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Ugg. I am tired of drunken housewives and divorced dads trying to dip wonder bread in beaten eggs and call that French toast. That’s egg coated processed wheat sponge, there’s a difference. If you’ve never made French toast Alton Brown created the greatest recipe here. If you have here are the 3 rules you must follow to make awesome French Toast:

1. Use fresh baked bread, sliced thick. Wonder bread adds no flavor and the thinness of it really makes it hard to get the crunchy, custardy texture that makes French toast awesome.
2. Use stale bread. Let it sit out for at least 8 hours(or up to 48), or dry in in the oven at 250 for an hour beforehand. If you really want to soak up all that custard(and you do) then the bread has to be dry. After all French toast was invented as a way for housewives to reuse old bread.
3. Use full fat milk or, even better, half and half. I know that everyone drinks 2% or less. I know that people are terrified of the cholesteral in dairy. Fuck that. If you don’t have the fat in there it won’t gel right. If the worst thing you eat in a day is French toast made with half in half instead of skim then you’re eating pretty healthy that day.

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