[Closed] Favourite bakery product - Aka how good are crumpets?

Tarts and crumpets are where it's at, oh not just the ladies behind the counter, sorry I'm blaming the sun it's got to me 😳

Pikelets are better than crumpets.

There, I've said it.

Do what? Now I like a pikelet but completely different creature that shouldn't be compared.. You don't toast pikelets (well I've never), you wouldn't melted cheese on them, just totally different

You have my sympathies Kit.. not to worry you probably aren't half the size of the posters on this thread.. so think yourself lucky in other ways

Have you tried Morrissons salt and pepper baguettes? Referred to in our house as crack cocaine bread, due to its unbelievable moreish-ness.

Having been introduced to this by a Northern, Morrisons shopping relative, I can confirm that if any is served there will definitely be none left at the end of the meal.

You don't toast pikelets

Of course you do, they're just like crumpets only less stodgy. Now shut up and pass the Marmite.

<shudders> weirdo!

Cougar: I used Paul Hollywood's recipe. Crumpet rings and a FLAT frying pan help (It's how I found out that our frying pan was warped).

If we've got the ingredients in I may make some tonight if I get my daughter into bed and my new CAADX (picked up today) set up quickly.

Whilst we are talking bread products, homemade pitta breads are a revelation - Paul Hollywood has a lot to answer for (Souvlaki recipe). Nom, Nom, double Nom.

Crumpets yes. Warburton's though. Nothing but butter on them though, it's what they were designed for.

I did become very partial to the odd almond croissant from the local Carluccios at one time.

Good fresh bread takes a lot of beating though. Especially sourdough with a nice crunchy crust.

I'm sorry tallpall but life's too short for making your own crumpets and pitta breads. Thats why God invented shops, and Warburtons, but for some reasons, probably best known to himself, put Paul Hollwood on this earth

*gives long smouldering look to camera*

Thats why God invented shops

😆

Croissant with a good cup of coffee.

Whilst we are talking bread products, homemade pitta breads are a revelation - Paul Hollywood has a lot to answer for (Souvlaki recipe)

Ignore Binners' working class hero posturing, pick up a copy of Dan Lepard's Short and Sweet and bake many, many things...

Called in the local village store near to work yesterday and behind the counter were some warm black pudding and pork pies. Had to have one, wish I'd got two.
Bottom 3/4 was pork layered on top with black pudding, jelly was still runny.

Crumpet rings and a FLAT frying pan help (It's how I found out that our frying pan was warped).

Yeah. I had a Tefal pan which went convex (or concave depending on your point of view, it domed in the middle). At the time I had an awful cooker with the old style spiral electric rings, put it down to that. Spoke to Tefal (in a factory outlet store) about their lifetime guarantee, they said it wasn't covered and the guarantee is really for the coating.

When I got a new cooker with a halogen hob, I replaced it with a new Tefal. Fast forward two years and the new one's convex as well. Ho hum.

Ignore Binners' working class hero posturing

Its not posturing. If you lot are all making your own pittas no wonder Greece is in such a state. I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you? Pfft! So much for solidarity!

anything from pattisserie valerie. .otherwise some nom nom egg tarts chinese style or a decent double yolk moon cake 🙂

It all started with trying to emulate the pizza's that we had on the Amalfi Coast. Other bread products just naturally followed 😀

Don't see what the problem is with making your own. Most of the process is waiting for dough to rise. Plenty of time to do other things.
BTW best pizza recipe so far is from the Pizza Pilgrim's book at takes 24hrs to prove. Lovely flavour and texture. Just need to build the wood fired oven.

I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you

😆 @ binners and lemonysam

I'll go back to beating myself with birch twigs...

I'll go back to beating myself with birch twigs...

Tsk... you could weave your own banneton with those.

Of course you toast pikelets and put cheese on them. Not as spongy to absorb the butter as crumpets but still a dam fine product.

No English bakery or supermarket can do proper French products, and any English version of a baguette is a travesty imo. A baguette should be crisp and full of air holes. As for a chocolate twist........poor mans pain au chocolat imo!

My half-frenchness may influence that last comment but the baguette comment holds!

If we're talking pattiserie, then a Religieuse is where it's at, coffee or chocolate, it matters not!

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A bridie from The Bakery in Acharacle that's all

Your going to hate me for this:

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Slightly larger than bite sized cinnamon buns, availble from waitrose / ocado, very moreish.

Does anything thats baked count?

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Another vote for Warburton's crumpets, swimming with proper butter. 8)

Crumpets - when I ate gluten stuff - loads of butter and a runny poached egg so the yolk fills any holes not filled with butter.

I'm definitely having crumpets for breakfast tomorrow now. With loads of butter

Haven't had them in ages. A glaring oversight 😀

I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you?

No, but my homemade feta is pretty good.

Crumpets - when I ate gluten stuff - loads of butter and a runny poached egg so the yolk fills any holes not filled with butter

I love all crumpets, but funnily enough it was munching my way through a 6 pack of Warburtons oozing butter that prompted this thread. I should have invested beforehand.

Currently eating crumpets. Cheers for the PSA (-:

I bet binners has nipped home to whip up a batch of kouign amanns.

The bloke who used to be Secretary General for the UN?

Takes all sorts I suppose.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Coffee an' Walnut.

Now I love a good crumpet as much as the next man but to say it's better than carrot cake is preposterous

Can't stand pastry, it doesn't agree with me - crumpets are THE best day-to-day baked good, but for a bit of 'special' Welsh Cakes, GYSOT.

A good scone does it for me....with clotted cream and jam.

As someone who works in the production of the main base ingredient of Bakery goods.
I have taken it upon myself to test most of the products mentioned above & IMO its fine as Binners say's life's too short to make it yourself.

But given I have an endless supply of over 100 variety's of flour to work with nothing beats that "**** ME that's lush" moment when you create something truly sublime.

Most of this probably accounts for the fact I have to put the Max pressure on the charts for forks & shocks 😳

gordimhor - Member
A bridie from The Bakery in Acharacle that's all

Oooohhhh, bridies! Binners would absolute love bridies! Need to get a STW northern chapter Scottish Binners bridie weekend organised.....

That sounds like a fine idea! Bikes and bridies! What's not to like? 😀

kcal - Member
butteries FTW. Like croissants, but salty and lardy.

Heated.
With butter.
And Marmite.

Ho's Chinese bakery in Manchester

Chicken curry pasties, roast pork buns, honey buns

Also as already mentioned pain au chocolat or croissants from a good French boulangerie

Although usually made in industrial bakeries, technically crumpets aren't really 'baked'. Although having worked in one for a while, i would say that the machine that makes them really is also a thing of marvellous mechanical wonder. 🙂
http://www.griddlesystems.com/crumpet.php

I expect standards have changed now, but in my day we had very very clean hands and no gloves, (actually i can't imagine working with normal food prep gloves on in that heat), and working on the lovely greasy crumpet line gave you lovely soft skin by the end of a shift. 😆

There is never a wrong time for a scone.

I had to resurect this thread as Mrs Binners just came home with news that Morrisons are feeding our addictions further with salt and pepper barms (they say rolls, but they're barms) as well as their salt and pepper/carck cocaine baguettes.

Now you can get your fix at lunchtimes too. Cheese and onion on a salt and peppr barm. We're now into crysal meth levels of moreishness