Top tip don't use pre-grated cheese. Pre-grated cheese is covered in a starch, often potato, to keep the cheese from sticking however; when melting the starches interfere & cause an inconsistent gloopy mess of a texture and prevents proper melting.
Bruh, he has an acute OCD. One of the characteristics is "following by the book". This must be a recipe he's read somewhere, & these are the steps he's read & memorized.😅
I loved this video, super I had a misfortune, I was diagnosed with ovariian cancedr. I also created a channel and am trying to move in that direction, but so far not very successful(.[d9
James. I know you'll disagree but just cheese and ham toastie in that sandwich press will come out excellent. Let the bread brown. Dont go according to timer but rather your own eye. It will come out sort of like a grilled cheese.
When I moved back in with my parent prior to moving the the US, my Mum (RIP) would offer to make me said toastie after I'd had several tubes of Heiny export watching the telly. They were ace.
I loved this video, super I had a misfortune, I was diagnosed with ovariian cancedr. I also fcreated a channel and am trying to move in that direction, but so far not very successful(%
`Also don't use those shell shaped one. Just use a normal flat surface press that you can adjust from toast or melt etc. Than again the British are not known for there culinary prowess.
@@aaronmelbourne9506 I beg to differ.....who gave the world some of it best comfort food, the Sheppards/Cottage Pie, the full English Breakfast, the Roast Beef feast, Fish n Chips, the Steak and Kidney Pie, Crumpets, Scones, and of course.....THE TRIFLE?????.......all good honest hearty foods with none that Continental Pretentious you get from foods from places like France, Italy, Spain or even Germany.........
I love that James can just bring out the very ethos of the most minute things. One of the best things Ive ever seen was that episode of Toy Stories in which they make a glider cross the English Channel, but they had to go to Wales instead. Just the way he articulated the dreams of humanity regarding flight and just how much it really means. I found myself with a tear in my eye.
Christamas Day 2024... Watched James May make a baked bean, bacon and cheese toastie in a sandwich maker. "....don't bother... just go straight to the gin..." Thank you, James and Lucy... and Merry Christmas.
@@GamerScotty If they paid five quid for one of those, they weren't shopping sharp. Okay, maybe after VAT, but they ought not have been more than three.
What a great Christmas present for us, James and Lucy in the Bugout Bunker. Nice to see Lucy laughing as the sandwich cooker is having a bad case of bean juice diarrhea. Merry Christmas everyone.
I,m from the U.S. & one of my favorite comfort sandwiches is fried bologna with Swiss cheese & brown spicy mustard or regular mustard on toasted bread . With a nice bowl of soup beef vegetable is one of my favorites.
It's just a small panini-press, yes. It's a staple in Danish households. You take ham and cheese between two slices of bread, smack it in there when the light is green, take it out when it looks sufficiently toasty. Ham and cheese toasty machine. You make the sandwich and then put it in. As a bonus; You can experiment with various thin cuts of meat in there. Sausage and dijon mustard is one I've found also works well. A thin layer on the dijon, though.
I'm sorry James, it's not only the Americans, who makes fun of beans on toast. It's pretty much the entire world. But a version of toastie that I like. Bread, butter, SLICE of cheese, thin slice of tomato, strong yellow mustard, cheap thin sliced ham, cheese, bread.
Merry Christmas to James May, you little TV legend you (hope your arm gets better soon), and his team. I always preferred sweet toasties, such as banana and chocolate... when the 'product' wasn't relegated to the darker recesses of a cupboard that is.
Pro tip. Toast 2 slices of bread in a standard vertical toaster. Butter one side of each slice as if making a sandwich. Add your fillings of choice. I like cheese, onion, mushrooms and tomato. But the the now "sandwich" in a microwave and nuke it for 60 seconds. Perfect toastie. The bread stays crisp in the microwave because the moisture was removed in the toasting process. You are welcome.
The Breville jaffle maker is 100 times better than that piece of garbage, but it does cost a bit more. I don't know the UK has them, but they are readily available in Australia. You can also substitute the bread with puff pastry, which is what I prefer. Big fan of yours James!
To think that James, someone from the bygone Victorian Era age, has the editing style of the bygone era of RUclips... makes you think how powerful his slowness is on the flow of time.
Rounds! Pre cut square slices of bread are rounds ffs 😂 anyway, canned pie fillings make great toasties Merry Christmas, and big love to you and yours 💙🎊
In the US we do have canned pork and beans, but it tends to be 2-4 small pieces of pork/bacon (like the ones you had in your pan) in a 16 ounce tin of beans.
The toasted sandwich maker can be found at the back of a kitchen cupboard when you move house and you can never remember buying it - so you leave it for the next owner - like the lighbulbs and that box in the loft you never got round to opening because it gave you the creeps
WOW @JamesMay you took me right back to when i was around pre-teen age when the Sandwich Makers first came out, they were called a Breville then, sure as the name of the original Company or Person that brought it out. This Toastie you have made is exactly as i had them. My all time favourite was the Cheeseburger Toastie, Amazing. You are right enough about where they end up as mine did end up in the cupboard you seldom go into next to the unused George Foreman.... Air Fryer likely to end there as well.
Best entertainment, watching a slightly grumpy pedant making a pigs ear of a simple task while reading the instructions and then not following them. Thank you.😊
A deep fill toastie maker, get American designed one so it can handle larger bread. it doesn't squash the bread into a cardboard slab, the bread remains spongy crisp and delightful
Tonight, James May uses a toastie maker incorrectly.
And Lucy Brown doesn't eat cheeeese.
How has he used it incorrectly?
@@Captainperfection It's not that deep, my friend. I'm making a little jokey joke.
@flynnpaterson2025 whoever uses the term "jokey joke" is below the age of ten
@@Captainperfection It's Christmas Day. Relax.
Top tip don't use pre-grated cheese. Pre-grated cheese is covered in a starch, often potato, to keep the cheese from sticking however; when melting the starches interfere & cause an inconsistent gloopy mess of a texture and prevents proper melting.
@@GitShiddy This guy cheeses
Thissssss, unless ur putting it into...idk pasta... always freshly grate cheese!
Just make two toasties, one with cheese and one without! You bloody tight arse!😂
he's even already lurpak'd the bread for the second sandwich!
Merry Christmas to James and all of you reading this!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Cheers
Merry Christmas to you too 🎄
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎊
Feck's sake James. You don't need to pre-cut the bread.
He didn't need to oil his bacon either
I tapped out when he did that. Good lord.
Bruh, he has an acute OCD. One of the characteristics is "following by the book". This must be a recipe he's read somewhere, & these are the steps he's read & memorized.😅
You over filled it !!,,
I loved this video, super I had a misfortune, I was diagnosed with ovariian cancedr. I also created a channel and am trying to move in that direction, but so far not very successful(.[d9
James. I know you'll disagree but just cheese and ham toastie in that sandwich press will come out excellent. Let the bread brown. Dont go according to timer but rather your own eye. It will come out sort of like a grilled cheese.
When I moved back in with my parent prior to moving the the US, my Mum (RIP) would offer to make me said toastie after I'd had several tubes of Heiny export watching the telly. They were ace.
Why not just make a classic grilled cheese with a slice of ham between the cheese?
I loved this video, super I had a misfortune, I was diagnosed with ovariian cancedr. I also fcreated a channel and am trying to move in that direction, but so far not very successful(%
`Also don't use those shell shaped one. Just use a normal flat surface press that you can adjust from toast or melt etc. Than again the British are not known for there culinary prowess.
@@aaronmelbourne9506 I beg to differ.....who gave the world some of it best comfort food, the Sheppards/Cottage Pie, the full English Breakfast, the Roast Beef feast, Fish n Chips, the Steak and Kidney Pie, Crumpets, Scones, and of course.....THE TRIFLE?????.......all good honest hearty foods with none that Continental Pretentious you get from foods from places like France, Italy, Spain or even Germany.........
James May and technology. It's a Christmas miracle.
I love that James can just bring out the very ethos of the most minute things. One of the best things Ive ever seen was that episode of Toy Stories in which they make a glider cross the English Channel, but they had to go to Wales instead. Just the way he articulated the dreams of humanity regarding flight and just how much it really means. I found myself with a tear in my eye.
Why am I watching a bloke making a sandwich? I will watch to the end though.
He has an entire channel about this. He grew up poor and knows all the ghetto sandwiches. I've only missed the "air" sandwich.
Lurpak 1903! Charge!!
I'd watch James May read the full 1976 Harrods catalogue
@@JemieBridges 1901*
Because we know James will somehow make an arse of it.
Cheese and stuff
putting oil on bacon is absolute caveman behaviour
Would it not be the opposite? Modern urbanites wouldn't know, and cavemen wouldn't be sodding around looking for olive oil.
@@SteerCarmer small know of butter to avoid bacon sticking immediately and to add some flavour thats all thats needed
Happy Christmas Captain May, Lucy and all your team! Boas Festas!
You two always make amazing videos together! Thanks to James and Lucy for producing content like this for us fans. I appreciate you!
Christamas Day 2024...
Watched James May make a baked bean, bacon and cheese toastie in a sandwich maker.
"....don't bother... just go straight to the gin..."
Thank you, James and Lucy... and Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the laugh! Merry Christmas!
1:57 “the lights the cost £5 each have failed?” classic james may quote 😂😂😂
I mean, they mention those lights were from Temu.. might as well have thrown away the money instead. 😅
@@GamerScotty If they paid five quid for one of those, they weren't shopping sharp. Okay, maybe after VAT, but they ought not have been more than three.
100% validates the saying : “The beauty of their women and the taste of their food make brits the best sailors in the world”
My Brain often plays pictures of the R101 Airship when on standby mode.
Have you heard the song ''Empire of the clouds'' by Iron Maiden, all about the R101. Thats where my mind went to.
@@IIChristisKingII Hanging at the mast
waiting for command
his majesties airship
the R-101
It’s the sound effects that makes this perfection 😂
What a great Christmas present for us, James and Lucy in the Bugout Bunker. Nice to see Lucy laughing as the sandwich cooker is having a bad case of bean juice diarrhea. Merry Christmas everyone.
4:15 That is all wrong, you are not meant to cut the bread... NNNNOOOOOOO!
I,m from the U.S. & one of my favorite comfort sandwiches is fried bologna with Swiss cheese & brown spicy mustard or regular mustard on toasted bread . With a nice bowl of soup beef vegetable is one of my favorites.
"....... next to the George Formby Grill....." 🤣🤣
Turned out nice again!
This is the best Christmas present… Ever.
Happy Christmas, James. I hope it's a good day for you. And to Lucy and the rest of the crew. Thank you all!
I think Lucy is the rest of the crew 🙂
Merry Christmas Ms. Brown & Mr. May!
Now that's 12 minutes I will never get back lol 😂. Though I do always like a laugh with Jame's sense of humour.
"Cheese"
Yeah .. Did he add cheese??
Cheez
1:08
6:48
1:08 You're welcome everyone.
Love ya James. Merry Christmas.
It wouldn't be Christmas without James May making a sandwich
From one james to another, merry xmas
Did I watch a man fail to make a toasted sandwich? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Yes, actually.
Merry Christmas Lucy and James.
Merry Christmas to you James and Lucy. Hope to see more of your adventures next year. And maybe Robert too 😂😂😂😂
Merry Christmas James & Co.
The Bugout Bunker is back! Merry Christmas James and Crew. Also anything you do is going to be better than Gordon Ramsey's grilled cheese.
Merry Christmas, James and the crew. A lovely suprise to have a video from you on Christmas Day
Merry Christmas James, Lucy & all of DriveTribe!
I appreciate the rain bouncing off the counter almost as much as I don't appreciate that insipid attempt at a toastie
It's just a small panini-press, yes. It's a staple in Danish households. You take ham and cheese between two slices of bread, smack it in there when the light is green, take it out when it looks sufficiently toasty. Ham and cheese toasty machine. You make the sandwich and then put it in.
As a bonus; You can experiment with various thin cuts of meat in there. Sausage and dijon mustard is one I've found also works well. A thin layer on the dijon, though.
Turkey and chilli sauce, perfect for tomorrow's hangover.
Every house in America bought one of these in the late 1980s.
Thank you Captain Obvious. They've only been around in households since the 1930's! LOL!
I feel like the editing on this vid is a little extra spicy, and I am totally here for it!
Merry Christmas James and Lucy. And to your viewers.
Merry Christmas James and to your camera crew, and all your family and friends!
Shocking Pigs Ears of That .
Its great to see Captain Slow back in the bugout bunker Kitchen. Also its weird to see May cut the sandwitch in a different way than usual
As a Canadian i confirm we like the bacon in the said beans. Merry Christmas from the Canadian Rockies l*l.
Never heard of a pork and beans sandwhich.
The editing in this was top notch. Very funny video indeed.
Another highly informative culinary masterpiece from James and Liam, these two guys are great!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Merry Christmas, Captain Slow!
I love how lucys editing has got progressively more chaotic
Bro went from racing exotic cars to making toasted sandwiches on the internet. The ultimate "bro fell off" moment...
Merry Christmas James May🎄
I'm sorry James, it's not only the Americans, who makes fun of beans on toast. It's pretty much the entire world.
But a version of toastie that I like.
Bread, butter, SLICE of cheese, thin slice of tomato, strong yellow mustard, cheap thin sliced ham, cheese, bread.
Merry Christmas to James May, you little TV legend you (hope your arm gets better soon), and his team. I always preferred sweet toasties, such as banana and chocolate... when the 'product' wasn't relegated to the darker recesses of a cupboard that is.
Merry Christmas and all well wishes to the Mays!
hope you had a good christmas james may!
Happy Christmas Mr. May and Mrs. Brown.
Lucy Brown's music choice:
We need jungle, I am afraid
Toasted sandwiches are great. Amazing. James has made a total balls up of it, as usual, but done properly..... Great...
I could not help but chuckle when he said cheese
Merry Christmas, Dr May!
You will of course be offering a range of toasted sandwiches in your pub!
I’ve missed these videos!
"Satanic contraption this is...." James May on the toastie machine. Made me laugh probably more than it should hahaha
I am delighted to see Lego James May making an appearance in the corner.
THANK you lucy and james . . merry christmas to u both and all of your family and friends . .
“Cheesy whiff” will forever be part of my lexicon from this day forward
Pro tip. Toast 2 slices of bread in a standard vertical toaster. Butter one side of each slice as if making a sandwich. Add your fillings of choice. I like cheese, onion, mushrooms and tomato. But the the now "sandwich" in a microwave and nuke it for 60 seconds. Perfect toastie. The bread stays crisp in the microwave because the moisture was removed in the toasting process. You are welcome.
You know, if your sandwich oozes out of the toaster, then you are doing it the right way! James May style!
Francis Cuppola speaking from the Criterion closet and James May cooking in a bunker. This has got to be the best Boxing Day ever! ^^
"Just go straight to the gin" - Excellent advice, I think I shall.
The avuncular James May is the one we always needed.
The Breville jaffle maker is 100 times better than that piece of garbage, but it does cost a bit more. I don't know the UK has them, but they are readily available in Australia. You can also substitute the bread with puff pastry, which is what I prefer. Big fan of yours James!
To think that James, someone from the bygone Victorian Era age, has the editing style of the bygone era of RUclips... makes you think how powerful his slowness is on the flow of time.
RIP Sandwich Toaster. You lived a famous but very short life that felt like real Rock'n Roll.
I got my James Gin in time for Chrimbo. My wife and I have been thoroughly enjoying it. Cheers!
Merry Christmas and happy new year James. By the way, normal people don't put beans in a toaster 🤣
Rounds! Pre cut square slices of bread are rounds ffs 😂 anyway, canned pie fillings make great toasties
Merry Christmas, and big love to you and yours 💙🎊
Please make more videos restoring stuff. You can even drink gin while doing it
In the US we do have canned pork and beans, but it tends to be 2-4 small pieces of pork/bacon (like the ones you had in your pan) in a 16 ounce tin of beans.
Liked for the R101 airship 😂😂
Merry christmas, James! Thanks for the holiday-treat 😊❤
its 2024 and we are just casually watching james may make toast...i love it!
Excuse me James but your beans are drooling🤣
The toasted sandwich maker can be found at the back of a kitchen cupboard when you move house and you can never remember buying it - so you leave it for the next owner - like the lighbulbs and that box in the loft you never got round to opening because it gave you the creeps
That was one of the most pleasant intermissions in a while
I feel like using a frying pan and flipping it would be easier and less messy.
That bean juice coming out of the back of that toasted sandwich maker will haunt my nightmares in the coming days.
WOW @JamesMay you took me right back to when i was around pre-teen age when the Sandwich Makers first came out, they were called a Breville then, sure as the name of the original Company or Person that brought it out. This Toastie you have made is exactly as i had them. My all time favourite was the Cheeseburger Toastie, Amazing.
You are right enough about where they end up as mine did end up in the cupboard you seldom go into next to the unused George Foreman.... Air Fryer likely to end there as well.
Beans on toast is awesome for us Canadians. Well, for Newfoundlanders at least, but we are essentially British/Irish. And Happy Holidays!
The best part is James negging us about the call to actions.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Why do we enjoy watching this bloke? My wife asked me that and I had no answer for her. I will seek help.
Straight to yhe gin! Best advice ever!
Best entertainment, watching a slightly grumpy pedant making a pigs ear of a simple task while reading the instructions and then not following them. Thank you.😊
Merry christmas james!
Merry Christmas from Cape Town
You may think this is nuts, but you want to get a frozen chocolate gateau and have it as the filling. Absolutely divine!
A deep fill toastie maker, get American designed one so it can handle larger bread. it doesn't squash the bread into a cardboard slab, the bread remains spongy crisp and delightful