/tag/smile-cooking-toaster/

[Ferdinand]

The only respectable principle for a toaster must surely be pop up through the worktop?

 

Will have a nurdle.

Edited July 15, 2017 by Ferdinand

[ryder72]

Yes - Miele indoor grill. Perfect for toasting.

[Fallingditch]

31 minutes ago, ryder72 said:

Yes - Miele indoor grill. Perfect for toasting.

 

What happens to the crumbs?

 

 

[ryder72]

fall through and get incinerated 

[Ferdinand]

I think the way to manage crumbs may be to continue the worktop into the roller-shutter cupboard, either my using an insert if it faces forward (offcut), or orientating the cupboard sideways at the end of the worktop.

 

Ferdinand

 

Edited July 18, 2017 by Ferdinand

[Ferdinand]

Or you could have a stove top toaster.

 

Tennis racket toast if it as Aga or Ceramic. Is there an induction version of a tennis racket toaster?

 

Or if aallly dedicated to a smooth worktop you could have Dalek Toast if it is a gas hob. Like camping.

 

 

Found while briefly researching toast:

 

Jamie Oliver

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 In the past, I have turned the toaster on its side, put cheese on bread and slid it in so it toasts on one side and melts on the other. It’s a bit of a jiggle but it works [see footnote]

 

Guardian Footnote:

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Footnote: We strongly don’t recommend turning your toaster on its side to make cheese on toast or anything else, as it is a fire hazard. See this warning from the London Fire Brigade.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/how-to-make-toast-the-jamie-oliver-way

Edited July 18, 2017 by Ferdinand