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Arrrggghhh! One of my biggest pet peeves when dining out, breakfast. I've sent back more orders of Toast than I can remember. Many due to them being cold. Many due to the cook slapping a dash of butter on one piece and then putting it on top of the other and flipping it over in hopes of the butter "dripping" down to the bottom piece. Sure, it "drips down" but it doesn't spread damnit!
How do you like your Toast?
I like my toast medium, and completely buttered.
One of my biggest pet peeves when dining out, breakfast.
I agree entirely. The worst being the so-called 'continental breakfast' scam. I've been on the continent and I can assure you that they don't eat toasted white bread with jam and a cup of tea and call it breakfast; they enjoy a full breakfast with sliced meats, cheeses, soups, freshly baked breads, fruit, pastries, etc.
<edit>Accidentally wrote 'unsalted' instead of 'salted'</edit>
[edited by: vincevincevince at 4:10 am (utc) on Sep. 11, 2007]
vincevincevince, the only problem with true continental breakfasts, which are just as wonderful as you describe (especially in the Tirol and Bavaria), is that it's virtually impossible to find proper salted butter to put on your toast or bun.
Your cooks butter the toast for you?
pageoneresults, thank you for starting a thread on such a heart-warming subject!
egg-fried-bread
See now, to me, that removes all of the texture and eye appeal. Toast needs to be sliced, preferably in traingles, and placed on either side of those eggs.
Egg fried bread makes me think of french toast, a taste treat worthy of another thread by itself. FWIW, the other day I had french toast made with thick slices of french bread - I had no idea! Yum.
Back on topic, will someone please pass the butter?
Here in the U.S., Toast is usually buttered by the cook in your "everyday" breakfast establishments like Denny's or IHOP. If it doesn't get buttered by them, by the time it makes it to you, its too damn cold to butter properly. And I'm going to send it back. And back again if it still isn't right. Don't mess with my breakfast!
I brought this topic up because I was having a late breakfast at my favorite IHOP this evening. The above took place and I told the waiter when I was leaving that if the cook wanted to speak with me, I'd be outside polluting my lungs for a few moments before I departed. I think he was too busy to oblige. ;)
I was pissed. I was looking forward to having that whole wheat toast to "sop up" my leftover Hollandaise sauce. I'm a glutton for Eggs Benedict. Second in line would be Corn Beef Hash and Eggs. Anything with a properly poached egg and warm yummy yolks! Mmmm, cholesterol, the breakfast of Champions.
And breakfast isn't complete without a few warm pieces of properly buttered toast. "Don't you dare grab toast from that bin over there. Yes, right there. That's been sitting there all morning and you plan on passing that off to me as toast? I'll come back there and..."
I know from experience that 7 out of 10 orders of Toast are going back for failing validation.
eggs over easy
If I ordered that, how would I get my eggs?
Sunny Side Up
That's just a normal fried egg, right?
dc
- they never flip it, so I guess that would be a normal fried egg as long as a normal fried egg is never flipped
eggs over easy
- fried like the above but they flip it over and let it fry for a bit before it hits the plate
toast, well, as long as everything else is piping hot then I don't really care. I always eat my toast last so no matter how hot it was when it came it isn't by the time I eat it. I do like it properly buttered though.
Let it stand upright in the rack for a minute. That way the toast is crisp, still warm, and doesn't go soggy when you add butter, jam, honey, or whatever it is that tempts your palate.
Crruunch...
Syzygy
For me the toast has to be so hot it burns my hands while I'm putting the butter on. The toast should then be totally saturated with gooey salty melted butter :)
Toast racks are just pointless to me unless you put the butter on before loading them up.
I race to get it out of the toaster so I can load it up with butter, then wait for a few minutes so I can finish making the tea, by the time I am back to concentrating on the toast it has melted in nicely!
Toast racks are just pointless to me unless you put the butter on before loading them up.
Bravo! As a kid, I used to take a stick of salted butter, you know, the old fashioned stuff that was really healthy? I'd melt that down in a pot. Then I'd take Mom's basting brush and use it to spread the melted butter on the Toast during weekend breakfast. I'd treat that piece of Toast like a painter's canvas.
P.S. Buttering bread before placing into toaster is not recommended. I've been there, done that, it works, but there are risks involved. ;)
Mmmm, Toast.
I know from experience that 7 out of 10 orders of Toast are going back for failing validation.
Test 1: If close to the area where breakfast is being placed on a hot table from the kitchen and I see a plate of toast sitting up there, I'm going to keep my eye on it. If it ends up in front of me after sitting there for more than a few minutes, it fails validation.
Test 2: If I can't see the area where the hot table is, then comes the "Touch Test". First thing I'll do when food is placed on the table is "Touch the Toast". If its warm, ah, passed the first step in validation. If its cold, failed. Gotta' catch that waitress/waiter before they step away from the table. If you don't, ah, then the emotions take over and the waiting for them to return becomes unbearable. I won't eat those eggs without a warm piece of properly Buttered Toast.
Test 3: If warm, now its time to flip it and see what the buttering pattern looks like. Is it to the edges? Or is it just dabbed lightly in the middle. If to the edges, it passes step two of validation and is ready for consumption. If it doesn't go to the edges, it fails and goes back to the developer for another attempt.
sunny side up
eggs over easy
Also, definately butter all the way to the edge!
Grandpa, thanks for mentioning french toast, or 'eggy bread' as my friend calls it! It's the best!
My problem is I have two slices every morning, the first one is always just right, but the second slice in the two slice toaster is always a bit dry and slightly cooler by the time I am ready to eat it. Now you can "butter" both slices straight away but then they are both slightly cooler than the optimum when you eat them. The solution would be a two slice toaster with a variable delay setting on one slot. I keep looking but nobody makes one yet.
If you are looking for a wonderful topping on toast forget your eggy toast try marmite then cottage cheese spread on top.
Marvelous. It should be complimented by coffee not tea, IMHO tea is a vile brew only fit to wash the dishes with.
actually flora'ed as I find it tastes better than butter
That's just crazy talk!
Re the cooling toast situation, you may find that a few seconds in a microwave sorts that out.
marmite then cottage cheese spread on top
I think that's illegal ;)
I think that's illegal ;)It was legalised by Royal Charter in 1697, but only if you are British. I believe the people of the Southern Colonies have an illegal variant using Vegemite which is banned under the United Nations agreement regarding noxious and habit forming substances.
In truth Marmite and cottage cheese is one of those incredible flavour parings that seem to be made for each other, up there with banana and peanut butter, and tomato and basil. Try it before you mock it.
In truth Marmite and cottage cheese is one of those incredible flavour parings...
It's true, sounds gross, but I had it and it "works" - also, try apple butter and cottage cheese, another improbable but good pairing...
In truth Marmite and cottage cheese is one of those incredible flavour parings...
Really? aaaaaallright, breakfast tomorrow! I actually love... LOVE my toast with plain cream cheese and marmite on top. Increadible combo...
and with cream cheese, no need for butter.
I've never met anyone who has tried it before - moved from Ireland to Canada at a young age, not many marmite aficionados here, good luck ordering it for breakfast...
I have, admittedly, covertly brought my own marmite with me on business trips. I know exactly how I like my toast.
Cold, limp, stale, thin, toast? NO I don't like my steak that way when served with eggs, nor do I want my toast that way...........Ever.
Oh, and the eggs. Without a doubt, Over-Easy. Yum-Yum Get You Some. :)
