Hello and welcome to Mashable's Air Friday. I am culture reporter Tim Marcin.
And on air Friday we air free anything and everything in the name of deliciousness.
And this week we are making French toast sticks.
Okay.
This recipe, like many of our Air Friday recipes,
comes from Tik Tok, this time from the user Ari Monica.
Now, it should be pretty straightforward,
but the first step we're going to do is take some thick cut bread.
They had Texas toast.
I'm going with brioche because that's what my sister had.
And you're going to cut off the crust like you're feeding your five year old.
So going to take that off and just kind of repeat that process for all your bread.
So you're looking for this kind of an uncrustables situation.
Go ahead.
Get the rest of your bread and we're just going to cut the edges off.
So you have something that looks like this, and then you're going to take this bread and cut them
into vaguely stick shape things.
And wow, there you have it.
Now, I don't know about you,
but if you went to public school in Delaware, around the 2000 French toast six was the breakfast
of choice. That was the best day on the cafeteria menu.
So the way we're going to start to recreate that wonderful,
childlike wonder is we're going to take these little sticks and we're going to throw them in the
air fryer and precooked them for 3 minutes.
The ticktock from Larry Monica says this should make your French toast a little less soggy.
So we're going to give the our tray a little spray. We take our sticks.
We're just going to drop them in there and we're going
to cook them for 3 minutes at 385 just to kind of harden them up a little bit before they go into an
egg mixture to make that classic French toast. Okay.
So our toast has been in the fire for way less than 3 minutes and I would recommend 385 at 3 minutes is
way too long.
This we didn't even have the air fryer preheated yet.
And look,
you've got a nice toast on it. So just keep an eye on what you do here.
Just make sure you're not burning your toast before even making French toast.
So next steps, really easy.
Cooking spray never hurts. Just put it down on your air.
Fryer, tray,
take your toast. And it's simple.
French toast, French toasting procedure.
I guess we have two eggs, about half a cup of milk,
and we have some cinnamon, some vanilla and some brown sugar about a teaspoon
each according to the ticktock.
So all you're going to do is take the French toast stick.
So it to you got something like this. Drop it on.
Repeat that process for each stick and then the tick tock again says the air fry at 385 for 10
minutes.
I'm guessing that's going to be way, way,
way too long.
So just keep an eye on it and we'll give you an update on how long you should probably actually cook it
for.
But 10 minutes seems like a really long time to cook French shows.
But anyway, there's your process.
Okay. So our French toast sticks are done cooking.
Now, these only took a couple of minutes,
and I think that there may be a couple of reasons why ours cooked so much quicker than the ones in the
TikTok.
One, I think our bread was a little bit thinner than the
super thick Texas toast, which might be a little bit more difficult to find.
So keep that in mind, depending on the bread you're using.
And then two, you never know with which air fryer you're using,
how powerful it's going to be.
So just a couple of minutes of 385 and these things are pretty well cooked.
So the last the final step here is to take the cooked French toast sticks and just give them a little dip
and some brown sugar cinnamon.
This is about, I don't know,
half a cup of sugar cinnamon mixed in.
Basically, you just want that classic mix.
You should be able to see the brown mixed throughout the sugar.
And I mean, you get the picture here,
you're putting this process over and over. What I'm going to do is take one of these bad boys.
Dividend. Some syrup.
Give it a taste.
It's very good. It's French toasties.
It will take you back to your middle school days.
Getting in the cafeteria early, you get the French toast because if you went to a
school similar to mine.
Now, is this so much easier than cooking French toast in
a pan?
No, it's really not.
I don't understand why he would bring out the air fryer,
preheat it, do all that,
and create probably about the same amount of mess as you would just using a non-stick pan on the
stovetop.
But, hey,
I'm not going to judge how you cook your food. And French toast.
Six rock. So you do you.