What goes on inside a waffle-iron, a dust-buster or an electric knife? Flickr user brittnybadger's curiosity got the better of her, and she decided to find out.
The resulting photoset is fascinating for anyone who likes to take things apart to see how they work. The choice of cooking and cleaning appliances was inspired: both of these still need to move physical things around, be it dirt or dollops of dough, so the interior components are a lot more interesting than the circuit board inside a router, for instance.
We particularly like the clinical way the parts are laid out, as if on a mortuary slab. Brittnybadger herself likens the resulting dissections to "brains". We won't disagree.
Disassembled household appliances [Flickr via Kottke]
