Vintage Appliances: Toast-O-Lator Luxury Toaster

Congratulations on you 400th episode 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations 400 shows!! Love your show. If I ever come across a crazy appliance, I will send it to your store!!!

Here’s to the next 400 episodes! Love watching every one! I used to love watching your videos at your cabin! 🎉Congratulations🎉 to you all .. cheers.

Nice find, or gift rather. Very cool. I did a quick search and it apparently went on the market around 1939, but may have been in production through at least the late 40's, if not into the 50's, most likely to the early 50's. I used to have my parents old Toastmaster toaster from 1954 when they got married, I think it was a wedding present and it had a solenoid to raise/lower the bread automatically so when you put the bread in on one side, it would automatically lower, when done, it's smoothly rise up, even when you pressed the temp control in to cancel. I later replaced it with a wide slot toaster for bagels etc from Farberware with a red plastic housing cover. It lasted for quite a while until the element went, by that point, it was unevenly faded from the sun.

From the days when people had enough common sense to unplug it, before getting to the "guts" -now they would have a million safety cutouts and a microchip or two in there 😞

Happy 400th video! Really cool toaster. Toast on a conveyer belt! 😊

Congratulations on 400! So cool to watch you now that we’ve actually been there! 😊❤

Ralph got a zinger in...yeah! I agree not a day over 100, me on the other hand...oy veh! I think if your toast is burning it would be hard to jettison it fast but maybe lator. it's definitely an interesting novelty.

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HAPPY 400❤❤🎉🎉

Happy 400th Guys! Neat toaster, but I think I can see why it didn't take off, considering it was one slice at a time! I'll have to go back and check out the other toaster vid. My grandmother had one of those that the sides opened to load the bread, which seemed cool to me as a kid! (that was late 60's, but I'm sure the toaster was old then). I remember wondering as a kid why everything at an old person's house was old too, but back then applainces were built to last a lifetime! Wish they still were! Amusing sidenote: my very frugal aunt had to get a new fridge last year! She's 95. She had been using the same fridge since she and my uncle set up house in 1951, so that fridge was 71!

Congratulations To Cavalcade Of Food and it's 400th Episode Kevin your the Best Many Blessings Love is the Key ! ❤‍🔥

400???!!! I only discovered you this year so I got me some videos to watch!😂 Congratulations 🎉 Keep em coming!

That toaster is really cool! What a great addition to your already awesome collection 😃

Congrats on so many wonderful episodes! That toaster is super cool! I need one here at elm cottage.

The toaster that thought it was a tunnel oven!

Congratulations on the big 400!

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I have watched all 400 episodes..I wouldn't miss! I am a big fan!

I’ve never seen a Toast-O-Lator! I love it! I bet it was made in the late ‘40’s or early ‘50’s.

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That toastalator is like an amusement park ride for the kitchen!

Congrats on your 400th!!! And all best for many more to come :) What a great gift! I was wondering what the "0-Later" means? Appears to run similar to an escalator?😊

I appreciate these videos so much! That is a cool appliance! Happy 400! 🎊 🎉Thank you!!

Really cool. I want one, but not paying the $215. Plus shipping eBay price. Cherish yours and thanks for sharing😊

Congratulations!🥂 been watching since 2017.

Love the Toast-O-Lator! Thanks for sharing. Happy 400th episode!

Happy 400th episode! Truly a labor of love! Here's to the next 400 & more!

Congratulations on your 400th episode of the vintage kitchen life. How different this toaster is! Yes, you're fortunate to have received that gift! It's at a good new home. Very interesting. Thank you both. It made me listen to another oldie - Heywood Banks "Toast " song. Can't wait to see what's next. TOAST!!!

Wow 400 episodes, who knew? Being a toaster fan, that is too cool for school! However, I did see one once that had kind of a similar concept with the conveyor. It toasted only on one side, and when it came to the end of the conveyor the toast flipped, and went down the conveyor and toasted the other side. That one I think they said was from the early 30s. I'm curious what year yours is from? I would guess early post WWII, but who knows?

Four hundred videos and you boys still keep it all fresh and brilliant!!! Here's to the next 400 and beyond! 🎉😃🥂

Happy 400th episode, cheers to the next 400. Love the collection of all your vintage appliances. I am looking for a good okm range myself to restore or find a very good original.

That's a $250 toaster on ebay plus there is also an ad too Kevin!

👏 congrats!🎉 love your fountain of vintage kitchen info.
We look forward to many more.. Tring to think of a different topic. But you cover all of them.
But I do notice that your not interested in gas stoves.
I am, but to each their own!😊

A toast to toast!Congratulations on 400 episodes!

The Henry Ford museum in theircollection has a 1939 toast-o-lator. For those not familiar with The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village are in Dearborn Michigan.

Wow, 400! Awesome. Toaster is amazing. I could imagine people putting their hands in the two side slots, to move the toaster and forgot it was still hot. Possible reason for the design not catching on.

Congratulations on 400 episodes! This Toast-O-Lator toaster brought the assembly line to the breakfast table, love this line from a write up about a 1939 version of the toaster. So unique, thanks for sharing!

A "toast" to your 400th episode!

That is cool toaster just like the SunBeam Radiant Toaster that automatically goes down

Thank you so much for All the Great videos!! They're so FUN & informative! 💛

400 episodes! Congratulations and I look forward to many more!

I was late to the Calvacade but I love it. Thanks

Hey I truly love your vintage items. Can’t wait to fixed your cornbread dressing 😊

Wow, 400th episode! Congrats! Hi Kevin and Ralph!

I found this site when I went looking for a photo of this toaster, which I grew up with. It was a wedding gift to my parents in 1947. My brother and I used to watch the toast crawl along through the porthole; we'd move the toaster to the edge of the table so the toast would fall on the floor. That way, we could toast another piece and the show would continue. I have ours. I haven't used it in years, since its cord is frayed and I need to find someone to lovingly replace it. How lovely to see it in action again!

Thank you for sharing! You are living the dream! Stay hungry my friends😅

Congratulations on 400 episodes and so many successful years here! I discovered you a few years ago and really enjoy seeing things that remind me of my childhood in the 60s and 70s, items that reflect the generations of family life, collections that inspire my love of vintage, and features that introduce me to cool vintage items like this toaster! I’ve never seen anything like this before and it was so fun to watch! I hope you are making these videos for many more years to come! Thank you!!

I have my grandmother’s! Loved making/watching toast as a kid! Great memories! ❤

When your bread gets stale, just run it through the toaster.

Wonderful, as always! I suggest that Ralph gets a tripod, though. The camera movement makes me nauseated. Maybe it's just me.