If I say Bosch, I’m pretty sure that the first thing you’ll think of will be a Bosch washing machine (whatever you think of next is entirely up to you). But that’s not the be all and end all of Bosch. In fact, there are a number of other Bosch appliances that might do better breaking your fast than cleaning your delicates.

For example, they have a variety of coffee machines, and for many of us a cup of Joe is exactly what we need to kick start us in the mornings. Did you know that coffee, rather than a bean, is in fact a bright red berry? What we use is the dried seed from inside. It used to be a condition of marriage in Turkey for the husband to promise to keep his new wife in coffee (on threat of divorce!), while traditionally coffee houses were the lurking ground of intellectuals and revolutionaries (or both!) alike. It is apparently from the brass boxes engraved “To Insure Promptness” that used to be found in some of the first coffee houses that gave us the word “tip”

If coffee’s not your thing, however, you could always use a Bosch blender to whip up a nice smoothie, which can be either sweet or savoury due to the recent popularity of so-called “green” smoothies (usually more vegetables than fruit).

There’s also the breakfast classic of toast be considered, as Bosch also has a surprisingly large range of toasters. The browning of toast is called by the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction between an amino acid and a reducing sugar usually requiring heat. Toasters can do more than just toast these days, too; there’s Pop-Tarts and, thanks to the creation of such things as toaster bags, sandwiches and even scrambled eggs.

After making all these, come to think of it, you might need that Bosch dishwasher after all!

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