Toastie

In Australia and South Africa toasted sandwiches with sealed edges are sometimes called jaffles and sandwich toasters are sometimes called jaffle irons (this is only for sealed toasted sandwiches), named after the original jaffle iron, which was a long-handled hinged iron implement for toasting sandwiches in a campfire. Toasted sandwiches are frequently known as a toastie in Britain, the older Breville (as a name for the sandwich) never having entered popular usage. The use of a special sandwich toaster seals the edges of the sandwich and places a diagonal line across it, thus solving the problem of content spillage. However any sealed toasted sanwich with or without diagonal line is still considered a jaffle in Australia.Profile edited with: TOASTIE In 1974, the Australian company Breville released the "Snack 'n' Sandwich toaster", which sold 400,000 units within a year of release, making it one of Australia's "most successful product launches". This toaster utilised Breville's new "Cut-n-Seal" mechanism, which essentially defined the toastie. A further product, the "Breville scissor action snack 'n' sandwich toaster", was released to the British public, also in the early 70's.Now Breville's innovative design is used by dozens of manufacturers, but Breville are still the market leaders, with a range of 14 sandwich toasters, sold to all the major European countries and accounting for 50% of the British market.