It just struck me, while I was eating my toast on the sunny kitchen floor by the tumble drier with Az and Kitty, how different people's preferred manner of preparing toast may be
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I quickly fish my toast out of the toaster, slap a load of butter on them then jam one slice up. The slices have no time to go cold as they get shovelled into my gob while still nice and toasty warm.
I have relayed this to Az, and he has confirmed that this is exactly what he does too, and that I will just never understand the arcane science behind it.
I have suggested that you both try to communicate through the toast crumbs. Az thinks that this is a marvellous idea, and has asked me to tell you that he will henceforth be leaving messages for you from the future, hidden within the scattered remnants...
I have very strict toast rules. I prefer a thicker slice of bread and I investigate it before putting it in the toaster so I can put the side that looks the 'tastiest' (what makes it so is hard to explain) towards the outside of the toaster.
While it's toasting, I load the knife with butter. When the toast has reached a light tan but still slightly bready stage, I pop it up and butter it immediately. If the butter is not on in the second after popping up, the toast is ruined and I will sulk. I will occasionally add Vegemite after buttering. Then I will let the toast sit for a minute or so to let the melted butter go cold and then it is ready to eat.
I am glad to see that I'm not the only one with strange toast rituals.
Now Marmite (our Vegemite) is a different story altogether. I f I'm having Marmite on my toast I need to butter it very quickly on extracting from the toaster, as Marmite is NO GOOD AT ALL if spread on even slightly un-melted butter.
I've made myself want toast now, answering all these toasty comments... :D
I like mine well done, and cold. Obviously I sadly can no longer have the butter, so it's usually dry. For preference, I like bread with lots of seeds and the like in it - yummmy
Oh yes, bread has to have seeds. Sky Cave Seedy Bread has three different makes of seed in it: sunflower, pumpkin and hemp. I will provide thee with some. :)
I suddenly feel lacking in my Toast Awareness skills, since I really haven't thought that much about it. I like white toast, and like it fairly lightly done, and I don't like it when it's been put on a plate and cooled there, so it's all wet and soggy underneath. Beyond that, though... Um... I don't really know. I like it hot or cold or in between, with melted butter or unmelted butter (though never, ever, ever with any of those evil butter imitators that claim to taste just like butter, but lie.) I don't like sweet stuff marring the taste of butter, so will have it just buttered, or else with a very thin sliver of cheese, thin enough that it will begin to melt, without having to be toasted itself.
(And for someone who's never really thought about it before, I've still managed to write quite an essay.)
Ah hah, interesting cheese technique! I may have to try that.
And I know precisely what you mean with the aversion to the soggy underside - this is the sole and truly compelling reason for building the little toast house-of-cards. An un-aerated bottom would just never ever do.
I'm finding these toast rituals fascinating. I may conduct further research into cup-of-tea-making and paperback reading in the near future, as I'm convinced that there's a similar wealth of idiosyncrasies to be discovered therein.
Oh, and this is a bit different, but it's something I found when searching for old polls: a comparison of the words people use for some common objects: http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/177837.html
Grab the mug I used for my last drink, and give it a quick token rinse - and - About once a day
Into two roughly rectangular pieces, along the middle, I eat one of the pointy corners first, then take another bite from the same place (well, not quite the same place, because that's just empty air by now, but you know what I mean), and I'm not especially overjoyed by sandwich lettuce, but eat it because it's there.
And I may have to purloin the fourth and make it the subject of an entry all of its own, in order to do it justice!
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Stuff the plate too. ;-)
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I have suggested that you both try to communicate through the toast crumbs. Az thinks that this is a marvellous idea, and has asked me to tell you that he will henceforth be leaving messages for you from the future, hidden within the scattered remnants...
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While it's toasting, I load the knife with butter. When the toast has reached a light tan but still slightly bready stage, I pop it up and butter it immediately. If the butter is not on in the second after popping up, the toast is ruined and I will sulk. I will occasionally add Vegemite after buttering. Then I will let the toast sit for a minute or so to let the melted butter go cold and then it is ready to eat.
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Now Marmite (our Vegemite) is a different story altogether. I f I'm having Marmite on my toast I need to butter it very quickly on extracting from the toaster, as Marmite is NO GOOD AT ALL if spread on even slightly un-melted butter.
I've made myself want toast now, answering all these toasty comments... :D
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(And for someone who's never really thought about it before, I've still managed to write quite an essay.)
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And I know precisely what you mean with the aversion to the soggy underside - this is the sole and truly compelling reason for building the little toast house-of-cards. An un-aerated bottom would just never ever do.
I'm finding these toast rituals fascinating. I may conduct further research into cup-of-tea-making and paperback reading in the near future, as I'm convinced that there's a similar wealth of idiosyncrasies to be discovered therein.
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I've done a variety of polls about food-related habits. Let's see what I can find:
Yogurt eating - in particular the issue of whether to lick the lid
http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/213869.html
Tea and coffee making - in particular how often mugs are washed:
http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/209303.html
How people cut sandwiches, how they eat them thereafter, and attitudes to supermarket-sandwich-lettuce:
http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/181434.html
Oh, and this is a bit different, but it's something I found when searching for old polls: a comparison of the words people use for some common objects:
http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/177837.html
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Of course! You mean some people _don't_?
Grab the mug I used for my last drink, and give it a quick token rinse - and - About once a day
Into two roughly rectangular pieces, along the middle, I eat one of the pointy corners first, then take another bite from the same place (well, not quite the same place, because that's just empty air by now, but you know what I mean), and I'm not especially overjoyed by sandwich lettuce, but eat it because it's there.
And I may have to purloin the fourth and make it the subject of an entry all of its own, in order to do it justice!
(If I ever get to post again......)
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