[Closed] The joy of toasties

Turkey
Bacon
Brie
Cranberry Sauce

mmmmmmm.... seasonal

We were bought a Breville toastie maker 27 years ago as a wedding pressent. Its still the favorite for post ride snacks, as it was then, and gets used most weeks.

Was my favorite filling then and still is

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banana peanut butter and nutella 🙂 thank me later.

oh and we usually do ours on the simmering plate of the aga, lid down.

I'm sorry STW, for I have sinned.

We often do cheese toasties in a toaster bag in the toaster

2 pieces of bread with some mature cheddar in the middle. Whack it in a bag and then go. High setting so the bread is nice and crispy and the cheese has nicely melted. Bag is really easy to clean, often just a wipe. Eat sandwich with condiment of choice - ketchup, BBQ sauce, hot sauce etc

I haven't used my sandwich toaster in years, vaguely tempted to get it out now though

I'm just sad that my parents (going strong after 2 decades+ does 'whole' rounds of bread so you can make them with an unbroken egg.

All I can find automatically halve the slices for you, making it impossible.

What's gone wrong with the World?

burko73 - Member

I messed up and replaced my broken breville triangle toasty maker with a std flat plate one that I thought would be more versatile and could do paninis etc. It is versatile but I miss those pockets of molten cheese you get when the triangle types fuse the bread together along the seam.

Flat plate = hot sandwich 😐
Sealed triangles = toastie 😀

Surprised to see the mention of corned beef and onion. My missus put me onto these recently and I was most pleasantly surprised.

One of my favourites: http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/video/keema-toasties-and-masala-tea.html
(and I'm also a little bit in love with the chef)

You are still missing a trick ..its corned beef, [i]cheese[/i] & onion

I had a ham toastie followed by a cheese toastie, and fell ill afterwards.

It was a bad case of mixingmytoasties.

Heard that one years ago ...but it started " A rabbit walks into a bar and asks for a pint of bitter & a corned beef toastie ...embellish from there

OT I know but if we are talking student meals and toast...whatever happened to Toast Toppers (little cans of processed joy)?

hodgynd - Member

You are still missing a trick ..its corned beef, cheese & onion

My apologies, I thought cheese was a given.

What kind of sick twisted pervert would make a toastie without cheese?

Anyone tried one of the on the hob toasty presses? I'm tempted for the campervan

I use my George Foreman, it does annoy that it doesnt seal them on the sides, but Ive got over it. The wife is upset as she says the fake butter - spread stuff I use has taken the non stick of the George. I think she just doesnt like spread!

My Fave is Chicken Roll, Cheddar and Nandos sauce

We have a Diablo one in the camper, it only makes one at a time and takes alot longer for it to crisp.

Toasties pah.

My sa colleagues introduced me to jaffles done on the BBQ.

Jaffles are amazing.

Inspired me to have toasties this saturday, with the following...

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oikeith - Member

The wife is upset as she says the fake butter - spread stuff I use has taken the non stick of the George. I think she just doesn't like spread!

Of course she doesn't, she obviously has functioning taste buds.
Now bin that muck and get some real butter.

ETA: Haggis and cheese toastie? Nice! 8)

Love Boursin...but prefer the black pepper variety

Sbob..
No need to apologise..and the fault is all mine ..I should have realised that a man of such style & taste would not have made such an obvious ommission.. 😉

The SU bar at my old uni used to do a toastie with those beans with little sausages in it..
Awesome.

i have one of these, makes the best deep filled toasties! only problem is you need two on the go!

have taken this camping and used in the fire too!!

there can be a lot of bread wastage tho...

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Ham and emmental. The cheaper and thinner the ham the better.

Does anyone make a 4 toastie machine?

It's an issue with a whole family.

I appreciate a second machine could work, too.

edit: can't beat emmental & bacon. Proper butter on the outside of the bread too.

Ours, 27 years old, will take eight slices of bread but not sure if they are still available

haggis and boursin? Inspired choice sir.

Ham and cheese rocks and long as the 'ham' is actually a thickish slice preferably of something you have cooked yourself

There are a couple of four way toastie makers but I can't find one with the requisite clamshell design. 🙁

The plus side to a flat plate toaster, of sorts, is perfectly straight and evenly crispy bacon. It's the evenly crispy bit I like. (this is not toastie ingredient related, just a feature of that maker).

theres a downside to all this

that pile of congealed egg, cheese, bean juice, chorizo fat that collects underneath and behind the toastie machine

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I was meant to be cooking a sausage casserole tonight, to mark sausage week, but we’re going out to a gig, so i’ve Just snaffled a quick corned beef, cheese and onion toastie instead.

It would have been bad form not too! It was bloody gorgeous!!! 😀

Just ordered one of those Diablo things. I presume it will work on my little camping stove? Either way I like the idea of being able to chuck the whole thing in the dishwasher.
Cheers for the advice.

Cheese and onion toastie for supper tonight thanks to this thread. This will likely be followed by toasties at every opportunity for the rest of the week then without reason the toastie maker will disappear back into the back of the cupboard only to return in a couple of years time for more of the same.

Sorry. Can't agree with the beans thing. They undergo a taste transformation in a sandwich maker. Perhaps the sugar degrades at high temps or something.

only problem is you need two on the go!

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Not had it for years (like 30 odds) but a fried egg and Heinz spaghetti toasty is amazing. My Dad’s 2nd best culinary contribution, behind deep fried egg and chips. Deep fried eggs are AMAZING. Mind you - haven’t had that for even longer....

Wife and kids were out last night seeing a friend so I had no dinner ready for me when I got home (on the bike) 😥

So I got the toastie maker out and had cheese and chicken nugget (leftovers in fridge, proper pieces of chicken breast in breadcrumbs, sliced) toasties, with some black pepper inside

BBQ sauce on the side, was lovely

(Finished off with a couple of slices of Dominos that they'd brought home with them 😀 )

Accept no substitute.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-VST041-Sandwich-Toaster-Stainless/dp/B00KM15VWY

and I've just spotted, you can get [url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-VST079-Waffle-Plates/dp/B06XPX67QF ]these[/url] for it...!

... which I've just bought. Mm, home-made waffles.

Never heard of toaster bags! Just showed the pic to my g/f and she goes “ oh yeah, used to use those a lot!”
I know what’s on the shopping list this weekend, I love a good toasted sarnie, and doing them under the grill never seems to work as well.
Mmmmm, yum. 😀

Gluten-free toastie, is it worth the bother or a distant memory?

Accept no substitute.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-VST041-Sandwich-Toaster-Stainless/dp/B00KM15VWY

I bet that Breville is crap for waffles. Almost all cheap british waffle machines are far too low power for proper crispiness. We had a USA-made machine which was far better, though eventually it broke. Think you need something like 1200-1500W to work properly.

Cougar - Moderator
Accept no substitute.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-VST041-Sandwich-Toaster-Stainless/dp/B00KM15VWY

and I've just spotted, you can get these for it...!

Well thanks for that. Guess what's arriving at the office in the morning...?

[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11618723/Mumbai-spiced-cheese-toastie-recipe.html ]Here[/url] is Diana Henry's recipe for a Mumbai Toastie.

I make it in a frying pan, and I suspect that it might not be as good made in a toastie maker (better with unsealed edges?). If anyone with a toastie maker cares to try it, please provide feedback.

I did one in the pan earlier, cheddar and salami on sourdough. It was truly awesome.

I make it in a frying pan

I did one in the pan earlier