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Does anybody use a toast rack for everyday use?
Does anybody use a toast rack for everyday use?
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Lurpak....a great butter !
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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! |
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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... |
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A wonderful possession Tommy, one day it will be a museum piece with great curiosity value.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Aka, I thought us working class people cut toast across the middle, not diagonally?
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I'm aspiring to be middle class john then TT might let me into his pub.
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hahahaha!
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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 |
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slipped into the paralell Universe all fine here
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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 |
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*preserve server
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That's a nice one Tommy. Lovely bit of silver-plate.
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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. |
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hahahaha!
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Thats a bold statement about uncut bread,so why do the likes of Warburtons and Kingsmill sell toastie loafs already cut.
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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  |
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Great small family bread shop near me, Parkers, bread always tastes better when cut 1 slice at a time.
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MD
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best. |
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MD
The mention of marmalade sets me thinking of my favourite spread for toast Ginger marmalade with ginger pieces,Sainsburys being the best. |
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Surely a toast rack is best used for storing letters?
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Ginger marmalade
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I used my toast rack for a pre Goodwood brunch
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I used my toast rack for a pre Goodwood brunch
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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! |
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btw, if you are unaware of this "fact", you clearly have a lot to learn about the finer points of toast!
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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! |
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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.
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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.
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very funny alan
pp Tommy |
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I agree with kenny!
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- and that's a bloody rarity!
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