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Somewhere deep underground, in a high-tech laboratory, a group of scientists lean over a slice of toast levitating in some Contact-esque structure...

"Dr Gibbons! The zero-point readings are off the scale! We've done it!"

The toast briefly flickers into a pizza, then a burrito, then back to being a piece of toast.

His brows furrow. "No. This can't be. Shut it down! Delete the files! No one can ever learn of this!"

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Startup idea: Toastamak.

Breads contained by magnetic field and toasted by high energy plasma.

We'll ship the breads with QR-code DRM of course. Subscription model.

"Are you tired of waking up late? Rushing out the door without breakfast, again? Overdue for your fondue? Then you need Toastamak! Our patented quasispace manifold uses space age technology to fetch hot, fresh toast and toastlike products from the interdimensional superposition of spacetime itself. Need it yesterday? No problem! Toastamak's causality-preserving temporal inversion matrix will make ruined dinner parties a thing of the past. Literally!"

(Toastamak products contain no user servicable parts. Only to be used on bread and bread-derivatives. No warranty or liability accepted for breeding-based temporal anomalies. Fusion cells not included.)

This is the way.

When I was in grad school working on semiconductor process equipment I actually had this thought, but I was concerned about the unknown health implications of consuming food treated with plasmas of various chemical species... and graduating. In another universe, pressure cookers evolved into plasma cookers

Strapline: True fusion cuisine

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