What sliced bread makes decent toast?

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Here’s my favourite bread

Oh, I've not had Mothers Pride bread for years - a toasted heel with butter and Marmite, yum!

Bread is very easy and satisfying to make, it just takes ages, but you know what’s in it. Flour, yeast, a little butter or oil, salt. Compare that to the ingredients in a supermarket loaf!
Hovis is more like cake, very sweet, and so are the buns served with burgers.

I too had a craving for white sliced toast. I bought a Warburton's medium sliced toastie loaf. It just wasn't how I remembered, or possibly imagined, it tasted. Apparently they use a mix of wheat and soya flour these days and it genuinely has affected the taste. I was happy to bung it in the freezer for emergencies and go back to wholemeal.

my other half has been complaining about Sainsburys bread recently and MOnicas explanation hit the nail on the head, undercooked bread and crusty rolls that are soft and colourless. Mind you Sainsburys has gone right down lately, toilets are FILTHY and many out of order every time we go, mind you if you stand on the toilet seat your aim won't be
great, will it.

The bread of my childhood was thin-sliced white Mother’s Pride. I definitely don’t remember it with fondness. I used to have salad cream sandwiches, and occasionally white sugar sandwiches, but mostly jam.

If I haven’t made bread I like Aldi sliced seeded or white sourdough. It’s not strictly sourdough but it doesn’t hurt my jaws. Morrisons tiger bread is quite nice.

Usedtobeblonde - I toasted sourdough and lost a tooth from my dental plate, expensive toast!

Elrel

Usedtobeblonde - I toasted sourdough and lost a tooth from my dental plate, expensive toast!

DH also broke a tooth. Very expensive toast. He will now only eat it if the crusts are cut off. Incidentally, knives in cafés are seldom sharp enough to cope with sourdough crusts, but I do like it with poached egg on smashed avocado.

I wish I could bring myself to buy it, Warburtons toasting or Tiger bread is the best and makes brilliant bacon sandwiches, but I persevere with healthy wholemeal yet if it was discovered tomorrow that white was better I would rejoice.

Another plus here for tiger bread. Makes great toast!

To all of us saying the bread isn’t the same (and I’m sure it’s not) don’t forget our taste buds have probably altered over the years as well!

Many, many things don’t taste ‘like they used to’.

Calendargirl

To all of us saying the bread isn’t the same (and I’m sure it’s not) don’t forget our taste buds have probably altered over the years as well!

Many, many things don’t taste ‘like they used to’.

When we moved somewhere with a baker making 'proper' bread. My taste buds recognised it instantly as the bread of my childhood - and once I put butter on it, it was perfect.

Calendargirl

To all of us saying the bread isn’t the same (and I’m sure it’s not) don’t forget our taste buds have probably altered over the years as well!

Many, many things don’t taste ‘like they used to’.

It’s a good point.
Some people do retain ‘taste’ but others don’t.DP has lost most of his taste and sense of smell too.

We buy our bread from our local ‘proper’ baker.

It’s low GI bread, costs about £3.30 a loaf.

Expensive, but sooo good.

Nothing like any bread from childhood, but for toast, I still like a bit of thick white supermarket bread, but only have that very occasionally, normally we use the low GI.

Thanks to all of you who recommended tiger bread, I bought some and it makes great toast, so many thanks. May still try Nora’s bread too.

Our neighbour, a fanatical 'foodie' who makes everything from scratch and grows his own vegetables, asked if we were aware that most bread is made by the 'Chorleywood' method. He actually sneered as he uttered the word. Evidently this is a fast method involving steaming; no wonder bread doesn't taste as it did years ago.

On the basis of this thread I went to Tesco just now to find the Oat and Barley loaf. None on the shelves. Is it that popular or out of stock/discontinued?
I bought a Warburton toastie as I need some sliced white bread for a guest. I just toasted a slice to try. It's OK but not great. Oh well will try again.

In UK Morrisons Toastie loaf and preferablywith real butter 😊

It’s still coming up on the Tesco app as available, so maybe just popular. Perhaps we’re creating the Gransnet effect in the same way that Delia and Nigella did!!

I think the main problem with toast today is not so much the bread as how it's toasted. Back in my younger days it was toasted on a fork in front of an open fire. Later it was under the grill.
I now use my airfryer and find it much better. Okay, I have to watch it but worth the effort. Toasted teacake is particularly good as I only like one side toasted.

I used up the last few slices of an M&S cheese loaf toasted for breakfast. It was deeeeeelishus!

Aveline

I used up the last few slices of an M&S cheese loaf toasted for breakfast. It was deeeeeelishus!

Oh now, I've had that loaf a couple of times but never thought of toasting it - must give it a go! The thought of it with butter and Marmite...oh yum!

I don’t eat bread, but my DH loved Morrison’s ‘Super Toastie’ ….for toast!

We like sourdough, white and brown, and DH likes tiger bread. It always looks tasty but I have to say the smell of the white tiger puts me right off! I don’t know what they ‘baste’ it with, any ideas?

Lupatria

i'm a fan of tesco's oat and barley bread too. i have a slight wheat intolerance and this doesn't aggravate it and i can't eat seeded bread as the seeds go under my plate!
i use it toasted and for sandwiches and find that a loaf lasts for ages not going stale or mouldy.

Yes I have a wheat intolerance too and do have the occasional slice of the Tesco bread without many problems.

HelterSkelter1

On the basis of this thread I went to Tesco just now to find the Oat and Barley loaf. None on the shelves. Is it that popular or out of stock/discontinued?
I bought a Warburton toastie as I need some sliced white bread for a guest. I just toasted a slice to try. It's OK but not great. Oh well will try again.

There are never more than two trays of it in our local Tesco and they don't sell it online. The small local Tesco stores don't seem to have it either. Probably a case of "no demand" when half the country would buy it if it was available! I wonder if you were looking in the right place? It's usually with the brown bread and is one of the Tesco Finest range.