What is the correct way to eat croissants?

Grandmafrench

I think, as for so many things, you can please yourself. But for practical purposes :

The French normally only eat 1, as a treat and not every day - especially if they're weight conscious.
A proper flaky croissant from a good bakery will contain 45% weight of butter, so the French don't add butter.
(As with bread, they don't put butter on the table, but it's almost a criminal offence to serve a meal without bread!)
Croissants just need to be very slightly warm to release the buttery smell.
Eating a croissant without making loads of mess with greasy flakes, it's usual to tear off a portion that you can put straight into your mouth, having first put jam on it if that's a choice.
Of course people will still dunk - the same with bread - but you don't see that so often now. The little bowls for coffee or chocolat - which make dunking easier - are more often used at home for a family breakfast.

And to be really French no plates.

10 mins in the oven, slice them open, Bon Maman Berries & Cherries jam (no butter).
Bootiful!

I used to eat them with unsalted butter.

Last few years OH goes to Lidl’s as soon as they open on Sunday morning and buys one or two croissants each from the bakery. No need to add butter. I dunk mine in coffee with hot milk. Delicious but can be messy with all the flaky bits.

I used to have french students and would do them a continental breakfast. Most of the students dunked their croissants into their coffee.
I just warm mine put some strawberry jam at the side of the plate and tear pieces off and dip in strawberry jam.

Pull a piece off and have with a little butter and jam, yum. Warm of course. You will definitely need a napkin as they are a bit messy.

Shhh ? Lizabethann
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Have you read Sea of memories by Fiona Valpy ?

As for croissants, I like to munch mine sitting by the wee harbour with a lovely fresh squeezed orange juice, just watching the boats and the world go by.

Warm

welbeck

taking by the tip, fling up in the air, and catch in the mouth like a seal.
if you have company you can do it across the dining table.
otherwise, fling and catch yourself; good for neck muscles.

wellbeck - that is too funny

I just eat them as they come out of the bakery - nothing added, and definitely not dunked!

Rufus2

^Mind you, I like pretty much everything with brie^
Fanny C Shouldn't that be "brief"?
After all, the bikini season is almost upon you and you need to retain your lithe appearance!
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You tease Rufus!
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Apricot jam, apricot jam, apricot jam, apricot jam, apricot jam, apricot jam, apricot jam .........

Mind you, I like pretty much everything with brie
Fanny C Shouldn't that be "brief"?
After all, the bikini season is almost upon you and you need to retain your lithe appearance!
Btw; Where have all the Night Owls gone?

I like Costco croissants, nice and buttery. Most of their cakes and pastries are too sweet but they have croissants and bagels right. Always warm in the oven first and I like raspberry jam with them. Rip them into pieces, yum.

My favourite? Tear open croissant, insert half a banana, squash. eat.

The correct way is the way you enjoy them, surely?

However, it is very British to use butter and jam on them. Just enjoy them (occasionally)

Urms these were farmers/truck drivers having breakfast, yes I know! We were sipping a Grand Crème.

muse I like them with brie too.
It goes all soft...mmm...
Mind you, I like pretty much everything with brie!

greenlady102

open mouth, insert croissant

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0pen mouth, insert croissant
greenlady102 Wrong!
Open mouth, insert teeth, insert croissant!

taking by the tip, fling up in the air, and catch in the mouth like a seal.
if you have company you can do it across the dining table.
otherwise, fling and catch yourself; good for neck muscles.

When I was a girl I stayed with a french family and they put jam on theirs (when they had them for breakfast) and dunked them (jam and all) in bowls of coffee/tea.
Most days they had bread instead - or sometimes what I think must have been brioche - and did the same with it!

Me too Callistemon

I love a savoury croissant. Sliced in half. Filled with thin sliced turkey or ham. Good smear of cranberry or redcurrant jelly. Slice of brie. Warmed in the oven till brie just starts to melt.

The only thing I dunk is a ginger biscuit.

Has anyone tried making them at home?

I tear mine to eat, but don't dunk.

BBbevan

Dipped in your coffee or chocolate

Dipped in black coffee

Ooh, now you’re talking Jax!