Also called toasties.

If you live alone, you may struggle to finish a loaf of bread before it goes bad. This is where toast has a key benefit over ordinary bread. If you buy pre-sliced bread, you can store the bread in the freezer, take out one slice at a time, and defrost it in the toaster. This isn’t a particularly Sad-Bastard life hack, because it’s indistinguishable from toast made from non-frozen bread. This is the kind of life hack even well-adjusted folk need to know.

We suppose you could also make sandwiches, if you’ve got non-moldy bread on the counter or in the fridge instead of in the freezer. But that sounds unlikely.

Core Ingredients

• Bread

• Things that go on toast

Preparation

• Apply bread to toaster.

• When toast pops, remove from toaster.

• Put stuff of choice on toast.

• Optional: put another slice of toast on top to make a “closed-face” sand- wich instead of an “open-faced” sandwich.

Variations There are nearly infinite toast variations.

• Butter or margarine

• Peanut butter

• Nutella

• Marshmallow fluff

• Maple syrup “butter”

• Banana slices with any of the above

• Butter or margarine & chocolate sprinkles are popular in the Nether- lands.

• Jam

• Peanut butter & jam

• Cheese

• The Humble Egg in any cooked form

• Cheese & jam

• Cheese & egg

• Hummus

• Baked beans from a can, warmed in the microwave. Beans on toast are popular in the UK.

• Avocado slices

Pro-tip: If you’re feeling really good, make part-baked bread rolls you bought from the frozen section, but that’s pretty damn ambitious.