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Summary: Watch an expert chef make French toast for breakfast in this free egg recipes cooking video.
Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years.read more
"Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to show you a basic preparation for French Toast. This is a real crowd pleaser as far as the breakfast meals go. I've got some thick sliced white bread that I just got from the grocery store and I am using a knife that has some teeth on it so that we can cut through this bread without having to apply a bunch of pressure to it and mash it down, so that we get some nice even slices. I am just going to cut these in triangles here in half. Behind me on the stove top, I have a non-stick Teflon sautee pan with some clarified butter and we've shown you how to clarify butter in a previous video and I like to use clarified butter simply because it adds a really nice nutty rich flavor to foods but it is also a lot more rugged and hardy to heat. It lasts longer and with this particular procedure it will be real nice. I just got a thin layer if you will inside the pan, not too much because it's not going to take a whole lot to just get a nice crispy color on this milk and egg wash. I used 2 whole eggs and a little bit of milk in my mixing bowl here. I'm going to throw these guys in. Again the cook time is not going to be a whole lot on an item like this simply because the bread is done, so I am going to lower this heat just a little bit. We are really just looking for a nice color out of these guys and I've got a fish spatula that I like to use and this is for more the general applications such as this. You've got a decent color coming off of him. We are doing okay on that color as well. Again, using the clarified butter is going to add a nice, nutty rich flavor to this. It actually provides a lot better color because you've got solids in the egg for the milk and egg wash. The butter itself is clarified. So you've got a nice good golden color on the toast. That only took a little over a minute if you will. So we are going to finish this second side and we will come right back and show you how to present this on a plate and how to make it look nice for your guests."
eHow Article: First Steps for Making French Toast
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minka said
on 2/14/2009 here are the two Video's I found on makeing clarified butter.
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/16527_butter-two.htm
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/16528_butter-three.htm
foodyy said
on 8/2/2008 your using your fish spatula-isn't that cross-contaminating your french toast? Should we be using certain equipment for meats & poultry,or as long as the utensils are- washed,everything will be fine?
dgresh said
on 8/2/2008 Can anyone link to the "previous video" he has where he shows how to clarify butter?