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Strange question to ask i know, but i have found myself using this item mainly at weekends,but i am seriously thinking of using on weekdays as well,probably starting off with just Mondays and see how things progress
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I actually have two,a ceramic one that holds six slices,and a metal one that holds eight.
I actually have two,a ceramic one that holds six slices,and a metal one that holds eight.
My friend has a nice rack but I don't get to use it very often 
Use both so you can have 14 slices ready for your delectation 
My recommendation would be to go with the ceramic one -
(a)softer profile more in keeping with a welcoming breakfast ambience...
(b)takes up less space
(c) Unlikely the 8-slice rack would ever be full unless many people are eating together.
The last two slices would have gone cold by the time one got round to them.
For a variety of practical and aesthetic reasons therefore -ceramic it is.
From such small steps can revolutions grow.
(a)softer profile more in keeping with a welcoming breakfast ambience...
(b)takes up less space
(c) Unlikely the 8-slice rack would ever be full unless many people are eating together.
The last two slices would have gone cold by the time one got round to them.
For a variety of practical and aesthetic reasons therefore -ceramic it is.
From such small steps can revolutions grow.
Is the toast pre-buttered?
If not it would seriously interfere with my stacking approach which ensures that the butter is nicely melted when I work my way through the stack to spread the Tesco Welsh salted. hth.
If not it would seriously interfere with my stacking approach which ensures that the butter is nicely melted when I work my way through the stack to spread the Tesco Welsh salted. hth.
Vubiant
very sound advice,you seem to be a man with high intelligence.
very sound advice,you seem to be a man with high intelligence.
surely no one pre butters toast,and then puts them on a rack,a total fopar
An ideal wedding present. Salad servers as well(if they're close family).
It is gratifying to note that so many forumites lavish such care and attention on their breakfasting practices. By doing so they ensure that they face the day with a sense of psychological well-being. Thus fortified, they are maximally prepared to meet any challenges life may throw at them.
The cumulative effect of this is indubitably good for society and induces in me a warm surge of optimism.
( It is to be sadly noted, however, that such optimistic surges are invariably of short duration.
)
The cumulative effect of this is indubitably good for society and induces in me a warm surge of optimism.
( It is to be sadly noted, however, that such optimistic surges are invariably of short duration.
)
Any man who does not butter toast within 10 seconds of it coming out of the toaster, or use my stacking method, to ensure that the butter is nicely melted is a smarmy snotty-nosed, lower middle class tw4t who spends all his working day sucking up to his boss, sh1tting on his colleagues and secretly wears silk knickers under his brown suit.
... just my opinion.
... just my opinion.
There is much food for thought in what you say...though a pardonable tinge of comic exaggeration may be detected.
Any man who does not butter toast within 10 seconds of it coming out of the toaster, or use my stacking method, to ensure that the butter is nicely melted is a smarmy snotty-nosed, lower middle class tw4t who spends all his working day sucking up to his boss, sh1tting on his colleagues and secretly wears silk knickers under his brown suit.
Clouseau, I trust this is a reference to the persons of that ilk who wear the PINK silk knickers, and NOT the hard-working ordinary decent sex perverts of Britain who wear the black ones?
Quite honestly this important distinction should have been made at the time of writing.
Clouseau, I trust this is a reference to the persons of that ilk who wear the PINK silk knickers, and NOT the hard-working ordinary decent sex perverts of Britain who wear the black ones?
Quite honestly this important distinction should have been made at the time of writing.
Huggy,
there are more questions about toast that need to be answered.
Do you eat the crusts?
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first?
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares?
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping?
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it?
there are more questions about toast that need to be answered.
Do you eat the crusts?
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first?
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares?
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping?
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it?
Do you eat the crusts? Always
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first? whole slice
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares? not applicable
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping? strips
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it? scrape it
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first? whole slice
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares? not applicable
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping? strips
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it? scrape it
Do you eat the crusts? Always
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first? whole slice
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares? not applicable
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping? strips
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it? scrape it
Do you eat it as a whole slice, or cut it first? whole slice
If you cut, do you do it straight, diagonally or squares? not applicable
If you're having boiled eggs, do you cut your toast into strips for dipping? strips
If you burn it, do you lob it into the rubbish bin, or scrape the black crap off and then eat it? scrape it
My sister used to like her toast burnt. 
Not burnt to a cinder, but not far from it.
She used to get a bollocking for getting the crap in the butter dish
Not burnt to a cinder, but not far from it.
She used to get a bollocking for getting the crap in the butter dish
What a very excellent thread.
Congratulations on bringing this important ponderable to the forum Huggy!
Congratulations on bringing this important ponderable to the forum Huggy!
On my behalf: I don't eat toast anymore since I gave up bread and when I did, I didn't use a toast rack (shame to say) BUT some years ago Lurpack butter had a promotion on whereby if you sent off so many wrappers and so much money, they replaced them with a bona-fide Lurpack 'Butterman' ceramic toast rack - which seemed too good an opportunity to miss.
So I sent my wrappers and money off and received one.
It's unused, in the top of a cupboard, but it's a thing of majesty.
It's a 4 slicer, by the way, but the sections are so big it could easily accommodate 8 'normal' slices - or 4 'doorsteps'.
So I sent my wrappers and money off and received one.
It's unused, in the top of a cupboard, but it's a thing of majesty.
It's a 4 slicer, by the way, but the sections are so big it could easily accommodate 8 'normal' slices - or 4 'doorsteps'.
I don't suppose you'd swap it for 6 Peppa Pig ice creams would you TT? It sounds like very heaven.
Hahah! NO, Alun!
Peppa Pigs are too easy to scoff.
I can admire my Butterman toast rack for years to come, without ever using it!
Peppa Pigs are too easy to scoff.
I can admire my Butterman toast rack for years to come, without ever using it!
Ah well, it was worth a try. No flies on TT. Lurpak by MILES my favourite buttery stuff.
Look at what I just found TT. Which one is yours?
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/lurpak-toast-rack
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/lurpak-toast-rack
What a brilliant find Alun!
I've just inspected mine and believe it to be a 'Douglas'.
I remember the egg cups being on offer too but didn't go in for them as I only eat yolks.
I'm sure you'll agree that the collection makes for a very eye-catching toasty rack?
I've just inspected mine and believe it to be a 'Douglas'.
I remember the egg cups being on offer too but didn't go in for them as I only eat yolks.
I'm sure you'll agree that the collection makes for a very eye-catching toasty rack?
Very eye-catching indeed TT. I will clearly have to bid for one, but including the egg paraphernalia.
It's easy to see now why you refuse to part with yours, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see Toes Towers throwing its doors open to a public eager to pay to see your own magnificent item.
It's easy to see now why you refuse to part with yours, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see Toes Towers throwing its doors open to a public eager to pay to see your own magnificent item.
A gem of a thread which contains an intoxicating mix (blend?) of fact and whimsy.
Who knows but it might evolve into the world's only long-running discussion of kitchen/dining culture -where many of the horrors, pitfalls, delights and dilemmas of this basic human arena can be ventilated and,where necessary, resolved.
Who knows but it might evolve into the world's only long-running discussion of kitchen/dining culture -where many of the horrors, pitfalls, delights and dilemmas of this basic human arena can be ventilated and,where necessary, resolved.
I really think it most advisable for you to bid for the whole shaboom Alun, as I can see you're a man who appreciates such magnificent breakfast artifacts!
I may indeed consider throwing open the doors for people to see mine!
I may indeed consider throwing open the doors for people to see mine!
That's an excellent toast rack Huggy, you must be very proud of it.
I may indeed consider throwing open the doors for people to see mine!
Make no mistake Tommy, all over the country we will be seeing stickers on the back windows of cars leaving Stoke, bearing the slogan "We have seen Tommy Toes house and his Lurpak toast rack. Well worth the £9.99 entry fee. (£19.99 for pensioners)".
Make no mistake Tommy, all over the country we will be seeing stickers on the back windows of cars leaving Stoke, bearing the slogan "We have seen Tommy Toes house and his Lurpak toast rack. Well worth the £9.99 entry fee. (£19.99 for pensioners)".
Ceramic models, such as the one pictured, promote toast sweat. In the interests of hygiene, therefore, a gentleman should only ever use a silver wire-framed rack.
Does anyone make butter curls these days? When I was a kid it was what posh people did. Haven't seen them for years.
Make no mistake Tommy, all over the country we will be seeing stickers on the back windows of cars leaving Stoke, bearing the slogan "We have seen Tommy Toes house and his Lurpak toast rack. Well worth the £9.99 entry fee. (£19.99 for pensioners)".
Alun, I may be forced to put the price of admission up - as I also have two plastic eggcups in black and white and blue and white which I believe came from some other 'Send something off and get these' type of promotion in the late 60s or early 70s.
They're totally naff - but of great historic breakfastry!
Alun, I may be forced to put the price of admission up - as I also have two plastic eggcups in black and white and blue and white which I believe came from some other 'Send something off and get these' type of promotion in the late 60s or early 70s.
They're totally naff - but of great historic breakfastry!
Foinavon, I obtained a butter curler in the late eighties and used it regularly for about...2 weeks!
Still have it and would never part with it.
Yet another thing of breakfastry beauty...
Still have it and would never part with it.
Yet another thing of breakfastry beauty...
A wonderful possession Tommy, one day it will be a museum piece with great curiosity value.
Quite possibly, Foinavon, especially as today people consume great quantities of gloop masquerading as butter substitutes in plastic tubs to be used straight from the fridge.
To be able to 'curl a butter' you need proper, cold*, hard butter which you can scrape your implement across to produce the curls.
*cold as in coldish. It needs to be a little bit warmer than straight from the fridge or you get breakages in your curls.
To be able to 'curl a butter' you need proper, cold*, hard butter which you can scrape your implement across to produce the curls.
*cold as in coldish. It needs to be a little bit warmer than straight from the fridge or you get breakages in your curls.
I'm with Do Wah on this. My toast has to be cut diagonally. Nothing else will do.
No rack btw (I'm working class) and prefer it stacked, albeit in criss-cross fashion, on a plate.
No rack btw (I'm working class) and prefer it stacked, albeit in criss-cross fashion, on a plate.
Tonight in the afterworld Leonardo da Vinci can only stamp his foot in frustration knowing that he never cast his mortal gaze on Tommy's butter-curler, let alone the branded egg-cups and priceless Lurpak toast rack.
One thing's for certain, the next time that The Antiques Road Trip comes anywhere near The Potteries, they are going to have to pay a visit to 'Chez Toes' to do the museum/heritage feature. I just hope it's not Hanson or Serrell on that particular tour, as I believe Tommy's patience (as mine) would quickly tire, and they would end up being fed alive to the pigs in Tommy's special abattoir, where the normal Health and Safety procedures have long since been dispensed with.
One thing's for certain, the next time that The Antiques Road Trip comes anywhere near The Potteries, they are going to have to pay a visit to 'Chez Toes' to do the museum/heritage feature. I just hope it's not Hanson or Serrell on that particular tour, as I believe Tommy's patience (as mine) would quickly tire, and they would end up being fed alive to the pigs in Tommy's special abattoir, where the normal Health and Safety procedures have long since been dispensed with.
Aka, I thought us working class people cut toast across the middle, not diagonally?
I'm aspiring to be middle class john then TT might let me into his pub.
I bought my butter curler either just before or just after I bought my silver plated, domed, butter servers (I had a bit of a yen for daft stuff like that at the time!).
This is similar to what they look like (I still have them, by the way - 2 of them).
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-F-B-Rogers-LION-HEAD-PAW-3-FOOTED-ROLL-TOP-BUTTER-CAVIAR-DISH-SILVER-PLATED-/281750549277
This is similar to what they look like (I still have them, by the way - 2 of them).
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-F-B-Rogers-LION-HEAD-PAW-3-FOOTED-ROLL-TOP-BUTTER-CAVIAR-DISH-SILVER-PLATED-/281750549277
hahaha!
There's some great butter domes etc available on e-bay.
Huggy, if you're going to go for the 'full-on' toast rack scenario you might as well buy a butter dome, curler, knife and condiment server.
Here's a few samples:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/silver-plated-butter-dish
There's some great butter domes etc available on e-bay.
Huggy, if you're going to go for the 'full-on' toast rack scenario you might as well buy a butter dome, curler, knife and condiment server.
Here's a few samples:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/silver-plated-butter-dish
Once more I find myself the poor relation to the beautiful people on here who move with effortless ease within their kitchens, their progress hurried and lifestyles immeasurably enriched by the fabulous apparatus mere mortals can only dream of attaining.
Special mention to Tommy Toes : Renaissance Man, Aesthete Nonpareil, Bon Vivant, Museum Curator, Visionary, Man of Wealth and Taste, Unlicensed Butcher. I salute your indefatigamabililiability Sir.
Special mention to Tommy Toes : Renaissance Man, Aesthete Nonpareil, Bon Vivant, Museum Curator, Visionary, Man of Wealth and Taste, Unlicensed Butcher. I salute your indefatigamabililiability Sir.
A man of many talents. Not so long ago was able to advise me of a reputable supplier of cockspur window catches, a new pair of which have been purchased and fitted to my bedroom windows and which work perfectly.
alun2005 26 Jul 15 23:23
Tonight in the afterworld Leonardo da Vinci can only stamp his foot in frustration knowing that he never cast his mortal gaze on Tommy's butter-curler, let alone the branded egg-cups and priceless Lurpak toast rack.
I am sure I read somewhere that Leonardo did set down the design for a butter curler in one of his notebooks, tucked away between the helicopter and the submarine.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the technology to make one at the time.
Tonight in the afterworld Leonardo da Vinci can only stamp his foot in frustration knowing that he never cast his mortal gaze on Tommy's butter-curler, let alone the branded egg-cups and priceless Lurpak toast rack.
I am sure I read somewhere that Leonardo did set down the design for a butter curler in one of his notebooks, tucked away between the helicopter and the submarine.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the technology to make one at the time.
We have a preserve server. Ceramic strawberry, the top comes off, and a small silver (well shiny at least) spoon.
Pretty classy even if I say so myself. Was part of a Christmas present some b4st4rd got us although it was at my wifes work and was a secret santa type thing.
Pretty classy even if I say so myself. Was part of a Christmas present some b4st4rd got us although it was at my wifes work and was a secret santa type thing.
This thread is sadly all too emblematic of the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" that proliferate in Corbyn's Britain.
Once again I find myself outside of the sect of the Beautiful People, my nose pressed up against the shop window, pockets empty. Meanwhile, the likes of Tommy Toes and his well-heeled pals unhesitatingly march into the shop as if they own the place, casually dispensing £50 notes to purchase any dainty trinket that momentarily takes their fancy, instructing the proprietor to "Keep the change my good man".
Twas ever thus. So much for "Trickledown Economics". It's just another case of 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" as that great philosopher Leighton Rees once wryly observed.
Once again I find myself outside of the sect of the Beautiful People, my nose pressed up against the shop window, pockets empty. Meanwhile, the likes of Tommy Toes and his well-heeled pals unhesitatingly march into the shop as if they own the place, casually dispensing £50 notes to purchase any dainty trinket that momentarily takes their fancy, instructing the proprietor to "Keep the change my good man".
Twas ever thus. So much for "Trickledown Economics". It's just another case of 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" as that great philosopher Leighton Rees once wryly observed.
I only put this thread up because i thought the humble toast rack was under used.
May i say that some of the replies have given me such a tonic especially Alun Tommy Akabula,Alun your comments and anecdotes are literature genius.
long live the Betfair chit chat forum
May i say that some of the replies have given me such a tonic especially Alun Tommy Akabula,Alun your comments and anecdotes are literature genius.
long live the Betfair chit chat forum
All those posts, but either none or next to none on the most important ingredient - bread.
imo, Toast should only be made from uncut bread. Those making toast from sliced bread should be sentenced to 5 lashes and those that commit the cardinal sin of getting uncut bread sliced should be sentenced to TEN! A significant part of the taste departs the bread upon slicing. I have not investigated where it goes.
I think toast is best eaten as hot as possible, so have no need for a toast rack.
imo, Toast should only be made from uncut bread. Those making toast from sliced bread should be sentenced to 5 lashes and those that commit the cardinal sin of getting uncut bread sliced should be sentenced to TEN! A significant part of the taste departs the bread upon slicing. I have not investigated where it goes.
I think toast is best eaten as hot as possible, so have no need for a toast rack.
Thats a bold statement about uncut bread,so why do the likes of Warburtons and Kingsmill sell toastie loafs already cut.
I like my toast cold 
I eat very little bread but occasionally, for breakfast, nothing hits the spot like a slice of toast and marmalade
I eat very little bread but occasionally, for breakfast, nothing hits the spot like a slice of toast and marmalade
Great small family bread shop near me, Parkers, bread always tastes better when cut 1 slice at a time.
MD
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast
Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best.
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast
Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best.
MD
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast
Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best.
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast
Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best.
Huggy "Thats a bold statement about uncut bread,so why do the likes of Warburtons and Kingsmill sell toastie loafs already cut."
Because people are so **cking lazy!
Because people are so **cking lazy!
btw, if you are unaware of this "fact", you clearly have a lot to learn about the finer points of toast!
Huggy, have you continued using your toast rack throughout this week or did you stop at pre-Goodwood brunch till the oncoming weekend?
We need to know!
We need to know!
I am considering devoting some time this week to a full 'Domesday Book' style audit of my kitchen, just to see if we too have any of these 'collect the coupons and send off some some branded goods' type items which the Beautiful People such as Tommy Toes has in his own kitchen. I suppose it will be the one and only chance I will ever have to place myself on a temporarily equal footing with the Great Man.
I don't have a toast rack, but all you have to do is once nice and brown, is place the bread in the grill pan cover, facing upwards obviously.
Result of Audit of Branded Goods in Alun2005's Kitchen That Were Acquired by Collecting Coupons.
As promised, following a root and branch, exhaustive, no-effort-spared investigation into this pressing matter of modern life, I can reveal the following findings :
1. A KitKat branded lunchbox (from around the late 1970s and still going strong) acquired through collecting KitKat wrappers. Sadly, I have been unable to find a photo of identical model item online, and even when I search for 'KitKat lunchbox' at eBay the modern version is different.
(There also used to be a late 1980s KitKat coffee mug acquired in the same manner. The mug was sadly broken into many pieces following an unfortunate fall to the floor in the last days of the 20th century, so cannot form part of this inventory. Although a nice coffee mug, it has long since been despatched to the dustbin of history and there can be no room for sentiment in an important audit such as this).
END OF AUDIT
As promised, following a root and branch, exhaustive, no-effort-spared investigation into this pressing matter of modern life, I can reveal the following findings :
1. A KitKat branded lunchbox (from around the late 1970s and still going strong) acquired through collecting KitKat wrappers. Sadly, I have been unable to find a photo of identical model item online, and even when I search for 'KitKat lunchbox' at eBay the modern version is different.
(There also used to be a late 1980s KitKat coffee mug acquired in the same manner. The mug was sadly broken into many pieces following an unfortunate fall to the floor in the last days of the 20th century, so cannot form part of this inventory. Although a nice coffee mug, it has long since been despatched to the dustbin of history and there can be no room for sentiment in an important audit such as this).
END OF AUDIT
Tommy, there can be NO place for levity in a serious audit such as this.
Now then, this has brought to mind a plastic 'Moo' Alarm Clock which I acquired by sending off cardboard coupons from 'La Vache Qui Rit' cheese triangles packs approx 15 years ago.
I know I had enough coupons for two of them and gave one to my neighbour as a part of either a birthday or Christmas present, which he enjoyed very much - until it sadly broke when he bashed it too hard one day when it was mooing at him to get up (unfortunately, as pleasant a cow clock as it was it was very flimsy!).
I will have to search under my bed later (where I keep all my strange purchases to be given away at a later date) to see if I still have the second one - but I might have sent that one to Sparky as part of his 'prezzie collection' at sometime or other.
I will report back!
I know I had enough coupons for two of them and gave one to my neighbour as a part of either a birthday or Christmas present, which he enjoyed very much - until it sadly broke when he bashed it too hard one day when it was mooing at him to get up (unfortunately, as pleasant a cow clock as it was it was very flimsy!).
I will have to search under my bed later (where I keep all my strange purchases to be given away at a later date) to see if I still have the second one - but I might have sent that one to Sparky as part of his 'prezzie collection' at sometime or other.
I will report back!
a plastic 'Moo' Alarm Clock which I acquired by sending off cardboard coupons from 'La Vache Qui Rit' cheese triangles
This could be very apex of fin-de-siecle sophistication I've ever come across. I'm amazed that The Louvre hasn't made you an offer TT.
This could be very apex of fin-de-siecle sophistication I've ever come across. I'm amazed that The Louvre hasn't made you an offer TT.
Alun, I have a 50th anniversary KitKat wrapper somewhere. they were still Rowntree Mackintosh then.
Now I know this may sound bizarre but I've been thinking about it - and I'm almost sure that the Cow faced alarm clock didn't actually go 'Moo' when it sounded its alarm but 'C0ck-a-doodle-doo' - as I can remember my late neighbou doing impressions of it.
I really will have to investigate if I still have one and check it out!
I really will have to investigate if I still have one and check it out!
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