Other forms: toasters
A toaster is a small machine that makes slices of bread brown and crispy. Pop-up toaster, put it in the toaster, a four-slice toaster.
The browning is the Maillard reaction and the sugars in the bread decide how fast it happens, which is why a sweet loaf burns before a plain one. The pop-up mechanism uses a bimetallic strip that bends as it heats. Note that the numbers on the dial are time and not temperature.
1nountoasterA machine that browns slices of bread.
“The bread popped out of the toaster slightly burnt.”
Patternput bread in the toaster · a two-slice / four-slice toaster · the toaster pops · toaster setting
toaster is a kitchen machine.
TOASTer → it makes the TOAST
It is toast with -er: the machine that turns bread into toast and throws it up in the air when it is done.
hooks ontotoast
Toast plus -er, from Old French toster, to roast, from Latin torrere, to dry or parch. Torrid comes from the same drying.
Middle English
tost
English
toast
English, today
toaster
From toast + -er or -er. toast comes from Middle English tost. From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below). to which a salutation is made is according to the Oxford English Dictionary a figurative application of Q6128 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA