English muffins..OUCH!!

Can anyone explain why one nearly gets firs degree burns when handling an English Muffin that just popped up in the toaster, the non craggy side is about 2500 degrees it seems!

Be thankful you didn't get the 2500 degree Toaster Struedel....

The non-craggy side is denser and has fewer air pockets which act as insulation so, the heat directly transfers to the non-craggy bread material as though you were heating a piece of steel with a torch.  The craggy side has the aforementioned air pockets acting as insulation and does not transfer heat as readily.

Well, I just made that up but sounds plausible.

Great point, at least your tongue doesn't need triage after a bite of the muffin!

RC51Mike


The non-craggy side is denser and has fewer air pockets which act as insulation so, the heat directly transfers to the non-craggy bread material as though you were heating a piece of steel with a torch.  The craggy side has the aforementioned air pockets acting as insulation and does not transfer heat as readily.

Well, I just made that up but sounds plausible.

Actually, from a scientific standpoint you are at least somewhat correct.  The side with the air pockets (large holes) has more area of holes for room air to cool it off faster and less area of hot bread to burn your toungue when you touch it, than the smooth side does.

Are you buying the Thomas' muffins baked in Frederick, MD? I find they are so underbaked that I have to toast them three times as long as white bread. The longer they toast, the hotter they get. I don't have that problem with muffins from Homestead Baking.

I have to toast my Thomas' English muffins one and a half cycles, but in all the years I've been eating them (going back to the Yankee Doodle in 1950 -- my first English muffin ever) I've never been burned, or even slightly pained, by one.

Finally dawned on me.  One side is 2,500 degrees and instantly burns Chewingthefat.  I'm smelling lawsuit with those burns.  I want in!

Call Jackie Chiles!

Amen to that - those puppies get hot!
 

chewingthefat


Can anyone explain why one nearly gets firs degree burns when handling an English Muffin that just popped up in the toaster, the non craggy side is about 2500 degrees it seems!

MacTAC


Call Jackie Chiles!

Chewingthefat, who told you to put a balm on those burns?!

If you use Bag Balm it's OK.

Their Frederick, Maryland factory is at 7110 English Muffin Way. lol

I do not put english muffins in the toaster, but under the broiler.  I spread softened butter over the muffins & broil with the rack closest to the element or flame.  You have to watch the muffins, but to my taste muffins fixed this way are greatly superior to toaster muffins.

I've been scorched by the English muffins a few times --- I use them to make homemade Egg McMuffins and I pull them out of the toaster as soon as possible so that the cheese melts nicely.  They can be molten things......

Andrea