Too bad that much of the time, those thoughts seem to focus on trivial matters, like "I wonder what we'll be having for dinner?" or "Where did my younger son put the comics?" My thoughts sometimes run ...

A cook removing a tray of chocolate chip cookies from a toaster oven - Katelin Kinney/Getty Images Toaster ovens have been around since the early 1900s. They took the idea of the toaster and improved ...