Anyone still using a toasting fork

[Blackrock]

I was having some toast earlier (with Marmite - yum) and my mind started drifting back to childhood when we used to toast doorstep bread and crumpets over a glowing coal fire. The taste was special and I don't think can be repeated nowadays from a grill or toaster. We had a metal toasting fork with prongs that could be extended if the heat was too hot to hold it close.
Does anyone still do this?

[silver fox]

I was having some toast earlier (with Marmite - yum) and my mind started drifting back to childhood when we used to toast doorstep bread and crumpets over a glowing coal fire. The taste was special and I don't think can be repeated nowadays from a grill or toaster. We had a metal toasting fork with prongs that could be extended if the heat was too hot to hold it close.
Does anyone still do this?

Would hazard a guess there are plenty who wouldn’t know what a toasting fork is

[Chris R]

When i was a guide guider and went to camp we had toast on the wood fire nearly every night. The girls loved it and i could probably find the toasting forks now

[jamyramy]

I was having some toast earlier (with Marmite - yum) and my mind started drifting back to childhood when we used to toast doorstep bread and crumpets over a glowing coal fire. The taste was special and I don't think can be repeated nowadays from a grill or toaster. We had a metal toasting fork with prongs that could be extended if the heat was too hot to hold it close.
Does anyone still do this?

central heating made them somewhat a thing of the past.but still get a few in for repair.but yep toast off the fire ,or off the forge do taste so much nicer,what about baked potatoes so much better from the fire or bonfire.but as for todays bread well it doesnt taste as good as the bread from years gone by.have now taken to making my own its so much better all round.

[donkey22]

Thank you. Your post brought back some very fond memories of childhood holidays at a working farm in Dumfriesshire. One of the highlights was having toast and marmalade, made using a toasting fork in front of a huge log fire. Definitely tasted better than the grill or toaster.

[Blackrock]

central heating made them somewhat a thing of the past.but still get a few in for repair.but yep toast off the fire ,or off the forge do taste so much nicer,what about baked potatoes so much better from the fire or bonfire.but as for todays bread well it doesnt taste as good as the bread from years gone by.have now taken to making my own its so much better all round.

I agree Jamyramy. The crispy skin on a baked potato done in the embers of a fire was brilliant, especially with the inside mixed with butter. You can't beat the old fashioned ways.

[Alikado]

I agree Jamyramy. The crispy skin on a baked potato done in the embers of a fire was brilliant, especially with the inside mixed with butter. You can't beat the old fashioned ways.

Think of all the nasties & contaminants consumed.

[Hamble]

I have such fond memories of growing up in my grandparents house in Southport in the 1960's.

'Tea' for children was a pot of liquid,bread and butter jam and cake.

Toast was done over the fire with a fork (sometimes)with my grandfather holding onto me with one arm and the hand with fork in the other.

I remember the raw heat on face the smell and the unique taste of the toast slightly charred.
Crumpets tasted better.

I don't have a toasting fork often brings back memories when I see a stand with fork and other tools like my grandparents had on the great
in antique shops.

[Blackrock]

Think of all the nasties & contaminants consumed.

Yeah....but we're still here !

[Alikado]

Yeah....but we're still here !

Thanks to the medicine & chemo!

[jamyramy]

Thanks to the medicine & chemo!

awe you havnt lived till youve had bacon eggy butty off the shovel,in the plate on a steam train,have a friend that restores steam trains an can tell you its bang on scrummy!

[Blackrock]

awe you havnt lived till youve had bacon eggy butty off the shovel,in the plate on a steam train,have a friend that restores steam trains an can tell you its bang on scrummy!

That reminds me of when I served in the army and were a motorised
battalion using armoured personnel carriers in Germany. We used to stick cans of beans or stew etc in the exhaust pipe of the wagon and they would be roasting hot when you stopped for a meal break. The downside was when one occasionally overheated and blew out a shower of stew while we were travelling along

[whiplash]

I do remember toasting forks but dont have one,however we do wrap spuds in tin foil and cook them on top of the wood burner.

[jamyramy]

That reminds me of when I served in the army and were a motorised
battalion using armoured personnel carriers in Germany. We used to stick cans of beans or stew etc in the exhaust pipe of the wagon and they would be roasting hot when you stopped for a meal break. The downside was when one occasionally overheated and blew out a shower of stew while we were travelling along

haha youve made my day.me dad was in middle east deep desert they used to do the same.when we finally got a car ,he carried it over to outings and picnics when you could have them,we had chicken chops etc for picnic scram .luxury .scram ,but wafty car.an big smiles ,an farty bellies.

[Darkside]

My grandma had an open fire and a coal fired range right up to the early 90s, that was the only heating in the house. I used to love making toast by the fire and was always in bother for throwing stuff on the fire I wasn't supposed to as I liked to watch how plastic shrivelled up! I still have her highly polished brass toasting fork.