crumpets: classic or dud?

100% classic

i can't believe i incorrectly apostrophized in such egregious fashion

Classic, always.

classic. great with poached egg.

Crumpets straight out of the freezer are great for running your toaster at full throttle. Rarely venture over 3 with most things or else you're probably gonna burn down the whole street, but with frozen crumpets you get to turn that sucker right up to eleven.

I don't think they're sold over here

TOTES CLASSIC, number one and the best with vegemite.

Nothing is best with vegemite.

Perhaps you can confirm or deny this though:

In Australia, square crumpets can be purchased from supermarkets, designed to easily fit in a standard toaster.[citation needed]

Note to Australians - things don't need to be square to fit in a toaster.

it's more designed to maximise toaster efficiency i guess

Crumpets are like fish fingers, even the less good variants are classic.

In Australia, square crumpets can be purchased from supermarkets, designed to easily fit in a standard toaster.

Yes, that is true. They're just the same really but I do prefer the traditional circular crumpet.

ps vegemite is awez u pommies

I guess that counts as 'original research' so I can't cite it on wikipedia.

haven't done this in years but crumpets + butter + thin slices of mature cheddar = heaven

I'm not entirely sure what an authentic crumpet is--although Trader Joe's used to sell something it called a crumpet; it looked like an english muffin.

Picture please!

Yes more crumpet pictures please.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JJ0HA0BHaN4/SSmqOiujRzI/AAAAAAAAB08/-Z-P07lHfT4/s400/crumpet.jpg

http://www.takeourword.com/images/crumpet.jpg

http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/hedy.jpg

1. It's always great to have a nice bit of crumpet.

2. But the best crumpet were the ones Dunnes Stores have not sold for around ten years.

Occaisonally I buy them and really enjoy them for awhile then get completely bored of them. I prefer English muffins, I guess.

if the pictured crumpet is available in the US, please let me know! not sure about all this savoury toppings - they're best with TONS of butter + golden syrup or raspberry jam.

they are small toastable bread type things thus classic, altho sometimes they are too thick to fit in the toaster. muffins generally better yes.

RONG! Muffins are just boring bread thing. Crumpets are otherworldly.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2h6sfft.jpg

They're certainly available in the US, Justine, I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe in certain areas they're not?

http://i43.tinypic.com/k50pib.gif

the previous one is ridiculou. she's getting her hands all buttery.

maybe she's only just taken it out of the toaster to be fair

trader joe's still has them and I buy them and eat the daily because they are good.

crumpets are baws.

crumpets are also mad cheap. 700 for 5p ooooooooooooookay

the crumpets i've seen here look more like english muffins. i want the puffy ones with holes all over.

crumpets good, pikelets better

the crumpets i've seen here look more like english muffins. i want the puffy ones with holes all over.

the ones posted here have more holes than you can shake a stick at!

by here i mean the US

Well, I'm in the US too, but a crumpet without holes? I've never even seen such a thing.

Seattle has a crumpet shop, just1n3, you should come visit!

We do? I didn't know that! I just get them at the grocery store.

Yeah, down on 1st Ave in the market, around the corner from Left Bank Books and the flower stand. Made fresh every morning and only sold until they run out for the day. You can buy them in a 6 pack or get one topped with something sweet or savory to eat there.

good crumpets are classic. bad crumpets can be sort of unpleasantly tough and spongy.

(good ones are spongy too, obv., just in a good way.)

soaking-up-butter spongy vs. cleaned-out-the-sink spongy

Trader joe's crumpets are very dissapointing.

Crumpet Shop has delicious scones as well.

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I LIKE CRUMPETS.

i've never seen a crumpet

We have them in the dairy case at the local market. Stickier than an English Muffin. Heavenly.

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Lydon's done another butter ad which this time features crumpets

so it's basically like a sweeter, more pastry version of an english muffin?

btw england english muffins are great kudos

no not sweeter. More holey and less bready

Have you watched a pancake while it cooks? How it gets all these bubbles in the batter, then eventually they pop and the surface of the 'cake has started to skin over and firm up so where the popped bubbles were are now holes that go all the way to the cooked flat underside of the pancake? They are like that. But when you bite them, they are breadier than a pancake.

i gotta get back on the butter + honey + crumpie for breakfast bandwagon.

Way too much vegemite on rye lately.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Images/ExternalImages/ProductsDetailed/30/019730.jpg
Best. Crumpets. Ever.

(mass produced ones anyway - so much better than Kingsmill or any supermarket own brand stuff - although as someone said upthread there's not really such a thing as a bad crumpet, even the cheap ones are nice)

everything warburtons does is pillowy and delicious

Sadly not available in the British Section of Giant Eagle.

but ed if i had access to american pancakes every morning i would not weep for the want of crumpet

you don't buy pancakes at the store, silly!

no i know, from the diner! but you see my point...

We have something better than an american pancake round here, a pamela's hotcake.

having now made me think about hotcakes I will have to go an eat some, you swine.

after that you can try a johnny cake

not to mention the notorious ho cake

johnny cake was chewy.

wait are crumpets like naan?

Not in the slightest.

ok so i found the british crumpets @ TJ's but they really are nothing like new zealish crumpets - with an nz crumpet, the holes go almost all the way through, and the texture is almost kind of fibrous, not cakey like the british ones. hard to describe.

hmm, New Zealand crumpets sound more like British crumpets!

I didn't think the TJs things I found were very crumpet-like (Australian toaster biscuits or something?).

my crumpets, let me show you them

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/3626476682_9c3dac9445.jpg

with poached eggs and a modest amount of black pepper

(perfect poached eggs i suspect will be forever beyond me, and i am ok with that)

i'm eating my first ever crumpet. crumpet liveblog:

it's surprisingly pancakey. is it supposed to be so pancakey? and i mean like real pancakes, not like crepey british pancakes or whatever.

Yeah, they are a lot like a thick pancake, maybe chewier though.

in my imagination they were more like dry, hard scones or something.

So in your imagination brits would enjoy eating dry hard scones

yes that is correct

maybe that's why our teeth are so bad.

i thought dry hard scones = biscuits

i've never had a (US) biscuit but they look kinda like regular scones to me.

rock cakes are pretty dry and hard. sweet though.

http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5742C6F5-782F-473E-BF27-7E451487C355/0/RockCakes.jpg

biscuits are softer and more breadlike than scones.

http://shortbreadsouth.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/biscuits-1.jpg

biscuits are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than scones

american crumpets are v v different to my new zealish crumpet experiences: the ones i had from trader joes LOOKED like real crumpets but were really doughy/pancakey. NZ ones are much lighter and filled with air.