Hello Kitty Toaster

larry moe 'n curly

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Aug 26, 2011, 2:20:05 PM8/26/11

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This toaster:

http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toaster.jpg

is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
more evenly?

All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
some of the coils by adding a diode.

The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.

I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
prevent shock hazard).

Vic Smith

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Aug 26, 2011, 2:42:39 PM8/26/11

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Sorry I can't help with electric stuff.
But if nobody else can solve your problem you might try a cat stencil.
Lay the stencil on the bread and brush some butter on before you put
the bread in a toaster made for sane people.
Not sure if the butter will catch on fire, but if it does move on to
marmalade and other things until you get it right.
Or see if somebody sells one-sided bread so there's no other side to
burn.

--Vic

Joe

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Aug 26, 2011, 2:36:43 PM8/26/11

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On Aug 26, 1:20 pm, "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencu...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> This toaster:
>
> http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toast...

>
> is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
> it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
> Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
> more evenly?
>
> All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
> some of the coils by adding a diode.
>
> The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
> it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
> farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.
>
> I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
> some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
> prevent shock hazard).

Use bread that has little age on it. The problem is, your bread is
typical super market stuff, really high moisture content. It's made
that way because water content = higher profit. Or find someone to
make up a batch of real home made bread and odds are it will do much
better in the toaster.

Joe

Rich Grise

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Aug 26, 2011, 3:07:56 PM8/26/11

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Just use aluminum foil. The basket that holds the bread to be toasted
is made out of metal, right? Just cut the foil to the exact size of the
bread and put it flat against the side that would burn. If you keep
the foil inside the basket, there should be very little shock hazard,
but don't let your local safety nazi find out. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich

Tim Wescott

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Aug 26, 2011, 3:45:20 PM8/26/11

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Or thin aluminum sheet, such as you may find making the tray in a toaster
oven.

Cut holes in it, or another "hello kitty" profile, or Bart Simson, or
maybe a "Hello Biker Kitty".

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John S

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Aug 26, 2011, 4:08:24 PM8/26/11

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Asbestos.

Oren

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Aug 26, 2011, 4:35:04 PM8/26/11

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:20:05 -0700 (PDT), "larry moe 'n curly"

<larrymo...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>This toaster:
>
> http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toaster.jpg

Sell the toaster and buy this, instead. A better Hello Kitty product
and it works

<http://media.photobucket.com/image/hello%20kitty%20ar%2015/ForestSniper/hello-kitty-ar-15-rifle1.jpg>

NT

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Aug 26, 2011, 5:56:18 PM8/26/11

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On Aug 26, 7:20 pm, "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencu...@my-deja.com>

wrote:
> This toaster:
>
> http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toast...
>

> is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
> it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
> Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
> more evenly?
>
> All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
> some of the coils by adding a diode.
>
> The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
> it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
> farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.
>
> I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
> some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
> prevent shock hazard).

So you want less power on the plain side, relative to the stencil
side.
- capacitor across plain side. But this will increase Pout on other
side, so add a series choke to the toaster, or run it off a small
transformer to cut a bit of voltage off the supply
- snip some of the R wire out of the plain side, and wire it in on the
stencil side
- convert the lead to 3 wire, with a wire for the centre tap, and run
it off a CT transformer plus a small series tf on one side, so the 2
element sides get different votlage

etc etc. How do you want to do it?

NT

Jules Richardson

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Aug 26, 2011, 9:01:49 PM8/26/11

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:08:24 -0500, John S wrote:
> Asbestos.

Magnets!

hrho...@att.net

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Aug 26, 2011, 9:40:19 PM8/26/11

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On Aug 26, 2:07 pm, Rich Grise <ri...@example.net.invalid> wrote:
> larry moe 'n curly wrote:
>
> > This toaster:
>

> http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toast...

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
> > it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
> > Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
> > more evenly?
>
> > All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
> > some of the coils by adding a diode.
>
> > The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
> > it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
> > farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.
>
> > I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
> > some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
> > prevent shock hazard).
>
> Just use aluminum foil. The basket that holds the bread to be toasted
> is made out of metal, right? Just cut the foil to the exact size of the
> bread and put it flat against the side that would burn. If you keep
> the foil inside the basket, there should be very little shock hazard,
> but don't let your local safety nazi find out. ;-P
>
> Cheers!

> Rich- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

My thoughts, exactly

Paul Hovnanian P.E.

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Aug 26, 2011, 9:45:20 PM8/26/11

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What a waste!

I'd have made a toaster that prints an image of the Virgin Mary. I'd have
the believers lined up for a slice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4034787.stm

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Jeff Liebermann

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Aug 26, 2011, 11:32:01 PM8/26/11

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:45:20 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<pa...@hovnanian.com> wrote:

>What a waste!

I like my toast soft on the inside, and incinerated on the outside.
The best way to make that is with a propane torch.

>I'd have made a toaster that prints an image of the Virgin Mary. I'd have
>the believers lined up for a slice.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4034787.stm

You would also have the wannabe, clones, and also ran's making them.
<http://virginmaryagain.com>

As for the toast, what bugs me are wide mouth toasters designed to fit
a bagel or muffin. Mine seems to work fine for bagels and muffins,
but mangles thinly sliced bread in various ways depending on how the
bread is inserted. I was even able to create a "gradient" toast,
which was burnt on one end, and not toasted on the other. More on the
problem:
<http://groups.google.com/group/ba.food/browse_thread/thread/8884de25c128fb1f/>

Anyway, if the Kitty Toaster has some kind of design woven onto one
side, just rip apart the design, remove the nichrome wire, and re-wire
it in a more sensible manner. The rest is in setting the timing to
prevent incineration and centering the bread slice. I suspect the
most difficult part of this modification would be getting the case
open, which is probably solvent or ultrasonically welded. Good luck.

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William Sommerwerck

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Aug 27, 2011, 11:10:24 AM8/27/11

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Flop the bread halfway through the cycle. The image won't be as strong, but
at least the toasting will be even.

gpsman

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Aug 27, 2011, 1:54:33 PM8/27/11

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On Aug 26, 2:20 pm, "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencu...@my-deja.com>

wrote:
> This toaster:
>
> http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hello-kitty-toast...
>

> is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
> it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
> Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
> more evenly?

Does it have a "bagel" setting?
-----

- gpsman

Matt

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Aug 27, 2011, 2:40:23 PM8/27/11

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Use an atomizer to apply a fine mist of water to the plain side before
toasting?

William Sommerwerck

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Aug 27, 2011, 3:23:35 PM8/27/11

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> I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
> some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material
> (to prevent shock hazard).

An asbestos pad?

amdx

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Aug 27, 2011, 3:32:53 PM8/27/11

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We use the one sided bread in ours, works perfectly fine.
Mikek

amdx

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Aug 27, 2011, 3:33:45 PM8/27/11

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Mica sheets.

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Aug 27, 2011, 4:43:54 PM8/27/11

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:32:59 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Gee, didn't you read the Old Toastermant where it tells all
>about Mica, and the sheets?

Not bad, not bad at all.

--Vic

Geoffrey S. Mendelson

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Aug 27, 2011, 5:14:04 PM8/27/11

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larry moe 'n curly wrote:
>

> is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
> it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
> Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
> more evenly?
>
> All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
> some of the coils by adding a diode.
>
> The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
> it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
> farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.
>
> I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
> some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
> prevent shock hazard).

Is it a 100 volt Japanese model you are trying to use on 120 Volts in the US?

Geoff.

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William Sommerwerck

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Aug 27, 2011, 6:20:06 PM8/27/11

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>> We use the one sided bread in ours, works perfectly fine.

> Is that the Moebius brand?

It would be a lot easier to make a moebius bagel.

Michael A. Terrell

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Aug 27, 2011, 6:25:11 PM8/27/11

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Stay away from the Klein bagels. You have to put the toaster inside
to heat them. ;-)

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Aug 28, 2011, 8:37:31 AM8/28/11

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A few Jews and Christians of various denomination might
understand. Of course, good Catholics (like good
Protestants, Jews, Methodists, Prebrytarians, Jehovas
Witnesses, Mormons, Episcopals, and others) read and study
the Old Toastermant.

15. Having been descended from the royal linage of David,
begat sons and daughters.
16. Toastmaster, being a son of David, invented the pop-up
toaster in the 1920s.
17. Toastmaster, having lived 476 years, begat sons and
daughters.
18. And it came to pass the sons and daughter of
Toastermaster were other venerable brands of toasters and
toaster ovens such as Black & Decker, Hamilton Beach, and
Sunbeam, plus players such as Cuisinart, DeLonghi, Kenmore
(Sears), KitchenAid, Krups, Rival, T-Fal, Proctor Silex, and
West Bend.
19. And it came to pass that some toasters followed in the
tradition of David. Dualit makes old-fashioned,
commercial-style, heavy-gauge stainless-steel toasters.
20. Others of the children of Toastmaster went the way of
society. Most brands manufacture two- and four-slice models
and a few now manufacture toasters with one long slot.
21. Use this information to compare toasters and toaster
ovens by brand.
22. The sons of Toastmaster lived to the days of old age.
The firsborn, even Black and Decker, raised up unto the Lord
a wild one named Hello Kitty, who was wont to put her image
on one side of the bread, deviating from the way of the Lord
to golden brown both sides.
23. And the father and mother of Hello Kitty were wroth, and
cried mightily unto the LORD for healing for their daughter
Hello Kitty.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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Kurt Ullman

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Aug 28, 2011, 9:21:12 AM8/28/11

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Did I mention that last week I bought a toaster and they gave me
this really nice bank?

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Michael A. Terrell

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Aug 28, 2011, 10:43:12 AM8/28/11

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Kurt Ullman wrote:
>
> Did I mention that last week I bought a toaster and they gave me
> this really nice bank?

Just don't plug the bank in, or it'll burn all your money.

LdB

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Aug 28, 2011, 12:20:19 PM8/28/11

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On 8/27/2011 4:14 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> larry moe 'n curly wrote:
>>
>> is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
>> it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
>> Kitty side) of the bread burns. Is there any way to make it toast
>> more evenly?
>>
>> All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
>> some of the coils by adding a diode.
>>
>> The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
>> it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
>> farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.
>>
>> I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
>> some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
>> prevent shock hazard).
>
> Is it a 100 volt Japanese model you are trying to use on 120 Volts in the US?
>
> Geoff.
>

The Japanese version is used to toast the Kitty then you put it on the
bread.

LdB