[QUOTE 4414036, member: 259"]When I was a kid I was really jealous of a mate at school who had a round metal toasting thing on the end of a metal handle. You opened it up, wedged thickly buttered bread on each side, and then dropped an egg in it, closed it, and held it over the gas flame until the bread was crispy and the egg soft cooked. I've never seen anything quite like it ever since, but it did make wonderful toasted egg sarnies. His family was from Georgia originally, perhaps it came from there.
We had a Breville thing that would do an OK job with cheese and onion, but was frankly rubbish at eggs and baked beans as it was too shallow and the egg would usually all run out.[/QUOTE]
My parents used to have a breville type thing that didn't cut the bread into two when you closed the lid. It was quite possible to produce a toasted egg sarnie that had a runny yolk.