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Shall I use the new airfyer or just go with pan fried?
Do you not have a pannini press, you monster?
Do you not have a pannini press, you monster?
No!
It's truly shocking 😩
(Are airfyer toasties even a thing?)
edit: I'm now feeling even poorer than I actually am - and that's saying something!
A handy hint in my mum's magazine was to make cheese on toast by turning your toaster on its side.
Can you not do your own artisan ones with an old-fashioned flat iron?
(Coming to a festival near you in a converted horsebox next year. I may be offering franchise deals)
No Panini Press? Government need to offer immediate and meaningful support to marginalised sections of society such as these. Levelling up should start with parity of kitchen essentials.
#thoughtsandprayers
That's funny ^^^
We took our toasty maker (Salter as recommended by the king of toasties - binners) into the garden last week for lunch. Had paninis with cheese and beans, then cheese and tuna. Plugged in at the outdoor socket and a long lead.
A handy hint in my mum’s magazine was to make cheese on toast by turning your toaster on its side
Well I could utilise the toasty cages in the toaster.... but sometimes the outside is done before the inside is suitably cooked/melted.
So I was wondering whether the AF might do a better job.
Can you not do your own artisan ones with an old-fashioned flat iron?
Nope... but I have numerous De Buyer carbon steel pans and some bricks if that would help?!
Awaits to find out the outcome. Send photos of an airfryer toastie and its filling, please.
as recommended by the king of toasties – binners
Ahem, hello! I think you'll find it was me that started the lockdown toastie mega-thread, not that shiny-headed crayon jockey.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/in-praise-of-the-toasted-sandwich/
Plugged in at the outdoor socket and a long lead.
Seeing how brilliantly the AF did sausages the other morning I was wondering if, in the future, I could do the same instead of lighting the BBQ!!
Awaits to find out the outcome. Send photos of an airfryer toastie and its filling, please.
I think that's just made my mind up on this occasion.
I made a cheese and onion toastie in the air fryer the other day. Very good, it came out sort of like a fried bread toastie.
Nettles you did indeed start The Toastie thread, however you Shirley will agree that binners is the king for recommending the Salter toasite maker (still not made waffles yet with the irons), you therefore can be the Prince.
My daughter bought a little device called a Crimpit for making little toasties in a traditional toaster. Surpingly effective, but 2 Crimpit = 1 proper toastie.
however you Shirley will agree that binners is the king for recommending the Salter toasite maker
I bloody recommended it! Page three of said thread.
#andIthoughtwewerefriends
*harrumph*
At the opposite end of the recommendation scale, could I also suggest…
A different toasty experience but equally as valid. Ideal for post-pub faff-free cheesy treats
#horsesforcourses
I can confirm that air fryer toasties are lush.
Butter your bread on the outside, much as you do in a sandwich toaster, put your filling in with lots of cheese. Press it all together a bit then in the air fryer, turning once until golden, crispy and emitting molten cheese.
😍
I'm left feeling like a snob after eating my toasted cheese and Marmite bagel....
No Panini Press? Government need to offer immediate and meaningful support to marginalised sections of society such as these.
#thoughtsandprayers
Couldn't agree more. The great Hummus shortage of 2022 was another scandal that the govt chose to ignore and hit many hard working Waitrose shoppers very hard.
Just another example of one rule for us and another for the rest of them.
My daughter bought a little device called a Crimpit for making little toasties in a traditional toaster. Surpingly effective, but 2 Crimpit = 1 proper toastie
The crimpit is another great little device, but rather than toasties you can create mini-pies
I’ll just leave this here for the crimpit users…
I bloody recommended it! Page three of said thread.
#pedant
The one you linked to was Russel Hobbs. Bunnyhop specifically mentioned a Salter toasty maker, so I believe your claim to the throne is questionable. But I haven't checked if Binners actually recommended a Salter later in the thread so there's a chance Bunnyhop is mistaken and you are in fact the king of the toasties after all.
How in the fresh hell do you seal a toastie in an air fryer?
I can also confirm that air-fryer toasties a thing. A delicious, crispy thing.
Can I just say that I am prepared to fight to the death all challengers to my crown
But thanks for my new title Nettles, which I shall now be using on my social meedya…
shiny-headed crayon jockey 😃
however you Shirley will agree that binners is the king for recommending the Salter toasite maker
I bloody recommended it! Page three of said thread.
No you didn't. You recommended a Russell Hobbs.
And you're wrong either way. 😁
I can also confirm that air-fryer toasties a thing. A delicious, crispy thing.
In which case the answer to the OP's question is clearly "one of each." Have a toastie-off.
I'm just back from making myself cheese and chilli panini for lunch. Chilli to cheese ration was slightly off so I'm only awarding myself 7/10 for lunch.
then cheese and tuna
Had this yesterday, bloody lovely with a bit of chipotle Tabasco and oregano added.
Cheese, onion, corned beef and Worcester sauce is still the daddy of all toasties
Good god man, have a word with yourself! It's claims like that that lead to regicide and the dissolution of the monarchy.
Cheese, onion, corned beef and Worcester sauce is still the daddy of all toasties
You see? This. This my friends. This is why that chrome-domed colour-inner is no Toastie King. Corned beef FFS? *gip*
No you didn’t. You recommended a Russell Hobbs.
I will admit that I've just made myself a toastie* and, on removing the toastie maker from the cupboard, immediately thought "oh, balls".
*cheese, onion, brinjal pickle
Oh, also,
(still not made waffles yet with the irons)
You need to rectify this, Ms Hop. Toastie-machine fresh waffles are amazeballs.
Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it
Corned beef is the way forward as it acts as a savoury sponge for the Worcester sauce. Add cheese and onion and you have toastie heaven
The corned beef/Worcester sauce combo isn’t my idea BTW. This one comes from the queen herself…
Are you going to argue with Delia? ARE YOU?!
CORNED-BEEF HASH WITH FRIED EGGS
Seeing as we're all falling out with 'who recommended what and when and why', may I just fall out with Kayak23. Nobody should be having 'just CHEESE' in a toastie. The imagination and list of ingredients available nowadays in a toastie recipe, is huge.
Spectacularly well timed toastie thread.
I just had to have a father and son chat with son#2
As I fired up our toastie behemoth for a lunchtime special of leftover frittata (trust me,it works),
son asked " Dad,does the toastie machine use a lot of energy?"
As I looked out at the rain lashing down,I replied "Child,in these hard and testing times,there is no price too high for quality comfort food..hit that on button" 😆 🤣
Have a toastie-off.
Well I'm half way there - cheese, salami and tomato AF toastie constructed,cooked and eaten.
Sorry BH... no pictures purely because I haven't made any bread yet this week so I was left with just plastic sliced... oh the shame!
My conclusion thus far is that the AF makes a mean toastie - nicely melted interior which the bread was {as already mentioned} very crunchy but not overly so.
BUT...... I have a question mark hanging over the economics of running the AF for 10 minutes (including preheat) when I could probably achieve mostly the same in the pan a bit quicker.
This fact will not stop me trying again though 'cos Binners suggestion of corned beef is firmly planted in my head!
How in the fresh hell do you seal a toastie in an air fryer?
Not needed shirly?
Do toasties still need the bread buttering on the outside ? or am i behind the times
I am beginning to suspect that there is a difference between a 'toastie' and a 'toasted sandwich'.
Surely to be a toastie it must be sealed into two triangular pieces? Nothing wrong with a toasted sandwich, of course, but it's not a toastie.
Agreed, a glossary is needed here.
Toastie - pinched edges made in a breville or similar.
Toasty - the warm, fuzzy feeling after munching a freshly made toastie. 😁
RM.
I fancied just a bit of toast with some butter but unfortunately the dog ate all the butter
How dairy.
am I missing something. Our air fryer has a sort of paddle thing that rotates slowly and turns the chunks of potato so they cook evenly (other things can be cooked but it's mainly potatoes in ours)
I have a feeling a sandwich would jam the mechanism and lead to smashed toastie and an extensive clean up. I could leave the paddle out though but will that lead to uneven crisping?
The power of advertising.
am I missing something. Our air fryer has a sort of paddle thing
Mine does too. Some do not.
If you’ve not taken the skin off the roof of your mouth, it never happened? 😉
Some do not.
*puts hand up*
Mine's only a cheap one!
100% you need a breville to make the triangles and crusty edges. Use mayo rather than butter on the outside and go with kimchi and cheddar as the contents.
Also recommend spicy mi goreng as a filling.
I had classic cheese and onion.
We use those black bags that go in the toaster (and then the dishwasher). Cheap, clean, and take up no room.
EDIT: Damn. Binners The shiny-headed crayon jockey beat me to it. Obviously.
Reminds me I need to add corned beef to the shopping list! I love corned beef savoury,pies and pasties 😋
Not a toastie as such, but french bread with tuna/onion/sweetcorn/cheese/mayo mix on top and then extra cheese, and then toasted under the grill today. Was very nice 😊
sardines on toast under the grill was a staple Saturday night tea as a kid. Still like it now, wonder what a sardine and cheese toastie would be like
'Grilled' cheese FFS and by grilled I absolutely mean in a frying pan, so essentially fried bread and cheese.
shiny-headed crayon jockey
Beautiful
Breville owner here. Cheddar and KimChi combo was enough to get me making my own kimchi.
But last night we had
Haggis and HP with some mozzarella would be a good shout actually.
The works canteen has a panini press - everything edible gets squashed in it, or it did until Greggs opened a branch nearby and now I go with the healthy beige option👍
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Had paninis with cheese and beans
"Panini" is the plural of "panino". Though Binners calls them "panini's".
Oh, and Lancashire sauce FTW.
everything edible gets squashed in it,
I spy, Sheldon's Oven Bottom Muffins.
Seeing as we’re all falling out with ‘who recommended what and when and why’, may I just fall out with Kayak23. Nobody should be having ‘just CHEESE’ in a toastie. The imagination and list of ingredients available nowadays in a toastie recipe, is huge.
When one compliments the conductor, does one forget the orchestra? Of course I add other delicious ingredients but obviously, the cheese is ranked above all else and deserves mentioning 😉
How in the fresh hell do you seal a toastie in an air fryer?
Stapler.
Ah, I see.
That answers Jon's question about the paddle stirrer thing too then. You need to keep it stationery.
(Or, the toastie is part of your staple diet...)
Bless you peasants with your humble paraphernalia. We do ours on the Aga. Or we would if we could afford to turn it on.
The works canteen has a panini press – everything edible gets squashed in it, or it did until Greggs opened a branch nearby and now I go with the healthy beige option
Put the stuff in the lower pic in the panini press, and post a pic for us.
You need to keep it stationery.
I took your advice but my pens melted and the paper caught on fire.
Shall I use the new airfyer or just go with pan fried?
Well to answer my own question...... pan fried is better and cheaper.
(this is based on a cheese and branston toastie fried in a carbon steel pan with a very small cast iron lid on top to apply pressure.
According to the hob I used about 70w in total inc warming up the pan)
I took your advice but my pens melted and the paper caught on fire.
What’s that? Mayo instead of butter? Wtf 😬
(Goes off in search of mayo - got to see what that’s all about)
Although there's constant confusion when Australians talk about chips (at last my Aussie partner has learnt to call crisps crisps to avoid any mis-haps), at least they have their toastie language sorted.
Toasted sandwich = open sandwich done on a press
Jaffle = sealed sandwich done in a toastie maker (although the call it a jaffle maker)
But then some people call the toasted sandwich a toastie so who knows what's going on.
Top toastie tip though, make home made pizzas one day, next day use any left over toppings for toastie filling excellence. And never underestimate the value that avocado brings to a toastie.
Did anyone see Mary Berry making an 'eggy bread' toastie on her baking telly programme?
It was a sandwich containing, cheese, ham and avocado. She whisked 2 eggs and poured them into a tray. She then soaked the sandwiches on each side. popping the toasties into a heated frying pan with a knob of butter and a spoonful of olive oil until golden brown. Voila, yummy toasted eggy bread sandwiches.
Why in the name of all that is holy would you infect a cheese and ham toastie with avocado?
*adds Mary Berry to the kill list*
Why in the name of all that is holy would you infect a cheese and ham toastie with avocado?
This. Avacado tastes like mud. Fact.
Try some mud made with decent garden soil & you'll agree.
If you haven't tasted mud when you were playing out as a kid then you've never had a proper childhood.
Tories will have never tasted mud.
Eggy bread toasty does sound good, sort of like a simpler to make croque monsieur. I'll reserve judgement on adding avocado. Won't it just be like warm sludge when cooked?
Cheese and pickle eggy bread toasty could be a winner.
Please report back as to whether adding the egg is worth the extra work or just to stick the egg on toast.
In fact you've just inspired me. Egg on toast for late breakfast. Thank you 🙂
Life lesson here. Don’t read any more toasty threads on STW early before eating. Finally caved at 5:30 am today and bought a toasty making machine, naturally this being STW I didn’t buy the STW approved model, but this Breville VST026 4 Portion Sandwich & Panini Press
Can’t pick it up until later today, so our return to toasty heaven will have to wait until tomorrow.
No corned beef will be involved tomorrow either.
Why in the name of all that is holy would you infect
a cheese and ham toastieanything with avocado?
We have no bread to make a toastie when I get home. 😢
But as eldest spent his summer working in a pannini factory, we do have a bin bag full of "factory seconds" in tne freezer and I think that will just have to do
Eggy bread filled with bacon and cheese could be amazing, or ham and cheese in eggy bread.
Ok, my fave.
Fry some smoked bacon till it's crispy, put it on lightly toasted toast, spread lashings of Marmite on the other slice, put grated cheese on bacon, melt under grill, assemble.
Enjoy.
Ok so I now am definitely out of touch with kitchen appliances.
Didn't know panini presses were a thing and only found out about air fryers 'cause of some BBC news article saying they were selling fast.
Mum struggles with me not having a microwave and keeps trying to push the "spare" my way.
For me toasties bring memories once soft bread compressed and heated to hard brittle state containing cheese so hot and sticky that it becomes a war crime.
Aga cooked haggis and cheese toasty for the win!
I have a pannini press. Cheap crap from lidl but it uses magic to thoroughly heat the interior of lunch sandwich to near magma temperature, whilst not cremating the bread in which its encased