When restaurants make their toast, why does it taste better than yours? When making plain toast, there is really only one secret ingredient that they are using that separates them apart from the home cooker. It really isn’t that secret at all actually.
Making the toast is really easy, even when it is done at restaurants. Most restaurants will buy their bread from a supplier, or get the same bread that is commonly bought at a grocery store, from a supplier. So most of the time, the secret isn’t in what bread they are using.
This doesn’t mean that some restaurants don’t make their own bread from scratch. Some of them do, but the bread usually only affects the texture rather than the taste. There are definitely certain types of bread that can make toast better for both regular toast and french toast, but the game changer is in what is placed on the toast most of the time.
Do restaurants put ingredients in their bread to make toast taste better?
If they are making their own bread from scratch, then yes they do put ingredients in their bread sometimes to make it taste better, but not always. Some create their own bread for toast to give it a better taste, texture, or both.
Of course, this requires a little more effort; so some restaurants will make their own bread from scratch at a bakery, and then have it delivered to the restaurant as needed.
When it comes to making french toast, the main ingredients are already soaked into the bread in the process of making it, so it isn’t necessary to put them into the bread before the french toast is created. Later we will go over exactly how restaurants make french toast step by step, and the equipment they use.
Since toast is made in a very simplistic way, it would benefit a restaurant more to add extra ingredients in their bread if they are even making it from scratch to begin with. Most of the time toast is just an extra addition to the main course, so additional efforts to create toast aren’t exaggerated by some restaurants. They keep it simple, just like the average home cooker.
Then why does their toast taste better than mine?
Even though a lot of restaurants do the same things (or similar) to the average home chef, they are putting more effort by simply using more butter than the average person would.
This is really the only secret to why their toast tastes better (if it’s toast with butter that they are making). If it isn’t toast with butter that they are making, and it is just plain toast, then it most likely is the ingredients in the bread that are making it taste better.
As mentioned, restaurants that don’t make their own bread, will just simply buy it from another company. They will receive pallets loaded with bread weekly, depending on how much bread they are selling. Either way, this is a common way that restaurants will make toast:
The key thing for restaurants when making toast with butter is the amount of butter they are using on their toast before they grill it.
They cover one side of the bread completely with butter before they toast that side. Buttering one side completely is all that is needed to make the toast taste better.
Some restaurants of course use other methods to toast their bread, but the flat top grill was one of the most common ways. Some restaurants just use a frying pan on the stove, while others would use an oven or toaster to make their toast.
Restaurants make french toast in a very simple way. They make a batter first for their bread, they cover both sides of the bread with the batter, and then they cook both sides on a flat top grill. Here is how it is done step-by-step:
Any additional ingredients, like berries or peaches (and of course syrup) are placed on the french toast after it is cooked. Sometimes extra powered sugar is sprinkled on the toast too.
This is the whole process that a restaurant uses to make their french toast. As stated, restaurants may use different types of bread for making their french toast. They may use brioche bread, which already has milk and eggs in its ingredients, or just simply use white bread. Some restaurants even use plain old wonder bread. The same bread found in grocery stores. It just might be the thicker version of the bread, like Texas Toast for example.
This is what you will need to make french toast like the restaurants in your own home:
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