After 60 years on this planet I've discovered something monumental about toast!

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If you leave it cool for 30 seconds and then put the butter on it tastes better cos the butter doesn't melt and you can actually taste the butter!
It's probably healthier as well cos you need less butter.
Mind blown!

YABU - Toast with melted butter is yummy

YANBU - OMG : Get OP a knighthood for services to toast

I have always done this. If you can’t see teeth marks in the layer of butter, that’s just wrong.

Have to say I pity the OP for having taken so long to realise this.

yes to 2 types of toast - melty is my go to but occasionally like coldish rubbery toast with visible butter

the best toast I’ve ever had was made with Brennans Pan (Irish but I think you can get it over here)

I must try this method as I hate soggy toast, but love butter melted into it. The toast must always crunch with every bite.

I can't bear the butter melted into the toast! I have hot toast and butter each piece before eating with butter straight from the fridge, so I get hot toast and cold unsalted butter! Perfect!

When I was a child I liked cooled down burnt toast (and I mean black) with the butter very much visible as a layer on top. I was a strange child😆 And yes, I know it was probably carcinogenic or something.

I quite like it like that too. Not all the time, they’re two different experiences. Melty toast and crunchy toast.

This would be too much in the morning, but is perfect on a Sunday evening... cold buttered toast with anchovies on

Yabvvvvu. If i get interupted mid toast makibg, and it cools, i have to make new toast.

Oops, wrong thread.

And don’t get me started on butter - the only way to keep butter in tip top condition is wrapped in its packaging in the fridge - none of this leaving it on the side nonsense

I’m with Nigella on this. Double buttered right up to the edges. With proper butter 😋

You need an old fashioned toast rack.

I make industrial white bread into Melba Toast, the perfect vehicle for loads of butter!
Do one slice normally, splice it into two thinner slices and toast it back to back for a shorter time. Also good with bitter marmalade or pâté.

No thanks!

Black toast does you no harm, some people use it to curb acid reflux.

No, no, no. Toast needs to be hot and the butter needs to melt. It's why I prefer to make my own at hotels, family breakfast etc, so that I can make it just when I want it.

Haha I’m with you. We had cold toast in toast racks at school.

My mouth is watering. I’m off to the toaster …

I hate it when the butter melts in and it’s a nasty smeggy mess. Much prefer the cold butter on top method.

Aul' Mr Brennan

I was going to say that I do the same, but only to eat it standing in the kitchen, obviously.

In my opinion the very best toast, for high days and holidays, is done under the grill - toast one side, turn, butter the uncooked side, toast that side so butter melts in, remove from grill and butter again. Have the lid off the jam/butter/knife ready so that it can be kept as hot as possible.

The next best is done on a toasting fork on a fire.

Cold toast, aka Punishment Food, is eaten under suffrance in hotels.

Best spread is blackcurrant jam, sloe jelly or a dark, thick cut marmalade.

Me too, but I'm going to have crumpets. In the interests of this discussion, I shall try one with the leaving to get cold before buttering and the other where the butter melts in. I shall report back.

I remember Saturday mornings in the 1970s, my brother and I would demolish an entire loaf, toasted and smothered in butter, whilst watching Sat morning tv.

we were both very skinny! How! Imagine doing that now 😳🤣

Crumpets have to be cooked really well and served hot so the butter leaves a puddle on the plate.
Toast is best left to cool as I can't bear hot toast with melted butter that has gone cold by the time I get back to bed to eat it.