American Made! No Chinese junk! This vintage toaster toasts just like new after 80 years!

Thanks for this! After years of my family burning our fingers turning the toast at breakfast time in the 60s, my Year 5 teacher demonstrated in a science lesson that the side is meant to be opened slowly, coming all the way down, causing the slice of bread to slide down so it can be lifted back up on the door - with the untoasted side now facing the element! No need to touch the bread! (You actually did it correctly with the round slices, but only at the end, when the other side was already toasted.)  One thing my teacher said stayed with me all through my own teaching career: Old technology is always obvious as to how it works. Visible hot elements change colour; telephone dials rotated and made noises; water pistols were transparent and their trigger levers were visible; clocks had weights and chains and cuckoos. As tech improves over time with new designs, manufacturers tend to hide the inner workings and make it all mysterious.

Saddens me to know consumers settle for disposable instead of indispensable. Had we known what would have become of our commercial manufacturing, we would not have have been praising Nixon for securing ties with China. That being said, after owning a 1947 Toastmaster and the guides getting bent where bread would not pop up anymore, I just purchased a Star-Rite Reversible, for $26.94 on e-Bay. Aside from mild surface rust - which cleaned off nicely - it works beautifully, and accommodates small-to-large slices. Yes, so you have to keep eye on the toasting progress, but it proves much safer to do so than depending on a mechanism to dispense toast that, if fails, is a fire hazard. Unlike other models of the day, it does not have a bar on one side, preventing toast from sliding thru the other side, so it holds many slice sizes, and as opposed to the standard Butterfly models, you can flip the bread atop with the twist of a knob without burning hands and bread is more evenly toasted. Off with the new, refurbish the old.

That is cool, I found one a little newer and  the finish and quality that some older domestic appliances are made with keep  working for years and if you need to, you can actually repair them.

One thing about these toasters: don't walk away to answer the phone or door, because they keep on toasting till the bread burns! Pull the plug before you walk away. I like that they toast quickly with out drying out the bread. They work well sitting on a cutting board on the breakfast table - that way you're right there to flip it on time and control how dark the bread gets. Usually they don't toast evenly, but I think it's part of their charm! Many things that were built before planned obsolescence really took hold seem to be sturdier and last a longer time.

Wow! that is really amazing, I like this one because It's not just a 'toaster' but also beagles fit there inside when a regular toaster is only for thin slices of bread. I have a 1961 Sunbeam toaster, 100% American made too! ;)

there isn't anything better than a piece of toast out of a great quality made toaster!!! great video!!

Anyone know where you can get a replacement cord? I just got a similar model to this one but the previous owners got rid of the plug...

If you don't want Chinese junk, what about a Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster? They made them up until the 1990s, but the ones from the 1950s still work just fine, and it toasts BOTH sides at the same time, AND you don't have to worry about a lever cuz it handles that automatically, and it comes out the same darkness every time

 That is one FAST toaster! Doubles as a space heater.

I remember those toasters. (should I admit this?)

youre right, im on my third toaster.. neat how it accomdates begals and toasts them at a barissta level of quality

Burned on the top and soft on the bottom... Not sure I'd brag about the quality of it, but it sure got some mileage

Totally slick... that cord is epic and the element is no joke... looks like a red hot branding iron... the speed of that thing. Bagel master.... great find and purchase

WoW Simply Amazing!!

I just inherited one of these from my aunt. The elements do not heat up. Wish I could find a video on how to replace the elements, so I can actually use this toaster.

Currently using a vintage Sunbeam radiant heat control toaster. I like the old appliances because they can be repaired. The best information on the old sunbeam radiant heat control toasters can be found here: http://www.automaticbeyondbelief.org/

Also makes a good space heater

Nice. I have one like that that still works too. I use it every now and then.

Where can i buy one and how much they cost ???

I started buying vintage appliances for a retro theme, now I don't bother with modern disposable rubbish, I recently found a toaster from 1935 in mint condition and a monitor top refrigerator of the same era.