I have phases where plain, untoasted toast bread is exactly what I want to eat. And I live in Germany, good bread is quite readily available, though it’s getting pretty expensive these days compared to storebrand toast. On that note, good bread with butter is great. Truly great bread tastes good plain!
The annoying part is that getting a fresh loaf with just the right amount of moisture depends on luck and/or getting to the baker really early. For my tastes, German rye/wheat sourdough bread turns from “great” to “just OK” rather quickly, especially if you’re buying half loafes because you’re living in a one person household.
One of my last memories of my father is making him toast. Then he asked for another. Then we laughed when he asked for more. We ate the whole loaf laughing.
That’s a wonderful memory, thank you for sharing. I’ve got a massive smile on my face imagining you guys laughing so much that it was hard to eat the toast. That might not be how it happened, but it’s a sweet mental image nonetheless
Toast is a weird thing where you take bread, which is baked, and you say “no, this needs to be baked even more! In fact I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this!”
We’ve had one, yes, but what about second maillard reaction?
We do that with other stuff too. Twice fried chips (i.e. thicker french fries) are incredible.
Actually, that makes sense now that I think about it. Twice fried chips involves frying once at a lower temperature, and then again at a bit higher temperature. I imagine this is what’s happening with toast too, as I’m pretty sure the toaster is operating at a higher temperature than what the bread is baked at. We want the exterior browning of the higher temperature, but we also need the bread to rise properly in the oven.
Did someone say buttered toast??
My dad and I used to eat an entire French baguette on the way home from the grocery store. I love bread.
restrain yourself
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My daughter came over once & I had fresh sourdough I’d made so I offered her bread and water.
“May I offer you fresh sourdough with butter and chilled filtered water?”
Yes I don’t get tired of that. Good bread is good. So good.
Id rather have some olive oil and balsamic vinegar but yeah I’d eat that every day if I could
There are people who don’t experience this?’
Try fresh tortillas, they work the same way. Not the precooked ones, but the raw ones you cook on a pan.
If you ever find yourself in Mexico, go to a neighborhood tortillería and buy a couple of fresh tortillas. They may have been made using a machine but they’re so soft and smell amazing. I’d usually walk out with a small bag in one hand and a rolled up tortilla in the other.
My coworker’s family runs one and sometimes they bring me back a bag. It’s not fresh obviously, but they’re still better than anything I’ve found at the store.
I really need to find a good tortilleria here.
But yeah, I’m still trying to convince my SO to go, but the news about cartel activities certainly don’t help.
Toasted English muffin with cream cheese and jelly goes crazy.
Sounds like you want a bagel.
Nah, bagels are great, but they’re completely different texturally
Edit: not in a bad way, just different in a sense where a bagel isn’t a replacement for an English muffin (nor a muffin a replacement for a bagel)
Mmmmm Fresh sourdough from a bakery
Occasional?
Doesn’t every culture on earth have some sort of bread product? I would guess that is because once you have it, it is addictive.
My understanding is that it’s a borrowed food in east Asia, esp Japan and Korea. Japan uses the Portuguese word “pão”, and Korean “bbang” is a derivative of that, and but Chinese bao seems to be different. I’m guessing a lot of eastern and south east Asian countries are similar.
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Cenovis but I’m with you 100% on that one. My kids and wife don’t share my live of the black stuff, but it is so good!
