What sliced bread makes decent toast?

I have a bit of a theory that the better the bread, the worse the toast.
Sourdough ends up brick hard, rye likewise and any of the fancier health food shop breads are disappointing, anyway why would you want to toast them?
Yesterday’s baguette is rendered edible but for proper toast I’m in agreement with the NHS - Mothers Pride!

Either Tesco Seeded Batch (which I have only just realised is actually white bread and not wholemeal!) or Warburton's similar.

I Like my toast light and crunchy so toast it lightly, let it cool then toast it again, turning it over each time.
The habit happened when we had a toaster that didn't toast properly on one side, but now it's just the way we do it!

Recently I tried Co-op sliced sourdough bread toasted and I love it. It's also nice as a side, unbuttered, to mop up gravy or to eat alongside omelette. It reminds me of bread I ate in Italy.

For my lunches when at work I make rye and wheaten rolls using dough that's been left to rise overnight. They are lovely and soft but well balanced fibre-wise.

Warburton's danish is very nice for toast x

I well remember that too. Unfortunately, DH grabbed it all and used all the milk for his tea. He felt he'd earned it!!!!

Oh now, that's reminded me of the tea and toast I was given after the births of both of my children - after two emergency c-sections, believe me, it was the best tea and toast ever!

Lizziethelab NHS toast with bright yellow 'butter'!

I worked for the NHS for many years and the best toast has always been from a cheap white sliced loaf that the NHS use.

I simply use Hovis white thick cut (the green and blue packet). It makes lovely toast

I normally have Hovis Wholemeal Granary which I love but as a treat every now and then a sliced white Tiger loaf makes cracking toast

Tastes change over the years, I used to love hot buttered thick white toast, but now, yuck! Probably the bread.

However, I do like the SMALL version of Hovis multigrain toasted. The large version, for me, isn't nice, but the small loaf is great.

I agree about tiger bread, but I prefer thin sliced.

Lots of sliced loaves make OK toast, usually best if it's THICK sliced?

I hate bread with 'bits' in it, so granary is a no-no, toasted or not. And though I try brown toast sometimes, if we're at an hotel, I prefer white.

And we don't bother with Sourdough, it doesn't keep very well, seems to go mouldy and/or stale far too quickly?

'Worthy' bread?

Warburtons white sliced toastie loaf with lots of butter

Lidl's cheap own sliced bread in the orange wrapper..my friend used to run a b&b & this won hands down with the guests every time! Its perfect for white bread toast!

LovesBach

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.

The Chorleywood bread making method was developed in 1960/61 so I’m afraid depending on one’s age it’s quite possible it’s the bread we ate as children.
If you google it you’ll find it was developed to make bread faster with lower quality wheat. About 80% of the bread made in the UK uses this process.

Nothing tastes like it did when we were kids. I still have my Nan's toasting fork that I'd use to make toast - but only from slightly stale bread never fresh!!

Bread machine?

Supermarket bread just isn't bread. It can't be because of the government requirement to add so many 'fortifying vitamins' to the flour milled by any company that produces enough flour to bake bread commercially. Some of it resembles candy floss, while other such 'bread' is more like cardboard. Small bakers can buy their flour from millers that don't have to include the additives, so give them your custom, or alternatively bake your own bread and if time's precious, batch bake and then cut your loaves in half and freeze. You'll get lovely toast - as it used to be when we were all children.

Mine!

Morrisons do a really nice pumpkin and sunflower seed loaf. It’s tasty and keeps really well. I have toasted it but still prefer tiger bread for toast.

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.

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.

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?

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