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Dry frying wasn't too successful:sad: but you can get both the folding (one slice) and pyramid (four slice,) both by gelert at amazon and they're both cheap as chips.
 
I'm suprised dry frying hasn't worked for you!

It does take time and works best in a cast iron grill pan but I'm doing some more now in an ordinary heavyish non stick frying pan just to prove it can be done. Also I guess it depends a lot on how you like your toast.

You won't get the the same golden brown all over you would from a radiant heat toaster, but the bread will be hot, it will be crispy right through, and you will get some brown patches eg ridges with a grill pan. I'm betting if you closed your eyes ad just tasted the end product you'd have difficulty telling the difference from that cooked in a radiant heat toaster.
 
Dry frying will not do the frying pan any favours if it is the non-stick Teflon variety.

Please don't try this at home. :scared:
 
Dry-frying toast works - and here's the proof, dry-fried to perfection (crisp on the outside, soft on the inside) by Firefox in my driveway just a few minutes ago!

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It does work better in a cast iron grill pan, but the Teflon ones only last a few years anyway no matter what you do with them and you can buy a new one for a £5 note. Not worth fretting over in my view ;D
 
sasquatch said:
The Gelert style toaster,although it only makes one slice at a time,is far superior to the pyramid models.
This model is the best 2 slices at a time Home
It can be found with a bit of searching,it used to be sold at the shows and was also imported by an Irish firm. There have also been reports of it being available in European dealers.
Worth finding,it makes toast second only to NAAFI toast!
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Try here:- ABP Accessories - Your First Choice For Motorhome & RV Accessories - CAMP-A-TOASTER!
 
Ha. I have to admit to taking the easy way out. Due to popular demand certain guests in my van are too impatient to wait and do a slice at a time by the dry fry pan method, so out comes the jenny and the electric toaster if not on a site (which I usually would be when there are two females in the van lol). One really has to do as one is told if one wants a peaceful and quiet stress free existence lol!
 
Mikey29 said:
Okay so not sure if this has been covered before, but I'm in the van currently and hungry! I always wish I had a toaster!
Does anyone have any advice of how to make toast using just a gas hob?
Any thoughts would be great or tips and advice!

Cheers!
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This thread is totally unfair! When Mikey29 first asked for help, it was about 1.30am and some of us thought that he was starving, with only bread and a gas hob between him and a long night of hunger! My initial suggestion of using an improvised toasting-fork to hold the bread near the flame was the ONLY feasible solution in these circumstances. Firefox "assumed" that he also possessed a grill-pan or frying pan, so submitted the very useful method of dry-frying the bread (though if he had a grill-pan handy, I'd have thought that he would also have had a grill?)

I'd just like to point out that with an urgent hunger-induced plea like this, there is simply no time to send out an online order for any fancy toasting gizmos and gadgets such as those suggested here. Even with the priority mailing option, by the time the life-saving apparatus arrives, it will be too late and the local chippy in the nearest town will be open!

In the interest of investigation however, I have ordered one of the Gelert folding camping toasters from Amazon for £3.99, which seems to have excellent reviews on there (even though my van already has a grill and all the necessary facilities!) :):):)
 
Well my toasty gadget from Amazon has arrived, and I've just tried it for the first time over a camping stove.

I must say that I'm quite impressed with it. The mesh diffuser gets very hot, very quickly and toasts one side of bread very evenly in about 20 - 30 seconds flat! It's miles better in every way that all those multi-shaped toasting gizmos that I used to pack with my camping gear in the past. It seems very sturdy too, but I'll see how well it lasts over time.

I just need to perfect a technique for turning the toast over without burning my fingers... any tips from other owners? (apart from using my toes instead!).

(BTW I hope everyone realised that my earlier post was written very much tongue-in-cheek?? (unusually for me!) :):)

Gelert CUT118, Folding Camping Toaster: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors
 
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