Toast Poll

'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

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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.

buttering the bread before laying the butter side down in a big pan

what kind of savagery is this?

Someone mentioned the possibility upthread and my entire being just went ¡NO PASARAN!

Buttering the bread rather than the pan was a huge revelation for me b/c it meant the butter is distributed more evenly on the bread (no pooling/dry spots) and you can control the amount of butter. What's the advantage of melting the butter in the pan method?

I would say that the butter is distributed more evenly on the bread...

gtfo toast thread

Buttering bread pre-griddle is very effective and yummy.

Hunt3r finds his way back to the money.

wtf this thread. I have never ever made a grilled cheese sandwich by melting the butter in the pan, only by spreading it directly onto my slices of bread -- everyone I know does it this way?!

also white bread, WHY??? you might as well just eat a sponge.

toast made with brown bread is superior. 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.

― silverfish, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:53 PM (7 hours ago)

silverfish is my kind of toast man/woman.

i would totally eat a sponge if it were made out of white bread and then toasted

i mean to address the rhetorical question

because, right, when you toast white bread the texture (particularly on the outside) becomes this wondrous sawdust crunch martian crust landscape varying from the merest golden blush to a deep and woody bark the biting into of which returns a deeply satisfying crunch which then yields (depending on thickness of slice but just for sheer ya-im-fucking-owning-this let's assume the dirtiest most basic white sliced pan you can get here because like here's the thing fuck snobbery over toast if you're snobby over toast you are missing the basic point of toast which is that it is a slice of 5p stuff that goes in a fucking toaster for a short length of time and emerges as a hans christian andersen cartridge of awesome) into a central core of lesser crunch- ranging to chewy but hey what's not to like there- and get this, right, YOU GET TO PUT BUTTER ON IT TOO

that's why white bread why. have another type of bread if you like, but don't white bread why me like this is a deniable thing because no

i mean i even gave you ingrates a vote but there's just no stopping yis whinging

You make a convincing case, actually.

i care deeply about the culinary outputs achievable with easi-singles, a 40p loaf and a bag of glucose, blame my upbringing

you might as well eat a https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9M1ihXq5OnKZyS4FqGdYPjfE4W8xxa5MWUJybEh7L50s_ra7uUg

alright alright. your toast essay makes me feel bad for insulting your toast choices. sorry :(