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.

With lemon curd or marmite and peanut butter 😋

Well toasted

Butter and marmite

or

Butter and a poached or fried egg with a runny yolk

Crispy, with butter and golden syrup. Or: with tomato puree and cheese then grilled so it's like a little pizza.

Usually just butter.
Very occasionally with golden syrup.

Lightly toasted and too much butter.

Done on a toasting fork, both sides over my coal fire.
Then swamped with butter.

Wow, thanks, I need to try that! Sounds a bit like the M&S café Giant Welsh Rarebit Crumpet. So so good.

Well done with butter and marmite or if I want something sweet, butter and apricot or bramble jam, home made of course, although not made by me. 😁

3, quite well done. 1 with cheese, 1 with peanut butter, one with jam. Start, main, pudd.

Properly toasted, as in crispy, proper butter and marmite.

There is nothing worse than a flaccid crumpet.

Just slightly toasted with a ton of butter.

Very well toasted, preferably burnt around the edges with so much butter it drips everywhere when you bite into it

Exactly this! 😋

Purely as a vehicle for melted butter. As much as can be absorbed.

Double toasted, lashings of butter and marmite.

This is an amazing thread

Who are all you 'lightly toasted' heathens?! Crumpets need to be crispy and a bit black around the edges!

All the ‘well done’ people are mad. Nothing is improved by over toasting.
Lightly toasted so a little bit crisp on the outside, lots of butter. It going everywhere is the point. Maybe some cheese if it’s for an actual meal.

Well toasted and dark, lashings of salted butter and plain cottage cheese, or Philadelphia with a sprinkle of pink Himalayan sea salt... Mmm...

This or with scrambled egg

With lashings of butter

Sometimes with honey as well

With tomato puree and cheese and grilled so like a crumpet pizza (sometimes with ham or other toppings if I feel like it)

Buttered and with a poached egg, or a chopped up boiled egg on top

(Oh and well toasted, I like a bit of crunch)

For breakfast or a snack, well done with plenty of butter.
For a fancy brunch, eggy crumpets with well done streaky bacon and siracha sauce.
For supper, well done with some strong mature cheddar with strawberry jam.

Another one who has them very well toasted here! OH has them just warm 🤢

I like them with plenty of butter and a scraping of jam - sometimes if I’m in the mood a nutella one.

Well done and crispy. With Marmite and butter 😋

Grill both sides,
Butter,
Sprinkle with demerara sugar and sweet cinnamon,
Back under the grill to caramelise.