Im in the middle of an argument over how to make toastie soldiers for with boiled eggs! Students eh!

So, come on Orgers, when you make toastie soldiers, do you cut the slice of bread in half first, then cut it into slices at right angles to that, so you end up with 10 little soldiers, or do you just cut the slice of bread into 5 long soldiers?

Well?!

This must be a european dish. I have never heard of it.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

me neither

Youve never had boiled eggs, and dipped toast into the yolk? You dont know what youre missing!

PS !!

susannah said:

Yummmm...yes, I used to eat that with my dad I didn't know that's what it was called. My mom used to just tell me what it was called in Italian (which I can't spell for you if my life depended on it )

I don't think I have ever had that!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

It's poached eggs that are still a bit soft and you dip the toast points into the yolk sooooo good.

applekisses said:

Awwwww I like poached eggs and toast... when I was little mom just cut it all up together.....

Over easy eggs and toast? Where did the name "Toasted Soldiers" come from? I couldn't even get anything in Google on that one.

so.... how did you cut the toast? Very important guys, im gettin laughed at here!!

Screw it. Cut it into diamonds so that you have a point to dip it in.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

I dont know, but they stand up straight and tall like little soldiers?!

Which is why i cut mine as the length of the toast, not midget soldiers like all these fools!!

susannah said:

Where are the Two Fat Ladies when you need them!

this thread frightens and confuses me.

Damn, I hit all of the food sites I could think of and nothing.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

Egg soldiers move up in rank


EGG-CELLENT: The new device.IT'S the ultimate time-saving device for those who cannot cut perfect toasted soldiers to go with their boiled egg.

Engineer Mike Minton, 37, took a year and five tries before coming up with the hand-held "Perfect Soldier" cutter.

The secret is to cut the bread before it goes in the toaster so that each soldier has a crispy, sealed outer edge, he says.

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The plastic device, on show at the betfair.com British Invention Show, is pressed on to a slice of bread, creating a series of precisely-placed perforations.

The bread is then toasted, after which the individual soldiers can be torn off along the perforated line.

Perfect

"In the past, there's always been a danger of cutting your soldiers either too fat or too thin," explained Mr Minton, of Bridgend, south Wales.

He said the perfect toast soldier is 22 millimetres wide, and added: "If they are too fat then obviously they can't fit into the opened neck of the egg which is an infuriating way to start the day.

"But if the soldiers are too small then there's the risk of a catastrophic failure after they're dunked into the yolk."

The device is expected to go on sale from February for £5.99.

The three-day show is at London's Alexandra Palace from October 21.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Damn...the brits have brought it to a scientific level!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Is it really that serious for those little suckers? It is friggin toast and eggs!?!?!

Thats mental! Its not quite serious! But thats good though, because if thats how youre meant to cut them i win

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

thats how we ate it too