I like the little tabletop oven!

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

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[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The tabletop oven puts me in mind of the Baby Belling, which was a very popular appliance in the UK :)

[misstia]

doesn't that look like plates in the bottom of the oven?

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

It says it can also be used as a warming oven.

[albear.livejournal.com]

Holy crap those are expensive. I looked them up on the inflation calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ and used 1954 as the base year.

Toaster: What cost $23.95 in 1954 would cost $188.99 in 2009.
Table oven: What cost $32.40 in 1954 would cost $255.67 in 2009

Restoring the Toast-o-lator

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I didn't post anything about the Toast-o-lator because I haven't been able to find an ad for it online. I did find this article that includes information about it, though, and am posting it because (http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indtol.html) people deserve to know about transport toasting—apparently an obsession of the Toast-o-lator's inventor.

(Oh, and what made me post this was the reference to expense; I believe the Toast-o-lator was about $250 in the 1950's, making it the true Rolls-Royce of toasters.)

[whoseline_wlsc]

I like them all, especially the cute little tabletop oven!

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

An old boyfriend of mine had something a lot like (if not the same as) the tabletop oven in the ad, about that size. It came with his no-kitchen-having sleeping room. The little sucker was handy for stuff like frozen pot pies, hot dogs, baked eggs, that kind of thing, more like a toaster oven with more room. I don't know if he tried to "roast fowl" in it though.