Which classic toaster would you want to buy brand new off the shelves if they were available new today?

Sunbeam Deluxe Automatic Radiant Control Toaster

I knew it!!!!

"Let's make toast, pig!"

They all look ugly. I like bagel toasters

I'll take the Sunbeam Model T-20 Johnny and I'll pick door #2.

Actually.......toasters were invented before someone realized they could package and sell pre-sliced bread. Blows your mind, doesn't it!
Imagine all those housewives slicing bread just the right thickness to fit those slots. It's crazy! Looney even!!!!!
I love toast and toast trivia...
A toast to toast...I love toast!

Prof. Membrane: "Shhh! Quiet, son, I'm making...TOAST!"

I like the Kenmore model 874 best of all these.

The Kenmore Model 874
It is so CUTE!!

Remember Powdered Toast Man?

have no use for a classic toaster, toaster ovens work just fine.

Toastmaster model 1-A-1 automatic pop-up toaster, i just like the look of this one.

Awesome. I owned a '579 Dominion 1109 Manual Toaster' and did a full restoration of a 'Estate Electric Toaster No. 77' (they're so cool. The doors flip open to become the door of the adjacent wall and give the toast in the door a chance to toast on the other side). I have a waffle iron I've been restoring, but I became too much of a perfectionist, and put the prroject on hold like so many others. Like my vacuum (hoover quadraflex (which I also restored)), it has a rocket/space ship era art deco look.
Cool toasters. Is the survey author an eBay junkie?

Oh, I'll take a T9 or a heatmaster, though there are other models I've had my eye on too, like ones with daisy motifs.
I'm also into old blenders, lamps, clocks, and other appliances.

Toastmaster commercial model 1BB4 automatic pop-up toaster

I didn't realize toasters predated sliced bread... good for them!

yup! I want a LOG too! and some Lee press-on limbs!

Bread knives must have become unpopular when people started using them to fish toast out of toasters.

Toss-up between the Sunbeam T-20 and the Kenmore. Both are tres kitsch.

I bet you're right

some of those older toasters look like torture devices to me

at first I misread your comment and thought you wrote "toast fish"!

Kenmore automatic pop-up toaster, model 874

I'd actually go for the cheapest, thanks. But if I was just going on looks, it would have to be the Sunbeam model T-20 automatic toaster. Nice and chunky

The sunbeam one.

It's Log.. I'ts Log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood..
It's Log... Log.. it's better than bad, it's good!

I live the toaster I have now, but thanks anyway.

What is the deal with this survey? Geez...

They're all so much prettier than my toaster!

Cool survey.
There is a whole world of toasters out there that I was unaware of!

I like the Kenmore one. It has kind of a retro look to it.

Ive got one of those old toasters where you have to turn the bread over to cook both sides. I just love it! you can have one side dark, the other side light. Gee, the possibilities are endless! (That's actually what's been keeping me busy lately.But like a bad penny, I will always turn up)HI everybody!!!!!

My toaster is red!

The sunbeam automatic T-20 cause it reminds me of the brave little toaster! LOL

the sunbeam t-9 automatic cause it reminds me of the brave little toaster! LOL

The Sunbeam one. My parents have one. It is available off the shelf, but I can't afford it!

So do you collect such things?

only mentally no, I just think they're cool

I don't like toast enough to buy a toaster. If I did, I wouldn't want a "classic" model, but something really new and different, x-treme looking, like a sculpture or something, and not in that chrome and black, but some kind of screamin' bright color.

Furnishing one's home with such appliances can be cheaper than new, if you find the right thrift stores.

Metal things from the 50's tend to be far more sculptural than anything metal now. The material and workmanship involved is too costly. those things will last forever. Flourescent plastic will fall to pieces in 20 years.

The single slice. I often end up eating two slices of toast because I think it's obscene to toast one slice with the other side simply burning electricity for the hell of it. I like the sleekness of this toaster too. Survey creator, please don't tell me your hobbie is collecting toasters!

I don't like any of them.
None of them has a 4 slicer.......Bummmer! Especially with a large family like mine.

Cool pictures tho.

no don't worry I don't collect toasters. I do have one odd toaster - a Sunbeam Radiant Automatic, which I used to build the Internet Toaster years ago...

not true, that estate model does 4 slices. I had one.

My toaster has a feature where if you put toast in the "single slice" side it somehow knows and only heats up the one slot. And there are also toasters where each side has its own lever.

It ages since I had toast. If I do its as part of cheese on toast. Thus - I do not have a toaster.

The internet toaster?

Good ideas! Next time I buy a toaster I'll look for one

it was a toaster that could be controlled from the Internet, in the pre-web days. It wasnt' very useful but was a nice demonstration.

Wow. Sounds like one of those Japanese inventions.

Where??? Let me look at it again.

**franticly scrolls back to see the pictures**

Hummmm,can't make it out.

It's shaped like a cube with four doors as walls which each hold a piece of toast. Only the side facing in toasts. You then flip open the door and close it, but on the adjacent side, where the other side toasts. When you flip one door over, they all do it, like a four winged angel pyramid stretching it's wings.

That sounds really cool I read about another internet-toaster a couple of months ago. If you connected this toaster to the internet it would pick up information about the weather then only toast the bread in a certain design - for example raindrops if it was going to rain. Of course, you could just look outside or check the news but it was a nice bit of gadgetry

that's very cool too!

I think that the Sunbeam model T-9 automatic pop-up looks cool but the Sunbeam model T-20 automatic toaster looks like the model I would buy. I want to toast bagels and English Muffins and such - need bigger holes!

Anyone notice how this survey is always popping up like toast?

Very apt

no interest in classic toasters here, but this is a well created survey.

I would buy my own brand!
O'h yes I'm very big toaster salesman!
Buy- Model 1A6 single-slice automatic pop-up

You are a mother!$@#

Wow!!!! That sounds so cool.Now I wish I did have one of those toasters.

Sunbeam model T-9 automatic pop-up

cool survey.. but I couldn't decide.. they all looked cool.

I like the round one.

My toaster is retro

Ooh, that's a classy cute one. Do you actually possess such a toaster?

YES!!! and it is delightful. It's a Toastmaster in retro red!It makes me smile...

I want the one that shoots flaming toast...would you have such a model?

this toaster looks nice to display as well as use

All of those toasters with the exception of two are pretty eye catching but I really can't choose

I was touring an old WWII - Korean War Battleship and there in the galley was the most incredible toaster I had ever seen. It ran bread through a conveyor belt. I Loved it!

That does sound cool.

I love this survey. I love toast. YUM!!! how cool