I am a 21 year old Australian living in london who has an unhealthy obsession with toast, and here's why...For me there are few things in life as rewarding as toast. In terms of effort to result ratio, it has no equal. Consider a slice of bread. Plain, bland and with the propensity to get stale befor you've even had the chance ot drop it butter side down on the kitchen floor. Its got no personality, no intrigue, its merely a blank canvis on which to slap garnish condiments. Toast, however, is everything plain bread is not: warm from the process of toasting, crunchy, aeromatic and even medicinal (think about it what does the doctor tell you to eat when you've got a case of the trots??). It is completly self-contained and may well be the only way vegemite should ever me consumed. But, like everything there is a flip-sidfe to toast. How something so simple can go so tragiclally wrong is just apart of its magic. Example i hear you say, ok... A travesty to the very essence of toast is the semi-toasted slice. One of the worst cases of semi toast i've experienced was during a blackout when i decided that the gas stove would do alright as a toaster substitute. Of course i was wrong. Whilst one side of the bread went up in flames the moment i put it near the flame the otherside went immediatly stale, presumably from shock. This was a valuable lesson to learn early in my devlopment and was the last time i would ever try to by pass the toaster to get toast. Alas tho, for the toast gods are vengeful gods and every now and again i am punished and semi toast will strike again.
Okay case point: Cafe's... cafe's should by right and in all honnesty have the toast making process down pat.. Right?? Wrong because time after time i leave the establishment completly disillusioned. Isn't it obvious that if the bread you stuck under the grill is yet to turn brown, or even become warm that it is still just a slice of bread? That if the butter your using to smear onto the slice is not melting, it may not have actually reached the status of toast. The sad thing is tho, that most cafe's i've encountered have 2 toasters, a grill, and a focaccia toaster- neather of wich they have mastered, i've long wanted to suggest the pop up variety, simple. One with an emergency release button and over sized slots of crumpets and english muffins, but then i remember the gas stove incident and realise that semi toast is just something i'm going to have to put up with for a while.
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