Even though the show was scrapped, Hoekstra bought around a dozen ’30s-era toasters. “And that’s all it took,” he says.
“No other kitchen appliance or tool has gone through an evolution like the toaster,” Hoekstra says. “Over the years, a kettle has always been a kettle, a frying pan always looked like a frying pan. But toasters had to change their designs to get around the many patents placed on them.” It doesn’t take much to get Hoekstra expounding wistfully on the inventor Albert Marsh, who in 1905, created Nichrome, a filament wire with an alloy of nickel and chromium that was safe and durable when heated and is still used in toasters today.
Hoekstra finds his antique toasters on websites like eBay as well as through other collectors, such as members of — yes, this is real — the Toaster Collectors Association. “My collection is small compared to others,” he notes, adding that the Guinness World Record holder has 1,284 toasters.
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