Buttering your toast. - Page 8

montsnmags · 06-29-2009, 09:05 PM

Someone here (either VR or yvanleterrible...sorry for my poor recollection) once used the phrase...I think it was "like butter on toast", to describe something that they enjoyed. I've always thought that was an excellent metaphor for the feeling.

Patricia · 06-29-2009, 09:27 PM

I've inherited a silver-plated toast rack and several butter dishes. I rarely use them.

As for the cold butter problem: I just cut an ounce or so of cold butter, put it in a small dish and microwave it for a few seconds: not enough to melt it, but just enough to soften it slightly.

Incidentally, one good reason to attend Paris meet-ups is that you can buy Poilane bread to take home. It makes extremely good toast.

desertgrandma · 06-29-2009, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by krisk

my dad used to put wrapped butter in restaurants in his armpits

That must have been some fun family nights out.........

Patricia · 06-29-2009, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

That must have been some fun family nights out.........

Not as bad as Last Tango in Paris, though...

wodin · 06-29-2009, 09:43 PM

Hmmm, you don't have the right answer. You’re supposed to butter the bread before toasting it so it gets, nice and toasty brown. And you toast in on a griddle and have some cheese and maybe a slice or two of Spam between two pieces of the bread. Then you submerge the whole thing in a flat bowl of cream of tomato soup, an’ eat um all up!

MMMMMMM No Ka Oi!

Oh I forgot, the bes' kine griddle is one of those George Foreman ones. It makes nice griddle marks on the bread. One of the small ones is just right for one of the above recipe!

NormHart · 06-29-2009, 10:29 PM

Ah, buttered toast. For some reason I rarely think to have buttered toast so it is alway a treat when I do think of it. Naturally, since I always over organize things, I have a precise method of preparation.

1) remove bread and butter from refrigerator (Nice thick white bread and real(!) butter)
2) pop bread in toaster oven.
3) carefully shave thin slices of butter off stick whilst toast is toasting.
4) retrieve toast from toaster and lay out the thin, softened slices of butter so as to cover all of the hot toast.
5) repeat on second slice of toast
6) spread partially melted butter into first slice and repeat on second slice.

Um, um, um!

I never had real butter until I left home. Mom didn't believe in the stuff. I have never purchased margarine since I had my first taste of the real thing.

Now for breakfast I save up the heels of the loaves, toast them and apply a thick layer of peanut butter followed by jelly, jam, or honey. Messy and delicious! The best way to start the day.

Jill74 · 06-29-2009, 11:31 PM

it's nice to see the butter melting.

Phogg · 06-30-2009, 12:09 AM

fugazied · 06-30-2009, 01:18 AM

Butter it warm then throw on slabs of peanut butter so it mingles with the butter into a beautiful gooey mess!

Maggie May · 06-30-2009, 05:01 AM

I like mine to cool down a little before buttering it.
Spread a little French marmalade and eat. With a nice strong cuppa tea of course. Yum yum.
Had mine three hours ago.

Slan
Mag.

GeoffC · 06-30-2009, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wodin

Hmmm, you don't have the right answer. You’re supposed to butter the bread before toasting it so it gets, nice and toasty brown.

butter one side and toast the other -

i was 'told', in my misbegotten youth that this was 'french toast' .....

mklynds · 06-30-2009, 06:39 AM

Yay for melty butter!!! And I am all about mingling the melted butter with some melted peanut butter!! Scrum-diddily-umshissss!!!!

GeoffC · 06-30-2009, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mklynds

Yay for melty butter!!! And I am all about mingling the melted butter with some melted peanut butter!! Scrum-diddily-umshissss!!!!

now you've done it !!!!

vivaldirules · 06-30-2009, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Someone here (either VR or yvanleterrible...sorry for my poor recollection) once used the phrase...I think it was "like butter on toast", to describe something that they enjoyed. I've always thought that was an excellent metaphor for the feeling.

Marc, "butter on toast" was meant to indicate that your words flowed like melting butter on toast as well as to indicate the scrumptiousness and unctuousness of it.

("It" being: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=141

And don't you dare forget about Farking because I won't! https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=478)

desertgrandma · 06-30-2009, 10:17 AM

Does anyone else ever just peel off the buttered part and it that?

View Poll Results: When do you butter your toast?
I butter it in sections, after its cooled.....	5	4.46%
I butter it while its still warm so the butter melts into the toast	86	76.79%
The blue German vegetarian Fish that lives in Portugal but eats meat.	15	13.39%
I butter my toast cool but not in sections	6	5.36%
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06-29-2009, 09:43 PM	#110
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	Hmmm, you don't have the right answer. You’re supposed to butter the bread before toasting it so it gets, nice and toasty brown. And you toast in on a griddle and have some cheese and maybe a slice or two of Spam between two pieces of the bread. Then you submerge the whole thing in a flat bowl of cream of tomato soup, an’ eat um all up! MMMMMMM No Ka Oi! Oh I forgot, the bes' kine griddle is one of those George Foreman ones. It makes nice griddle marks on the bread. One of the small ones is just right for one of the above recipe! Last edited by wodin; 06-29-2009 at 10:59 PM. Reason: I forgot!

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montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Someone here (either VR or yvanleterrible...sorry for my poor recollection) once used the phrase...I think it was "like butter on toast", to describe something that they enjoyed. I've always thought that was an excellent metaphor for the feeling.

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Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	I've inherited a silver-plated toast rack and several butter dishes. I rarely use them. As for the cold butter problem: I just cut an ounce or so of cold butter, put it in a small dish and microwave it for a few seconds: not enough to melt it, but just enough to soften it slightly. Incidentally, one good reason to attend Paris meet-ups is that you can buy Poilane bread to take home. It makes extremely good toast.

06-29-2009, 10:29 PM	#111
NormHart Semper Carpe Bufo Posts: 537 Karma: 21676 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Napa Valley, California Device: Kindle2 & Kindle3	Ah, buttered toast. For some reason I rarely think to have buttered toast so it is alway a treat when I do think of it. Naturally, since I always over organize things, I have a precise method of preparation. 1) remove bread and butter from refrigerator (Nice thick white bread and real(!) butter) 2) pop bread in toaster oven. 3) carefully shave thin slices of butter off stick whilst toast is toasting. 4) retrieve toast from toaster and lay out the thin, softened slices of butter so as to cover all of the hot toast. 5) repeat on second slice of toast 6) spread partially melted butter into first slice and repeat on second slice. Um, um, um! I never had real butter until I left home. Mom didn't believe in the stuff. I have never purchased margarine since I had my first taste of the real thing. Now for breakfast I save up the heels of the loaves, toast them and apply a thick layer of peanut butter followed by jelly, jam, or honey. Messy and delicious! The best way to start the day.

06-29-2009, 11:31 PM	#112
Jill74 Banned Posts: 74 Karma: 410 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: NYC Device: Sony Reader 505	it's nice to see the butter melting.

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06-30-2009, 01:18 AM	#114
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	Butter it warm then throw on slabs of peanut butter so it mingles with the butter into a beautiful gooey mess!

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Maggie May Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,907 Karma: 87755439 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ireland Device: CYbook Gen3 and Sony PRS 3505 Kindle 3 G Nexus 7 iPad	I like mine to cool down a little before buttering it. Spread a little French marmalade and eat. With a nice strong cuppa tea of course. Yum yum. Had mine three hours ago. Slan Mag.

06-30-2009, 06:39 AM	#117
mklynds That guy, no not that guy Posts: 337 Karma: 2846 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Alberta, Canada Device: PRS600 Red	Yay for melty butter!!! And I am all about mingling the melted butter with some melted peanut butter!! Scrum-diddily-umshissss!!!!

06-30-2009, 10:17 AM	#120
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Does anyone else ever just peel off the buttered part and it that?