If house guests request avocado toast, is it okay to use Whole Foods guacamole?

[Anonymous]

Did you ask what they like and you’re trying to make it or did they demand out of the blue?

Easy way ( you can buy a bag of avocados at Costco)

Fresh avocados, bread, olive oil, lemon, course salt

Best Ever Egg and Avocado Toast

Toast bread
Slice, cube and mash avocado with shredded carrots, microgreens, and a few squeezes of lemon juice.
Spread mash on toast
Cook an egg sunny side up, season with salt and pepper, yolk should be runny while whites are firm
Slide egg onto toast with mash
Top with a drizzle of chili oil and sprinkle more microgreens on top

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t eat it, but why the outrage about avocado toast? It seems pretty easy. I’d rather have a specific, easy request than “oh, whatever is fine.”

It's actually not easy. I buy avocados often, and most of the time you have to wait for them to ripen. So it's tricky to just have a perfectly ripe avocado on hand.

Easy breakfasts include cereals, eggs done a million different ways, toasts with jams, pancakes, yogurt, etc. I would not request an avocado toast without knowing that the host makes it regularly. It kind of screams tone deafness.

You’d rather make pancakes and eggs than avocado toast? I think it fits fine in your list as an option. Cereal and milk, yogurt, all require specific tastes that I’m sure I’d have to find.

Like I said, having a perfectly ripe avocado on hand is not a sure thing. All these other breakfast items are typical and usually found in most American households.

OP's house guest is being difficult. #gavel.

The avocado doesn’t have to be “perfectly ripe.” There’s a broad window and usually you can buy some softer ones at the store. Then put it in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the consensus is that guacamole is not the same and shouldn’t be substituted.
We always have avocados and often make avocado toast. Had houseguests who were excited when I offered it, always pitch in when cooking, and jumped in to RUIN breakfast by making guacamole for the toast. Not a huge deal and yet I still remember it. Who wants lime in the morning? Guac is too tangy

I put guac + tomatoes on toast all the time. It's really good!

I am happy you've found something you like but I'd hate that so much. I would be scraping the guacamole off with some tortilla chips.

Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. It’s certainly more complex than just smashed avocado.

[Anonymous]

No- they didn't ask for guacamole toast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guacamole toast tastes just as good if not better than avocado toast.

For some people yes
But some people are picky and they might not like the onions or whatever they put in Guacamole.
I tried to substitute like OP and DD busted me.

[Anonymous]

I hate when restaurants use guac in place of avocado on a breakfast item (that's been advertised as containing avocado - ie avocado toast or an eggs benedict variant with avocado) - it's totally not the same.

However, I also wouldn't request avocado toast at someone's house unless they offered it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ask what they like and you’re trying to make it or did they demand out of the blue?

Easy way ( you can buy a bag of avocados at Costco)

Fresh avocados, bread, olive oil, lemon, course salt

Best Ever Egg and Avocado Toast

Toast bread
Slice, cube and mash avocado with shredded carrots, microgreens, and a few squeezes of lemon juice.
Spread mash on toast
Cook an egg sunny side up, season with salt and pepper, yolk should be runny while whites are firm
Slide egg onto toast with mash
Top with a drizzle of chili oil and sprinkle more microgreens on top

Do NOT buy a bag of avocados from Costco. Costco has the worst avocados—they never ripen or if they do it’s for about 1 minute and then they’re bad. More likely they’ll still be rock hard a week after you buy them and when you desperately slice into one thinking surely they’re ready by now somehow it’ll have lots of brown spots inside while still being rock hard outside.

[Anonymous]

Op, in my opinion it is fine but I’d expect to have leftovers. As others have said, I’d buy close to ripe avocados and let guests make their own if they want avo toast - you could say I’ve got bread, avos, jam, butter, cheese, etc and let guests decide how they want their morning toasts.

[Anonymous]

No! Just get a few avocados, cilantro and limes
Let your guest make their own toast- guacamole on bread is not the same as avocado toast

Fwiw- I do love the guacamole at WF- but it’s best served with chips

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ask what they like and you’re trying to make it or did they demand out of the blue?

Easy way ( you can buy a bag of avocados at Costco)

Fresh avocados, bread, olive oil, lemon, course salt

Best Ever Egg and Avocado Toast

Toast bread
Slice, cube and mash avocado with shredded carrots, microgreens, and a few squeezes of lemon juice.
Spread mash on toast
Cook an egg sunny side up, season with salt and pepper, yolk should be runny while whites are firm
Slide egg onto toast with mash
Top with a drizzle of chili oil and sprinkle more microgreens on top

Do NOT buy a bag of avocados from Costco. Costco has the worst avocados—they never ripen or if they do it’s for about 1 minute and then they’re bad. More likely they’ll still be rock hard a week after you buy them and when you desperately slice into one thinking surely they’re ready by now somehow it’ll have lots of brown spots inside while still being rock hard outside.

Wow I never have this experience. I keep the bag in the fridge and set one out a few days before I need it. I’ll also use the trick of putting one in a brown paper bag with a banana overnight or few hours to ripen it quickly.

[Anonymous]

I find this thread funny. Are your guests from California? Avocados are everywhere here. 3 of my neighbors have large mature trees and my MIL has one too. People give them away in boxes.

It’s a way easier breakfast than making bacon which frankly I love but it is the biggest pain to cook and clean up. Pancakes, scrambled eggs and all the other breakfast stuff involves way more cooking than mashing an avocado.

[Anonymous]

Say oh interesting. Never made that. What should I buy so you can show us how?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the consensus is that guacamole is not the same and shouldn’t be substituted.
We always have avocados and often make avocado toast. Had houseguests who were excited when I offered it, always pitch in when cooking, and jumped in to RUIN breakfast by making guacamole for the toast. Not a huge deal and yet I still remember it. Who wants lime in the morning? Guac is too tangy

I put guac + tomatoes on toast all the time. It's really good!

I am happy you've found something you like but I'd hate that so much. I would be scraping the guacamole off with some tortilla chips.

Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. It’s certainly more complex than just smashed avocado.

I know what guacamole tastes like! I love it! But I do not want fusion cuisine avocado toast. Like I said, I'm a purist. I want nice, buttery, mild avocado and maybe an egg to go with it. Guacamole has a different vibe *especially* when you add cilantro. Maybe if the guacamole was just lime and avocados I'd be okay with it, but still I think limes don't go with toast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Say oh interesting. Never made that. What should I buy so you can show us how?

Really this is the right answer. For some ppl, this is a simple request. but for others, and I include OP in the group, it's something she's never made before and doesn't have the right ingredients for. The guest could be wholly unaware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the consensus is that guacamole is not the same and shouldn’t be substituted.
We always have avocados and often make avocado toast. Had houseguests who were excited when I offered it, always pitch in when cooking, and jumped in to RUIN breakfast by making guacamole for the toast. Not a huge deal and yet I still remember it. Who wants lime in the morning? Guac is too tangy

I like guacamole, but agree I don’t want it on toast in the morning. However, before avocado toast was a big thing, I used to slice up an avocado, put it on sturdy toasted bread, drizzle with lime juice, and then sprinkle with a pinch of kosher salt. Delicious.