In the pantry · 95 uses
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch. Stale bread is not a lesser bread — it is the correct bread for anything fried, soaked, or crumbed.
83
dishes and drinks that need it
12
more where it is worth adding
86%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Nothing dominates: the most common companion, eggs, appears in only 23% of them, so this is an ingredient that gets around.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 83
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
- Tahini honey toast5m
- Cottage cheese toast6m
- Ricotta honey toast6m
- Anchovy butter toast8m
- Anchovy tomato toast8m
- Avocado feta toast8m
- Avocado toast8m
- Bagel and lox8m
- Caprese toast8m
- Cucumber dill toast8m
- Feta tomato toast8m
- Ham mustard sandwich8m
- Pan con tomate8m
- Tomato toast8m
- Arugula eggs on toast10m
- Avocado eggs10m
- Beet sour cream open sandwich10m
- Grilled cheese10m
- Leftover roast sandwich10m
- Leftover wine-chicken sandwich10m
- Olive tapenade toast10m
- Smørrebrød salmon10m
- Tuna white bean toast10m
- Turkey salad sandwich10m
- Anchovy egg toast12m
- Cheesy garlic bread12m
- Egg smørrebrød12m
- Garlic bread12m
- Garlic bread with ricotta12m
- Kimchi grilled cheese12m
- Tuna melt12m
- Turkey club sandwich12m
- Welsh rarebit12m
- White bean rosemary toast12m
- BLT15m
- BLT with avocado15m
- Egg salad sandwich15m
- French toast15m
- Ham and cheese griddled in butter15m
- Latke sandwich15m
- Matzo brei15m
- Muhammara15m
- Panzanella15m
- Pork pickle sandwich15m
- Ropa vieja sandwich15m
- Shrimp roll15m
- Smash burger15m
- Melted leek toast18m
- Beef on rye with mustard and pickle20m
- Challah French toast20m
- Chicken banh mi20m
- Cinnamon toast custard20m
- Cuban sandwich20m
- Currywurst20m
- Eggs in purgatory20m
- Grilled vegetable sandwich20m
- Pretzel-logic sausage bun20m
- Shrimp po' boy20m
- Shrimp po' boy platter20m
- Spanish migas20m
- Trifle20m
- Chicken and egg spread25m
- Chivito25m
- Keftedes25m
- Pappa al pomodoro25m
- Sausage and peppers roll25m
- Sloppy joe skillet25m
- Stuffing frittata25m
- Stuffing waffles25m
- Cacciucco30m
- Italian beef30m
- Ají de gallina35m
- Herb bread stuffing skillet35m
- Swedish meatballs35m
- Tomato pie skillet35m
- Buttered apples with cinnamon crumbs40m
- Eggplant parm skillet40m
- Ribollita40m
- Stale bread strata40m
- Bread pudding45m
- Glazed meatloaf skillet45m
- French onion soup50m
- Jansson's temptation50m
Worth adding · 12
These work without it. They work better with it.