Bread in toaster, plate balanced on top to warm up, remove before toast pops up and knocks it across work surface, when toast pops skim immediately with non refrigerated butter then the marmite and finally the peanut butter, eat whilst still warm.
I believe the heating of the plate keeps the toast nice and crisp during application of spreads.
cold toast eaters are the same vile scum
I say a bit strong there old chap 🙁
The problem with all these complicated toasting procedures is that I use the time while the bread is in the toaster to prepare my lunchtime sandwiches. There is just enough time to do this. Any messing around with plates on toasters will ruin the carefully worked out timing and result in a bathroom conflict at about 6:10.
I think marmalade should be full of shred. I also think could and should be made with a variety of citrus fruits.
Mrs_oab thinks it should be only orange and 'pick free'... Think shredless.
There's probably room in my life for both of those variations, variety is the spice and all that. But call a spade a spade, the latter is just orange jam really, isn't it.
A burning question no-one's posited yet, which way should toast be cut? #corner to corner or side to side? Holy wars in this household.
which way should toast be cut? #corner to corner or side to side? Holy wars in this household.
Corner to corner for the ladies. Side to side for man-toast.
a four-slice toaster which ejects slices at one-minute intervals
Only if it also contains bread slots big enough for actual bread and has a browning scale which has some correlation to the actual brownedness of the bread. Add to that a 5 second before done alarm to make sure you are at the toaster ready for the pop for maximum hotness of toast then i think your onto a winner.
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which way should toast be cut? #corner to corner or side to side? Holy wars in this household.
neither, obviously.
1 slice, intact as god intended, picked up and eaten.
I'm no fan of the Cold toast theory
But is does have one good application, for use of it's crispness, over hot toast.
Dipping into soft boiled eggs
Mmmm .... liquid gold.
[i]and has a browning scale which has some correlation to the actual brownedness of the bread.[/i]
... but hand-sliced rye wholemeal is always going to be almost off the scale. Though I've never found a use for the 'charcoal' setting at far right.
Why the hell would you cut toast at home? It will be cooling down while you faff - first bite needs to be a soon as possible.
When in hotel with colleagues or clients, or house guest in posh home, then it should be cut. If I cut it, sideways. If the hotel cut it, triangles. Best not to argue with the laws that have been handed down to us sometimes.
Why the hell would you cut toast at home?
...because we're not uncouth savages? 😉
Hotel toast has to be cut in triangles, since they always serve it cold on the airing rack. Cut in triangles give better rigidity once it's turned leathery, when held at a corner. Cut straight makes it too long when held at one end/corner, especially with additional mass on it (although marmalade sachet pots are usually a bit skimpy, to avoid extra bending).
Corner to corner for the ladies. Side to side for man-toast.
Indeed. A friend of mine challenged Little Chef once about triangular toast being wrong as he couldn't say his bacon on it properly.
Corner to corner for the ladies. Side to side for man-toast.
Oddly, it's the opposite for us.
Probably sums up the relationship TBH. (-:
As long as you're comfortable with your toastuality..... 😉
Over on the Dark Side?
I can have it either way to be honest.
I think I might be Bi-toastual.
mmmm. This thread at 11am. That means it is toast time at coffee break...
Hot for everything other than pate. Don't like melty pate.
I can't believe there's even an argument for cream before jam. Get in the sea.
Much talk of toasters but no-ones mentioned aga toast yet?
Toast your bread over a big block of hot metal. The toasting rack even leaves a nice pattern.
No thickness limits like your shameful so-called "toasters".
Also no worries about where to warm your plate as an aga is half a ton of hot metal that will warm anything in the vicinity (to a painful degree if you approach it with your dressing gown thoughtlessly akimbo).
