We used these to make little fruit pies and they worked wonderfully! Used Pillsbury pie crust and canned fruit filling. Stuck the toaster right in a pile of coals and had a perfectly cooked pie in about 10-15 min. Great quality!
My parents bought their irons over 50 years ago and we still use them.
I was given a few as a wedding gift and are still using them.
Now I give irons as wedding gifts and they are loved.
Thank you for an awesome product.
We do not accept returns on Pizzelle/Belgium/Waffle irons once they have been used. Our 5-year warranty only covers electrical parts. We will repair the part at no charge. There is a cost for shipping, however.
Make every day delicious as you easily and precisely toast your favourite breads, bagels and more with our most advanced 2-slice toaster. This stylish automatic toaster has extra-wide slots, has lift & lower that senses bread in the slots, an LED countdown and other helpful functions.
What a way to greet the morning! The KitchenAid Artisan toaster is available in your favourite colours and brings you the versatility and latest automated functions for any breads. Enjoy the process of perfecting your toasting of homemade or craft breads, bagels and toasted sandwiches.
Everything on this toaster feels robust and well thought out. From the removable crumb tray that makes it easy to clean, to the clever cord wrap that stores the cord under the toaster for a neat counter top.
You wouldn't expect to get excited over a toaster, but oh my, this is an exception! it is fantastic, looks great, toasts great, which I know is what it is supposed to do but a lot of toasters ive had over the years do the first round of toast ok but if doing a batch they get more and more burnt as the toaster gets warms but this toaster is consistent no matter how many slices you do. The "keeping warm" option is genius as the amount of times I do toast get distracted and come back and the toast is cold, not with the KitchenAid toaster, if you walk away the toaster knows and will keep the toast warm until you are back...
Despite my aversions to the toaster, I was actually given a toaster once as a housewarming gift, and I left it in the packaging for months. It sat in its box, staring at me, prodding me, until I finally opened it one day. But when I wanted toast, you know what I did? I heated a skillet and I toasted the bread in there. Since then, I've moved, and the toaster was left behind. But I still have my skillet, and I'm still making toast all the time.
The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American independent[4] animated musical drama film directed by Jerry Rees.[5] It is based on the 1980 novella of the same name by Thomas M. Disch.[6] The film stars Deanna Oliver, Timothy E. Day, Jon Lovitz, Tim Stack, and Thurl Ravenscroft, with Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft, and Jim Jackman in supporting roles. It is set in a world where domestic appliances and other consumer electronics come to life, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. The story focuses on five anthropomorphic household appliances, which include a toaster, a lamp stand, an electric blanket, a radio and a vacuum cleaner, who go on a quest to search for their owner.[7]
The film was produced by Hyperion Pictures and The Kushner-Locke Company. Many CalArts graduates, including the original members of Pixar Animation Studios, were involved with this film.[8] The rights to the book were acquired by Walt Disney Studios in 1982. John Lasseter, then employed at Disney, wanted to do a computer-animated film based on it, but it was turned down. While the film received a limited theatrical release, The Brave Little Toaster received positive reviews and was popular on home video. It was followed by two sequels, The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue in 1997 and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars in 1998. [9]
Along their journey, the appliances have numerous harrowing adventures. When their battery runs low, the group stops for the night in a forest, with Blanky serving as a tent. During the night, a storm blows Blanky up into the trees, and Lampy uses himself as a lightning rod to recharge the battery. After recovering Blanky, the appliances try to cross a waterfall, but everyone except Kirby falls into the murky water below. Kirby dives in and rescues the others; but with the chair, strip and battery lost, the group resorts to pulling the disabled Kirby through a swamp. They are almost swallowed up by a giant bog of quicksand, but are saved by Elmo St. Peters, who takes them to his appliance parts store. There, St. Peters prepares to extract and sell Radio's vacuum tubes, but the other appliances frighten St. Peters by pretending to be a ghost, causing him to knock himself unconscious. The appliances subsequently escape from the store.
Meanwhile, Rob, now a young adult, goes out to the cottage with his girlfriend Chris to retrieve the appliances to take with him to college. The group arrives at Rob's apartment, but his family's newer appliances, resentful about Rob wanting to take the older appliances instead of themselves, demonstrate how much more technologically advanced they are and throw the group out of the apartment and into a dumpster. Rob and Chris return home empty-handed; but an old television set in the apartment, a friend of the five appliances who formerly resided in the cottage with them, plays fictional advertisements for the junkyard the appliances have been taken to, convincing Rob and Chris to go there and find them.
At the junkyard, the appliances fall into despair, believing Rob no longer needs them. They are picked up by a large electromagnet, and are about to be destroyed by a crusher, but after seeing Rob arrive at the junkyard, they regain hope and attempt to escape the magnet and place themselves so Rob will find them. However, the magnet thwarts their escape by separating the group on the conveyor belt leading to the crusher. Rob spots all the appliances except Toaster on the conveyor belt, and attempts to rescue them, but is picked up by the magnet, who drops him and the appliances back on the belt. Toaster jumps into the crusher's gears, stopping the crusher just before it flattens Rob and the others, but is badly mangled in the process. Back at the apartment, Rob repairs Toaster, and he and Chris depart for college with all five appliances in tow.
The film rights to The Brave Little Toaster, the original novella by Thomas M. Disch, were purchased by the Walt Disney Studios in 1982, two years after its appearance in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[12] After animators John Lasseter and Glen Keane had finished a short 2D/3D test film based on the book Where the Wild Things Are, Lasseter and producer Thomas L. Wilhite decided they wanted to produce a whole feature with the same technique.
The story they chose was The Brave Little Toaster, and this became the first CGI film Lasseter ever pitched,[13] but in their enthusiasm, they ran into issues pitching the idea to two high-level Disney executives, animation administrator Ed Hansen, and Disney president Ron W. Miller. Ron Miller asked about the cost after the pitch and when Lasseter replied that it would cost no more than a traditionally animated film, Miller rejected the pitch, saying that the only reason to use computers would be if it was "faster or cheaper".[14][15]
A few minutes after the meeting, Lasseter received a phone call from Hansen and was instructed to come down to his office, where Lasseter was informed that he was dismissed. Originally set to commence at the Disney studios with a budget of $18 million, development was then transferred to the new Hyperion Pictures, which had been created by former Disney employees Tom Wilhite and Willard Carroll, who took the production along with them after Wilhite successfully requested the project from then-president Ron Miller. As a result, the film was financed as an independent production by Disney, with the aid of electronics company TDK Corporation and video distributor CBS/Fox Video.[12]
The budget was reduced by $12.06 million to $5.94 million as production began, approximately a third of the budget offered when in-house.[12] Despite providing funds to get it off the ground, Disney was not involved with production of the film.[12] Rees later commented that there were external forces at work that had the right to say this was a cheap film that could be shipped overseas, which the staff objected to and therefore were willing to make sacrifices to improve the quality of the film despite its limited budget.[16]
In 1986, Hyperion began to work on the story and character development. Jerry Rees, a crew member on two previous Disney films, The Fox and the Hound and Tron, and co-writer of the screenplay along with Joe Ranft, was chosen to direct the project.[12] He had been working on an animated adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit with Brad Bird, and received a call from Wilhite asking him to develop, write, and direct, explaining that The Brave Little Toaster was being adapted into a short, but that a feature film was possible if handled correctly.[16] Joe Ranft and Rees worked on developing the story. The storyboards were designed by Rees, Ranft, along with Alex Mann and Darrell Rooney. When animators ran out of pages to storyboard, Rees sat down and wrote more of the script.[16]
Rees was still in the process of writing when he decided to find actors. Many auditioners presented cartoony, exaggerated voices, which displeased him, because they did not believe their characters or bring a reality to the role.[16] As a result, he sought out voice talent from The Groundlings improvisational group upon recommendation by Ranft,[12] and he appreciated the honesty and naturalism they gave to their performances.[16] Many of their members, including Jon Lovitz (Radio), Phil Hartman (Air Conditioner/Hanging Lamp), Tim Stack (Lampy), Judy Toll (Mishmash), and Mindy Sterling (Rob's mother) voiced characters in the film. Already established as an actor through Tony the Tiger and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Thurl Ravenscroft was cast as Kirby the vacuum cleaner. Heading the ensemble cast were Groundlings performer Deanna Oliver as Toaster, and newcomer Timothy E. Day as Blanky.[12]
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