Bento Box

I was excited to write about my new toaster, but thanks to a couple Debbie Downers I’m only mildly excited now. So anyway, I got this Back to Basics Egg & Muffin toaster from Target last night. I eat a breakfast sandwich at work at least once a week so it’ll be nice to make my own for a change. Basic concept: poach/steam an egg while you toast your muffin/bread/bagel. It synchronizes the cooking of the egg and the toasting so they will be done at the same time. The unit itself is an amalgamation of ugly, but I suppose metal outsides would stay even hotter to the touch.

Here’s the parts: Toaster (duh), tray for hard boiling eggs, tray for egg, pre-cooked meat heater rack and steam cover. You just fill the the metal heating dish with a few table spoons of water and then oil the egg pan and put it all back together and hit the button. In 4-5 minutes you got yourself an instant breakfast sandwich. Clean up was real easy, just had to wash the egg pan and a quick wipe of the heating dish with a paper towel.

In action:

Delicious result:

I scrambled the egg, but next time I’ll try it without scrambling. Foom claims I won’t ever use the poaching/steaming portion ever again and I should have just gotten a 8-slot toaster (in case I ever got friends…*sob*) I still want to eventually get a toaster oven for pizza toast.