To think that hot cross buns should be eaten hot?

[MillieMoodle]

My first thread in AIBU, but DH has driven me to write this with his insistence that hot cross buns should be eaten cold with butter and never toasted.

I am of the opinion that HOT cross buns should be toasted first and then smothered in butter.

His opinions on hot cross buns, coupled with his shit taste in biscuits are making me question how on earth we have managed 12 seemingly happy years together.

So, in the case of the hot cross buns, who IBU?!

Toasted

Butting back in to agree that scones should be fruitless. Jam, fine. Raisins, fuck off.

Cold ???? What sort of madness is this ? Toasted with lots of lovely butter.

For those of you who do eat them cold don't you find them a bit clammy ? Now don't get me started on all the 'fancy' flavours of Hot cross bun. Cherry and Almond ? Chocolate ? What's that all about ?

My oh just eats them.... no butter or anything.... it's grounds for leaving quite frankly.

He does it with scones too 😱

Ah now I like a cherry scone now and again. I'm also partial to welsh cakes but they're a bit like flat scones really.

I hate melted butter so I toast them and then let them go cold before slapping in the butter and eating.

I agree with your dhs biscuit choices!

Warmed in the oven, then butter. Toaster a poor second

I spent one Easter in Bermuda. Hot cross buns with fishcakes inside them is traditional (and wrong in so many ways). Eaten on the beach whilst flying kites.

Hot cross bun, toasted. Add thick slices of a good mature cheddar. Eat with a boiled egg. Easter covered, religion satisfied.

There are nearly two weeks before Good Friday-hot or cold that is when they should be eaten.

Thora Crumpets with Gentleman's Relish are fab.

Total waste to restrict consumption to one day a year, Saints.
Hot cross buns make a great alternative bread and butter pudding too.

thepurple - Welsh cakes are most definitely not flat scones!

Toasted hot cross buns best but will eat cole. However, the addition of 'new' ingredients (orange, cranberries, chocolate!!) renders it not a hot cross bun.

For those of you who do eat them cold don't you find them a bit clammy ?

Well yes, that's the best thing about them. The more glaze the better, nicely browned, and I love a nice thick white cross (to pick off first).

LTB - yadnbu. Toasted is the only way.

Nice biscuits and malted milk are ok biscuits, not fab but ok, fruit shortcake waste of time.

Crumpets are definitely sweet - ds's current breakfast of choice (with butter and golden syrup)

Hot cross buns caused a shifting of tectonic plates in my and dh's / mil's relationship. His parents were round, we were gardening or some such all outside, dmil offered to go in and make the hot cross buns, she returned moments later with cold cross buns, buttered. DH looked at her like she was actually insane and asked why she hadn't toasted them. She was agog and said but we never have them toasted. DH replied we always have them toasted here, it just wrong if they are cold. Right then and there I knew he was mine and dmil was history disclaimer: I do love mil, she is a lovely person (although clearly misguided in the ways of hot cross buns) so this wasn't a power struggle thing, but there was, as I said, a definite shift that day - lol!

Oh and by the way CHEESE?

Crumpets are fab as eggy crumpets or grilled with hot cheese dripping into the holes.

Mmmm. I like them both ways. I enjoy the carby, doughiness of the bottom half untoasted with butter. Then again I love them lightly toasted under the grill and spread with a great wodge of butter. I always find the glaze on the top catches in my toaster and burns which is very upsetting.

Nope I prefer cold with butter. My dh only eats them cold with NO butter so literally as they come. Waitrose chocolate orange hot cross buns are amazing by the way.

Hahahahaha this is my DP too ! It pisses me off and seems odd as they are called HOT cross buns

Crumpets are most definitely sweet. To be eaten with butter or jam or honey or Nutella. Not savoury. I tried them with marmite once. Definitely not savoury. Even DH agrees with me on this (although he doesn't like marmite).

Scones should have jam and clotted cream. DH eats them with butter only and calls them scohnes instead of scons.

I am seriously wondering how we have managed together for so long when we are clearly poles apart when it comes to bakery-stuffs.

And I can't get over cheese on a hot cross bun. It's all different kinds of wrong.

A good strong cheddar on a hot cross bun is amazing. Bun is toasted and buttered, then cold cheese on top, do not melt the cheese.

M&S toffee and chocolate hotcross buns are great, thee chocolate goes melty.

Hot cross buns should always be served warm.

I'll admit to occasionally making large square cheese scones that get used for sandwiches instead of bread. One son has more cheese in his, another swears my pepperoni and ham.

Hot cross buns should be cold and squidgy and eaten from the packet. Sometimes with butter and jam.

Cold, with salted butter. The cheese is a Yorkshire thing I think. Like Christmas cake and cheese, or apple pie and cheese.

Huldra noooo! DH's idea of a toasted cheese sandwich is to get me to toast two slices of bread and then put cold cheese in the middle, so the cheese doesn't melt it just goes kind of sweaty. Bleurgh. It should be a cheese sandwich, toasted in a sandwich toaster so the cheese goes all melty.

PIL's also eat hot cross buns cold, so are as unreasonable as DH.

Still struggling with the concept of cheese on a hot/cold/whatever cross bun though. Can't even begin to comprehend cheese with apple pie or cheese with Christmas cake though

the appalling taste in biscuits sees our cupboards filled with malted milks, fruit shortcakes and sodding Nice biscuits
With the exception of the fruit shortcake that's grounds for divorce.
The hot cross buns should be eaten one just buttered, then one toasted with butter, and then a third in whichever of the two previous forms tasted better to the individual.
And now I feel like eating one..... (or three)