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The Old-School Appliance That's Totally Impractical In Today's Kitchens

Along with heating bread for breakfast, modern toaster ovens allow you to make all sorts of unique recipes , such as dehydrated fruit, candied bacon, and just about everything else under the sun. These devices are mainstays in many households, so it's hard to imagine a time before they existed. Electric toasters first appeared on store shelves in 1909, while pop-up variants of the device were patented in 1921. Their more sophisticated sibling, the toaster oven, was developed in 1910 (namely by William Hadaway, the same person who invented the conventional oven, incidentally).

The appliance made another technological leap in 1957, which is when GE released its Toast-R-Oven. According to a vin

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