I love toast. toast should be considered a delicacy - there are few foods on this planet as satisfying as a well-prepared piece of toast.
you may be thinking "but steve... toast is just toast - who cares?" au contraire, mon frere. the key to enjoying toast on a higher level than mere warmed bread is in the preparation. there are three key items needed for excellent toast:
1. bread. and not just any old bread - nobody gets good toast from wonder bread. and on the other end of the spectrum, the 39 grain stuff with leaves and twigs sticking out the crust is awful for toast. I recommend a light wheat.
2. toaster. this is where many people go wrong with toast. excellent toast comes from plain, chrome two slice toasters. you know, the ones that have nothing more than a darkness knob and a drop lever. too many buttons and lights and gauges and control knobs just kills the experience. and don't even start with the toaster oven - there isn't a toaster oven made that'll toast bread evenly.
3. peanut butter. Jif. Creamy. get that chunky shit out of my face - it sucks ass. the consistency is all wrong, and besides - the damn nuts get stuck in my molars. bad.
once you have the three key ingredients to good toast - good bread, a good old reliable two slice toaster, and a family size jar of creamy Jif, all that is left is to start the magical process of excellent toast.
pop that bread in, set your darkness knob/lever to a moderate golden brown (this may take a bit of trial and error to find a good setting), and enjoy the good smells coming from your little chrome friend as it does it's magic.
POP! your toast is now ready for peanut butter. you have your knife loaded up with a fat slab of peanut butter already, right? good. get that PB on that toast as soon as humanly possible - one of the crucial elements to excellent toast is getting a good PB melt. getting the PB on the toast within seconds of the POP is key. spread that peanut butter evenly. no runs, no drips, no errors.
delight in the sunshine bliss of excellent toast.
