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Let me introduce you to the panini press, a part baked baguette, chilli, cheese and corned beef.
Press down on the panini press to flatten the baguette as it cooks. I have lived on variations of this since March.
Ham, cheese, mushroom with a liberal splash of Worcestershire sauce (its my home county after all). Buttered outside not inside, and Heinz baked beans on the side for dunking duties. If I'm feeling daring it might also contain red onion. Not done in a breville, but on a flat plate contact grill.
Cheap Tefal non stick frying pan for toasties, nae mess.
Yep, and as above a little Mayo on the outside so it browns really nicely. I do love a nice grilled cheese and ham sandwich.
I went for a run at the weekend, the kind where I was hungry half way round and fixated on the food I'd have when home. That food was a ham, cheese and onion toastie with gherkins on the side and split pea soup to dip. Ooosht. Its that time of year.
When I find the time and motivation, I need to try a bombay toastie.
thegeneralist
I’m sorry. This thread is about toasties. What you have described sounds absolutely lovely but it really is not a toastie in the usual sense of the word.Like giving the recipe for beef wellington and then call it a sausage roll.
Hear hear!
Butter on the outside, stuffed full of mincemeat on the inside. Dust with sugar when it comes out of the Breville. Instant hot mince pie.
You can all thank me later.
Seasonal special. Mince pie toastie. Butter the bread. Place the pie on the bread. Punch the pie. Add mature cheddar.
Cook and rejoice.
fixated on the food I’d have when home
Every winter road ride I've ever done.
Panini you said? Little cafe in Bridgnorth used to do a toasted panini that launched itself immediately into my Top Three Sarnies Of All Time*
Panini, spread two halfs inside with basil pesto, then stack grilled aubergine slices, fresh tomato slices, a little ground black pepper, olive oil drizzle, then top off with a good slice or three of goats cheese (rind off).
Toast that *******.
* Other two were:
- A proper toasted reuben with dill pickle slices
- Cheddar and spanish onion on crusty white.
Are some people seriously putting forward the notion that if you haven't got a sandwich toasting machine, that you can't be experiencing the unadulterated joy of a toasted sandwich? Really??
I am shocked.
It's 2020 for god's sake.
I'm now looking at Panini presses! 🙈🤣
Oh god, I need a toastie maker back in my life. This thread is like pRon
Toastie makers are rubbish, just get a frying pan, lowest heat and put a lid on to melt the cheese better. Job jobbed.
For me a mix of cheddar and gruyere, butter in outside, white bread. I often put ketchup on the side as pickle doesn’t go with hot cheese. Good shout on the soup accompaniment.
Toastie makers are rubbish,
This is my thread, and I'm telling you you're not welcome 😉
If you get one of these like wot we has, you can have the triangular pockets of joy or the flat slabs of pleasure, your choice:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7065684
(or the checked waffles of delight, but I've only tried that once and it was a bit rubbish, I blame my batter)
Today is last nights koftes and a little feta. Toasties of Turkey unite!
If you get one of these like wot we has, you can have the triangular pockets of joy or the flat slabs of pleasure, your choice:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7065684
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I know there's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world, but seriously, what a time to be alive...
We use the George Foreman grill for toasted sandwiches in this household. It produces a lean, mean toastie.
Today's contender was tomato puree, cheese, ham and jalapeno.
Chilli jam and goats cheese. We bought a John Lewis grill a few years ago and it's been in regular use ever since. A cheaper version of this one
Bacon and mushrooms for brekkie
Cheese and onion for lunch
Old skool.
(should probably avoid bread for dinner, eh?)
Just had Boison and beans on toast but will easily repackage to make an ace toastie!
Chilli jam and goats cheese. We bought a John Lewis grill
Oooooh, laa dee bloody daaa 😉
I know there’s a lot of bad stuff going on in the world, but seriously, what a time to be alive…
Argos shares on the climb today.
Toastie makers are rubbish
Get out.
Who was it that suggested cheese, peanut butter and sriracha?
I thought you were bonkers at first but my curiosity got the better of me. You sir are a genius, that's fantastic!
Like a satay cheese sandwich.
I think thats my full fat friday lunch choice!
Lidl have a Breville toastie/pannini grill on soon...
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Link doesn't work. For the love of god, who's in charge here? This is serious.
I'll be along on Sunday for that breville!
Link doesn’t work. For the love of god, who’s in charge here? This is serious
So it transpires I am incapable of posting photos or links in threads.
That's actually the new version of my current one by the looks. For some reason, Msjimmy hates the thing but if push came to shove, I LOVE toasties.
This thread is making me hungry.
(sic) Propper condiments are made in factories that look like
thisthe one that P7eaven will post later today
Correct. There you go 😉
Chopped banana and mincemeat.
Our kids have discovered the pure joy of toasties. Daughter will often make a 'pizza toastie' for breakfast: white bread, tomato puree, cheese, basil.
I still need to get around to making a toastie clone of the glorious Bacon Naan from Dishoom: naan, bacon, chilli jam, coriander, cream cheese. I reckon that will toastie up really well.
Who was it that suggested cheese, peanut butter and sriracha?
That sounds interesting. Lunch tomorrow is sorted now.
The French got it right off the bat with the Croque Monsieur and Madame.
Croque is absolutely the king and queen of sandwiches, but a wee bit more involved tbh, and not sure it would work in a breville as well!.
Cheese and ham on the same toasty for me is too salty so one or other with palate blistering cherry tomatoes
I think i will try a welshrarebit toastie post Christmas, or can you give a used toastie machine as a present?
I often put ketchup on the side as pickle doesn’t go with hot cheese.
A. You're wrong
B. You're even wronger than that.
Ketchup on hot cheese thats the rankest thing i've heard all year.
Will that Lidl/Breville machine seal the toastie or is it one of those continental jobbies that leave things ooen sided (and thus useless for the cheese/bean combo)?
Open sided cheese/bean combos are entirely possible. Bit messy in the eating, but not prohibitively so.
I'm sorry, a British toastie is a sealed unit. This creep of continentalism is why Brexit happened.
Will that Lidl/Breville machine seal the toastie or is it one of those continental jobbies that leave things ooen sided (and thus useless for the cheese/bean combo)?
Open sided for more filling. Beans are for kids.
Has anyone tried meatballs? I’m thinking meat ball mozzarella and jalapeño
Filling of creamed sweetcorn (the sweetcorn can sometimes end up hotter than the sun).
I’m sorry, a British toastie is a sealed unit. This creep of continentalism is why Brexit happened.
I'll think you'll find it was just that kind of small-minded 'taking our toasties back' thinking that was the cause of Brexit. If we were more willing to embrace all forms hot fillings between crisped breadstuffs, we'd be a much better place. There's more than enough room in my heart for the toastie, the panini and the croque monsieur.
Anyway, I tried, the cheese/peanut butter/sriracha. It was nice, but I've got to say, not all that.
Anyway, I tried, the cheese/peanut butter/sriracha. It was nice, but I’ve got to say, not all that.
May have to re-think my toastie-based cookbook then.
Ketchup on hot cheese thats the rankest thing i’ve heard all year.
You are so wrong.
I’m sorry, a British toastie is a sealed unit. This creep of continentalism is why Brexit happened.
Agreed.
Breville cheese and beans toastie is the winner.
I did a photo-finish comparison.
vs a pan-grilled reuben?
If you're remotely Proper British then you already know which one is the winner! Continentalists don’t know good food when they see it. Tried and tested is the only way. Pretentious foods need not apply. Goat cheese? Peanut butter? Shrirachuahaha?
Masterful British food always wins.
Remainers OTOH, please go thisaway, we’ll have fun watching you pretend to enjoy eating them 🤣 :
https://www.olivemagazine.com/guides/best-ever/best-ever-toastie-recipes/
’m sorry, a British toastie is a sealed unit. This creep of continentalism is why Brexit happened.
Agreed.
Breville cheese and beans toastie is the winner.
I did a photo-finish comparison.
vs a pan-grilled reuben?
If you’re remotely Proper British then you already know which one is the winner! Continentalists don’t know good food when they see it. Tried and tested is the only way. Pretentious foods need not apply. Goat cheese? Peanut butter? Shrirachuahaha?
Masterful British food always wins.
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Erm...green stuff on plate alert. So, so, very, wrong.
Now, rocket, gruyere, bavarian smoked ham, cheddar and chilli jam, on the other hand, INSIDE the toasted pocket of joy...mmmm
Erm…green stuff on plate alert. So, so, very, wrong.
Agreed . Beige need only apply.
Something rockets, (green? Urgh) something else foreign, something something
Hold horses! Jam is ok in certain circumstances. Foreign cheeses are wrong and just pretentious. Chilli is foreign and you can’t make jam from it. Jam is made from strawberries, or raspberries or blackcurrant. Apricot is a conserve and is continentalist.
INSIDE the toasted pocket of joy
The toasted pocket is small for a reason. It perfectly allows teaspooning of the baked beans and a slice of British cheese. Two ingredients max. Anything more means micro-loading faffism and will (as you’ve shown) begin introducing continentalistic so-called foodstuffs. Stick to the baked beans and cheese, it’s the best for all the right reasons. Brown sauce is also the right sauce. Ketchup and cheese are every kind of wrong.
You are so wrong.
Sorry should have been clearer.
Ketchup is rank on all things ASWELL as hot cheese.
That reuben looks effing lovely.
IHN we may disagree on the primacy of the sealed toastie but
That reuben looks effing lovely.
You're not wrong.
Anyway, can someone confirm whether the Lidl thing seals tbe toastie ot not?
It won't, it's a Panini press, not the triangle thingy.
It looks like it's this one
Hold horses! Jam is ok in certain circumstances. Foreign cheeses are wrong and just pretentious. Chilli is foreign and you can’t make jam from it. Jam is made from strawberries, or raspberries or blackcurrant. Apricot is a conserve and is continentalist.
INSIDE the toasted pocket of joy
The toasted pocket is small for a reason. It perfectly allows teaspooning of the baked beans and a slice of British cheese. Two ingredients max. Anything more means micro-loading faffism and will (as you’ve shown) begin introducing continentalistic so-called foodstuffs. Stick to the baked beans and cheese, it’s the best for all the right reasons. Brown sauce is also the right sauce. Ketchup and cheese are every kind of wrong.
Oh god. I am vexed. I both agree with you, and, yet, at the same time disagree with you. What am I to do? How on earth do I vote on this Brexit thingemejig??? 🤣 🤣 🤣
Chilli is foreign and you can’t make jam from it. Jam is made from strawberries, or raspberries or blackcurrant.
You sir, do not know your jams. Damson jam, plum jam, gooseberry jam, rhubarb jam, tayberry jam, greengage jam, cherry jam, your list is the list of a blinkered soul, I bet you like ketchup too.
extra vintage cheddar and kimchi
your list is the list of a blinkered soul, I bet you like ketchup too.
We agree at least that there can be only one sauce. And that is brown sauce.
As for your ‘Waitrose’ jams? Sorry but you can keep them. Don’t get me wrong, I very much enjoy the taste of a damson or a gooseberry or a stick of rhubarb. I pick them yearly. And I like them better than any number of those foreign fruits. BUT, and a big BUT - tasty jams they do not make. They make sugary tasteless jams, albeit with posh-sounding labels.
On the other hand, just remember the permissible ‘alternative’ jam which is blackcurrant jam. That is a very good jam.
Oh god. I am vexed. I both agree with you, and, yet, at the same time disagree with you.
Oh you agree alright. It’s just that small nagging voice of almost self-awareness that wants you not to agree. Pay no mind to the bleating poshooes boasting about foreign stuff. Elitist effluent. Garlicy gobbledegook. Ponsensical prattle about Emperor’s new clothes. If you’ve ever smelled a goat then you know why no sensible person would eat ‘cheese’ made from such a beast. To be British is to be sensible. Continentalism is just pretension, so remember when they little voice bleats ‘try a foreign something? You could tell your friends about it!?’ just think about the most annoying continentalist that you know. And kick that tiny voice right in the mush lest it embolden itself and so change you from a sensible person into a damp-powdered loose-can(n)on of continentalistic claptrap.
As for your ‘Waitrose’ jams?
Waitrose?! How very dare you. Garden picked and kitchen made*.
And damson and gooseberry jams are delicious.
*My mums garden and kitchen.
You’re both wrong because you’ve neglected fig, unquestionably the champion jam.
You’re both wrong because you’ve neglected fig
Those seedy-immigrant tree-testicles require no mention therefore they might only aspire to be ranked even so unworthy of note as to be ‘neglected’ by the British.
Kindly leave those little Levantine bags of bilge where they belong. Which is in the Sea*. Your jam will thank you.
*Not even in this Sea.
Pay no mind to the bleating poshooes boasting about foreign stuff. Elitist effluent. Garlicy gobbledegook. Ponsensical prattle about Emperor’s new clothes. If you’ve ever smelled a goat then you know why no sensible person would eat ‘cheese’ made from such a beast.
Garlic's been used in British cooking for over a 1000 years, even the word comes from Old English... And someone who would turn down goat cheese... Your dislike for ketchup I could accept as a quaint eccentricity, but clearly your failings go far beyond that, and your opinions on all things toasty can be safely ignored.
And thinking about it: a garlic bread cheese toasty could be worth a try.
Anyone ever tried a macaroni cheese toastie? It's great in a pie, so......
p7eaven - I absolutely disagree with everything you say, but absolutely applaud the way you say it. Chapeau!
(Sorry, I mean 'Hat!')
Anyone ever tried a macaroni cheese toastie? It’s great in a pie
A US/Italian affectation. The vast herds of noble bison are gone from those great American plains, only to be replaced with humans of the ‘gimme mac n’ cheese’ ruminant order. Unable to gauge neither tastefulness nor their own Body Mass Index, they look to such pale mushy carbocide as their deliverance. The ‘Mac n’ Cheese’ (it even hurts to say it, you must agree) is in every way inferior to the British Baked Potato With Cheddar.
If a Brevilled sandwich is required to deliver a second carbohydrate (along with some cheese) then I respectfully suggest that a well-baked potato is mashed, buttered and added along with the grated cheddar. Pasta on the other hand enjoys exactly the same business inside of bread as it enjoys inside of Britain. ie no business, and no enjoyment. The same can be said of cheese ‘sauces’. Awful things.
p7eaven – I absolutely disagree with everything you say, but absolutely applaud the way you say it.
Why thank you? I am momentarily flattered almost to the point of overlooking your ‘disagreement’ (alas, if only said disagreement was not born of continentalist affectations)
Notwithstanding, I wish your sensibilities a full recovery as you sound like a decent Brit just itching to get out 🇬🇧🍞🍳🥓
OP, have you thought about a ‘chip-butty’ toasty?
Why thank you? I am momentarily flattered almost to the point of overlooking your ‘disagreement’ (alas, if only said disagreement was not born of continentalist affectations)
Notwithstanding, I wish your sensibilities a full recovery as you sound like a decent Brit just itching to get out 🇬🇧🍞🍳🥓
OP, have you thought about a ‘chip-butty’ toasty?
I am the bloody OP!
^ How dreadfully dim of me. No harm done I trust? You seem like a decent sort.
Anyway nonetheless I’m thinking that x3 chips* (x4 if cut thinner, but not so thin as to resemble a ‘French fry’) might just fit inside of a Breville toastie.
Butter, vinegar, salt? Pickled egg on the side. Job (as they say) jobbed.
*Be sure to crinkle-cut one’s chips, thereby presenting a greater surface-area. This is ideal for the desired subtle crisping of the ‘epidermis’.
A US/Italian affectation. The vast herds of noble bison are gone from those great American plains, only to be replaced with humans of the ‘gimme mac n’ cheese’ ruminant order. Unable to gauge neither tastefulness nor their own Body Mass Index, they look to such pale mushy carbocide as their deliverance. The ‘Mac n’ Cheese’ (it even hurts to say it, you must agree) is in every way inferior to the British Baked Potato With Cheddar.
Utter drivel, away an take yer face for a shite!
The PB, cheese and sriracha is a hit btw, though I reckon less PB and more cheese and sriracha next time.
Good stuff.
^ My alter-ego bought some sriracha sauce last night in order to try a (vegan) version of the PBCS. Am genuinely curious.
You could try vegan cheese, the stuff my local vegan cafe does is pretty good melted, not sure what it is though. It's basically a nice melty, salty edge to the satay type other flavours. Grand.
Because of this thread for the first time in ages I have pan grilled a cheese, spring onion and ham toastie with mayo on the outside.
Beans and HP sauce on the side.
Thanks to the OP for getting toasties back on my radar..'
Anyone ever tried a macaroni cheese toastie? It’s great in a pie, so……
... Macaroni cheese pie toastie. I'm in.
Beans and HP sauce on the side.
* Claps with a knowing nod*
Macaroni cheese pie toastie. I’m in.
That's definitely no fitting in my breville.
Wee bakers in town does awesome macaroni pies, ye can only imagine how much fat is in there. And you get a free cake with every pie or pasty.
That way lies early death.
The classic chicken, bacon, brie and pesto. Will never be beaten
Difficult to know where to start with how wrong that statement actually is.
I think you'll find it can be very easily beaten by simply using some proper cheese and throwing the pesto in a pond, where it belongs.
The king of cheese toasties is Warbies toastie bread, mature cheddar, corned beef, onion, and Worcester sauce 😛
Pesto? Pfft!