/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12498563
helps with multitasking i suppose. i've noticed that toasters dry out bread before it gets brown and that doing it in a pan keeps the bread moister though.

because toasters taste like 90 seconds you brainlet

I heard avocado toast is popular. I want to invent a toaster that toasts avocados to make it easier for millennials to get their toasted avocados.

>>12498584
what do 90 seconds taste like?

>>12498563
I nearly always do it like this, or under the broiler. But toaster is a lot quicker and easier.

>>12498594
No. The TOASTERS taste like 90 seconds. You just don't get it.

>>12498594
idk?? depends on your toaster retard

Before the toaster was made people just used "toaster racks," which I think were just metal grilles you placed on top of a pan so you can toast bread on it.

I remember reading the when the toaster was invented, people (particularly the English for some reason) were up in arms about how toasters yielded objectively inferior bread than the old-fashioned method.
So yes, toasters were once a meme but they won out.

>>12498563
ITT: anon old enough to live in own apartment discovers that toast can be made on pan

>>12498622
wait till he figures out what else can be made in a pan

>>12498563
I would agree entirely if it weren't for the fact that toasters are way more efficient. If I had to choose between slightly dry toast and paying more for gas (I make toast a lot), I'd rather bad toast; save the pan for those real gucci ham n cheese toasties.

>>12498563
Toasting bread created toast, who would have known. You should contact NASA OP

I have never owned a toaster and I probably never will. They are stupid crap gadgets for stupid people who don't cook and think shitty pre-sliced bread is a good food. Toasters and microwave ovens are how I can tell someone is a moron.

>>12498629
If your toaster makes your bread too dry, it's not strong enough. Switching from a 400w toaster to a 600w made a big difference for me.

>>12498594
Salty coins

>>12500635
>Toasters
i have never set foot in a house without a toaster

>>12498563
>it works
what did you fucking think would happen?

>>12500635
Exactly. 35 and never owned either one. My family had a toaster oven when I was growing up. Microwaves are for lazy retards.
>but what about....?
I can cook it in on the stove or in the oven and it will be better than anything a mircowave has ever produced

>>12498618
The English absolutely would be the only ones impassioned and experienced enough by bread texture to be up in arms about toast quality.

These are the people who invented the "pringles sandwich" (a handful of pringles chips between two soft slices of bread), the "chip butty" (a handful of french fries, steak frites, or "chips" between two slices of buttered soft bread), and most relevantly, the "toast sandwich" (un-ironically, a piece of toast between two slices of soft bread).

>>12498563
toaster toast is dryer and provides a different texture

also as other anons have said its better for multitasking breakfast

>>12501122
Must be a struggle for somebody raised on wonderbread to fathom but most of Europe has a strong baking tradition and takes their bread seriously.

>>12498563
>frying slices

This is the important phrase. You see, anon, what you have made is fried bread, not toast.

You're welcome.

>>12501209
Oh, I would totally expect the French, Italians, and Germanics to care about the ingredients, the baking conditions, the techniques used for each step in the bread-making process, as they are known for their famous quality breads.

England isn't about the bread quality like other parts of Europe, at least not in an everyday household sense. It's wonderbread there, too. That's why the "toasting" part is important to them, otherwise it's just dehydrated pre-sliced white bread, unless you come from a more culinarily-inclined household.

>>12498594
Like toast.

>>12501118
>cook lasagna in microwave for three minutes
>cook lasagna in oven for two weeks

hmm

>>12498625
Blini

Blini for kot

OP I semi agree with you

I dont eat bread that often but I found that its only worth eating when browned in a bit of butter
Im not white but american television memed me into thinking toasters were essential, but I forgot those silly whites eat bread all day long.

Anyways, for me it has to be pan fried in butter. Then you bust out the cheese.

>>12498563
I mean, most techy gadgety things are scams. Thank capitalism

>>12498563
fried bread is much better than toast to me. I always fry it unless i'm putting peanut butter on it. nothing better than a scrambled egg sandwich made with fried bread. it's so buttery and crispy. Regular toast is dry and gets soggy when you put butter on it.

>>12501726
What is your stance on the wheel?

>>12498563
Toasters are convenient but if you are apartment living you can leave them out.

>>12501209
That's because most of Europe is on welfare. I personally don't have to money or time to give a fuck about bread

>>12501733
Wheels, like knives, are almost universally applicable.
Gadgets like $400 juice box machines are stupid and you deserve to be ripped off.
Same goes for Instapots, Rice cookers, and food dehydrators.
You're a goddam idiot if you buy that shit for $60 when you can get better for cheaper.
It's almost like over-complex meme consumer items are a waste of time, huh?

>>12498625

>>12498584
>90 seconds
more like 2-3 minutes really, but it's still faster than a frying pan unless you're cooking more than 2 slices.

>>12500635
>Toasters and microwave ovens are how I can tell someone is a moron.
>leftover spaghetti
>microwave
>hot to eat in 90 seconds
>oven
>hot to eat 5 minutes after preheating
>skillet
>holy shit wtf are you doing

>>12501688
>I forgot those silly whites eat bread all day long.
kys

>>12498594
Like metal

>>12501979
smol blin

>>12498594

sort of in between 89 seconds and 91 seconds

>>12498594
Like a minute and a half.

>>12498594
>what do 90 seconds taste like?
like one second, 90 times. a more appropriate question is "what *does* 90 seconds taste like?".

>>12498594

Salty clocks

>>12498566
Which is exactly why this Japanese toaster is so good.

>>12500635
I'd agree with you on microwaves if it wasn't for the fact that it takes 10 minutes to cook a russet potato in one and like 45 to bake one.

Baked potatoes are good but not wait an hour good

I read some article that toaster ovens are better for toasting bread than a slot toaster is because you can butter the bread and it basically frys, doubly important if you put cinnamon and sugar on it carmelizes on the bread.

>>12503067
>>12502002
Microwaves are essential.

>>12503175
They're for fat, lazy, stupid people who have no patience.

>>12501118
I bet my microwaved water is better than oven water

>>12502943
>one piece of toast at a time
just use a toaster oven

>>12498584
My pan with gas on max will do a piece of toast in under 90s.
Less by far if its pre heated.

>>12503192
It's for Japan. Japanese toast is thick as hell. You only eat one piece.

>>12498563
toasters are a meme, but eating bread is the biggest meme of all.

>>12503181
I use my microwave for steaming vegetables and reheating some leftovers.

>>12503203
thats why theyre so small gotta eat big to get big CMON

>>12503263
Both of which can be done on a stove

>>12503270
Microwave is faster and easier.

Why don't you start a fire from scratch every time you want to reheat leftovers? Ovens are for pansies.

>>12498563
You could try using an iron or a blow drier.

>>12502821
muh sides

>>12498563
>tried applying heat to a slice of bread much like the toaster machine does
>it works
imagine my shock

>>12501258
I am an Englishman living in italy and I can tell you their bread is inferior.

>>12498563
Toasters are definitely a meme. I've never owned one or needed one. If you have an oven and/or stove top you can make toast.

I just use the ovens broiler high option
Toast one side then flip
Gives it a real good toastiness i promise

>>12498594
a bag of sand

>>12498563
How do you think people toasted bread before the invention of the toaster? They used the pan. But more to the point of your other questions is that a toaster is going to toast your bread to your ideal settings and doesn't take up space on the stovetop while you're cooking other things like frying multiple other things like an egg or a hash brown.

>>12498594
Toasters

>>12501678
>buying frozen lasagna
There's your problem

>>12498563
>my first time living outside of my parent's place
fixt

>>12503786
Everything the Italians make is garbage. That's why their women eat my ass and suck my dick like its their mama mia's spaghetti

>>12498584

>he can taste time

Please share your secrets.

>>12503196
pretty sure that wastes a massive amount of heat energy though. The toaster'd pay for itself in energy consumption in a year at normal toast levels

>>12503267
I miss Him bros

>>12498594
like a hell of a refill

>>12498594

>>12501209
Most of Europe? Yes. England? No. Their bread is almost worse than the Americans'.

>>12502943
This is fucking retarded. Just get a toaster oven. Stupid japs

The English make worse bread than the Americans. Don't believe their lies.

>>12503263
Microwaving Veggies is awful. It only takes slightly longer to make them on the stove and the quality is so much higher.

>>12498563
I literally toast my bread over an open flame on a gas stove with a bit of oil on bread.
Done in 5 secs and it tastes better.

>>12498625
unironically blin c smetana is shit unless you put onion and caviar on it.

>>12507944
>I am a retard!

>>12501122
>the "toast sandwich" (un-ironically, a piece of toast between two slices of soft bread).
holy fuck bongistan that the most British thing i have yet heard of

>>12498563
Yes they are a ridiculous meme, and I've never owned one. I can toast bread in a pan or the oven, and since someone gifted me a toaster oven, I can use that. I was against the toaster oven at first, because I have a small kitchen and didn't see the appeal in putting a small oven on my counter when I already have a perfectly good regular size oven. It has turned out to be useful for quickly making some garlic bread and reheating certain things. I gave away the instapot and crockpot I was gifted though.

I use toasters to reheat pizza.
I don't really use it for anything else.
The heat is too low to make any of the dishes with tortillas, or to do anything like heating burgers.
Advice?

>>12503175
>Microwave popcorn is really neat
>But its really inferior to just using a pot, a lid, some oil and butter, in taste
Such is the wonders of modern life.
Like the best part of the microwave is that you can use it to heat bread based dishes, so it gets a different consistency when you heat it in the oven/pan/toaster.

-faster
-you don't have to wash the toaster afterward

>>12501258
Is this what happens when you get all of your information on international cultures from memes?

>>12511558
>he doesn't wash his toaster

>>12510993
We know

>>12511234

Maybe but it's not real you spastic.

>>12502943
>woodgrain on the electronics
based and woodpilled

>>12501209
We still toast our bread, though.

>>12508308
Even from the can it's better stove top?

>>12502943
I thought japs didn't eat dairy, when did they adopt it to please their white masters?

>>12512708
Traditional Japanese dishes don't really use dairy, but it's plenty popular in foreign and foreign inspired foods. Desserts and sweets are always popular, and cheese based dishes are big too. The meme food right now is cheese hot dogs from Korea, basically a giant mozzarella stick served like a corn dog.

>>12498563
>No Grill Lines

why even eat it?

>>12503181
Do you take your horse and carriage to work too?

>>12512649
Yes. Microwaves compromise the quality of almost any food

>>12498563
When you use a frying pan, the bread may discolor your non-stick coating, if you have any, and have to clean out all of the old breadcrumbs so they don't smoke the shit out of your kitchen.
Try it. Toast some bread on your pan, wipe it down, then wash it down with some water to see how much soot has been left over.

>>12507489
English cooking is the worst cooking in Europe.

>>12498594
put me in the reddit screenshot

>>12503181
Sounds like he got rejected by a microwave.

>>12511234
>>12512272
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

>>12501209
>have to bring the rest of an entire continent to hide that England somehow has worse food than America

>>12498563
>can you make rice without a ricecooker?
>you can knead dough with your hands?
>is it actually possible to boil eggs without an egg boiler?
>wait, normal knives work on avocados?