Free Toaster

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.”

My wife is so eager that this toaster find a good home that will appreciate it, that she’s willing to throw in our old, burnt bread crumbs as well...free of charge!