What is beans on toast

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Are we consumers manipulated by the industrial-food complex? Particularly when, despite all the time and energy wasted on this task, no one — no overly earnest foodie, no pretentious chef — has ever created home-cooked beans that even closely mimic what we love about the factory version.

The flavours and textures, particularly when using ludicrous pulses such as broad beans and chickpeas, invariably end up closer to an Italian bean stew. That stew may be better for us. It may even be objectively tastier. But, frankly, when HtE wants beans on toast, it wants beans on toast.

Manoeuvrability is crucial here. It is more important than bread quality. Use far thicker, 4cm-deep doorsteps, as trendy brunch cafes tend to, and while that toast is visually pleasing, it is difficult to cut and move around your plate.

Your fork prongs must be just so : a millimetre off going right through the toast — so that you are fully in control of it, without the fork scratching noisily on the plate. With extra-thick toast that kind of surgical precision is impossible. It is like waving a sponge around on the end of a stick. Per mouthful, the toast-to-sauce ratio is also all out of whack. Given all that, while a thinly sliced loaf of slowly proved real bread will elevate your beans on toast, it is not essential.

Expensive bread is better used where it will not get covered in bean juice. A decent supermarket loaf will do the job. Something brown and wholemeal is preferable to give the dish a baseline earthiness and character, but that is as exotic as the bread should get. Nutty, seeded granary-style breads or, even worse, overtly sour sourdough or rye breads wonderful in other contexts will bring all sorts of potentially clanging textures and flavours into play, in a dish whose very essence lies in its simplicity.

Note : it should go without saying that the toast should be buttered. Applying anything else spreadable butter, low-fat olive oil and vegetable oil spreads, margarine is like slapping Dulux white emulsion on a Picasso. There is a false dichotomy associated with beans on toast.

HtE presumes that is all on the same plate? Who would serve the beans in a separate bowl, with a side-plate of toast?