Crumpets - how do you take yours ?

[TheTecknician]

I don't normally buy crumpets but this morning I saw some sourdough ones in the reduced section in Morrison's so I thought it would be rude not to, especially as I bought a fresh block of Lurpak yesterday. I have been known to top them with blue Stilton and potted beef but I generally just use butter. Not too much, mind, as it gets everywhere!

They must be adequately toasted too. Underdone or nuked crumpets are just no good.

Jam and cheese on my crumpets!

Really well grilled (don’t have a toaster) on both sides so they go dark and quite hard and then so much better that it melts out on the plate and marmite. Livid now that I don’t have crumpets.

Quite well done and with just butter on.

Well done with butter, Marmite and melted cheese.

Well done. One with butter, one with melted cheese and one with jam

Really well toasted, to the point of being almost burnt, and plenty of salted butter.
Eggy crumpets are good too (dipped in beaten egg and fried like Eggy bread)

Interesting. I'm assuming you toast them before dipping?

No, just dip the cold crumpet in egg and then fry it.

Eggy crumpets here too, but I add grated cheese to the beaten egg and eat with Branstons pickle.

Agree with the very well done close to burnt. Lurpak and grated cheese on top.

Well done, one with butter and pate, one with butter and brie. In fact that's lunch sorted today.

I don't like savoury crumpets, love cheese on toast (and cheese in general!) tried it on crumpets and had to throw them away. Very sad. The closest I get to savoury crumpets is dipping buttered ones in soup, works very well, lots of surface area!

I like lots of butter - it has to make a mess, or it's not enough.

I like butter and jam.

I really like chocolate spread and then cherry jam.

ETA, they must be toasted using the frozen bread function, to get crispy enough!

Lightly toasted with either nutella or butter and honey!

Loads of butter and melted cheese!

I like them as a bread substitute for beans on toast. Lots of butter, beans, grated cheese on top.

Either with salted butter or Nutella 😋.

Pale and floppy isn't for me so I toast them for quite a while.

Yes, very well done, and with butter and marmite to start, followed by golden syrup.

Agree that they need to be very well toasted and served with plenty of salted butter.

Well toasted with a poached egg on top. Delicious.

Well toasted with a large quantity of butter.

Well done with butter.

Well toasted with salted butter, a thin layer of marmite and then cheese.

Or with stilton

Or with pate

Lightly toasted, three minutes only, then lashings of salted butter pressed down into the holes. There is a real art in cramming the maximum amount of butter into the crumpet.

I’m in the well toasted and crispy gang, with just butter is good but even better is butter then a good peanut butter, or marmite. Or marmite peanut butter. Mmm

Butter or cheese or marmite.

somehow, crumpets toast better under the grill than in a toaster.