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- It's a great day for French toast.

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Take some bread, soak
it in some eggy custard,

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fry it up, and call it a day.

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Easy enough, but what bread are you using?

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It turns out some breads
are better than others.

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Two things you should consider
are structure and crust.

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As far as structure goes,

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something with a medium to tight crumb

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is gonna soak up that custard way better

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than something with a very open crumb.

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So a sourdough has
those big, open bubbles,

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and that's normally good
for a lot of things,

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but for a French toast

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that custard is gonna go
right through those bubbles.

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Something like a brioche
bread has a tighter crumb

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and will hold onto the custard better.

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The crust.

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This is, I think, the sneakiest problem

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with a lot of French toasts.

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The crust matters.

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So if you're using a bread

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that has a really
strong, maybe hard crust,

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if it's rubbery now,
it'll be rubbery later.

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The most effort that you wanna
put into eating French toast,

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especially if you're half awake,

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is just going through it with a fork.

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You shouldn't have to use a knife.

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No one should have to
wield sharp implements

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while they're eating
breakfast half hungover.

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Since we shouldn't need a knife

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to cut into our soft, custardy bread,

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we are going to perform the fork test.

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I let this sourdough sit
in custard for 10 minutes,

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and I cannot get through
this with just a fork.

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Behold, the brioche passes the fork test.

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I'm Allie.

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