PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AND TOAST

 

 

 

When I turn on the news this morning the speculation about the Presidential debate between President Biden and Trump consumed the cable news outlets.  All this speculation is ridiculous as we only have to wait until nine o'clock tonight and all will be revealed.

As there is nothing I can do to affect the outcome of the debate tonight, so I made toast, a boiled egg, and tea – these I have control over.

Actually, I have little control over the way my toast comes out of the toaster.

 I must have owned a dozen toasters over the years and have always complained about uneven toasting or toast darker on one side than the other.

The last toaster I owned was a Cuisinart.  It had a shiny stainless steel body, but it toasted no better than the twelve-dollar toaster from Walmart.    The wrapped wire heating elements made in China in the twelve-dollar toaster at Walmart are likely the exact same Chinese wire heating elements we find in Cuisinart.

 

After going on YouTube if found that Dash was listed as one of the best toasters by America’s Test Kitchen.

 

For the last two years, I have owned a Dash toaster.  Though not perfect, it is the best toaster I have ever owned – and it comes in colors.

 Instead of the wrapped wire element, the Dash has four ceramic rods, one on the top and one on the bottom of each side.  These rods glow red hot and toast the bread fairly evenly.  

 

 

Dash also has a window so you can watch the toasting process.  The Dash has defrost, reheat, and bagel buttons.

  I have never used the defrost or reheat -perhaps they are for Poptarts and frozen waffles - but the bagel button lights the rods on one side of the toaster, toasting only the cut half of the bagel.  

 

So this morning instead of watching the bed-wetting, speculation, and hype about this evening’s debate, I made a piece of toast, a boiled egg, and a cup of tea, and decided to post about the Dash toaster that gave me a nice dark, evenly toasted bread this morning. 

I don’t post for any company or product; but when I find something I like I will pass it on.

the Ol’Buzzard

WHEN IT’S BROWN IT’S COOKING, WHEN IT IS BLACK IT’S DONE

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I’m a foodie.   I love good food and am willing to pay the price at a good restaurant for a good meal.    I am also easy to please as I eat most anything someone else prepares. 

I don’t particularly like overly hot foods.  If the food is so hot that it burns your taste buds and everything you eat after that taste bland – then I don’t see an enjoyment; and enjoyment is what food should be about.

Being from the south I like cat fish, raw oysters, Louisiana Hot Sauce, cornbread, and grits with my breakfast.   It bugs my wife, but I like fried spam, deviled ham, Vienna sausages and other can foods that are supposedly not good for me.

I like a good barbecue and I like my meat well done.  I love a good chuck roast cooked in the slow-cooker until it falls apart.

For desert give me pie: any kind of pie, but especially pecan pie.

I could eat eggs three time a day and never get tired of them.  And my toast I like burnt: when it’s brown it’s cooking, and when it’s black it’s done.  

the Ol’Buzzard  

DONALD TRUMP BURNED MY TOAST AND OTHER RAMBLINGS

For years we have made homemade bread in our bread machines; and for whatever reason I am able to slice the bread thinner and more uniform than my wife; so I am in charge of making toast for breakfast.  

This morning we got off on the subject of the blatant ignorance of the base of the Republican Party being so enthusiastic for Trump.   And during my tirade tying Trump and the idiot base of the Republican Party to southern racism and fundamentalist Christianity I burned the toast.  

I used the excuse that Trump caused me to burn the toast and my wife bought it.  

When you look at the largest group of people most violently opposed to President Obama they come from what is left of The Old South – a place where covert racism is still inbred in the white population.   This is also the bastion of religious induced ignorance where people believe in a sky fairy and a human god.   Religious indoctrination from birth has taught the population not to question but to blindly accept and revel in traditional doctrines that are too ridiculous to stand up to logical scrutiny.     The result is a population immune to facts - regardless of formal educational attainment - a population of base ignorance. 

Isis is not the major threat to the United States; it is Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Louie Gohmert, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Duck Dynasty, Ted Nugent, Honey BooBoo and the people who live in that world.

Fuck him – Donald Trump burned my toast. 

the Ol’Buzzard