Reflection on toasting

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Reflection on toasting

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The first photo shows a general-purpose toaster oven; open the door, slide the bread onto the rack, close the door, turn on.
Note the crumbs of bread on the tray at the bottom of the toaster oven.

In the second photo the toaster has been rolled onto its back and the crumb-tray has been opened and given a good wipe-down.

While doing so it struck me that toasting efficiency might be raised if one inserted a sheet of plain glass to rest ON the crumb tray and reflect infra-red rays upwards more effectively than a piece if cheap tin/almuinium/steel. The glass would be resting on that hinged crumb-tray currently (well it was when i took the photo!) hanging over the sink.

I know too that I could increase reflection by painting the underside of the glass, but am not at all sure about the advisability of condensation of metals and other nasties from the paint.

But a simple sheet of glass ought to make for faster toasting, lower energy use, right?
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Umph... here I thought you were referring to raising of the glasses... :sad:

I'll have to work myself down to the level of the humble toaster. Give me a few posts before I reply with my comments!
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You do NOT want to use plain glass, but you will need to use special treated for high temperature use glass.
If you use plain glass, the glass may explode and you will then be discarding away the toaster as you will never get all of the glass bits out of the unit.
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Have you tried alumin(i)um foil? It's easy to replace if it becomes dirty.
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DaveA wrote:You do NOT want to use plain glass, ... the glass may explode ...
OK. Thanks for the heads-up DaveA.
Pity.
I thought that I might have stumbled onto a toasty accelerator there (segue into "bread board technology ...")
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HansV wrote:Have you tried alumin(i)um foil? It's easy to replace if it becomes dirty.
Thanks Hans; no I haven't tried it.
It sure would be easy to replace once I went out and bought a roll of it.
An alternative would be one of those foil trays that fast-food comes in from the 00's of fast-food joints outside my door, I suppose.
But then I'd have to go and buy some fast-food, and i generally don't have enough time for that. :sad:
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