Buttered Toast

When do you butter your bread for buttered toast

  • Before toasting

    Votes: 5 20.8%

  • After toasting

    Votes: 14 58.3%

  • Both… for your health

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • Total voters
    24
orange150 said:
Buttering the bread before toasting is king
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Yeah I agree but you gotta be a high roller w/ a toaster oven or making enough to justify an oven.
Just can't seem to make this or cheese toast work in my 20 year old popup toaster w/o a mess :D
 
RatLabGuy said:
Yeah but you gotta be a high roller w/ a toaster oven or making enough to justify an oven.
Just can't seem to make this or cheese toast work in my 20 year old popup toaster :D
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Ah, cheese toast is a world of its own. Introduced my kids to it years ago and it seems it’s all they want now. :)
 
rockcity said:
Ah, cheese toast is a world of its own. Introduced my kids to it years ago and it seems it’s all they want now. :)
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yep. Its just hard to account for the time to heat up an oven just for that, and I'm so tight on counter space we can't justify the toaster oven.
 
These things are the bomb.

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OMG MY WORLD JUST CHANGED

I just realized I can turn my toaster on its side and cook pre-buttered toast in the now-top spot!

Needs a little refinement, the bottom came out a lot more cooked than the top, probably from being closer to the coils, and all teh crumbs fell onto the lower element making a smokey mess...
But thsi is workable!
 
McCracken said:
I've done both and regularly switch it up because I'm still not convinced one way is better than the other.
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The thing about buttering afterwards is that you end up w/ crunchiness cooked flavor on both sides. Pre-buttered prevents the top from bowning, so its more like a marriage of the inards of a buttered roll and toast.
 
We're missing the "both" option here. Some of us have a physique to maintain :laughing:
 
Yep, it's a new one for me too, but it's a winner!
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Palmetto cheese toast bagels, broiled in the toaster oven.
 
RatLabGuy said:
The thing about buttering afterwards is that you end up w/ crunchiness cooked flavor on both sides. Pre-buttered prevents the top from bowning, so its more like a marriage of the inards of a buttered roll and toast.
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X2. Different flavors completely.

Grilled cheese has the same decision, as well. Do you brown/ toast the bread before adding the cheese or not? I prefer it and grilled pimento cheese to be toasted first when eating with soup, as it adds a crunchy element, and is better for dipping, IMO. But otherwise, soft with loads of butter in the pan.
 
Immediately after toasting, but you have to pre melt the butter and brush it on. Add a little garlic powder or cinnamon sugar if desired...
 
JNO said:
Y’all need to take it to another level, you hadn’t had real buttered toast until you have it on a griddle, throw some butter on a hot griddle then throw toast on butter and cook till you see your favorite color on toast emerge, your welcome
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thats grilled bread. There's no toasting happeneing,
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
X2. Different flavors completely.

Grilled cheese has the same decision, as well. Do you brown/ toast the bread before adding the cheese or not? I prefer it and grilled pimento cheese to be toasted first when eating with soup, as it adds a crunchy element, and is better for dipping, IMO. But otherwise, soft with loads of butter in the pan.
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Grilled cheese is a different story though bc cheese is in the middle and both sides of the bread are gonna get cooked anyway.

There's even an eimportant difference in how you butter the bread for grilled cheese. I always threw a bad on the skillet, mushed it around, then dropped the bread on top.
Years ago though my wife showed me it was so much better to first butter the whole breade, then drop it on. You get a nice eeeeven dispursion of butter baked into the bread, and less singular burnt spots.
 
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