CycleChat Investigates - Toast

[Tenacious Sloth]

I couldn’t function without buttered toast and marmalade although bizarrely, cannot face eating it after the sun has passed over the yardarm.

I did experience a toast-eating hiatus of a few months in my 30s after an extremely traumatic episode in a B&B where apricot jam was mistaken for orange marmalade.

 

[Drago]

Ah, soldiers for boiled eggs. Preferably well buttered prior to dunking.

You butter your boiled eggs...?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Big thick door stoppers with lashing of butter.

 

[Reynard]

You butter your boiled eggs...?

The soldiers, daaaahling, the soldiers!

 

[Milkfloat]

You lot are all freaks - I cut something midway between a rectangle and a triangle - just to be different, but I won't judge you for the way you do it. However, the bread needs to be just thin enough to fit in the toaster, it should be toasted to a light-mid brown and the butter should fully melt. Anything else is wrong and quite frankly should be banned.

 

[tyred]

Cutting toast into squares, triangles and rectangles is showing a complete lack of imagination.

Going forward I'm going to cut mine into dodecagons.

 

[MartinQ]

You butter your boiled eggs...?

Yes, especially when they've been boiled to death and the yolk is like concrete and you're only reminded that breakfast was ready 10 minutes ago by the burning toast alarm. Butter softens everything up a bit.

Tbf though, you could just do an Iggy and dispense with the egg and toast and butter yourself up

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfxldv2a6Y&ab_channel=FabrizioSouzaLima

 

[matticus]

Why waste time cutting it?

Why waste time toasting it?

 

[classic33]

Why waste time toasting it?

Something to do whilst the kettle boils.
Watched pots and all that.

 

[Drago]

Half time report and the greedies are in the lead.

 

[neil_merseyside]

Cutting toast into squares, triangles and rectangles is showing a complete lack of imagination.

Going forward I'm going to cut mine into dodecagons.

Cut the fancy shape out of the bread but leave the crust intact, drop crust into buttered frying pan and crack an egg into the hole, flip and fry other side, oh and toast the dodecahedron as required.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

toast the dodecahedron as required.

A dodecahedron of bread won’t fit in a toaster.

He could toast the requisite number of slices first and then build the dodecahedron but it’s still going to be an absolute bugger to butter it.

 

[mistyoptic]

A dodecahedron of bread won’t fit in a toaster.

He could toast the requisite number of slices first and then build the dodecahedron but it’s still going to be an absolute bugger to butter it.

Wrong thought process:

1. Fashion a dodecahedron from butter using a suitable implement.
2. Cut pieces of bread to match the faces of the dodecahedron.
3. Toast all pieces (a grill might be easier).
4. While they are hot, stick one piece of toast to each face of the dodecahedron.
5. Eat

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My Mum was a right pain with unsliced bread
she would cut both crusts off
they, at some point later - she would make a new crust by slicing 2 new slices from the top
all thick!!

If I find a loaf has an unusually thick crust on it I often half inch it for a sneaky extra toast!

 

[MichaelW2]

The enemy of good toast is condensation. Leave toast in toaster to dry a bit. Store in toast rack. Spread butter and topping on a warm plate.
Saint Delia calls is "wangy toast" when you put freshly toasted bread onto a cold plate.
Slightly older bread is better for toast than freshly baked.