You’ve been cooking your cheese toasties all wrong…here’s the one ingredient to make it the tastiest treat EVER
OUR obsession with cheese toasties, welsh rarebit or whatever you like to call the classic dish is about to level up.
The perfect meal can also use up Christmas leftovers as cheese goes with everything, so feel free to whack in your turkey bits, cranberry sauce, even some veggies to truly spice up your classic toasty.
Australian food writer, Tristan Lutze, told Aussie news site that we've been doing it wrong this whole time and there's one vital ingredient missing.
We've got bread and cheese in ours, so what is it that your toastie's been missing?
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He revealed the secret to a perfect cheese toasty is a coating of mayonnaise over the outside of the bread.
Tristan explained that adding a layer of mayonnaise instead of butter to the outside of the toasty will help the bread to brown more evenly as it toasts.
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It also reduces the risk of burning the bread which will definitely ruin your toastie.
The FSA warn that burnt toast could pose a cancer risk, owing to acrylamide, a chemical formed when starchy foods are cooked at a high temperature.
So make sure you toast with caution and check on yours regularly.
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