Toast Without A Grill!!?!?

[CaptainBob]

Panic!!

Our new boat has no grill! How am I going to make soldiers and toast?

Are those over-flame toasters any good?

We could replace the perfectly good 2 burner + oven cooker. But it's not cheap to do that!

But I need toast!

TY!

 

[johnalison]

I don't know if anyone else has had any success but we once tried one of those gadgets and all we got was burned bread that never seemed to go through the "toast" stage.

 

[Tranona]

The pyramid types are no good in my experience, but have reasonable success with the fold out flat types with wire diffuser. You need to experiment with flame heights - and watch like a hawk as the dividing line between toast and burnt is very narrow!

 

[photodog]

You want one of these;

You need to manually rotate the bread... but we had one on the boat for a decade... only stopped using it last year as it got too rusty...

Cheap as chips.

Works fine.

 

[Reverend Ludd]

If you mean the tongs type arrangement made of mesh.

They are fine, but slow.

 

[CaptainBob]

Done some research and found this. It looks GOOD!

Not for toast though, but it solves another, related, problem I had.

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/diablo-sandwich-toaster/

 

[NornaBiron]

Done some research and found this. It looks GOOD!

Not for toast though, but it solves another, related, problem I had.

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/diablo-sandwich-toaster/

Toasted sandwiches are dead easy in a frying pan. Make sandwich same way as usual, butter outside of bread, place in heated frying pan and press down gently with fish slice, turn once toasted and repeat on other side. I'd never make toasted sandwiches any other way now, much nicer than a sandwich toaster.

 

[photodog]

Done some research and found this. It looks GOOD!

Not for toast though, but it solves another, related, problem I had.

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/diablo-sandwich-toaster/

We have one of those... the DB's... but a bit small... so its wasted quite a bit of bread off the corners... and you need to be carefull what you stuff it with.

previously recommended by myself here...

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186449&highlight=diablo

 

[NealB]

No boat should leave harbour without one of these:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=116

We've had one for years (two, actually...small and large).

They'll do your toast.......and cakes, roasts.

Good quality (our small one is getting on for twenty years now, and still works fine, no breakages).

Probably more useful than a pressure cooker.

 

[onesea]

Might be tempted by the Skillet, will wait Santa's Sack.

In the mean time we heat pasties on board without an oven by the following:

1) Place one or 2 (If you buy the size that fits your pan you can buy 2) in largest heaviest pan.
2) Put Lid on pan and heat on lowest heat for few minutes (Until you can smell the SLIGHTEST smell of burning.
3) Leave lid on for few minutes and you have pasties warmed enough for a cold winter day...

Nicer warming than my 2nd option Pot Noodles Yum

 

[Giblets]

No boat should leave harbour without one of these:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=116

We've had one for years (two, actually...small and large).

They'll do your toast.......and cakes, roasts.

Good quality (our small one is getting on for twenty years now, and still works fine, no breakages).

Probably more useful than a pressure cooker.

+1 on that.

In fact the skillet is second on the Christmas/birfday list. The top item is an Origo 3000 hob on which to use said skillet.

 

[Strathglass]

You want one of these;

You need to manually rotate the bread... but we had one on the boat for a decade... only stopped using it last year as it got too rusty...

Cheap as chips.

Works fine.

We have one of those.

One thing never to do with it is to have a fry-up going on in the next ring otherwise there will be a flame-up.

When SWMBO uses it she only puts two slices on at a time so that it see it before it burns.

The toast is perfect every time.

 

[ghostlymoron]

Onesea, Aaaah Pot Noodles. Nothing more welcome on a night watch. and ignore the sell by date - I've eaten them years out of date. Pastie idea is good though. I particularly like the 'Until you can smell the SLIGHTEST smell of burning' idea - it gives a frissant of excitement to the procedure.

 

[Leonidas]

Toasted sandwiches are dead easy in a frying pan. Make sandwich same way as usual, butter outside of bread, place in heated frying pan and press down gently with fish slice, turn once toasted and repeat on other side. I'd never make toasted sandwiches any other way now, much nicer than a sandwich toaster.

+1 i
t takes approx 5 minutes/slice of top grade toast. Need to turn regularly though!

 

[cliff]

You want one of these;

You need to manually rotate the bread... but we had one on the boat for a decade... only stopped using it last year as it got too rusty...

Cheap as chips.

Works fine.

No, No, No. He really wants one of these:

Just plug it in and in a few minutes, perfect toast also available from John Lewis at twice the price

 

[Poignard]

No boat should leave harbour without one of these:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=116

We've had one for years (two, actually...small and large).

They'll do your toast.......and cakes, roasts.

Good quality (our small one is getting on for twenty years now, and still works fine, no breakages).

Probably more useful than a pressure cooker.

+1. Brilliant item, we have had ours for a mere 14 years but it is one of the best galley things we ever bought for the boat.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

You want one of these;

You need to manually rotate the bread... but we had one on the boat for a decade... only stopped using it last year as it got too rusty...

Cheap as chips.

Works fine.

They don't work on meths stoves though.

 

[trapezeartist]

I've used the pyramid toaster on someone else's boat and it worked fine. I keep intending to get one but I never think of it until I'm out on the water and suffering a sudden toast deficiency. I just spike a round of bread onto a fork and hold it over the gas ring. It's not great, but it just about works.

 

[Colvic Watson]

They don't work on meths stoves though.

Have used one on our Origo a number of times, but we had smell free meths. In extremis we've made toast just by putting it in a frying pan, no oil. Not toast looking but crispy.

The thing I disliked about that toaster thingy was that it rusted so quickly and had to live in a bag. They do a SS one.

 

[pagoda]

Have used one on our Origo a number of times, but we had smell free meths. In extremis we've made toast just by putting it in a frying pan, no oil. Not toast looking but crispy.

The thing I disliked about that toaster thingy was that it rusted so quickly and had to live in a bag. They do a SS one.

The wire frame toasters work fine on gas, and have the extra benefit of heating up the saloon quite effectively in the morning- always appreciated.

They rust ! agreed... must find somebody who supplies stainless ones??

You can also heat up nan bread on these toasters, assuming you dampen the nan first - turn a few times and keep an eye on it while heating. That is far easier than heating up the oven for a couple of nans.

Graeme