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Where does the Bread Heel stand with You?

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Hawkeye10

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The Heel, in a sliced loaf these are the first and last pieces, the ends pieces (Did you just learn something?).....how do you feel about them?.........what do you do with them?........eat them? throw them in the garbage? feed the birds? drain bacon over them? ect.

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Me: I like them fine, especially as toast but I will use them in a sandwich if they are next up. I like diversity. For a lot of years watching people chuck them in the garbage can upset me just a tad.
 
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I like the heel. My habit was to take whatever bread was on the end. But my husband likes to keep the heels on the bread as a covering to keep the inner bread fresh. So I changed my habit and hardly ever have a heel. It usually gets tossed outside to the animals when the new loaf of bread comes into the house.

If I have a loaf of fancier bread, like Brownberry Oatnut bread, then that is all mine and I eat the heels.
 
Where does the Bread Heel stand with You?
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Anywhere on my Dagwood Sandwich.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The Heel, in a sliced loaf these are the first and last pieces, the ends pieces (Did you just learn something?).....how do you feel about them?.........what do you do with them?........eat them? throw them in the garbage? feed the birds? drain bacon over them? ect.

tyvm



Me: I like them fine, especially as toast but I will use them in a sandwich if they are next up. I like diversity. For a lot of years watching people chuck them in the garbage can upset me just a tad.
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Do the heels move around when you aren’t watching? Heels are either first or last, unless you shuffle the loaf........:doh
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The Heel, in a sliced loaf these are the first and last pieces, the ends pieces (Did you just learn something?).....how do you feel about them?.........what do you do with them?........eat them? throw them in the garbage? feed the birds? drain bacon over them? ect.

tyvm



Me: I like them fine, especially as toast but I will use them in a sandwich if they are next up. I like diversity. For a lot of years watching people chuck them in the garbage can upset me just a tad.
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Heels are the best part on good bread. For regular grocery store sliced bread I usually throw them out, unless I'm making bacon. If that's the case, I'll throw them in the frying pan to soak up a bit of the grease and crisp up a bit. Super low rent snack, but so good.
 
Rexedgar said:
Do the heels move around when you aren’t watching? Heels are either first or last, unless you shuffle the loaf........:doh
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We used to bake better.
 
For good long bread, the heel is for soup. From a sliced loaf, the heel is for French toast. If you're not doing this, it's because you're doing it wrong.
 
I like the heel with soup.

Also, as it's generally somewhat thinner, I find it works better than a normal slice for the middle of a double decker sandwich.
 
More flavor than the rest of the loaf. I hang on to them to make a sandwich using the two ends.
 
Xelor said:
More flavor than the rest of the loaf. I hang on to them to make a sandwich using the two ends.
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My mom used to do that, but in her case she thought that she was taking the two inferior pieces, which made her a good mother/wife......a completely different story......

I dont know why I am telling you this.
 
WillyPete said:
I like the heel with soup.

Also, as it's generally somewhat thinner, I find it works better than a normal slice for the middle of a double decker sandwich.
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Are you talking about toasting the heel with maybe a smear of butter after, laying this in a shallow bowl and then pouring soup over it letting it get nice and soggy before eating...thick bean and split pea soups served this way being especially excellent?

I do that.
 
I will pass the heels to all who like them. They are not my favorite.
 
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