perfect toaster :)

[sheothebudworths]

My toasting style is a few short spells in the toaster - this allows the toast to be turned round at one of the intervals to ensure a more even toasting, and to see how it's doing. Whatever setting I have my toaster on, bread tends to require 3 or 4 goes before it's done, or 4 or 5 if it's frozen (the bread that is not the toaster)

YES!

 

[sheothebudworths]

That's a good point. Distance from the element might confuse the camera into thinking the toast was darker than it actually was.

OMG, it's all going wrong!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Btw...my toaster says it is 'Hi-speed'....aaaarrrrrggghhhhh....WHAT????? WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!?

I'm using the grill from now on!

 

[quimcunx]

I have a 4 slice toaster and I usually have two set to what experiment has told me fresh bread needs and two set the equivalent to frozen bread. I'm willing to accept a degree of variation in complexion in relation to variations in the characteristics of the individual slices of bread. It's not foolproof but it mostly works for me.

 

[sheothebudworths]

That's very......errrrrrrr......*organised* of you, quimmy!







(((((((( omg, quimmy ))))))))

 

[Voley]

Btw...my toaster says it is 'Hi-speed'....aaaarrrrrggghhhhh....WHAT????? WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!?

I'm using the grill from now on!

"Hi-speed"? It takes seven fucking minutes!

 

[izz]

I was forcibly reminded today by my incredibly slowly toasting sourdough white that toast made from different bread varies massively in how fast it browns.

This is absolutely true. I've have to do sourdough in the dualit for at least 3.

oooo yick, I'm becoming middle class

 

[quimcunx]

That's very......errrrrrrr......*organised* of you, quimmy!







(((((((( omg, quimmy ))))))))

tbf it requires much less thought about toast, toasting methods and variations than must have been put into most of the discussion on the thread.

 

[Epona]

Yes but nothing that'd take THAT much longer...waffles, crumpets, drop scones etc....you'd have to be cooking fucking burgers or something to warrant using the 7 setting!

I've got some toaster bags (for toasted sarnies) and the instructions that come with them confidently assert that you can use them to cook burgers, salmon fillets etc. in your toaster. I haven't tried it mind you, what with having an oven! But after your experiment, I'm now wondering how many students or people in bedsits/with communal kitchens have tried that in their room and ended up with a fire on their hands cos they didn't clean the breadcrumbs out of the toaster first

 

[sheothebudworths]

tbf it requires much less thought about toast, toasting methods and variations than must have been put into most of the discussion on the thread.

I don't know what you mean?



*whistles*

 

[quimcunx]

Toast doesn't rule me. I rule toast.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I've got some toaster bags (for toasted sarnies) and the instructions that come with them confidently assert that you can use them to cook burgers, salmon fillets etc. in your toaster. I haven't tried it mind you, what with having an oven! But after your experiment, I'm now wondering how many students or people in bedsits have tried that and ended up with a fire on their hands cos they didn't clean the breadcrumbs out of the toaster first

Oh fuck....I've got some of those bags, too!

I reckon I'll send them to quimmy to try, tbf

 

[Voley]

Toast doesn't rule me. I rule toast.

That's what toast wants you to think.

 

[sheothebudworths]

"Hi-speed"? It takes seven fucking minutes!

To clarify - I never got as far as establishing how long *5* took (just that it's roughly 2.5 minutes till *flames appear*), let alone *7*

 

[Ax^]

why do i feel the need for a fry now

sorry badgers

 

[silverfish]

Can we talk about pitta bread?

 

[wayward bob]

Can we talk about pitta bread?

this isn't a "foodstuffs that are hotter than the surface of the sun" thread

 

[silverfish]

You understand the pitta bread monkey juggle

 

[wayward bob]

the other contenders are caramel (as you find out if you dip in a finger for tasting ) and chipshop mushy peas (it's the polystyrene cup )

 

[sheothebudworths]

this isn't a "foodstuffs that are hotter than the surface of the sun" thread

LOL

 

[sheothebudworths]

CARAMEL?!?

 

[Voley]

chipshop mushy peas

Must. Have. Chippy. Tea. Tonight. Now. Because. Of. This. Post.

 

[wayward bob]

CARAMEL?!?

i've never done it twice and tbf it was quite fun seeing how long it took my fingerprints to grow back

 

[Miss Caphat]

OMG, have you been cooking burgers in your toaster, Miss C?

sorry, I fell asleep

but YES we used to get these frozen veggie burger patties and cook them in the toaster!!!!
It took about 3x at the highest setting for them to cook through.

 

[sheothebudworths]

OH MY LORD!!!!

 

[Miss Caphat]

this thread just made me go make a toaster strudel. Do those exist in UK? They take a long time to cook too.

 

[wayward bob]

they sound vile

 

[Miss Caphat]

No, they're amazing!!!!

they actually taste like real food, unlike what you'd think

 

[Miss Caphat]

they sound vile

this one matches your profile pic. they come with little packets of icing so you can write stuff or draw designs

 

[wayward bob]

they look like shite