The toaster is the first appliance many of us ever used in the kitchen.
Not only is it easy to use, it's fun.
It's hard not to be charmed by that cute little act the toaster runs through every morning,
dramatically flinging its ingredients out of the slots to let you know that it's time to eat.
And then there's the wonderful gift it offers: warm breakfast food.
If you have a particular affinity for your toaster, get ready. It's perhaps about to become
toast. If you want to enjoy that sourdough or 7-grain or country baguette with the
true gusto with which bread is meant to be enjoyed, it's much better to fry it.
GQ reports that many people feel that the path to the perfect toast is via a frying pan.
While methods and materials vary, using a thick piece of bread and frying it in golden bubbles of
oil results in the perfect consistency — crisp and crunchy outsides, and soft and delectable insides.
The discovery of fried bread is an eye-opening moment for those who give it a try — and many
people discover its deliciousness by accident, according to Bon Appetit.
When you're already in the kitchen and preparing other breakfast foods like eggs in a frying pan,
it's just another natural step to toss in a piece of bread and see what happens.
Frying bread in a pan is so simple you won't find many recipes for this delicacy. According to
Extra Crispy, it's just a slice of bread that's literally pan-fried. You'll just want to flip
it once so it crisps on both sides. You can use olive oil or butter for frying. If you're feeling
extra "naughty," let it bubble up in the lard of your breakfast bacon, suggests Christina’s Cucina.
The technique works with basically any kind of bread. It's a great way to do justice to
a gorgeous rustic crust you've been eyeing at the corner bakery, but it's also a way to add
glamor to ordinary sandwich bread or a loaf that's about one day away from being tossed in the trash.
Choosing white bread makes it the perfect hangover food, according to Lifehacker.
Best of all, unlike a toaster, which can be complicated and potentially hazardous to clean,
cleanup is just a rinse in the sink.
If you're just too emotionally attached to your toaster to give it up, you may want to enjoy fried
toast without leaving your favorite kitchen appliance out of the equation. A Reddit user
tried just that and claimed the result was even better than anything he could have accomplished
with a pan. He put room temperature butter on both sides of the bread. The user taunted,
"All of you unlucky sods using pans to make fried bread.
Have a go when you can and tell me it's not the best."
Some Redditors raised concerns about whether applying butter to toast before toasting it
is a fire hazard. Indeed, Epicurious says you could burn down the house with this technique.
So while, buttering bread on both sides and placing it in a toaster oven is a pan-free
way to achieve the texture and taste of fried toast, it might be best to stick with the pan.
"Toast! I smell burning toast!"
"Oh, my God, my toast!"
You may be wondering how pan-fried toast could be combined with the other toast-based fad of
the past few years: avocado toast. Among foodies, the jury is still out on that one. The flavor and
texture combination is silky and gritty all at once, which… may not be for everyone. Avocado,
butter, and bread are all top-notch ingredients, but they may not be a perfect combination.
That said, a recipe from Soup Addict does combine fried bread and avocado toast,
and in an act of extraordinary ambition, throws in eggs,
claiming that there's nothing greasy or overly oily about the combo. But perhaps
mixing rich avocado with bread that's taken a bath in oil is a bit much, notes Food52.
Then again, the United States is a nation that fries Twinkies. Perhaps fried avocado toast
is kind of like carnival food: worth giving a try, but not an everyday meal.
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