Depends, only if its fresh bread and preferably sourdough :3
This is me, but with naan and baba ganoush. Can put away 10 slices of naan if I’m left unsupervised.
Did someone say buttered toast??
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.
Occasional?
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.
Folk Wisdom: The whiter the bread the quicker you’re dead.
I really struggle to get through bread. Even whatever the hell the McDonalds brioche is made of, I can’t always finish it.
Try making a fresh loaf at home, it’s way better. I can finish a fresh, whole wheat loaf in a sitting.
Only when I make my own bread. Store bought bread is basically tasteless and should only be used as a medium to contain sandwich ingredients when you wre too tired/lazy/incapable of making your own.
Where do you live? I feel like this rings quite differently if you live in the US or UK, vs. one of the central European countries with a rich bread tradition.
100% this, but some fancier breads are fine from the store.
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.
Just freeze the part that you dont plan to immediately eat. Im also a german enjoyer of fresh and/or homemade bread and thats what ive been doing for years. Buy bread/brötchen and directly chuck it in the freezer. When you need some, it will thaw in like 1-2h if you just leave it in a paper bag. The consistency and crunchyness will be perfectly preserved in my experience. If you need it fast then a microwave and/or toaster can help, but the microwave can make it mushy if you leave it too long.
re: buttered sourdough bread: also fantastic is texas toast on a skillet - just melt the butter, let the bread soak it up on each side, then pan toast that shit. it’s glorious.
Buttered toast with peanut butter. If you can get some homemade apple butter to make it a sandwich, now that’s the best thing ever.
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?
So maybe this is better pondered after a bong hit… but the point of making toast is really to expose the soft inside of the bread and crisp that up like the crust of the original bread. So, with a thick slice like Texas Toast, could you cut that toast into strips and re-toast the newly-exposed edges? What would that be called? And how many times could you do that?
At a certain point you just have croutons
I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this
Throw the bread in a pan is so 1900.
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.
Used to up until my early 20s, I very rarely buy plain white bread now and it’s not that common in stores here (Sweden). Obviously there’s two or three brands of basic white toast bread and some in store fresh white bread but we have tons of choices with so many different ingredients, and never any weird additives or bread that is as much bread as american cheese is cheese (seen those kinds abroad and from images and videos from the US).
My current two favourites are a wholegrain durum wheat sourdough with flaxseeds and sea salt and the other is a rye sourdough with wort, barley malt and a small amount of dark treacle (similar to molasses in taste). But I often try new kinds, even the smaller food stores here have like 30 different breads (not including stuff like burger and hot dog buns etc.)
