Taking Sides: Toast vs Bread

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At university I ate nothing but toast, despite the delayed satisfaction. Now toast seems horrid and durgey, even though the toaster here makes way better toast.

What's up with that?

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(I'm pretty certain I asked this before, but I can't find it, so maybe I only thought about it)

(vs BRED I mean)

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like cold toast.

― RJG, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

toast has texture, and it makes toppings ever so slightly melty if you wait a little while. untoasted bread [regular supermarket-issue sliced stuff anyway] is BLAH. oh man is this the best topic ever or what.

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm more of a croissant man lately though you can't beat toast with eggs or other morning fry foods.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

toast! and FRIED BRED! numnumnum!

― katie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the former

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Toast, bread, fried bread: it's all good. Apart from wholemeal toast which is OK but significantly less nice than white.

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Remember I said the 2/4 button on my toaster was broken?

We got a new one and when the toast is ready it beeps pretty loudly. The future is here.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are very few occasions when I would rather have bread than toast. It's like cooking, but without any of the effort! And you can prolong the life of a bog-standard loaf by at least 3 days by toasting! Only if it was really fresh, special bread would I allow it to remain au naturel.

― Archel, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So it's two-step toast all the way now then Ronan?

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha I just looked at that thread)

Yes, I'm finding the new toaster has made freedom of expression far easier, and in fact allowed me to work on things I never could have imagined.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It has to be bread for sandwiches. Making sandwiches out of toast (NB not quite the same as a toasted sandwich) is excruciatingly dud. But toast for breakfast with stuff spread on it i.e. peanut butter mmmmmm.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bleepcore, surely?

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

White - TOAST Brown - BREAD

― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Toast for sarnies = double wrong
Toasted sarnies = double right (even though they're more like fried bread sarnies)

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Making sandwiches out of toast (NB not quite the same as a toasted sandwich) is excruciatingly dud

NOOOOOO! beetroot, pickle and cottage cheese on wholemeal toast sammich = CLASSIKK!

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The thought of having to eat either beetroot or cottage cheese is bad enough but both together? In a sandwich? Toasted? Ewwwwwww. And by pickle do you mean like Branston's pickle? I think this should be on the culinary turn offs thread.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yuck Emma, peanut butter on toast is vile - all the oil leaks out and you get this big greasy brown mess on yr lovely toast. Putting butter underneath the peanut butter only compounds the crime.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sausage sandwiches are all good toasted or otherwise, it depends on my mood.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh i mean like picallilli or whatever it's called, not gherkins. it is NUMMY! don't knock it till y've tried it. even better w some baby spinach leaves in there too.

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Two slices of fresh white toast + 4x 3/4" cubes of cheese + microwave until 2 slices touch = num num nummy.

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm only knocking it cos I don't like the constituent parts of your sarnie so I am not very likely to enjoy them all together between toast.

And peanut butter on toast rules, you must be buying cheap rub stuff as the oil in mine stays just where it belongs.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah but Emma you fail to mention you 'pools of butter mentalism' where you hate buttering hot toast cos the butter melts. Surely the point is melted butter.....

CHEESE
On
TOAST

― Pete, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PETE
is
RIGHT

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The hot buttered toast thing is to be filed under Emma's apparently strange food preferences. See also: ohmygod don't let the bean juice touch the bacon / gravy go anywhere other than the meat etc.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, and cheese on toast is overrated.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Delia sez that toast shld be left to stand for approx 30 secs before buttering - something to do w/ the heated toast molecules settling or something. Personally I don't like lukewarm toast where the butter hasn't seeped in.

Emma is right, however, about getting things like tomato sauce in yr gravy - they shld never ever be mixed on a plate.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Delia is on crack when it comes to toast. I bet she likes that mental toast in packets that my French exchange family insisted I ate.

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God I hate that packaged French Toast. It's like eating fried hardwood (I imagine).

― Archel, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Toasted sourdough bread for sandwich use = a thing of the gods.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

French Toasts are fabulous (you have pile on abou thalf an inch of Margarine, but still).

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soggy toast is a sin (Emma is quite right about the bean juice; sauce-y things designed for one thing should not encroach upon other things, ie beans 'with' or 'near' rather than 'on' toast). I always had the simple formula that good/new bread is best as is, bad/old bread best toasted. I had no idea there was such a wide range of opinions on the bread/toast dilemma.

― Ellie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bread, for sure, unless it is stale: then Toast.

Honey should only go on toast. Actually, honey should only go on muffins.

Golden syrup should only go on crumpets

Cheese & Vegemite should always go on toast. And the cheese should not be melted. Vegemite by itself can go on either toast or bread.

― toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But what about toasted BAGELS? Toasted bagel with peanut butter = useless without the toasted part.

― Jordan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, we don't really do bagels here - although there is a Jewish suburb up the road a bit and there is a bagel shop there. They're kind of chewy though, aren't they?

I reckon honey on muffins must be the most heavenly sensation although peanut butter is pretty good too.

Funny how muffins and crumpets are the *only* bakery items that you *have to* toast. Like, how wrong would they be raw?

― toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bagels are also great fun to make. they're all springy and floaty. and DELICIOUS. mmmnummy i want some now.

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bagels are indeed num. Alas that the local spot across from campus closed down.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no! Wellington has several fine places that seem to do nothing else but bagels. best thing after a 7am arrival on the nite-train!

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheese on toast is great (especially with a touch of Marmite added), but bacon sandwiches are even better. The perfect blend (obviously as a way of ending this senseless bread-toast conflict that is ending so many young lives) is a toasted cheese and bacon sandwich (no Marmite required) which is fantastic.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Toast as main entree or in a sandwich but only if its golden brown. If its black then it tastes like a forest fire.

― brg30, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well obv. this isn't the Charcoal vs Bread forum. that's down the hall.

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think of any bread that's better untoasted. Someone prove me wrong here...

― Vinnie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anything particularly oily [foccacia] or crusty/fluffy [a nice white vienna w soup or pasta, frinstance].

i love this, i'm in class and look super-busy. but i'm discussing TOAST! thanks ILE, best thread ever!

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this morning, after I made the bacon sandwiches, I put a piece of bread in the grill pan and toasted it, possibly the nummest toast evah!

― chris, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmm, foccacia with yummy olives, best bread ever.

― Saskia, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If the bread is decent bread, it need not be toasted. Once the crumb has become stiff or crumbly, and/or the crust soft, then toasting is an improvement. This is one of the great virtues of bagels, they keep the correct ratio of firm crust/chewy crumb for a day or so. Definitely until lunchtime at least.

Europe: I salute your bread. Why do you insist (esp. Scandinavia) on smearing it with butter, why?? YUCK. Butter=for toast or really crappy bread that needs covering.

Toast with jam or butter, OK.

― Hunter, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bread, preferably dipped in soup, esp. chili

― Ron, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I nearly got thrown off a toast mailing list once for suggesting I preferred fresh bread.

― N., Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grannary bread, toasted, bacon and rocket and brown sauce with a lil mustard - best thing ive ever eaten

i love eggs on toast

and a few rounds of bovril on toast

― born clippy, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is brown sauce?

― toraneko, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Finally started using our bread machine, only three months after buying it. First loaf -- really good!

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

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