TV cook Nigella Lawson’s ‘two-level’ toast buttering technique spreads breakfast controversy

Imagined you knew how exactly to butter a slice of toast? Think again.

British cook and food writer Nigella Lawson has revealed that she's a not just one, but two-step method of enjoying scorching, buttered toast for breakfast.

What’s even more, her indulgent method is a long way off from just adding a scrape of butter to your bread while operating out the door because you’re later for work.

“I favour the two-stage buttering approach,” says it superstar, 60, in her new BBC Two present, Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Do it again. “Stage one is, the minute this (toast) came out of the toaster all attractive and hot, I pass on it with butter so that the butter possesses melted into it and it’ll give it the perfect crumpety bite.

“For stage two, I need a little more butter, and it will stay static in some golden patches on the top. It's unsalted butter, which I definitely prefer to use, but what I need to do is definitely sprinkle some ocean salt flakes over.”

However, stage two’s “bit more butter” brought up eyebrows in the remarks section, with one person saying: “Shudder to think what she considers a whole lot of butter.”

There was also support, with another commentator saying: “I simply tried Nigella's toast recipe. It really is awesome! The consistency and flavour is actually luscious. She is a brilliant chef.”

“Using smaller amounts of butter every now and then shouldn’t be a problem for many people, but one should know that there are considerably healthier fats for the heart and soul,” advises Nadine Aoun, clinical dietician at Medcare Females and Children Hospital. “It is best to replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats. For example, you can work with avocados or essential olive oil. It’s certainly not the butter by itself that causes heart problems; it’s the complete dietary pattern that matters.

“The American Heart Association recommends limiting how much-saturated fat you take in to significantly less than 7 % of your total daily calories.”

The Uk TV personality published her first cookery book, How To Eat, in 1998, following up with her bestseller, How exactly to be a Household Goddess the same year. Her most current BBC Two show is an accompaniment to her publication Cook, Eat, Repeat: Materials, Recipes and Stories.

Lawson divided fans in September when she shared a recipe for spaghetti with Marmite, which combined pasta with the yeast extract pass on, along with butter and parmesan.

“Hence many of you understand and love this already, and the others of you are most likely horrified because of it,” she admitted on Twitter.

"It is terrific. The best comfort food. A scrumptious lunch treat," one admirer of the recipe commented, while an Italian critic wrote: "This is actually the real ultimate discomfort food."

As you might expect of a self-confessed foodie, Lawson has been kept busy during lockdown.

“I was carb-loading for Britain,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald of her quarantine approach to food.

Adding of her method of her daily food diet: “I don’t ban myself from feeding on. If I want chocolate, I’ll consume chocolate. If I want cake, I’ll take in cake - I don’t need the complete cake.”