Yeah the virtue-signalling as ever is all kinds of verted 🤣
Sticking to the facts:
Any bread that is likely to go floppy, deflated and damp during the cheese-grilling process doesn’t really work. This includes finger-thick ready-sliced breads with the words ‘toast’ on the packaging. Unless you like your toast floppy, deflated and damp. A good bread for cheese toasties gives a firm platform for the bubbling cheese and is easy to keep crisp in the cooking process. You also want a bread that has a firm texture, both for the bite and for the chew.
– Sliced white sourdough seems to work very well. It’s rubbish for sandwiches and excellent for toast. Just as Warburtons ’Toastie’ is rubbish for toast and yet great for breakfast sarnies.
Forget spread or butter. The fat from the melted cheese serves that purpose if cooked properly.
– Lightly toast bread.
– Grate the (sharp cheddar) cheese on top as thickly as you want (Yet not so thickly as to make the toast soggy when the fat in the cheese separates in the grilling process)
– Take care to cover right up to the edges with cheese (otherwise burned-edges of toast).
– Sprinkle all over with a few *tiny* drops of basic chilli sauce (Morrisons Habanero is perfect, otherwise Encona, tabasco, etc). A brown sauce or condiment also works, but again, use sparingly so the flavour of the toasted cheese is enhanced and not swamped.
– Stick under preheated grill and watch carefully until cheese is bubbling and just browning.
– Smash into face
– Commiserate not having made more.
– Repeat entire process 😎
*edit Those packs of whole ryebread (ie Schneiderbrot) work well also. Only thing is that it takes three times longer to toast.
Not at all, it’s sold nationally.
Never seen Hendo’s on shelves in the West/SW of England, or Wales. Not once. Was given a bottle for Xmas (from where, we don’t know!) and it was a great (and unusual) gift. It’s now running very low, can’t get it online or locally and wanted to get some for Her birthday. Bah, the scent of failure on birthday-mornings 🙁