This toast ‘printer’ doesn’t actually leave any design on your bread other than the delicious bloom of brown crispness that is the Maillard reaction. Instead, you stack slices like sheets of office paper and the machine feeds them through one by one, dropping tasty toast onto the breakfast table.

The concept, from Othmar M?hlebach, is a new twist on an old design. Anyone unlucky enough to have worked the breakfast shift in a hotel kitchen will recognize the continuous to aster, which would slowly run bread through a hot box on a metal conveyor, plopping crispy slices out the other end.

This old design has sev eral advantages, includi ng the toasting of multiple slices simultaneously (or simultoast, as it should be known) and the low exit, which means minimal toastal damage compared to the death-defying, crumb-scattering drop from M?hlebach’s design.

Still, his loo ks better, and gains further fr om not having a stubbled, hungover commis-chef next to it smearing gobs of heat-separated margarine onto the pristine slices: “Cough! Splutter! Sniff.” C’mon, chef. Wash your hands!

Printing Your Toast [Othmar M?hlebach via Design Boom]