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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (8 children)

OP probably high when writing the post

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    No need to be high, hot buttered toast is, in fact, amongst, if not the, tastiest creation on the planet. It's got carbs and it's got fat, a combination which is almost as temoting as sugar and fat.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You also sprinkle some stuff on it for variety, cinnamon, curry, cumin, sprinkles, sugar, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes, raw garlic needs to be cooked and the powdered salt just isn’t the same. Now it’s no longer “just sprinkling” something on if you need to manipulate it first. Even if you need to chop it.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I went through a butter toast phase when i was about 10. It started as just 1 slice after school. Then, it was 2. Then, 3. Then 1-2 every hour before bed until my mom finally put a stop to it. You could smell that the downstairs neighbors were crack heads, but i dont think i ever had a contact high to trigger the butter toast phase. I just liked toast for the toast of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Wait, we're supposed to restrain ourselves??

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago* (20 children)

    I remember fresh bread and butter. Yum.

    Not anymore though because my body decided it makes sense to attack itself when I eat the tiniest particle of gluten. Celiac disease. Ugh.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Potatoes and butter.

    I'd probably pick bread as my favorite food, but at one point doc had me try going gluten free to rule out some possibilities. No gluten issue, but it really made me value a nice potato! Potato is just underground bread.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Yes but don't forget the salt there.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Syracuse, New York is nicknamed Salt City, as it was a huge commercial salt producer for many years. There is a dish called Syracuse Salt Potatoes which boils the potatoes in a very saturated brine, as salt was in no short supply.

    The skin on the small potatoes keeps too much of the salt from being absorbed, and the centers get such a creamy texture while as the water evaporated off the skins from residual heat, it leaves a beautiful powdered salt coating all over the outside. Then cover or dip (I like to dip so the salt doesn't run off) in melted butter and enjoy! Must be tasted to be believed.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Very similar to papas arrugadas, a traditional dish in the Canary Islands.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yum, those with that mojo sauce and a nice piece of fish does sound really good!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Oh I want to try it out but I'm kind of scare by any salt recipe from the new world. It seems that USA' and Canada's standard size of cristal salt is very diffdrent from the french one, living many of my dishes from there way over salted. I guess if we're talking about melted salt and brine saturation it could be fine but I'm still scared.

    Can I use any potatoes or do I need something starchy/tender/...?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Oh wow, I never even considered the salt itself would be an issue. It looks like you would likely have coarse grey salt, gros sel, as your large grain salt? I use Kosher or coarse sea salt, which from what I can find, is fairly the same volumetrically, but things also said grey salt is denser with actual salt. The saltwater is pretty much a saturated solution or close to it, so I don't know if you could actually oversalt the water. The weight ratios I found have around 1 lb salt per 4 lb potatoes.

    For the potatoes themselves, we have little bags of boiling potatoes, either white, red, or a mix or red, white, and purple. They have thin skins and hold up well for boiling. Looking up French styles, la Charlotte, Ratte, l'Amandine, Belle de Fontenay, Annabelle, Franceline, Nicola, Roseval, and Chérie all seem likely useable. Ours are around the size of a golf or ping pong ball. All yours seem more finger shaped so I can't tell exactly how large they are.

    Maybe you can find a French recipe for the papas arrugadas the other commentor mentioned to get a version with things you can buy more easily. Other than the sauce, the idea seems the same.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Oh... So I should use some gros sel whenever kosher salt is mention. That changes many thing. I probably try it (one day) and keep you updated but I feel like many times a recipe seems straighforwars it is because we make a lot of assumtions that don't necessary match another culture well.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I've tried reading a few things now, and I think that is going to be your best starting point. I can only get so much without knowing the French words, since I'm sure the detail of the translation is much more important when talking about something as specific as tiny structures and textures.

    It sounds like kosher salt is more flakey, while gros sel is cubic, but I'm thinking that they are not fine salts and will leave more air pockets when measuring by volume should keep you closest. Grey salt from the sea is going to have some taste that a white salt from a mine isn't, but if it's just being used 90% for whatever osmosis trick it is doing to potatoes, that probably isn't going to make a huge difference.

    My understanding is all recipes in English (or at least from America) are written with kosher salt in mind. Salt that would go in a shaker is much too fine and will make food much saltier than intended, it's probably twice as much salt.

    It's easy to slip one's mind trying to share something like this, that seems like it would be the most mundane recipe, as probably for both of us, salt and potatoes are daily staples we don't pay much mind to, we just know what to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You probably know this stuff better than me since you're coeliac, but just in case you don't: try the Loopy Whisk's bread recipes. I have a couple of coeliac family members and these are by far the best results I've gotten for making gluten free bread for them

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    As someone who was diagnosed at 43, I relate so much to this comment. Most things, buttered toast included, aren't worth the weeks of pain. Although, I have seriously considered a Dick's Deluxe burger on a couple of occasions.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Nothing like eating Dicks to make the pain stop.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Buttered toast with some garlic powder was one of my go-to "I'm broke as hell, but at least this is tasty" foods.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    After how many decades should I expect this "occasional phase" to end?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Sounds like a "it's 2am and I'm stoned" thing. So sometimes, yes.

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  • "occasional phase", sir you mispelled "permanent condition of humanity"

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Carb loading

    My daughter has just discovered the joys of fresh baguette with butter. It's all she wants all day long

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    This is mainly why i don't buy bread loafs anymore. I will make 4 or 6 slices of toast and wonder why i'm such a fatass.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Instead of putting it on toast, make a grilled PB&J. Butter it and cook it in a skillet just like a grilled cheese.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    but i like the jam to be cold

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Yes, but only if I squeeze a bit of honey on top too. Honey toast is where it’s at.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    On of last memories of my father when he had cancer was eating an entire loaf of toast with him. We just kept laughing and making more until there was no more bread on the house

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    That all depends on if I smoke weed or not.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Come to France and try toasted baguette with salted butter, it won't be a phase.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    i used to work next door to a bakery. the owner/baker grew up (and learned to bake) in belgium. she imported her flour. probably still does. it was my first job and i still miss that summer sometimes. Tina and I still do coffee once a month.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Lately I have discovered plain toast is pretty good.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Butter that toast. Make super rich hot chocolate. Use some half & half in it, even. Dip that buttery toast in the hot chocolate.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    that sounds wonderful but coffee instead of cocoa (i eat chocolate twice a year and it must be the fanciest. i am not high maintenance)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I'm thinking a dark roast in a Moka pot. Just some strong, good, bitter coffee. It reminds me of dark chocolate. Normally, I would just drink it black. But thinking of dipping buttered toast in it, I think maybe a sweet cream might be nice in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Sometimes I like toasted sandwiches instead of grilled. Toasted bread is just 🤌.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Im going to go make some toast right now

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    When I lived at my dad's a long time ago now he got furious at me for eating straight slices of bread with butter on them instead of making a sandwich.

    I loved that shit and I'm sure I still would but that experience kinda killed it for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Its just you. I'm not restraining.

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    Wait till you try different breads. Raisin bread, rye, rye with caraway seeds OMG.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Even just butter melting on warm fresh bread. I love my breadmaker for that, it's so simple, cheap, and easy. Throw the ingredients in (flour, salt, yeast, sugar, water and margarine) and walk away. 3 hours later you're scarfing it down while the whole house smells like freshly baked bread.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This but with peanut butter instead of butter, and a glass of oat milk.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Usually when I bake bread, I have to remind myself that there are more than 30 seconds in a week and this has to last.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I only have to resist that when I bake my own bread. Which I resist by being lazy and not making bread since I want it NOW and not 4 to 6 hours from now after working the dough and letting it rise.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Toasted rye, thick cut and some extra salty butter ... 🤤

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Hey Peter Frampton, do you like toast too? Yes, as do I. It is warm and crunchy. And the perfect place for jelly to lay.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Let me tell you all about a little thing called buttered toast dipped in hot coffee. Hell of a breakfast.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you're a baller like me, you can also put avocado on it.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Once again the lack of the word "tartine" and a proper translation for "brioche au pur tartinée de beurre" shows what is missing in English speaking cultures.

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