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Alton shuffles into the kitchen to make a breakfast treat: French toast.

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French Toast
RECIPE COURTESY OF ALTON BROWN
Level: Easy
Total: 34 min
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 24 min
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

1 cup half-and-half
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons honey, warmed in microwave for 20 seconds
1/4 teaspoon salt
8 (1/2-inch) slices day-old or stale country loaf, brioche or challah bread
4 tablespoons butter

Directions

In medium size mixing bowl, whisk together the half-and-half, eggs, honey, and salt. You may do this the night before. When ready to cook, pour custard mixture into a pie pan and set aside.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Dip bread into mixture, allow to soak for 30 seconds on each side, and then remove to a cooling rack that is sitting in a sheet pan, and allow to sit for 1 to 2 minutes.

Over medium-low heat, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a 10-inch nonstick saute pan. Place 2 slices of bread at a time into the pan and cook until golden brown, approximately 2 to 3 minutes per side. Remove from pan and place on rack in oven for 5 minutes. Repeat with all 8 slices. Serve immediately with maple syrup, whipped cream or fruit.

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47 Comments

  1. @earthangel8730

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Letting the bread get stale by exposure to household air is gross. Unless you live in a sterile environment there are dust, allergen, animal and/or human dander, household smells that will be absorbed by the bread! Simply pop the bread in the toaster for a minute! It'll get dried out without the contamination. Also…add a sprinkle of nutmeg to the custard! Finally…. sprinkle a tiny amount of cinnamon on the french toast just before you pour your warmed up 100% maple syrup on it. You can also dry the bread in the oven!

  2. @airelleclark8251

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    That is funny 😅that Alton brown could adopt

  3. @Mmdg634

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    That’s so much work for French toast

  4. @UgLyMaLaySian

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Okay so I graduated culinary yearrrsss ago and I rewatched this and I would like to add a vanilla to the liquid for the french toast

  5. @Ben-ls2ho

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Yum. I will try this.

  6. @nomadmarauder-dw9re

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    If you don't pour Steen's cane syrup on your pan pardou, you ain't…Southern. y'all have a goodn.

  7. @privateer0561

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I noticed Brown hates butter. Doesn't use it on popcorn, which is blasphemy…

  8. @Pandion1872

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Now I want French toast.

    DAMN! Out of eggs! 😥

  9. @dancinswords

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I just have to wonder what world you're living in where you'd just leave bread out overnight completely uncovered. The arctic?

  10. @naturadventur7425

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Didn't Mythical Kitchen debunked the whole old bread thing?

  11. @phillmckraken7007

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    if i only had small eggs should i use 4? What's the large egg to small egg ratio?

  12. @blair1jasmin1

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    i remember when i was a kid, i liked him🙀👧

  13. @spaceghost3941

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Didn't have honey so I used pancake syrup

  14. @JohnDoe-ld8nr

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I got on here to find a good recipe for French toast to cook for my dinner tonight and within a minute Alton explained why I would not be making it tonight.

  15. @peabarter_3074

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Great recipe and tasted delicious. I did add 1 tsp cinnamon and 2 tsp vanilla paste.

  16. @StonedMickey

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    After ALL these years, FoodNetwork has only gotten WORSE. All there is now – Guy and Guy and Guy and Guy, oh, I forgot Chopped.

  17. @rogertrozelle8159

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    These days, calling it a cup of Joe is an insult of coffee.

  18. @meezietv3230

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    No cinnamon or nutmeg?

  19. @lad60606

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    This inspired me when it came out to cook French toast for my family. Long time ago. It’s changed over the years to mass production of 12-16 slices at a time using a dozen eggs. Best French toast anyone who’s eaten has ever had.

  20. @irenelogathasan2448

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Wuss

  21. @thornil2231

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Finally someone who knows that French toast (pain perdu or wasted bread) is made with the leftover bread. It is important it is stale bread.

  22. @DerpyRedneck

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    My suggestions for making this into a gorgeous pain perdu while still following everything Alton Brown laid out:

    1. Add some cinnamon
    2. Add a small touch nutmeg
    3. Add a little vanilla extract
    4. Use a whole grain sourdough bread for this
    5. Add a little wine to your custard!
    Dry white, marsala, sack, or sherry are preferred
    6. Let the custard soak in longer than Alton Suggested, like 15 minutes like Townsend and Sons suggested
    7. Add a couple pinches of salt to the custard.

  23. @WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    lol There's no sugar, no cinnamon, no vanilla, and no French toast in site.

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  25. @katherinekatherine8512

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Who puts the eggshells back in the carton? That’s just dumbass.

  26. @melward5728

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I want Alton to teach me to cook…."Good Eats "!!!!!

  27. @connorkenway09

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Dude really did put a plastic honey bottle in the microwave smh

  28. @alexciocca4451

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Yea but did he eat it ?

  29. @tonyhuggins7828

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    This guy is the Albert Einstein of cooking

  30. @DeathSkuul

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Ain’t nobody got time for that!

  31. @creepingbert

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    that leaving the bread out overnight part is great, unless there are cats in the house…

  32. @joswanell9672

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I wish they would have taped/recorded it longer and shown the end & final product, especially the show's host sampeling it. It's a more effective selling tool that way.

  33. @joeykong94

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I took a page out of his book today …. so I’m having a rodent issue at my house currently so I can’t leave the bread on the counter so I put them in the toaster oven over night with it turned off the bread didn’t crust up enough so I put it on a rack and put it in front of a fan for a hour on high …. boom stale bread

  34. @nightangel972000

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    What? No cinnamon?!

  35. @darkpassenger65

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    I'm new at this. Why the salt?

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  37. @TalentedDilittante

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    SIX improvements: add vanillla and black pepper to the batter; two, add a little olive oil to the butter in the pan, so that the butter doesn't burn; three, thoroughly soak the slices of bread, until they are so soft that only your hands and a spatula can raise them from the batter to the pan; four, cook on lower temperature and COVER THE PAN TIGHTLY, so that the French toast bakes inside and soufflées! (thus, no need for the oven); five, turn each slice only once, after first side begins to soufflé; six, remove from pan when souffléed slices double in size, and serve!

  38. @harebrahs8652

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    early 00s tv looked wierd

  39. @laserguy3478

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    What? No cinnamon?

  40. @mariafaircloth53

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    OMG
    I have been doing it all wrong.
    Thanks Alton

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  42. @SSJ0016

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Bread Core

  43. @Trblmkr07

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    The directions say to preheat over to 375, but then it never tells you to put the bread into the oven. Simple mistake, but is not what Alton does in the video.

  44. @thekingtroll2

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Alton Brown came under fire for saying things he should be fired for. He made references to concentration camps and the Holocaust. Fire him already.

  45. @user-ft9uy5ii7z

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

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  46. @overweightactor

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    1 cup half and half
    2 tbsp honey
    1/4 tsp salt
    3 lg eggs
    whisk

  47. @charulatharamachandran1706

    December 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Cuthroat kitchen host

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