I’m staying in a friend’s spare room at the moment, and one of the staple foods they always have in is bagels. I have been going nuts for buttered, toasted bagels lately. At first, it was just because I was hungry and there wasn’t anything else in that I could eat, but lately I’ve been enjoying them so much that I’ve had to make them one of the items that I buy (so that I don’t end up eating so many that they run out)
I miss the days before I’d made the very upsetting connection of the digestive consequences for eating a loaf of buttered toast with eating a loaf of buttered toast.
I have phases where plain, untoasted toast bread is exactly what I want to eat. And I live in Germany, good bread is quite readily available, though it’s getting pretty expensive these days compared to storebrand toast. On that note, good bread with butter is great. Truly great bread tastes good plain!
The annoying part is that getting a fresh loaf with just the right amount of moisture depends on luck and/or getting to the baker really early. For my tastes, German rye/wheat sourdough bread turns from “great” to “just OK” rather quickly, especially if you’re buying half loafes because you’re living in a one person household.
Just freeze the part that you dont plan to immediately eat. Im also a german enjoyer of fresh and/or homemade bread and thats what ive been doing for years. Buy bread/brötchen and directly chuck it in the freezer. When you need some, it will thaw in like 1-2h if you just leave it in a paper bag. The consistency and crunchyness will be perfectly preserved in my experience. If you need it fast then a microwave and/or toaster can help, but the microwave can make it mushy if you leave it too long.
Thanks for the tip about the paper bag. I’ll have to try that when I next have access to a freezer
I have considered that, but I just don’t have the space in my freezer.
Did someone say buttered toast??
One of my last memories of my father is making him toast. Then he asked for another. Then we laughed when he asked for more. We ate the whole loaf laughing.
That’s a wonderful memory, thank you for sharing. I’ve got a massive smile on my face imagining you guys laughing so much that it was hard to eat the toast. That might not be how it happened, but it’s a sweet mental image nonetheless
Toast is a weird thing where you take bread, which is baked, and you say “no, this needs to be baked even more! In fact I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this!”
We do that with other stuff too. Twice fried chips (i.e. thicker french fries) are incredible.
Actually, that makes sense now that I think about it. Twice fried chips involves frying once at a lower temperature, and then again at a bit higher temperature. I imagine this is what’s happening with toast too, as I’m pretty sure the toaster is operating at a higher temperature than what the bread is baked at. We want the exterior browning of the higher temperature, but we also need the bread to rise properly in the oven.
We’ve had one, yes, but what about second maillard reaction?
So maybe this is better pondered after a bong hit… but the point of making toast is really to expose the soft inside of the bread and crisp that up like the crust of the original bread. So, with a thick slice like Texas Toast, could you cut that toast into strips and re-toast the newly-exposed edges? What would that be called? And how many times could you do that?
At a certain point you just have croutons
Bread becomes slices, slices become bread sticks, bread sticks become croutons
I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this
Throw the bread in a pan is so 1900.
Don’t ever buy a bread machine
Was about to say, I think I eat the first third of a loaf in the hour after the bread machine finishes. Fresh bread while its still warm is too good.
Depends, only if its fresh bread and preferably sourdough :3
And cinnamon
Ooh, I’m going to try this.
Do you sprinkle the cinnamon on it? I’ve never heard of this but fucking love cinnamon
Can’t speak for them, but I mix cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle that one the buttered toast.
It’s my favourite on pancakes! Even maple syrup, which I love so much that I enjoy eating it by the spoonful, just doesn’t compare to that crunchy texture.
Sure do and it’s pretty damn amazing. The sugar the other reply mentions is a nice touch it too.
Also peanut butter. Yes, still with normal butter. Also works with cinnamon, too.
Why with regular butter? That sounds like a redundant amount of fat.
It is indulgent for sure.
But I mean, two sources of fat doesn’t make it redundant, they’re doing different things. The butter makes the toast not dry, and the peanut butter makes it creamy and adds flavor. It’s like a grilled cheese, cheese and butter are both fat sources, but they’re not redundant.
On a grilled cheese, you taste the butter first because it’s on the outside, and get the cheese later on the inside.
It sounds like the butter goes between the pb and bread, can you really still taste it? Or do you put it on the outside like with a grilled cheese?
Definitely can taste it. It melts into the toast first, and the peanut butter doesn’t, so the taste is more buttered toast + pb. It also softens the toast, so theres a distinct texture difference between that and just peanut butter on toast.
Grilled pb sandwich is interesting though now imma have to try that.
Make cinnamon bread so you just add butter. So good.
My daughter came over once & I had fresh sourdough I’d made so I offered her bread and water.
“May I offer you fresh sourdough with butter and chilled filtered water?”
Yes I don’t get tired of that. Good bread is good. So good.
Phase? You mean the craving for good butter toast is going to end at some point?
I love good butter on toast, I have it most days it’s so good
Just reading this meme made me want some
Only when I make my own bread. Store bought bread is basically tasteless and should only be used as a medium to contain sandwich ingredients when you wre too tired/lazy/incapable of making your own.
Where do you live? I feel like this rings quite differently if you live in the US or UK, vs. one of the central European countries with a rich bread tradition.
100% this, but some fancier breads are fine from the store.
I don’t experience the restraint
This is me, but with naan and baba ganoush. Can put away 10 slices of naan if I’m left unsupervised.
restrain yourself
What’s that?
I think I read about it once. Sounded awful!
