h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A571484
The topic is a bit un-orthodox, but it's informative and there seem to be a lot of toast lovers out there.

Good idea for an entry, Toast certainly deserves a mention in the Guide. The entry is well-researched and concise, though maybe a little too brief. I wouldn't really know how to expand it though so maybe it's better as it is.

You could have another section with 'The Future of Toast'... I read somewhere in a magazine recently that a guy had come up with a doomed invention of a toaster that gives you the weather forecast. The toaster is connected to the internet, downloads the weather forecast, and using one of a few stencils, burns a representation of the weather onto the side of the toast. The first model only contains the symbols of rain or sun, but later models will have be able to give one of up to ten different forecasts, apparantly... (I'll see if I can find the information again).

I love toast, but the main problem I have is finding bread sliced thick enough, so that it has crisp surfaces but is soft in the middle. If it's sliced too thin it just comes out too crispy and breaks apart when you spread butter on it.

It is informative and reads well. If you wanted to add to it - aren't there different kinds of toast? There's that wafer thin type you get in restaurants, or to put pate on.
And how has toast and marmalade come to have such a connection? Other than Paddington, people don't put marmalade on bread, just toast.
Then there are the expressions it's led to, as in "You're toast!".

This doesn't really fit with your History of Toast title but would make it even more informative .

Break out the champagne!
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Excellent work and well done,

Kenrick

Well done!

Hee hee! This was fast!

Kenrick, could you please make sure the WW thread for this fine entry gets moved away as well? Scouts seem to have some shortcut link to the PTB...

Coming late after your aceptance, I hope you will consider adding a couple of things to your article.

The special alloy you mention is a nickel-chromium alloy called, ni-chrome.

I don't recall if you mentioned that the earliest method of burning patterns into toats involved elaborate wire toast makers for the fireplace or oven.

The first computer toaster rumor was the 'Video Toaster' a code name for a device that attached to the Amiga co,puter and turned out to be useful for doing things in video animations and special effects. You would have seen the results most notably on the Babylon5 TV show where all exterior animations and some interior shots were created using that system.

Anyway, during the development period a rumor was deliberately spread that the company, NewTek, was developing toaster that would use lasers to burn designs and logos into bread in 256 shades of brown.

Nice article.

Congratulations

Barton

Stop talking acronyms!

NI-Chrome is no acronym but a trade name made from a contration.
I refuse to type out Light Amplification through the Simulated Emission or Radiation whe laser has entered the language.
'co,puter' was an obvious type for 'computer.'

Was there some other acronym I missed?



Barton

Darn! Everthing is going wrong!

I can't even type 'typo.'

'When' became 'whe.'

I contracted 'contraction.'



Barton

Sorry, simulpost! I was referring to the post above (WTB and WW). You could have checked which post I was replying to :-p - but it's late, I know!

Barton

All 10 of the threads currently at the top of the Peer Review page are ones that I've just posted to. That's worrying. I think I should go to bed

Thanks for reminding me, I'll close off the WW thread.
Stupid question: What does PTB stand for?

Kenrick

That's the 'Powers That Be', aka 'the Towers'

That was quick! Cheers for the answer.
Yeah, we do have a shortcut but you never heard that .
*Looks furtively over his shoulder*

Kenrick

Brother Bossel is watching ... his conversation list (at least sometimes)

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Congratulations!

Oh Barton...?

"Light Amplification through the Simulated Emission or Radiation"
should be:
"Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission or Radiation"

mind the small difference

Arrrgh!

Light Amplification by *Stimulated* Emission *of* Radiation

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