[Closed] The Breville Toasted Sandwich Maker and other such 80's wonders

in Toast!!

amazing I know

Toast pizzas were a student staple when I was a, um, student.

what about falafel?

Isn't that a bit of a "caviar and chips" dichotomy?

I'm not an old duffer!

I strongly object!

Emsz Falafel mozerella and pesto is a winner.

[i]Isn't that a bit of a "caviar and chips" dichotomy?[/i]

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very thinly sliced apples, raisins, golden syrup. cinnamon

a veggy samosa mix

Oh FFS the waitrose crowd have turned up and started to ruin the good old toasted sandwich with middle class pretensions.

Mushy peas, makes for a nuclear hot toastie

My fave primary school packed lunch sarnie was (cold, obviously) cheese and pickled onion toasties. I think that's all I ate for a year.

It takes 8 slices of thick bread and masses of filling.

Boast post.

Emsz - lose the spinach. You're not allowed owt green. Apart from mushy peas, obviously.

Has anyone tried a chips, peas and gravy toastie?

Just made one using the steak griddle. Yum.

Almost used the iron to do the other side, but didn't need to in the end.

Sausage and red onion marmalade

Has anyone tried hotdog sausages and cheese? I think I'm going too.

in Argos? Not a chance.

My tightarse tendencies nearly made me go for the no-brand £5 one,

I fell for this as a stocking filler for one of the kids who wanted one - worst waste of a fiver ever.

the pan size is smaller than a standard loaf slice so it cuts about an inch/inch and a half of bread from the top of the slice. the resultant toastie is in fact, 3/4 of a toastie which is just wrong.

I've got this one, the Rolls Royce of toastie makers

[img] http://argos.scene7.com/is/image/Argos/4235486_R_Z001A_UC1197434?hei=1000&wid=840 [/img]

...and have the opposite problem. I've yet to find a shop bought loaf with slices big enough to fill the recess.

I do love me a cheese and ham toastie though. Classic/standard Saturday lunch for me.

Has anyone tried hotdog sausages and cheese? I think I'm going too.

Yes! That was one of my favourites. I used to fry onions and put them in when I was feeling fancy. Serve with american squeezy mustard.

This is also bringing back memories of making an "all day breakfast" patty. Where you put a slice of bread in the bottom and pre-shape, chop up frankfurters, then mix with beans (with most of the liquid strained off) and a beaten egg and sit it on top, grate on cheese, salt and pepper and close the toasty maker with no top slice.

Sausage and red onion marmalade

Sausage and normal marmalade, even better/more in keeping with the thread.

Fish fingers and beans.

Fish fingers and beans.

Needs chips in there too, but bordering on genius.

Some great ideas on here guys, keep 'em coming.

What loaf for best toastie? Or what size loaf tin to make perfect sized toastie bread?

What loaf for best toastie? Or what size loaf tin to make perfect sized toastie bread?

What you want, if you're making it yourself, is a pullman tin the right size. ideally a lidded version. Something like this: http://bakerybits.co.uk/pullman-bread-pan-15x15cm-slices-2-25kg.html

depending on the dimensions of your toasty maker.

Milk loaf with honey and/or a little spray malt and you're golden.

lemonysam, you are a gent!

lemonysam, you are a gent!

Bear in mind, that's a 40cm long loaf tin. Unless you're binners you might want to find something that makes shorter loaves.

What loaf for best toastie?

As Lemonysam said, Surely when it comes to all things gorgeous and bread related - toasties, chip butties, fish finger butties - there is only one answer.....

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One step up on the door-step scale from Warburtons Toastie 😀

Hm... I'm not sure that thicker is better. With the so-thin-it's-transparent slices they can crisp right up so it's like a toasty taco. With a thcker slice there's more chewing involved.

Hotdog sausages sliced in half, sliced onion and burger relish.

Nearly as good as curry on a pizza.

I would've thought that thick warburtons stuff is a bit too thick for the innards to get properly melted?

It is a large tin, but with the modern invention of freezing I could preserve a sliced loaf 😛 ready for toasty days.

Added bonus is I can select my own slice thickness too. Winner all round really.

It is a large tin, but with the modern invention of freezing I could preserve a sliced loaf ready for toasty days.

I was all but ready to click and buy the Waring that Biscuit Powered showed above, but I am not in the UK and the only reasonably sized bread I can get my hands on that would be suitable for a toastie maker is M&S stuff - can someone suggest a toastie maker that I can get sent to Holland that doesn't need particularly large slices of bread ( respect to tootallpaul, but I don't think that I can go as far as baking and freezing my own ) ?

So the question now is,

Breville or Waring?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-Sandwich-Toaster-Stainless-Steel/dp/B00KM15VWY

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WARING-Waring-Deep-Sandwich-Maker/dp/B0096AQIZ6/

Enquiring minds (with a gift list) need to know!!

Breville. It's a sandwich maker, and a deluxe one. It ought to say Breville on the top.

... although reading the reviews, this flat plate sandwich maker is apparently superior:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-VST025-Sandwich-Press-Stainless/dp/B0048EJQBS/ref=cm_cr_dp_asin_lnk

But does a press properly seal the sandwich filling in?

And it's a genuine question: I've got a 10€ cheapy sandwich maker that we use a lot, but it's got non-removable plates which are impossible to clean, and it's getting pretty grim... a replacement is needed!

Tinned spaghetti Bolognese (Heinz) and cheddar cheese for main course. Banana and dark chocolate for pudding. If you are careful you can do both at the same time side by side.

But does a press properly seal the sandwich filling in?

And it's a genuine question: I've got a 10€ cheapy sandwich maker that we use a lot, but it's got non-removable plates which are impossible to clean, and it's getting pretty grim... a replacement is needed!

Sounds like it's just getting seasoned nicely. Is anyone prepared to admit to occasionally eating the congealed cheese that pools up round the back?

Nope, what that makes is a grilled sandwich - a fine thing no doubt but not a toasty.

Yeah, but at the same time being able to put traditional Spanish bread in there could be a bit of a winner.

And no, I don't eat the congealed cheese 😯

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I've formed a plan.... i'll report back soon...

I hope theres not been a potentially lethal volcanic beans incident

I'm quite concerned about him now

Mmmmmmmmmmm...... congealed cheese

i have one of these bastards [img] [/img]

you bang it on the gas hob (or in a fire, bbq, camping stove...) makes delicious deep toasties, pizza ones are my faves but ive used left over curries or chilli in them, simple cheese & onion, bacon egg and beans ones... only thing is it creates a lot of waste with square bread - oven bottom muffins work well.

just got back home from a day on a Rugby refereeing course.

Lunge at the bread bin and DAMMIT there's no sliced white!
Need to go back out to the shops and restock. Might pick up a tin of hotdogs while im there...

That looks awesomz!

You use oven bottom muffins? So this would support my theory about Warburtons Thickest being the right tool for the job? Thinly sliced bread is rubbish for anything unhealthy. White and stodgy is the way forward 😀

Stoner. Rather than the tin of hot dogs, I'd advise.....

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The Aldi Frankfurter!! A thing of beauty!!

White and stodgy is the way forward

That completely removes the chances of the bread being so comprehensively soaked in fat that it's effectively been deep fried and become sufficiently crisp that it shatters and spreads melted cheese over your chin, chest and lap.

I love the danger.