[Closed] The joy of toasties

tuna cheese onion
corned beef cheese onion

perfect

Pre cooked bacon, cheese and beans,
Stewed apple, toasties don’t have to be savoury..

Egg toastie with runny yoke. My prodest culinary achiement.

3 halves?! Not trying hard enough! There was a thread on this a while back which caused me to buy a toasty machine. Sausage and ketchup is lush.

Myti - I know - I had a naughty bag of crisps after as it wasn’t enough!

Classic molten cheese and ham for the win.

Time to search for the Brevil, Somewhere behind the George Foreman and the spiralizer.

Egg toastie with runny yoke. My prodest culinary achiement.

I know it’s the 500th anniversary of the reformation but extending it to toasties is a bit much. Think of the Roman Catholics 😆

Classic cheese and pickle. Not something I'd normally eat, but I get a craving every now and again

And for desert....a nutella and marshmallow toastie.

Strong cheddar and marmite on brown seedy batch.

Heaven.

ton

Corned beef cheese onion

Is the right answer. Especially with a splash of Worcester sauce in there

Also cheese and pepperoni.

Mmmmmmmmmm..... I bloody love toasties! 😀

My toastie maker died recently. I bought a new one the following day. Can't live without one! Cheese, chorizo and onion is one of my favourites.

I love a toastie but toastie machines have become very small. Are you supposed to remove the crusts first? Someone please invent a big single sandwich toaster maker.

Shredded roast chicken, avocado, cheddar, salt, pepper. Food of the gods.

No.1 Café Inners for cheese and caramelized onion chutney toasty.
My mouth is watering just thinking about it 😀

I messed up and replaced my broken breville triangle toasty maker with a std flat plate one that I thought would be more versatile and could do paninis etc. It is versatile but I miss those pockets of molten cheese you get when the triangle types fuse the bread together along the seam.

cheddar cheese and ham with onion and tomato is great. I used to divide a dairy lea triangle between each side as well for a special treat. try it.

my nan used to make me burger and onion toasties when I was a kid. just a std birds eye burger (pre cooked perhaps) with onions in it as well. Lovely with brown sauce.

Also I was telling my wife last night about the garage at Bonvilston on the A48 between Culverhouse Cross and Cowbridge. We used to sell xmas trees up the road and the garage was a top spot as they did pre cooked toasties of all flavours just piled up on the shelf in a paper bag if I remember. They were great and 30 secs in the microwave and bobs your uncle. Saw Tom Jones there once as well, can't remember if he bought a toasty though...

Mmm, toasties, Mrs F is on a late tomorrow so that's tea sorted!

As for size, we get perfectly acceptable results from toasting in the George Foreman, just remember to press down hard you don't get a sealed edge!

Oh, ham and cheese ftw!

Quail egg and truffle toastie for the win, maybe a little gold leaf to taste.

Cheese and pickled onion with shit loads of butter on white bread.

Favourite snack these days is a toastie with thick cut home made bread, nice mature cheese, worcester sauce, bacon or ham, some chopped shallots all wrapped in foil and popped in the oven for 12 minutes. It's a delight and cooks so nicely that way.

Dairy Milk

Breadwise there’s only one option....

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I have the flat plate variation and burko describes my frustration well. I think it's time to invest in the triangles.

Cheese and beans ftw

Shit I might have to get a toastie maker..

Was always my sailing club winter series lunch of choice. Cheese and ham or beans toastie and a portion of chips.

Panini = overpriced and never quite as good toastie.

theres a downside to all this

that pile of congealed egg, cheese, bean juice, & chorizo fat that collects underneath & behind the toastie machine

(we used to have toastie making competitions on particularly heavy weed & hiphop nights at uni, the next day could be grim)

Rascal - yum yum; any chance of an invite next time Mrs R gets out the toastie machine?

Buy a Waring toastie machine. Brilliant bit of kit.

Panini = overpriced and never quite as good toastie.

well said sir.

Fish fingers and Columns tartare sure

Delicious.

Beaten to it earlier in the thread ..but corned beef,cheese & onion is as near to perfection as you can get ..with maybe a little mayonnaise on the side of the plate .
Lightly butter the bread to face the outside which will give it the perfect crunch .
Our toastie machine is nearly antique and only does one at a time ..but I wouldn't dream of replacing it for another ..

Ran out of bread yesterday so had cheese on garlic naan.
Tasty..think Indian Pizza.

Fallen out with Warburtons over their tory sponsorship btw. Its come as quite a blow but presently settling Tesco’s OB farmhouse.

Back in the days of working in the student bar / café, my filling of choice was ham, cheese, marmite and pineapple. Awesome.

Pineapple? Marmite was bad enough, but pineapple?!!!!! 😯

I think you need to sit and have a think about what it is you've just said. Thats a crime against toasties...

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Butter on the OUTside!
Cheese & onion,smeared in ketchup. Always reminds me of my Nana's kitchen and slicing my finger chopping the onion. 🙂

Splash of guiness and a dollop of mustard all mixed in with grated cheddar.

Yep Senor j
Butter the first slice lightly and place it onto the toaster butter side down ..place filling onto this slice .
Butter second slice and place on top of the other ..butter side up.
Just a light coating ..but the toastie comes out golden with a lovely crunch to it ..give it a try ..then tell me it wasn't the best ever 😀

Haggis and primula with chives (the toothpaste 'cheese').

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Mmmmm butter, marmite and baked beans toastie: student food of the gods. Eaten whilst filling is the same temperature as basaltic magma.

Haggis, onion and a sweet(ish) chutney.
Chroizo, tomato & cheddar.
Black pudding with anything and a poached egg on top.

I prefer the flat plate toastie makers, much more versatile. Also like that you can use it to cook some items (onion, bacon, chorizo etc.) before loading it onto the bread.

For the Breville types, butter definitely on the outside.

Cheese, ham and tomato toasties are my post ride meal of choice. You cant beat it when you come in out the cold, washed down with a pint of strong coffee.

I'm wary of getting a toastie maker. Think I might eat little else. This is just enough of a pain in the arse to do and clean up that it reduces my intake to "moderate".

Here we have cheese and ham with a bit of wholegrain mustard mayonnaise on hovis granary.

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Turkey
Bacon
Brie
Cranberry Sauce

mmmmmmm.... seasonal

We were bought a Breville toastie maker 27 years ago as a wedding pressent. Its still the favorite for post ride snacks, as it was then, and gets used most weeks.

Was my favorite filling then and still is

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banana peanut butter and nutella 🙂 thank me later.

oh and we usually do ours on the simmering plate of the aga, lid down.

I'm sorry STW, for I have sinned.

We often do cheese toasties in a toaster bag in the toaster

2 pieces of bread with some mature cheddar in the middle. Whack it in a bag and then go. High setting so the bread is nice and crispy and the cheese has nicely melted. Bag is really easy to clean, often just a wipe. Eat sandwich with condiment of choice - ketchup, BBQ sauce, hot sauce etc

I haven't used my sandwich toaster in years, vaguely tempted to get it out now though

I'm just sad that my parents (going strong after 2 decades+ does 'whole' rounds of bread so you can make them with an unbroken egg.

All I can find automatically halve the slices for you, making it impossible.

What's gone wrong with the World?

burko73 - Member

I messed up and replaced my broken breville triangle toasty maker with a std flat plate one that I thought would be more versatile and could do paninis etc. It is versatile but I miss those pockets of molten cheese you get when the triangle types fuse the bread together along the seam.

Flat plate = hot sandwich 😐
Sealed triangles = toastie 😀

Surprised to see the mention of corned beef and onion. My missus put me onto these recently and I was most pleasantly surprised.

One of my favourites: http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/video/keema-toasties-and-masala-tea.html
(and I'm also a little bit in love with the chef)

You are still missing a trick ..its corned beef, [i]cheese[/i] & onion

I had a ham toastie followed by a cheese toastie, and fell ill afterwards.

It was a bad case of mixingmytoasties.

Heard that one years ago ...but it started " A rabbit walks into a bar and asks for a pint of bitter & a corned beef toastie ...embellish from there

OT I know but if we are talking student meals and toast...whatever happened to Toast Toppers (little cans of processed joy)?

hodgynd - Member

You are still missing a trick ..its corned beef, cheese & onion

My apologies, I thought cheese was a given.

What kind of sick twisted pervert would make a toastie without cheese?

Anyone tried one of the on the hob toasty presses? I'm tempted for the campervan

I use my George Foreman, it does annoy that it doesnt seal them on the sides, but Ive got over it. The wife is upset as she says the fake butter - spread stuff I use has taken the non stick of the George. I think she just doesnt like spread!

My Fave is Chicken Roll, Cheddar and Nandos sauce

We have a Diablo one in the camper, it only makes one at a time and takes alot longer for it to crisp.

Toasties pah.

My sa colleagues introduced me to jaffles done on the BBQ.

Jaffles are amazing.

Inspired me to have toasties this saturday, with the following...

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oikeith - Member

The wife is upset as she says the fake butter - spread stuff I use has taken the non stick of the George. I think she just doesn't like spread!

Of course she doesn't, she obviously has functioning taste buds.
Now bin that muck and get some real butter.

ETA: Haggis and cheese toastie? Nice! 8)

Love Boursin...but prefer the black pepper variety

Sbob..
No need to apologise..and the fault is all mine ..I should have realised that a man of such style & taste would not have made such an obvious ommission.. 😉

The SU bar at my old uni used to do a toastie with those beans with little sausages in it..
Awesome.

i have one of these, makes the best deep filled toasties! only problem is you need two on the go!

have taken this camping and used in the fire too!!

there can be a lot of bread wastage tho...

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Ham and emmental. The cheaper and thinner the ham the better.

Does anyone make a 4 toastie machine?

It's an issue with a whole family.

I appreciate a second machine could work, too.

edit: can't beat emmental & bacon. Proper butter on the outside of the bread too.

Ours, 27 years old, will take eight slices of bread but not sure if they are still available

haggis and boursin? Inspired choice sir.

Ham and cheese rocks and long as the 'ham' is actually a thickish slice preferably of something you have cooked yourself

There are a couple of four way toastie makers but I can't find one with the requisite clamshell design. 🙁

The plus side to a flat plate toaster, of sorts, is perfectly straight and evenly crispy bacon. It's the evenly crispy bit I like. (this is not toastie ingredient related, just a feature of that maker).

theres a downside to all this

that pile of congealed egg, cheese, bean juice, chorizo fat that collects underneath and behind the toastie machine

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I was meant to be cooking a sausage casserole tonight, to mark sausage week, but we’re going out to a gig, so i’ve Just snaffled a quick corned beef, cheese and onion toastie instead.

It would have been bad form not too! It was bloody gorgeous!!! 😀

Just ordered one of those Diablo things. I presume it will work on my little camping stove? Either way I like the idea of being able to chuck the whole thing in the dishwasher.
Cheers for the advice.

Cheese and onion toastie for supper tonight thanks to this thread. This will likely be followed by toasties at every opportunity for the rest of the week then without reason the toastie maker will disappear back into the back of the cupboard only to return in a couple of years time for more of the same.

Sorry. Can't agree with the beans thing. They undergo a taste transformation in a sandwich maker. Perhaps the sugar degrades at high temps or something.

only problem is you need two on the go!

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Not had it for years (like 30 odds) but a fried egg and Heinz spaghetti toasty is amazing. My Dad’s 2nd best culinary contribution, behind deep fried egg and chips. Deep fried eggs are AMAZING. Mind you - haven’t had that for even longer....

Wife and kids were out last night seeing a friend so I had no dinner ready for me when I got home (on the bike) 😥

So I got the toastie maker out and had cheese and chicken nugget (leftovers in fridge, proper pieces of chicken breast in breadcrumbs, sliced) toasties, with some black pepper inside

BBQ sauce on the side, was lovely

(Finished off with a couple of slices of Dominos that they'd brought home with them 😀 )