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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??
Depends, only if its fresh bread and preferably sourdough :3
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.
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.
Also peanut butter. Yes, still with normal butter. Also works with cinnamon, too.
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.
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.
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.
Phase? You mean the craving for good butter toast is going to end at some point?
Try fresh tortillas, they work the same way. Not the precooked ones, but the raw ones you cook on a pan.
If you ever find yourself in Mexico, go to a neighborhood tortillería and buy a couple of fresh tortillas. They may have been made using a machine but they're so soft and smell amazing. I'd usually walk out with a small bag in one hand and a rolled up tortilla in the other.
My coworker's family runs one and sometimes they bring me back a bag. It's not fresh obviously, but they're still better than anything I've found at the store.
I really need to find a good tortilleria here.
But yeah, I'm still trying to convince my SO to go, but the news about cartel activities certainly don't help.
Occasional?
restrain yourself
What’s that?
I think I read about it once. Sounded awful!
My dad and I used to eat an entire French baguette on the way home from the grocery store. I love bread.
Used to up until my early 20s, I very rarely buy plain white bread now and it's not that common in stores here (Sweden). Obviously there's two or three brands of basic white toast bread and some in store fresh white bread but we have tons of choices with so many different ingredients, and never any weird additives or bread that is as much bread as american cheese is cheese (seen those kinds abroad and from images and videos from the US).
My current two favourites are a wholegrain durum wheat sourdough with flaxseeds and sea salt and the other is a rye sourdough with wort, barley malt and a small amount of dark treacle (similar to molasses in taste). But I often try new kinds, even the smaller food stores here have like 30 different breads (not including stuff like burger and hot dog buns etc.)
Folk Wisdom: The whiter the bread the quicker you're dead.
There are people who don’t experience this?’
Id rather have some olive oil and balsamic vinegar but yeah I'd eat that every day if I could
Mmmmm Fresh sourdough from a bakery
Doesn't every culture on earth have some sort of bread product? I would guess that is because once you have it, it is addictive.