Free T-Fal Avante Deluxe Toaster. To a good, loving home. Chrome and black. Toasts four
pieces of bread at the same time. Extra-large slots good for toast, English
muffins, or bagels. Approximately ten years old, but still has many years of
life left in it.
It
has many fun features, such as randomly ejecting your toast two feet into the
air (and possibly onto the floor) and sometimes not ejecting it at all. But
this can be surprising, and has thoroughly entertained my one-year old for weeks
now. It’s like a jack-in-the-box, and now he waits with bated breath every time
I make toast. Will it fly across the kitchen or not?!
The
right side has two cook settings: raw and blackened, which are controlled more
by the toaster’s temperament that day than by the knob on the front.
There
are levers that will lift your toast up so you can grab it, if you happen to
have small pieces of bread, but the lever on the left tends to get stuck in the
“lift up” position, so future toast will only get half cooked on that side of
the toaster.
The
little cooking-cage things inside that close in to hold the bread sometimes get
stuck “open,” but a well-placed butter knife can easily wedge them back into
place again. Although, I recommend not trying it while the toast is actually
toasting as the knife can get a little warm. We like to think of it as an extra
“feature.”
