Look I don’t want to come over here as a fired bread fundamentalist but if it’s soggy you’re doing it wrong. IT should be CRISPY. Any bread that come out of the toaster more floppy than it went in needs to be thrown in the local pond.
Next thing you’ll be putting your beer in the fridge. It’s a slippery slope.
– that’s well meaning but the thing with a cracker is at least it has some stability in the horizontal plane. Whereas cold toast is a) horrible and b) saggy. There’s almost nothing to which those adjectives can be applied in a positive manner and toast certainly isn’t one of them.
Toast – warm
Lager if that’s your thing – cold
Beer – Warm
It’s not hard and I cannot understand why anyone has a problem with it 😉
Almost as wrong as putting the jam on a scone first.
And while I’m citing the Food Debrett’s here, jam on an un-creamed scone is beyond an abomination. The jam needs to ‘surf’ on the cream. Next thing you’ll be telling me you’re rhyming scone with ‘one’
Come the revolution comrades, names have been taken.
Indeed.And in the spirit of enquiry I just toasted a single slice, left it to cool then added butter. All I can say is it’s a good job we have a labrador as they’ll eat anything.
Well on the Scone thing I only have a cream tea when in Devon or Cornwall with local clotted cream, which is just one of the most delicious things. So the Clotted Cream is the star of the show with the Scone and Jam the supporting act. The first thing I want to taste and feel on my palette is the cream with the jam to come in afterward. Otherwise you don’t get to taste the cream on it’s own, it is contaminated with the Jam sitting on top right from the off.
You have to leave the toast to cool a bit, in the toaster, otherwise when you put it on your plate, you get a layer of condensation on the plate, thus making the bottom surface of the toast slightly damp.
On the scone thing, I have no particular affiliation either way. Rather, it’s one of practicality. Spreading jam onto a scone is easy, as is then spreading cream onto a jammy scone. Trying to spread jam onto half an inch of cream is like biting into a a vanilla slice.
Apply your butter and topping of choice on a board before transferring to a plate. That way you’re not having to butter and top your second slice on top of your first one. I’m literally catching the toast as it pops up, on the board, butter on and Marmite on and first bite within a matter of seconds. It’s a finely honed drill like an F1 pitstop.
If using the grill is wasting the toaster, why do you have a toaster at all?
When the toast pops and you’re buttering it, stick the plate on top of the still-warm toaster. Transfer buttered toast to plate, no condensation, no soggy bottoms. (Quiet at the back)
When the toast pops and you’re buttering it, stick the plate on top of the still-warm toaster. Transfer buttered toast to plate, no condensation, no soggy bottoms. (Quiet at the back)
I bow before the master toast maker. I will try this at breakfast.
I’m literally catching the toast as it pops up, on the board, butter on and Marmite on and first bite within a matter of seconds. It’s a finely honed drill like an F1 pitstop.
The problem with hot toast and marmite application is it makes it difficult to spread the black goo evenly, resulting in some areas that are eye-wateringly strong, and others that are barely skimmed. Allowing the toast to cool a little aids more even application and subsequently a more enjoyable toast experience.
I do love it when we discuss the more important things.
The cold toast served in B&Bs is all your lot’s fault – clearly the only acceptable way to east toast is hot, otherwise you might as well get it out of a packet.
The solution there is more MarmiteBOVRIL. (-:
Also cheese toast (unbelievably NSFW content).
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Cold toast with a plastering of hard salty butter FTW
Stoner has history here. He’s gloriously wrong on what constitutes a pie, and here again he transgresses into the territory of the unhinged. That combination sounds like something you give a prisoner 🙂