The heel of the bread - yay or nay?

RefulgentGnomon

Do you eat the heel of a sliced pan or is it for throwing out/giving to animals?

Personally, I think it's better than an ordinary slice (Was gonna say the best thing since sliced br...) and enjoy it more.

This is what I'm talking about if you don't know:
The top slice on this

sometimes i like it, sometimes not
depends how hungry i am

and it's "yea or nay"

2 stroke

Get a life.

January

Nay! It's too... rough for me to eat, too thick... I like thin bread not doorstops.

Dudess

Heel of bread - rotten. Hard and dry.

sidneykidney

YEA love it. It's is the best bit of a sliced pan. Buy an unsliced loaf and cut yourself a heel as thick as you like.

*drools*

Irish Wolf

YES! Especially toasted and buttered about 3 times.. plenty of bread to soak up the melted butter..

ziggy

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Anto McC

Jaysus it's horrible.

yom 1

sidneykidney wrote:

YEA love it. It's is the best bit of a sliced pan. Buy an unsliced loaf and cut yourself a heel as thick as you like.

*drools*

couldnt have put it better myself

Thrill

I love it. I always try to get to the sliced pan first for the heal. Yummy.

Dudess

Irish Wolf wrote:

YES! Especially toasted and buttered about 3 times.. plenty of bread to soak up the melted butter..

Hmmm. That puts a different spin on things. But... how on earth would you fit it into the toaster?!

Thrill

Dudess wrote:

Hmmm. That puts a different spin on things. But... how on earth would you fit it into the toaster?!

You stick it in the toaster area of the gas/electric oven.

Irish Wolf

Dudess wrote:

Hmmm. That puts a different spin on things. But... how on earth would you fit it into the toaster?!

:eek: Toaster!!! They should be banned - but that's a whole other issue for a whole other day!

You grill it.. the outside first and then the inside til it's nice and golden...

Oh yes!

Nehpets

Love it!

Dudess

Irish Wolf wrote:

:eek: Toaster!!! They should be banned - but that's a whole other issue for a whole other day!

You grill it.. the outside first and then the inside til it's nice and golden...

Oh yes!

Ah but that shaves a good ten minutes off the day/my sleep. Surely there's a toaster that would facilitate me?
To use an analogy: a slapper wide toaster, as opposed to a tight one that won't let the whole slice in?

Irish Wolf

Dudess wrote:

Ah but that shaves a good ten minutes off the day/my sleep. Surely there's a toaster that would facilitate me?
To use an analogy: a slapper wide toaster, as opposed to a tight one that won't let the whole slice in?

Ah but you see you have to invest some time to get the proper result..

Ruu_Old

Oh yes, put it on the grill, comes out nice and crunchy. Nicestestest part of the loaf in my opinion. *sips tea*

Wishbone Ash

Yuck! - eating the end slice is a bit like asking your publican for the first pint of Guinness drawn from the tap! :eek:

..and as for the heel in a batch loaf......*vomits*

Limerick Dude

My brother and I always fought over it when we were kids!

Agamemnon

Love the heel almost as much as I love Lady Heather's spiked heel on my chest. Slather it in Panda chocolate spread and it's almost a meal in itself.

smashey

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Yuck! - eating the end slice is a bit like asking your publican for the first pint of Guinness drawn from the tap! :eek:

..and as for the heel in a batch loaf......*vomits*

The heel of the pan is good but not as good as that of the batch loaf. Toast and loads of butter on either.

Kinetic^

As long as it's a freshly opened batch of bread I'll eat it.

Capt'n Midnight

crusty burnt heal off a fresh warm batch

Wishbone Ash

Limerick Dude wrote:

My brother and I always fought over it when we were kids!

Limerick Dude - You must have been in Angelas Ashes!

FunkZ

I hate it! But I also hate white bread as well!

SpitfireIV

Love that really thick 'crust' as we call it in this part of the world , especially when fresh and toasted, nice!

OR, just eaten by itself, no butter, not toasted, just the bread folded in half. I'm just after finishing a couple of slices of dry, fresh bread, it could eat it forever!

MooseJam

big fat heel is great to chew on

Duff

nah its rotten, give me the heel of a french stick anyday though!

Irish Wolf

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Limerick Dude - You must have been in Angelas Ashes!

Ah leave the poor creather alone - sure they're only after getting sliced bread here a few years ago..

Hermione*

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Love that really thick 'crust' as we call it in this part of the world /quote]
We also called it the crust in our house I don't think I encountered the phrase heel of the bread til I was at least ten.

Nay. Can't stand crust. Unless it's a home made soda bread (preferably baked by my dad), fresh out of the oven, with real butter. Nyom. Sliced pan crusts, never.

Giblet

Heal o' da batch. The best bit. See when you lived in Dublin when you were poor, the heel was the biggest slice, so you wanted that. Proper Dublin. They don't give you a big heel nowadays, scabby bastards.

Blush_01

There's a fight over the crust in our house, all five of us love it. The Ma normally wins, with me coming a close second. Normally I can convince her to part with a quarter if I've been particularly helpful!

Stapleton's bread (you can get it in Tipperary, and Limerick, I'd imagine they're not the only places either) do some fantastic thick crusts, and they're properly chewy like the loaves you cut yourself. Cahir sliced pans used to be THE bread, perfect crusts and tasted like heaven toasted, but I haven't seen Cahir bread in years.

2 stroke

Stapleton's bread. now thats real bread. Problem is I can't get a fresh loaf until after 10am, and it has to be eaten fresh. Its not loaded with preservatives like most other breads.

Wishbone Ash

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Love that really thick 'crust' as we call it

Hermoine* wrote:

We also called it the crust in our house

Blush_01 wrote:

There's a fight over the crust in our house

I'm confused. How could the end slices be called the "crust". Sure all slices have a crust along the edge, especially that low grade batch rubbish. :eek:

Big Ears

I love the thick crusts , I think I'm the only one in the family who does and thus I almost always get them .

NicOda

Im sure all the Waterford/South Kilkenny heads will agree that there is nothin quite like the heel off a fresh crusty Portlaw pan coverred in layer of butter......mmmmmmmmmmmm. In my house I remember being given a slice off the edge of the heel, like a finger , covered on butter to suck on when we were teething instead of a soother . Ah memories...

Terry

2 stroke wrote:

Get a life.

You're fairly new, so you get a chance.
If you don't have anything relavant to add to a thread, then don't post in it.

Had an english lodger once. He called the heel the crust and vice versa.

The heel of the batch rules.
Giblet, buy from a bakery and cut it to your preferred thickness.

Lord Nikon

Batch heal, toasted, buttered up, cuppa cha, lovely jubbly.

unreggd

depends


if its fresh, with loadsa spreads, it can be amazin

Macker

Slightly OT but I have vague memories from childhood of each end of a batch loaf heel having different names with maybe a religious conatatation ,ie. the burnt top being prod end and the flat bottom being catholic end,my da was a raving Dev republican so he could have just made it up

Piste

Yummy I love the heel, which is strange cos when I was younger no kids liked it, it was always "bags not getting the heel"

admiralofthefleet

i like the heel, i find its tastes more 'bready'

Tar.Aldarion

I feed the ducks and swans.

Jesus Wept

I like it toasted, lots of butter, never-ending glass of cold milk.

Steve_o

The-Rigger wrote:

I like it toasted, lots of butter, never-ending glass of cold milk.

I'll have what he's havin!!!!

Cravez

I love the heel, especially when the bread is really fresh. The Odlums Make it yourself type bread...... the heel after you take it out of the oven and let it cool down *drools*

Maple

I don't like the heel of an ordinary sliced pan but I love the heel of a batch loaf. Delicious toasted and slathered with real butter, none of that poncy Flora muck.

RandolphEsq

Minging, as are the people who eat it

Orlee

Yum - But only toasted with gallons of real butter or maybe philadelphia cheese (the real one in the wrapper - not the one in the tub)

There used to be fights in my house over the heel of the batch bread - we were always trying to get up earlier than each other so we could hide it!

Jesus Wept

Orlee wrote:

Yum - But only toasted with gallons of real butter or maybe philadelphia cheese (the real one in the wrapper - not the one in the tub)

There used to be fights in my house over the heel of the batch bread - we were always trying to get up earlier than each other so we could hide it!

It would take a lot more than the heel of a batch loaf to entice me out of bed early.