The problem is that store bought croutons have normalized being dry, hard bullets. It's not like that when they're made fresh. They're beautiful little pieces of buttered texture in your salad.
Fresh croutons are one of the single best advantages of an air fryer
Part-baked baguette cut into chunks, spray with olive oil, six minutes, shake after three. Nothing else needed
I was thinking of getting an air fryer, but I was missing additional applications. I think you might have convinced me.
Get a toaster oven air fryer, not as good as being an air fryer but we make dinner in that thing almost daily
It also makes amazing tofu. 20 min at 400 gives it an actual texture. No pressing or freezing required.
Garlic bread tastes really great,
Eat it from a bowl or off of your plate.
A crouton is actually supposed to be that dry. It's literaly in the name. A crouton is a piece of bread that's so dry and old you can't eat it, so you break it into pieces and put it in your other food
Get a spray bottle or just coat your hand in water. Get a plate of croutons lightly moist. Then, just microwave it for about 30 seconds.
There you doctored the croutons from "being a pain" to something regular normies can enjoy
Teeth are assholes! If I had a money for everytime they bit the inside of my cheek, I'd have many many monies.
You need better salads in your life. Goat cheese, bacon, egg or sun dried tomatoes are great additions that contribute to it being filling.
It wasn't entirely serious, obviously there are both tasty and filling salads. Just that I am fairly sure that croutons exist because at some point someone chewed down on a pile of lettuce and thought "this ain't it"
Fair enough 😅 I don't know dude, I just love salads and croutons either together or separately, you know? They're just so tasty
Bread should always hurt. If crust doesn't nearly break a tooth, it's shit bread.
Store bought croutons are shelf stable bread. Go read any travel diary from the 1800's. It's never been good. Real croutons are not shelf stable and do not cut your mouth.
I remember when I was an insufferable kid asking mom to buy McDonald's salads just for the little bag of croutons
