to proclaim that my DH is all kinds of wrong in how he prepares his croissants...

[dayslikethis]

Please settle an argument - marital bliss is at stake here.

I know think that when putting jam on a croissant you stick the knife into the croissant and spread it around on the INSIDE.

DH believes wrongly that you should upturn said croissant and spread jam on the bottom.

He's wrong - right? Please tell me I'm right!

Best way is to cut them in half and warm them under the grill, so that the top goes a bit crispy. Then spread with salted butter. Divine!

Well, was going to say that I think they're yummy any way you eat them.... but didn't think it was possible to be that weird.... he's very wrong... LTB!

Tear a bit, spread a bit, eat a bit. perfect with a really good coffee.

I can't believe it got to page 3 before a LTB.

We cut croissant in half, stuff with ham and emmental, then microwave for 15ish seconds each.

dons asbestos suit

He does what? Why do that? He's so very wrong.

Tear a bite sized piece off the end, spread butter and/or jam on the exposed part of your torn morsel and get it in your belly! Repeat.

Mmm love croissants. I always do the tearing off, dipping a bit in coffee. They come served with a knife and fork in NZ cafes , so I probably I'm looking a bit uncivilized ?

Why do you care?

Tear off a bit and dip it in coffee

Ham and mozzarella mmmm

In France, we don't put butter nor jam on our croissants.

Croissants are mostly butter anyway, why would you add more? Just dip it in your coffee.

Edma in France you have better croissants, here in the UK there are very few places to buy a decent croissant & you do need to put some jam or something on them, and getting back to the original question definitely tearing off bits to eat.

DH French relatives never put butter on croissants . They sometimes do jam and in the winter dip in hot choc.
I like all ways !!

Most croissants require butter and jam.

Unless it's a pain au chocolate in which case just raspberry jam.

Tear and spread. Anything else is too messy.

Haven't read all replies but I am also weird.
I hate trying to cut open a soft croissant so if I am having jam I spread it on the bottom.
If you cut it open you don't get an even spread because of all the holes in the pastry bleugh!

French family and partly raised in France and I've never heard of that before... Dipping it in tea/coffee is lovely though

Or just eat them straigh out of the bag. Nothing nicer than a freshly baked croissant.

Tear off a bite-sized piece, slather butter (and sometimes jam/Nutella) on the torn edge of the piece before cramming it in.

Or just plain and dipping in coffee/hot chocolate.

Nutella? Nutella?? What is wrong with you?

In my youth I went out with an extremely posh boy (old Etonian, aristocratic family connections etc) who was APPALLED at me slicing open the croissant and putting butter and jam on the inside. Apparently the socially acceptable way is to tear it in half and put jam on the top (yes, so that it weirdly slides off the non-absorbent surface). Also, it's very gauche to warm them in the oven. Bonus points if you offer guests 'viennoiserie' rather than croissants.

Croissants must be warmed in oven. Then tear bits of and apply lovely butter and jam, must also be accompanied with a cup of tea.

Vair posh people usually have the most horrendous habits. I find they fart, belch and pick their noses gleefully in public.

I bet they fed the dogs croissants off the good china too.

Not the queen. I'm sure she doesn't fart ever.