To ask why brown bread cheese toasties are so shit?

[MrsOldma]

Just that really. Why do cheese toasties made in a toasty machine not turn out nice if you use brown bread? What’s the science behind that?

Toasted sandwiches made with granary are the best! Not in a machine though, in a press thingy.
Cheese, tomato, pesto....

@Durgasarrow there’s the science I was looking for!!!

You need thinner brown bread slices and apply butter on the outside.

Just tried it. You are right it was too dry and crispy and the cheese burnt tasting. Had a while one and great.

@ClareBlue

Just tried it. You are right it was too dry and crispy and the cheese burnt tasting. Had a while one and great.

Oooooh a live experiment !

Could more butter be the answer? I mean, more butter is my answer to many things, but you know.

@GrumpyHoonMain

You need thinner brown bread slices and apply butter on the outside.

Butter on the outside is hands down the answer to this problem.

I occasionally really want an old school toasty machine one but don't want to buy a whole machine for my once a year fancy!

I bought mine for less than a tenner- absolutely worth the investment IMO

Do you butter the outside? I do agree about the bread but I find that if I butter it it is goes nice and nutty.

Agree with the starch comment but also wonder if there’s more sugar in white bread, that might crisp up to give a better crunch on white bread? But yes, you’re absolutely right. Brown bread toasties just don’t work- it’s a fact!

Sourdough with cheese in the toastie machine. Need a strong arm to close it but you don't need to eat again for 24 hours

If you make a toasted cheese sandwich with wholemeal bread, the cheese just seems to disappear into thin air. On white bread it is so lovely, with an abundance of melted cheese. I had no idea that other people also suffered in this way.

I thought everyone buttered the outside of the bread? Surely it would stick otherwise

@ohffs66

I use brown bread but it has to be granary, none of that horrible wholemeal stuff. I make toasties in a frying pan tho, not sure if that makes a difference

What witchcraft is this?!?! Buttery, fried bread with cheese in? Is that it?

I shall be a stone heavier by next weekend for I am about to eat a dozen...

Has to be white bread. Also we sometimes make pizza pockets in it when we have made too much dough and the kids announce they don’t want actual pizza but apparently a pocket is acceptable

White bread, slather the outsides with mayonnaise & cook on a griddle or frying pan. Crispy on the outside gooey in the middle perfect grilled cheese. Bacon sandwiches, fried egg & sausages sandwiches don't work on brown either.

Agree. It has to be white.

Aw now I want a tuna melt toastie!

Because you are using inferior brown bread. Mine taste great.

@PercyKirke what brown bread would you recommend?

I had a whole meal pitta cheese and chutney toastie for lunch. It was very nice.

I have a dualit toaster with a sandwich cage (so bread doesn't get squashed) wholemeal toasties are great.
Never buy 'brown' bread - only wholemeal.

& rather than buttering the outside of the sandwich, I just give it a squirt with spray oil.

Because brown bread is disgusting

Omg l always wondered this too!!!

I find brown (well, wholemeal or seeded) is too 'dry' for toasties. Similarly fried bread - it doesn't matter how much butter you add, it makes a bitty, dry-texture. White bread is the only thing for toasties and fried bread.

Sandwiches and toast, wholemeal is fab.