Best toastie maker?

Wondering if I need a deep-fill toastie make as we don’t actually tend to put a lot of fillings in

Marketing.

“Deep-fill” = normal.
“Regular” = homeopathic amount of filling.

I use a cast iron burger press. It’s round. It’s cast iron. The top section is the perfect weight even for fancy breads (your focaccias, your sour doughs anything a bit denser). It’s big enough for a standard load slice. It keeps the heat and spreads it nice and evenly.

Excited. The Salter toastie maker is on its way.
Our Dualit toaster came with ‘sandwich cages’, but any toastie made vertically is not ideal imo, also they don’t squidge the bread enough.
I tried the cages on the grill, that wasn’t ideal either but better than in the toaster.
First world problems. :O)

We have a ridge monkey in the motorhome. Works well and good for large /thick bread and other uses. I do have a sandwich maker at home but it rarely comes out of the cubboard as for standard cheese/ham toasties a cast iron pan is better. I don’t particularly like the rock hard edges the toastie machine makes but it can be good for more unusual/runny fillings like baked beans or egg.

Not this one:

Broken

It arrived yesterday and the lid catch snapped on FIRST use last night!

Hope the Salter is better.

The Salter is an altogether more sturdy affair than that flimsy looking thing

This is what happens when you ignore the wisdom of the forum. Let that be a lesson to you ;)

@bunnyhop – we will all be expecting reviews of toastie trials, obviously 😃

We had this one in the family home.

I swear the metallic parts were hewn from a solid billet of 316 stainless steel.

It lasted long after I’d fledged the nest.

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My wife is in the running she makes a mean toastie 🙂

@plus-one – what the going rate for your missus?

We had this one in the family home.

I swear the metallic parts were hewn from a solid billet of 316 stainless steel.

It lasted long after I’d fledged the nest.

I’ve only just twigged that the lack of browning on my current one might be more to do with the lack of brown in the bread 😂

@Sui

what the going rate for your missus?

If you have to ask etc etc ;)

binners – Will do. On first attempt it will be a little bit of everything in the fridge that’s savoury with a few beans.
Then I’m going to make me first waffles.
Drooling in anticipation.

IIRC your first attempt likely should be to clean off manufacturing residue, like boiling a new kettle a few times over before use.

I want waffles myself now. That might be this weekend’s treat.

BEANS?

Our Salter toastie maker arrived a few weeks ago, thanks to Binners recommendation.

After much use (not the waffle plates yet) the conclusion is a WIN.
The co-op sell a two pack of small ciabatta and those toasted on the panini plate with cheese, tomato and onion were the favourite snack so far.

Excellent! Glad to hear its a result @Bunnyhop

My ‘advice’ is rarely worth listening to, but the subject of preparing cheese-based snacks is something of a specialist subject, bordering on a religion.

Its a scandal that I haven’t used it for ciabatta yet, so as Morrisons do nice fresh ones, I’m going to get some and christen the panini plates over the weekend. Cheese, tomato and onion ticks all my boxes :D

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Toast two bits of bread.
Butter or spread of some kind.
Mature cheese.
Spread of pickle or whatever.

30 seconds in the microwave.

Job done.

:-)

MICROWAVE?!!!

You godless heathen!!

I think you need to take some time out and have a think about what it is you’ve just said

Frying pan is surely the best toastie maker? :D

@binners
lol

…but it works :-)

I am obviously going to try it :D

Too many opinions here that miss the fundamental point of a dedicated toastie maker.

It *must* seal the edges to make that pocket of plasma when done.

Pocket of Plasma is the name of my prog rock band’s second album.

Pocket of Plasma is the name of my prog rock band’s second album.

Heheeh :)

+1 for the brevile and waffle plates

Tefal snack time looked very flexible but brexit shipping hassles make it ridiculously hard to get hold of

I have to stress in true STW stylee, that the onion was from a farmer’s market stall, the tomatoes were tiny on the vine and the cheese a mature ‘Butler’s secret’ cheddar.
:o)

Butler’s Secret Cheddar was their first album.

(It was OK but a bit cheesy)

I was lucky enough to get one of these for my birthday recently. I love how the hinges pivot allowing thick bread/paninis etc to be toasted, very artisan. Much better than the old one that you had to butter the outside of the bread to stop it sticking and would only take ‘normal’  bread and was a battle to clamp shut if you had any decent quantity of filling.