Toast Poll

How do you make yours? xp

"i like baked potatoes. Baking, that's when you immerse something in very hot water over a stove, right?"

^this is you right now, America, afaict

just thinking yesterday how much i miss 'toasties' - i.e. a toasted sandwich filled with things like cheese or ham or egg or all three, with SEALED EDGES so shit doesn't fall out

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3116/sandwich20maker.jpg

voted other: grainy bread toasted well-golden/super crunchy, cooled but not cold before spreading butter

toasted sandwich makers are great for five minutes then you can't fit them in the cupboard next to the unused George Foreman grill

xxxp I have no problem with any method of melting cheese over bread, I like to make quesadillas in a pan, my thing is basically just if you call grilling frying what the hell do you call frying (don't answer that I'm not sure I'm ready to know)

Uh I mean if you call frying grilling

God I'm confused

But how do you make a grilled cheese sandwich?

Using a grill

I have never made a fried cheese sandwich but the idea is not unappealing

i have made the following cheese sandwiches

grilled (proper grilled like)
fried (these are good too)
microwaved (i do not recommend)

xps i don't own one myself, but we had one growing up and it got used almost weekly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVbnv01Qek

grilled (proper grilled like)

Still trying to understand what equipment and method this involves east of the Atlantic. Is there any fat (butter/margarine/oil) applied to the outward facing side of the bread? If not, does the bread not scorch?

I remember when dubbed Iron Chef episodes came over here and they used "grilled" when they meant "baked." Fucking English language!

WmC, grilling in UK & australia etc == cooking under heat ie broiling

a 'grill' for all intents and purposes is a broiler

even though I really hate even saying the word broil because it is super ridiculous

As darragh alluded to above, you guys use the word broil, a word nobody else has ever had need for. So, uh, a broiler? Which doesn't touch the surface of the bread.

Xp!

'grill' can still also refer to a charcoal or gas grill like a barbecue type situation, depending on the kind of food

but a "grilled cheese sandwich" would most commonly be broiled or made in a sandwich maker

fin

TY, VG -- another culture chasm bridged.

welcome!

You guys are calling American grilled cheese "fried" when it's not - frying involves immersion in oil. If anything, they're sauteed.

I think.

(just checked and apparently sauteeing is considered a kind of frying, but that seems wrong)

we wd distinguish between "deep frying" (immersion) and "shallow frying" (like sauteeing basically) but if there's a pan and hot fat of some kind it's frying in our parlance

anyway i made grilled cheeses tonight and calling them fried cheeses wd feel wrong so

http://i.imgur.com/h7k6lou.jpg

Have never had toast

Fuck that white people shit

― 龜, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:22 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast#Milk_toast_in_Asia

Of course, bread and cheese under the broiler is called toasted cheese, just to make things more interesting.

here, if you fry bread it is called "fried bread" and is distinct from toast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_bread

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Ugh white bread is so gross, just straight in my "not even food" category right away.

the answer is plugra butter on a fresh pullman loaf straight out of the oven.

Cant get behind whiteshaming itt tbrr

Why would you want to eat cold toast??

toast made with brown bread is superior.

voted "french"

The real question is whether we eat it with the butter-side up or butter-side down.

real butter, unsalted. Butter while hot obviously, the toast should absorb the butter, the butter should not just be on top. The bread should be toasted to whatever the brown equivalent of golden is.

butter-side down

WAHT

P sure that was jokes

yooks are not zooks, keep your butter-side up

I haven't had butter or white bread in my domicile in eons.

unsalted butter on bread sounds like kind of a bummer to me but I loooooooooooove salted melty butter

I'm not a huge butter fan, but unsalted butter is awful. It just causes me to salt the food more than I already do, which quite a bit. Salt your butter people.

Plugra butter is so fantastic, even unsalted is great on toast. If the bread is good, it should bring enough salt.

option 2, non butter users i am so sad for u

don't typically use butter, and i try to have really fresh bread that doesn't need toasting. what is toasting if not an attempt to revive shit bread? if toasting is required, golden brown plz.

Jeff OTM. Even plugra needs salt.

I was at a fancy steakhouse last week where bread came w/ unsalted butter topped with ground salt. That was the best.

Hunter not OTM. Toast is its own thing, not a requirement.

Yea fresh bread makes better toast but toast is better than bread

I just had to make claws at Kenny the visiting dog to prevent him getting too close to my freshly buttered golden-toasted organic baguette.

Grilled cheese sandwiches - 'grilled' might be a US corruption of 'griddled' BTW - do not involve buttering the bread before laying the butter side down in a big pan. The butter is melted in the pan/on a diner-style grill or griddle while you prepare the two slices of bread which will form your sandwich. I prepare the 'cheese side' by spreading a thin layer of Dijon mustard on the bread to help the shredded cheddar adhere to the surface. When the butter in the pan is bubbling, place the slices in the pan (cheese side up, if you're a moron that needs it spelling out) for 60-90 seconds. Flip one slice over onto the other after the cheese has melted, then lift the whole thing out of the pan and onto a cutting board where you can slice it on the diagonal, and then... bon appetit.

Here endeth the lesson.

reanimated bread