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Kent Madden's Portable Bagel Toaster

By Rain Noe - Jun 21, 2011

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Remember the portable record players we showed you back in April? The design innovation was that the normally-enclosed record platter would be largely exposed, with just the "reader" element, the needle, enclosed in the body.

Our favorite semi-finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab 2011 competition takes this same design principle and applies it to that most New York of breakfasts, the bagel. Behold the Salvé Bagel Toaster, designed by Kent Madden of Carleton University:

The new portable bagel toaster is especially convenient for those who can't find time to eat breakfast in the morning. Place a bagel in the toaster and it will automatically start rotating. When happy with the color of the freshly toasted bagel, simply remove and enjoy. The toaster is very energy efficient being run on sugar crystal batteries or recharged on a ceramic dock using induction. Now there are no excuses for missing the most important meal of the day!

You can check out more of Madden's stuff on Coroflot.

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  • Seth Plate
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    Who the eff still eats bagels?
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    I don't understand how this can be thought of as economical. The bagel rotates, surely more than one pass is necessary to toast it to a nice crispness, therefore the part outside of the product is getting cold and will require re-heating every time it passes the element. Not efficient. Better to toast the whole thing at once. And sugar batteries? Why not just say hydrogen fuel cell, or thorium isotope reactor, of ground unicorn horn as a power source. Anyone who knows electricity will know that the biggest hog for power is always heat. If this product were battery powered, it'd be the same size as a large drill-driver at best. And an induction cradle... how quaint. Might I also suggest that if you're making a point of the product being portable and for on-the-go, that you don't show it being used in your kitchen, where there's likely a very efficient toaster. I could go on, but that's something your instructors should be doing.
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    unfortunately there's another half to that bagel - so you double the toast time [not really good for busy folk who haven't the time to use a traditional toaster - lol] or potentially have to store or waste half of a bagel every morning. fail. looks cool though - just add another one right next to it and you're good to go.
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  • Brian Legg
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    Perhaps a more apt design reference - http://www.pizzazzpizzaoven.com/
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