A question of toast

purpleimp

Hello my lovely lot,

I've just been listening to Janice Long's show on radio 2 from last night (show's how much work I do really) anyway they're talking about toast and the types of toast out there because someone wrote in complaining about the toast you get in hotels.

Now there are 2 types of toast that I adore, the rest I can take it or leave it, the first being toast "cooked" on an open fire with lots of butter, the drippy smokeyness just can't be beaten, the other type only exists in hotels and b and b's, it's the coldish rubbery, leathery creation,again with real butter and I think it's great!

Can anyone tell me how to recreate this kind of leathery cold toast at home, it sounds stupid but I've never been able to make it that way, any suggestions out there?

xxx

Deedee73

ooooo, ya bu$$er! Now I am wanting some of that loverle leathery toast that you only ever get form B&b's/Hotels!

I even bought a toast rack to see if that's what made it go that way!! LOL

The method I use is, cheap n' nasty bread, toast it, pop it in the rack, leave it alone until you remember it again, then spead it with copius amounts of REAL BUTTER, all slurped down with a mug o T

purpleimp

I think it might have something to do with taking it out and stacking it in piles so it steams and sweats while it cools, I would have thought a rack would keep it crisp?!

I might be havering, I'm not sure but I really fancy some!

Jay-Jay_4

Yep! The cheapest bread you can buy in the supermarket, toast it, let it cool in the toaster then cut it into triangles. Only allow yourself three pieces and spread the too-cold butter on it as you go along

Jamsi

If you pile the toast on top of each other while they are cooling that sometimes makes it go chewy when it's cold.
My fave toast is unsliced sesame seed loaf (sliced up of course) slightly well done with proper butter Yummmmmy!!!

jobbingmusician

Absolutely right! The way to make toast chewy and leathery is NOT to use a toast rack. Pile the slices on top of one another so the steam cannot escape and is re-absorbed into the bread. (I imagine hotels must do this for a while b4 they put the toast into the rack! )

You might like to experiment by putting a single slice of toast into a plastic bag, so absolutely NO steam can escape, and seeing if that gets the result you want...:rolleyes:

finc

I help make toast for the kids at school on a Friday and they love chewy, cold toast . Personally I think it's vile but maybe that's just me

Anyway, we line a box with tin foil, butter the toast when it's warm and basically pile all the toast into the box. Half an hour later when they get it, the toast is perfectly chewy, rubbery and only slightly warm. Come along on Friday and have a treat!

Jay-Jay_4

Ah you see I'm coming at it from a different angle

Every B&B or hotel I've been to does the chewy dry toast rather than the chewy wet toast. If I want chewy dry toast I prop it up when it comes out of the toaster and butter it when it's cooled, for chewy wet I pile it on a plate and butter it when I've done the drinks and eggs

Penny_Watcher

purpleimp wrote:

I think it might have something to do with taking it out and stacking it in piles so it steams and sweats while it cools

I used to part-time as a waitress in a big posh hotel in my youth (who said back in the 1840s?)

Cheapo sliced bread was delivered by the ton. Some poor commis chefs spent about an hour or so between 5.30 and 6.30 toasting 1,000s of slices of toast in an industrial toaster (the ones that have a conveyor belt though them between the elements toasting the bread on both sides), one of them feeding it and one collecting the toasted bread at the other end and stacking it back together in a specially made tray about 3'6" x 3'6".

Later,(much later) when we came to collect the cooked breakfast order from the kitchen the cold toast would be taken from it's pile, cut in half and popped into a toast rack.

Yummy _pale_

And that was just the toast - what they did with the fried eggs was enough to turn your stomach........................

Penny-Pincher!!

I love fresh bread cut and toasted. Leave to cool slightly then spread thick butter on it...yummy. Also nice with either cherry jam or marmite mixed up with the butter:o

wishingonastar_3

ooh, i hate butter on toast, got to be pure neat marmite for me, whilst still hot.