When I make toast at home it turns out soggy after I butter it but at the restaurant it doesnt. Why?

Answer 1

Are you using "butter"? Many of the diet "spreads" have water as one of the major ingredients. This will turn your toast soggy. If you use real butter (like you probably do at the restaurant), this won't happen.

Answer 2

Restaurants tend to brush or spray the toast with clarified butter. Clarified butter, also called ghee, has been simmered and allowed to sit so that the milk solids(the white streaks in melted butter) can settle on the bottom and be discarded. If you use whole butter on the toast, the milk solids are liquid and will make the toast soggy. Also, some restaurants use margarine or imitation butter on there toast.

Best way to clarify butter is to melt it in a pan, let it simmer 5 minutes, then let it sit for five minutes. Pour the clarified butter of the top leaving the milky white stuff on the bottom. Clarified butter is great for eggs because it won't burn like whole butter.

Answer 3

They toast the bread for a longer period and serve really hard frozen butter so you can't get a lot on the bread to make it soggy! Try it at home and you will get the same result as theirs.
It's either that, or they are adding preservatives to their bread to get rid of moisture instantly!

Answer 4

Set the toast up on its end not flat. Let it air dry a bit, then put the butter on it. It has nothing to do with heat, just condensation. It produces steam from the left over moisture in the bread and when you lay it flat it pools underneath the bread. If that doesn't work use a cooling rack.

Answer 5

Restaurants butter it prior to toasting. The butter melts and browns the bread. I don't recommend doing it at home or you'll start a fire. Restaurants use teflon sheets.

Answer 6

The restaurants wait for the toast to cool before buttering. Voila!!!!!!!!!!!!! No soggies.

Answer 7

You are not cooking it enough, or are adding too much butter. Also at restaurants, they sometime stake a lil longer to get it buttered, so it gets crispy before they butter it, meaning it wont get soggy at all, but it is harder to chew.

Answer 8

You may be putting the butter on while the toast is still too hot.

Answer 9

the toast has a chance to settle at the rest. try letting it cool for a min then put on you spread i like mine a little soggy so it never bothered me

Answer 10

Use real butter at room temp on freshly toasted bread! Substitutes and spreads are watery, like country crock, margerine, ets-