#Toast express full#

In Southeast Asia, coconut jam is a popular spread for toast. Korean toast is to be eaten as a sandwich. Street vendors in South Korea serve toast with a variety of toppings, usually fried eggs, vegetables and slices of meat, topped with sauces. Thick slices of toasted bread are also eaten in regions of the US, where they are known as Texas toast. Toast became a staple dish in Japan after World War II, especially after it was introduced in school lunches throughout the country due to the shortage of rice.

In Japan, people like to toast thick slices of bread. In southern Sri Lanka, it is common for toast to be paired with a curry soup and mint tea. This is because toasting breaks down the starch in the bread and makes it easier to digest. Toast is also used in some traditional bland specialty diets for people with gastrointestinal problems such as diarrhea. Strips of toast (the soldiers) are dipped into the runny yolk of a soft-boiled egg through a hole made in the top of the eggshell, and eaten. A dish popular there with children is eggs and soldiers.

#Toast express full#

In the United Kingdom, toast is part of a traditional breakfast: it may be incorporated in a full breakfast or eaten with baked beans. Toast is an important component of many breakfasts. Some sandwiches, such as the BLT, call for toast to be used rather than bread. Yeast extracts such as Marmite in the UK, New Zealand and South Africa, and Vegemite in Australia are considered national traditions. A few other condiments that can be enjoyed with toast are chocolate spread, cream cheese, and peanut butter. Toast is most commonly eaten with butter or margarine spread over it, and may be served with preserves, spreads, or other toppings in addition to or instead of butter. Toasted breads in West Bengal, India, used during teatime. toasting forks) are made for this purpose. Bread can also be toasted by holding it near, but not directly over, an open flame, such as a campfire or fireplace special toasting utensils (e.g. It can also be made by heating bread in a skillet or pan. This 'oven toast' is usually buttered before toasting. Toaster ovens are special small appliances made for toasting bread or for heating small amounts of other foods.īread can also be toasted under a grill (or broiler), in an open oven, or lying on an oven rack. This allows toast to be made continuously, as more slices can be added at any time without waiting for previous ones to pop up. It works by having one heating element on the top and one on the bottom with a metal conveyor belt in the middle which carries the toast between the two heating elements. It can also be toasted by a conveyor toaster, which device is often used in hotels, restaurants, and other food service locations. This occurs because moisture in the bread becomes steam while being toasted due to heat and when cooled the steam condenses into water droplets on the surface of the bread. water collects on the surface of the cooled toast). Bread toasted in a conventional toaster can 'sweat' when it is served (i.e. Sliced bread is placed into the slots on the top of the toaster, the desired degree of toasting is set, and a lever is pushed down to expose the bread to the heated elements. In a modern home kitchen, toast is usually made in a special-purpose electrical appliance, a toaster. Sliced bread is commonly used in modern preparations some of these specifically market their suitability for toasting. Toasting is a common method of making stale bread more palatable. In his 1602 play The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare gives Falstaff the line: 'Go fetch me a quart of sack put a toast in't.' Toast has been used as an element of American haute cuisine since at least the 1850s. In the 1600s, toast was still thought of as something to be put into drinks.

In the 1400s and 1500s, toast was discarded or eaten after it was used as a flavoring for drinks. One of the first references to toast in print is in a recipe for Oyle Soppys (flavoured onions stewed in a gallon of stale beer and a pint of oil) from 1430. The word toast comes from the Latin torrere 'to burn'.