How does the average American eat a fresh baguette from a bakery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Not always immediately. I admit it, I’m gross. I do give it a few minutes in the toaster oven if it’s day-old. Not ideal, but miles better than mass produced bread. I can’t eat that stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My EU DH eats bread with every meal (yes, even with tacos, Chinese food, etc.) Our kids eat bread and chocolate, or bread and nutella, as a snack after school while watching cartoons in their native language. Whatever they don't use up becomes toast the next morning.

Yes, it's tricky buying fresh bread every day in the US but we have a standing order at the local bakery and we've got a system down for buying bread every day. And, in a pinch, Whole Foods has good enough bakery bread.

I want to know where you get your bread. I lived in Europe for years and now I just roll my eyes hard when a new "euro" bakery opens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Wtf. No. They do not have to be consumed immediately. I bake fresh baguettes at home and we eat them over a couple of days. Does your house have a weird temperature and humidity level? There is no reason a baguette would get “gross” any faster than other types of bakery bread. If the texture is getting stale, you just toast it. Why do you think French bread pizza was invented?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Not always immediately. I admit it, I’m gross. I do give it a few minutes in the toaster oven if it’s day-old. Not ideal, but miles better than mass produced bread. I can’t eat that stuff.

Why not just buy a different bread from the same bakery that stays fresher longer for sandwiches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Wtf. No. They do not have to be consumed immediately. I bake fresh baguettes at home and we eat them over a couple of days. Does your house have a weird temperature and humidity level? There is no reason a baguette would get “gross” any faster than other types of bakery bread. If the texture is getting stale, you just toast it. Why do you think French bread pizza was invented?

Sacre bleu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Not always immediately. I admit it, I’m gross. I do give it a few minutes in the toaster oven if it’s day-old. Not ideal, but miles better than mass produced bread. I can’t eat that stuff.

Why not just buy a different bread from the same bakery that stays fresher longer for sandwiches?

I don’t know. I guess I just really like an occasional baguette sandwich. And I, unlike you, am not too bothered by it if not consumed IMMEDIATELY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

I agree a baguette sandwich is lovely, but only if made immediately. Baguettes have to be consumed so quickly or they're rubbish. This is why bakeries bake them multiple times a day. Do you buy one and IMMEDIATELY go make sandwiches with it? If you're making sandwiches with it hours later or the next day, it's gross. There are much better bakery breads to make sandwiches with if not using IMMEDIATELY.

Wtf. No. They do not have to be consumed immediately. I bake fresh baguettes at home and we eat them over a couple of days. Does your house have a weird temperature and humidity level? There is no reason a baguette would get “gross” any faster than other types of bakery bread. If the texture is getting stale, you just toast it. Why do you think French bread pizza was invented?

I love baguettes. They are best consumed within 1 to 4 hours after they come out of the oven. This is why bakeries pump them out all day. This is why they have a 2 or 3pm baguette baking, so you can buy a peak freshness baguette for a 4 to 6pm dinner.

[Anonymous]

Sliced lengthwise and toasted in the toaster oven with lots of butter and a heavy sprinkling of garlic powder. (Passport? Why would I ever have a freakin' passport?)

[Anonymous]

I slice them up and freeze. Kids like pieces plain with lunch or dinner. They are good microwaved or toasted. Obviously not as good as fresh but still better than many other breads.

[Anonymous]

I promise you those “peak” baguettes you think you are buying are probably just as likely the ones baked in the morning. Sure they bake a few times a day, but there is no way they are tossing hours old bread out, let alone day old bread. At least in a US bakery. First baked, first sold. Your palate is not as refined as you pretend.

[Anonymous]

Butter toasted with jelly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just ride away with it in my bike basket or clutched under my arm and then throw it away when I get home.

Do you wear a beret and boat-necked stripe shirt when you do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I slice them up and freeze. Kids like pieces plain with lunch or dinner. They are good microwaved or toasted. Obviously not as good as fresh but still better than many other breads.

Heads exploding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just ride away with it in my bike basket or clutched under my arm and then throw it away when I get home.

Do you wear a beret and boat-necked stripe shirt when you do this?

Yes. The ones I bought before my trip to Paris so that no one would think I was an American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My EU DH eats bread with every meal (yes, even with tacos, Chinese food, etc.) Our kids eat bread and chocolate, or bread and nutella, as a snack after school while watching cartoons in their native language. Whatever they don't use up becomes toast the next morning.

Yes, it's tricky buying fresh bread every day in the US but we have a standing order at the local bakery and we've got a system down for buying bread every day. And, in a pinch, Whole Foods has good enough bakery bread.

I love European snobbery. Americans get accused of not eating baguettes perfectly according to French culture, but if your husband is EU he can insist on bread with his Chinese food and it’s quaint.

Similarly, if I admitted to giving my kids white bread with sugar on it every day while they watched SpongeBob I would get raked over the coals, but somehow if you add “in their native language” it is such a brag you can insert it into a post that isn’t even about TV.