Breville sandwiches..

[Espresso]

Pesto and salami (or cooked chicken) with cheese is pretty good. Though it's pretty good even with no cheese.
Pilchards are good, too as farmerbarleymow says. Pilchards and cheese, too. With piccalilli, though you can't put the piccalilli in the sandwich as hot piccalilli probably dissolves enamel.
I like cheese and onion or cheese and tomato or cheese and tomato and onion, but the old classic of ham and cheese is probably my favourite.

Back when I actually had a Breville, rather than the George Foreman thing I use now, I had one of those which sealed the edges but did not cut the sandwich in half, so you could crack an egg in and have an egg toasted sandwich. I more or less lived on those when I was a student. They were bloody lovely.

 

[discobastard]

The one I bought was VST041. I've only used it once so far, but it worked a treat and as expected, so no complaints so far. And the plates are dishwasher-safe, which is ideal.

http://www.breville.co.uk/vst041-deep-fill-sandwich-toaster.html

I'm on it. Apparently it's 'deep fill' so all good

 

[Looby]

I really miss our old Breville. I bought a cheapo sandwich toaster because I couldn't really justify the cost of a decent one but it was rubbish and tiny and only toasted part of the bread.

I miss the molten cheese in the sandwich which is hotter than the sun. [emoji20] I might have to buy one.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I bought a panini maker thing crossed with a George Foreman style thing. You can flip the plates so they're flat on one side and ridged on the other. It's very swish.

I've used it about 5 times.

 

[equationgirl]

I still have my single toastie Breville from my student days. I am very tempted to dig it out of the cupboard...

 

[weltweit]

I had a Breville as a student, I don't think I used it more than once and it got lost at some point, it was never a treasured possession.

 

[machine cat]

I really want a toasty now but do I put beans on top of the cheese or the other way round?

 

[Vintage Paw]

So here's the thing. I prefer cold beans over warm/hot beans. So it has to be cheese then beans if your sandwich is open (i.e. cheese and beans on toast) or if on a jacket potato. However, if you are making a toastie, then it is: bread-cheese-beans-cheese-bread. Obviously.

 

[Orang Utan]

did i ever tell the story about the maggoty Breville?

 

[Vintage Paw]

*pulls up a chair*

Do tell.

 

[Orang Utan]

Weeeelll, I shared a student house with five others and we had a Breville - cleaning standards were typically lacking. We had a long holiday, Easter or summer, in which the house was vacated by all - I was the first back and decided to have a nice cheese toastie, so I opened the Breville and founding it squirming with fat pulsating maggots. i threw the whole thing out in disgust and was later asked to replace it.

 

[8ball]

Weeeelll, I shared a student house with five others and we had a Breville - cleaning standards were typically lacking. We had a long holiday, Easter or summer, in which the house was vacated by all - I was the first back and decided to have a nice cheese toastie, so I opened the Breville and founding it squirming with fat pulsating maggots. i threw the whole thing out in disgust and was later asked to replace it.

If you were a proper student you'd be reporting back on the merits of cheesy maggot toasties!

 

[Vintage Paw]

We had a bit of a slug problem in our student house. About 85% of them tended to stick to the kitchen, and they had no problems traversing the perils of the cooker, and so on. There was quite a bit of slug traffic on an average day. You never, ever went barefoot. Anywhere.

Not gross creature related (well, actually...) there was that time a housemate pulled the toilet off the wall while shagging her boyfriend (Ugly Dave) on it.

 

[MrSki]

We had a bit of a slug problem in our student house. About 85% of them tended to stick to the kitchen, and they had no problems traversing the perils of the cooker, and so on. There was quite a bit of slug traffic on an average day. You never, ever went barefoot. Anywhere.

Not gross creature related (well, actually...) there was that time a housemate pulled the toilet off the wall while shagging her boyfriend (Ugly Dave) on it.

Was she eating a toastie at the time?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Was she eating a toastie at the time?

Possibly. It's hard to know, because thankfully I wasn't in the room with them.

 

[Mogden]

I do like a good toastie. Prompted by this thread I had cheese, onion and tomato ones yesterday.

If I've leftover pesto then that with cheese and toms is great.

Herta frankfurters are excellent in toasties.

I'm tempted by moose's sweet combo and I'm thinking of getting almond in there somewhere so it has a bakewell zing about it.

 

[maomao]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidh73/11108959984/

 

[Thimble Queen]

I want a cheese toasty now

 

[Thimble Queen]

Cream cheese and pesto.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidh73/11108959984/

The next time I'm staying in a hotel I'll take the breville toaster and compare its toastie-making abilities with the mighty Corby Trouser Press.