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How to Make the Best (and Easiest) French Toast | America's Test Kitchen | YouTubeToText
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the biggest problem with making french
toast is that you can usually only fit
two maybe three slices in the skillet at
the same time which means you have to
cook serve and eat in batches so we
wanted to find an easier way to make
french toast for a crowd and elle is
going to show us how it's done that's
right and in addition to making it
faster and easier we wanted to make it
without having to use any special type
of bread we're just going to use the
hearty white bread we have in our pantry
so i'm going to start with three large
eggs to that i'm going to add two
teaspoons of packed brown sugar a half a
teaspoon of ground cinnamon one
tablespoon of vanilla extract
not skimping there no way and a quarter
teaspoon of salt so mixing this together
just make sure that all the spices get
mixed into the egg very well we want to
make sure that there are no streaks of
all right now that it's well mixed we
need to add two tablespoons of unsalted
butter so this two tablespoons of melted
butter is gonna make our french toast
more luxe and have more deep rich flavor
through and through so i'm gonna add
this last one cup of milk and then we're
ready to go all right
all right now that we have a nice well
mixed custard it's time to start making
our french toast okay all right i'm just
gonna put this here to the side and
bring over an 18 by 13 rim baking sheet
and that is not a skillet it is not a
skillet in this case it's even better
than skillet because we're going to put
the french toast in the oven oh i love
it yes i'm just going to treat it with a
now we're going to go into the pan with
our custard no more dipping of the bread
this is looking easier and easier
that's the whole point all right so we
have eight slices of hearty ripe bread
that you would have at home love it and
we're just going to put the bread in a
single layer on the sheet in the custard
and we only want the custard to soak in
about a quarter of an inch on each side
and so just as i've laid this last piece
down it's already time to flip over to
the other side so that it can absorb as
well so fast and so even
the other thing the first piece that
gets dunked in the bowl is usually very
different than the last phase that's
very true this is going to be even
there's going to be no
waste because all this custard is going
to absorb in about a minute and there's
no fuss we really didn't have to do a
whole lot of work okay so we're going to
cook this french toast in the oven so
it's going to cook in the oven for 10 to
15 minutes until the bottom of the bread
is golden brown we're starting with the
rack in the lowest position in the oven
we have a second rack set five to six
inches from the broiler and it's at 425
oh starting to smell like french toast
in here oh yeah oh yeah let's check it
and see how brown it is on the bottom
that looks perfect nice a little spotty
spotty's okay yes the most amazing thing
is that we don't have to flip this
french toast we're just gonna move it up
to the broiler and let it finish cooking
on the opposite side oh i like it it's
easy so we're just moving it to the top
this is about five to six inches from
the broiler and this is going to go for
about one to four minutes as soon as the
broiler goes on you start counting and
then we'll be ready to go all right
perfect we cannot leave we have to stay
all right it's been about four minutes
let's take a look
that's amazing oh wow that's perfect
okay so i'm just going to flip these
over both sides have had a good time to
cook i'm gonna flip it over so the
bottom can steam because sometimes that
broiling can dry it out a little bit so
by flipping it over you're just trapping
the steam so the top can soften a little
there we go look at that yeah all at one
time all in the oven and as you said
before there was no leftover egg mixture
no waste no waste at all
no fuss no waste my favorite kind of breakfast
breakfast
and i think we are ready for french
toast all right okay
two pieces yes two pieces nice let's put
a little butter this is beautiful
i love your plate your plate is a lot of
butter with a little syrup
all right i'm gonna dig right in all right
right
crisp and it has that little tender bit
yeah
crisp all the way around that's right
a little custardy right in the middle
that is french toast perfection
my favorite part
are the crispy edges
that is the best part
cooked well through and through not soggy
soggy
and it has a great flavor i mean you can
taste the spices and the vanilla that
you put in there not too much but it
doesn't just taste like eggy bread it
tastes like french toast
this is terrific thank you i just love
how easy it was so to make this easy
french toast beat together three eggs a
few seasonings melted butter and whole
milk then pour into a greased rim baking
sheet lay pieces of sandwich bread onto
the sheet and let it soak up the egg
mixture on both sides bake on the lowest
rack of the oven then turn it on the
broiler and let the tops brown for a few
minutes before serving flip the toast
over to soften the toasted tops and
serve with plenty of butter and syrup
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