Regular toasters are boring. This shape-shifting bread-toaster opens up into a grill for sandwiches too

Dubbed the Taurus Toaster 3.0, this eccentric kitchen appliance lets you toast anything from sliced bread to bagels to even cheesesteak subs.

I’ve come to realize that toasters haven’t really changed much in the past couple of years. Ovens have changed a lot, microwave ovens had their moment, air fryers are a thing now, but the toaster… it’s still pretty much the same contraption using the same format and technology from nearly a century ago. The Taurus Toaster 3.0 changes that. By allowing you to open up the toaster using a clever hinge detail, the Taurus goes from a toaster to a grill, letting you get a bigger bang for your buck. You can now toast subs, pizzas, bagels, or even go a little wild and toast marshmallows on the thing. Just avoid placing anything greasy or drippy on the grill and you’ll be just fine!

Designer: Ion Suteu

The Taurus Toaster 3.0 explores a novel format for the classic toaster, keeping it the same but also giving it a clever new trick. The upright device has the ability to open out into an L-shaped appliance that turns the vertical heating coils into horizontal ones. This effectively allows you to toast non-sliced breads too, giving you the benefit of making sandwiches or reheating pizza without busting out the oven or firing the stovetop.

The interface on the Taurus Toaster 3.0 comes with a few nifty tricks too. Mimicking the features found in an oven, it has modes for toasting, grilling, and even defrosting. Sure, you’ve still got the standard plunger that lets you lower sliced bread into the heat chamber… that isn’t changing any time soon!

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The latest in a trend of task-specific appliances, Taurus is designed for stir-fry fanatics and is the first of its kind! Just as the name of the action suggests, stir-frying requires a great deal of attention. Taurus eliminates the need to continuously stir the ingredients by integrating an automatic stir feature. This way, users can add their ingredients, set it to cook, and concentrate on other kitchen tasks. Using a smartphone or the intuitive device interface, users can choose from a variety of food and preset cooking modes to ensure their specified dishes are just right each time.

Functionally speaking, the stir fryer simply houses a rotisserie style motor on the top that powers an implement, that stirs the vegetables slowly and surely. It’s the aesthetic however that should be the point of interest. An absolutely new product category should have a radically new form factor to help it differentiate from other appliances. While the Taurus certainly looks incredibly premium, with the brushed metal + jet black finish, it outwardly looks too much (and can get easily mistaken for) a rice cooker… which I don’t need to tell you, isn’t a good thing for an innovative, new product!

Designer: Chunghee Joe

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