Toast

Toast

Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. This browning is the result of a Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread and makes it firmer, so it holds toppings more securely. Toasting is a common method of making stale bread more palatable.

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Famous quotes containing the word toast:

    “Billy: You dropped some shell in there.
    Ted: It’s all right. Makes it crunchier that way. You like French toast crunchy, don’t you?”
    —Robert Benton (b. 1932)

    “I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be slim,
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    So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim,
    And let us e’en toast them together.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)