Wet bread...is it just me, but blurgh....

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If my hamburger juices (tomato, lettuce, dressings, fat) soak the edges of my bun…gah! tear it off! Gross!!! EW!

If my cereal sits in the milk for longer than 30 seconds, long enough to absorb the milk and become soft…GAH! No! Throw it away! EW!!!

If you serve me roast beef, and then…oh god it’s gross… DIP my beautiful dry roll in fatty WATER (aka broth), please just throw it away, cuz that’s what I’m gonna do to it.

Stuffing is made with only ONE liquid directly: butter. Nothing else. And after the bread soaks up some vegetable moisture, it must be baked until spongey or altogether dry, otherwise…no. Gross.

Do not dip my cookies, cake, rolls, etc. in anything. Not milk, coffee, tea, or any other liquid. Just poor a cold glass of milk or a hot cup of coffee and leave my baked thing alone.

Do not put bread in my soup and let it become bread mush, because then my soup will be ruined and inedible.

Do not bake biscuits on top of a stew or soup, leaving a wet, gooey, inedible bottom.

Please, I beg you, do not do anything with any bread or other baked product (cookies, crackers, cakes, rolls, breadcrumbs…nothing) that involves making it WET.

The ONLY acceptable liquid anything is butter or maybe olive oil. Other than that, ew ew ew.

Thanks.

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Yeah, no. That’s like half of the fun of eating.

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That’s weird. You’re weird.

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Yeah, depends on the context, but I love wet bread. Can’t have a proper Italian beef without your bread soaking in the gravy. Hell, they even sell “gravy bread” around here which is just the Italian beef bun dipped in the jus. When I was a kid, my favorite part of eating stew/braised meat was when my dad would just give me the pot, sans meat, and I would break up pieces of light rye bread and scatter them in the bottom of the pot, let them soak up all the meat juices, and eat them with a fork. Yummers.

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I think you’re going to fimd yourself in the minority on this one, flatlined. If we’re talking about white bread in plain water, I’m right there with you. But broth and gravy (among other things) are made out of food, and they cannot be allowed to go to waste, simply because they may take the form of a small puddle that’s too shallow to effectively use a spoon in. And as for a roast beef sandwich, a french roll is so thick that it’s unrealistic to expect it to go down with no more moisture than can be provided by my saliva.

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Things Stoid should never order:

torta ahogada

panzanella

ribollita

French onion soup

tres leches cake

baba au rhum

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flatlined… hasn’t even posted in this thread? :confused:

Anyway, I can’t agree with anything that keeps me from a good French dip sandwich.

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I can cope with somewhat soft cereal, but otherwise share your distaste for soggy bread/pastry.

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So, bread pudding is basically your kryptonite.

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For me, the liquids that touch my bread can only be gravies, drippings, or sauces. So if my hotdog bun gets soaked with chili or ketchup, that’s fine. But if it gets wet with collard green juice or baked beans, then a tiny wave of sadness will come over me.

Unless it has disintegrated into mush, I will still eat it though.

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Sounds reasonable to me.

I do not put milk in cereal.

For burgers and such, I toast the bun and the beef is seared and patted with a paper towel.

I have never been a fan of those open-faced gravy smothered sandwiches and things like that with the wet bread.

Wet bread is fine after it’s been cooked (french toast, grilled cheese).

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My favorite dish from the local Greek tavern was called the Hot Turkey Plate. (There were beef and pork versions, as well…) It was layered food: bread on the bottom, sliced turkey on top of that, mashed potatoes off to the side, and gravy covering the top. I sliced it to pieces, mixed the potatoes into it forming a salty, meaty bread gravy blob.
Man, that was good with a few cold ones!