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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

For lunch today I am having some nice jack links teryaki beef jerky with some shrimp chips which are basicaly backed fries covered in ground up and dried shrimp.

(sorry for bad grammar but not sorry enough to fix it)

[Sappho]

So it turns out that wild garlic (or "bear's garlic" as they call it here) is sold in stores in this country, and easily harvested in the countryside if you walk through the woods. I bought a package of the leaves today and oh my GOD do they taste amazing. So much flavor, and so much more complex and delicious than regular garlic bulbs. I guess that's pretty normal: wild versions of plants are as complex as the soil they're grown in and the centuries they've been growing there. Farmed foods are usually selected for one trait and all the depth is bred right out of them. I tried hydroponically-grown tomatoes once. They're fed just water and the basic nutrients they need to survive, and they taste like a mildly tomato-flavored glass of water. Blech.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I wonder if anybody outside of post-Soviet territory has ever used a thing like this? Over here they're called toasters, but I suppose they're more like sandwich-makers. Absolutely awesome for breakfast snacks, even if all you've got is bread and cheese.

[GiglameshDespair]

I wonder if anybody outside of post-Soviet territory has ever used a thing like this? Over here they're called toasters, but I suppose they're more like sandwich-makers. Absolutely awesome for breakfast snacks, even if all you've got is bread and cheese.

Sandwich toasters, except here you plug 'em in and they heat automatically.

[Sirus]

Pretty sure we also have camping variants you heat over a fire, just like the ones in the image.

[Avis-Mergulus]

We also have electric ones, but a lot of people have those unpowered variants. Here, we heat them on gas stoves, though I suppose one can take them camping, too.

[Knit tie]

I have an electric one and it makes ordinary ham and cheese sandviches taste like chiburekki.

[scrdest]

I never seen a non-electric one, but the electric ones are pretty normal.

[Osmosis Jones]

I wonder if anybody outside of post-Soviet territory has ever used a thing like this? Over here they're called toasters, but I suppose they're more like sandwich-makers. Absolutely awesome for breakfast snacks, even if all you've got is bread and cheese.

In Australia, we call them Jaffle irons (they make jaffles, obviously). Been around since the 70s, possibly as early as the 1920s in some places according to wikipedia.

[Arx]

I wonder if anybody outside of post-Soviet territory has ever used a thing like this? Over here they're called toasters, but I suppose they're more like sandwich-makers. Absolutely awesome for breakfast snacks, even if all you've got is bread and cheese.

Got electric ones here; ours is referred to as a "Snackwich machine". They make anything between two slices of bread tasty.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

So my dad bought these tasty cake krimpet things which i think just taste like a delicious butterscotch flavored inside out twinky because its just sponge cake with frosting on top, mmmmm so delicious

[Sheb]

We got a lot of them too, we call the resulting sandwiches "Croque Monsieur" or "Croque Madame" depending on the filling.

[scrdest]

We got a lot of them too, we call the resulting sandwiches "Croque Monsieur" or "Croque Madame" depending on the filling.

Heh, I read about this a while ago. Figured it is a great way to confuse someone by offering him a Croque Monsieur and giving him a grilled sammich.

But as far as sandwich toasters go, I prefer panini makers - you know, basically just two large electrically-heated plates of corrugated metal with one of them mounted on the base and the other you can lift and sandwich stuff you want to cook in between.

They let you make toasted sandwiches too (albeit they don't have the triangular shape), but also grill... pretty much anything else. For example, you can grill a chicken breast in like two minutes, and I like to cook my bacon on those for sandwiches (yummy, crispy bacon). It also works as an OK toaster for toaster bread.

[Jopax]

We got them too, of varying shapes and sizes, the current one we have is pretty much what scrdest described, except not that powerful, so most you can make is toasted sandwiches and bread (which is great if you've got a day old bread and don't want to waste it, makes it much more edible).

Anways, Burger Bonanza Funtimes 2 is going live as we speak. Waiting for the meat to settle before frying it. This time it's pure beef, I've used more bread crumbs and added some chopped onions into it, so we'll see how that goes. Also instead of bacon I'll be using cheese as a topping this time, got some nice sliced gouda. Maybe even add some mustard for added fun.  Also the paddies are slightly bigger now since I made four instead of five, and hopefully they fit the Kaiser rolls I got, which aren't too big, but served me nicely last time.

In any case, I've got some beer to go along with it all, so I should have a good time regardless of the results

[Mesa]

Did someone say toasted sandwiches?
I absolutely love those things. I've got a really old sandwich toaster (I wouldn't be far off if I said it's almost as old as me) but it's been doing me much good for when I fancy some good, crispy cheese&ham sammiches.