Interesting Toaster Oven

[dalangdon]

I was off today, and found this while putzing about. Judging from the graphics on the door, it's probably from the late 70's, or early 80's. It is stamped "Made in USA", so it predates the slave labor/neo sweatshop movement. But the fun part is its versatility: There's a slot in the top that make it work like a regular toaster. I've never seen anything like that. Is it unique, or have I just been living under a rock, toaster oven-wise?

 

[ronhic]

s'lovely

Wow...that looks like a good find...

how's about some 'in use' shots?

 

[sudsmaster]

Unfortunately, I think I've seen a Chinese knock-off in one of the discount shops (walmart/target/kmart/etc...) in the past year.

Toaster oven with toast slot on the top. Little doors close off the toast slot when the oven is being used, as I recall.

 

[maytagbear]

I remember another model of this Proctor-Silex

of this being sold with an oven glass dish and the thing being billed also as a slow cooker.

These were rather popular here from 1978 or so, through to about 1985.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch2]

Yup. I bought the model without the slot (*GIGGLE*)in 1981.

 

[turquoisedude]

Yikes, we had the Viking-branded version in avocado when I was a brat! I remember it took a while to toast, but it was the most even toasting you could get. I think we got ours in 1974 or 1975 when my mother changed the range and refrigerator. Nice find!!

 

[petek]

Well Dan I guess you have been living under a rock. They disappeared from the market but they're back on the shelves again under the merged Hamilton Beach banner as the Toast-ation. Here's my vintage one never used an SCM Proctor Silex Mary Proctor version. Guessing they weren't sure at that time which brand name to use so they stuck them all on.

 

[veg-o-matic]

We had one of those at home for a few years. As I recall, the popup toast feature didn't work all that well; toast was brown at the bottom and white at the top.

Hmm. We had one of those here at work too, until it finally died a few weeks back.

Dan, get out from under that toaster-oven rock!

veg

 

[autowasherfreak]

SCM Proctor Silex Mary Proctor version.

Hmmm SCM can you also type on it.

 

[rp2813]

Neighbors had one of these in the 70's. When we were looking for a toaster oven several years ago, this is the type I wanted but there were none on the market. Maybe the new ones do a better job with toast? Glad to see they are back.

 

[turquoisedude]

Anyone remember the 'Lifelong' offshoot of the Proctor-Silex appliances? Again in avocado, my folks had the coffee perk. It came apart so that you could completely immerse (or replace when it broke) the glass coffee bowl. I can remember that they had a model of iron that you could remove the water reservoir for cleaning too. Something seems to say early 70's for those, but I am not sure...

 

[petek]

I have a Lifelong iron and perk somewhere here, as well there was a toaster but I don't have that. yet

 

[autowasherfreak]

My grandmother had a toaster oven in the mid 70's that had only one heating element, and if you wanted to bake you turned the oven so that the element was on the bottom, and if you wanted to broil turned it so the element was on top. It was a good oven. I got it after she passed away, it lasted until the late 80's. Anyone remember something like this?

 

[turquoisedude]

Lifelong toaster

Pete, what was the 'Lifelong' toaster like? I just can't remember the features of that one? Could you replace anything yourself (like the power cord on the iron)??

 

[dalangdon]

Veg, I told you I don't get out much - at least in the toaster oven circles. I've never had a toaster oven before.

I would take some action shots, but the damn thing has so much chrome on it, and my camera is sufficiently non-sophisticated, that it's hard to get anything that isn't one big flash.

It does make nice toast.