I’ve always done buttered pop-tarts…I’m not a Canadian either, lolol! Although, it did start as a child when we lived in Alaska…so, it could’ve had a bit of canuck influence there.
I’m surprised to see this isn’t the absolute norm amongst most.
And…microwaved pop-tarts?!? That’s just wrong on so many levels!
@katbyter@lordbowen Maybe it’s a French-Canadian thing, but that’s how we ate them during my childhood in 70s/80s New England. It really complements the brown sugar cinnamon flavor. Butter (and bacon) makes everything better, just ask my cardiologist! Anyway, chacun à son goût, as they say.
Unfrosted pop tarts are significantly enhanced with butter. Especially good butter like Kerrygold. Frosted pop tarts are a mixed bag WRT buttering, but it can still be ok.
The original question is taken directly from that Family Guy song in the link above.
Seeing it in that episode is the first time I’d ever heard of putting butter on a pop tart, by the way. I tried it after watching that, and it was…fine, kind of not really worth the effort. Most of the butter melted off the hot pop tart, so I didn’t feel it did much. vOv
@Atomizer
Steps to a properly buttered pop-tart, assuming that you use a toaster rather than nuking them like most people under 55 would do:
– When the toaster pops them up, allow the Pop-Tarts to cool frosting-side-up until the frosting is safe to touch. (If you put them on the plate frosting-side down as soon as they pop up, you risk incurring the wrath of The One Who Does The Dishes.)
– Flip the pop-tart over, and butter the unfrosted side. Wait a short time for the butter to be absorbed. If it all vanishes immediately, you probably could add more butter.
– Eat.
If you nuke the pop-tart, it is usually possible (with a little practice) to find that perfect combination of time, power level, delay before retrieval when the microwave stops, and amount of butter applied to the unfrosted side that allows a perfectly anointed pastry to be immediately consumable upon extraction from the nuke. Experimentation may require several boxes of pop-tarts and a couple of sticks of butter, so keep a couple of teenagers close by if you decide to do this all in one session.
I have been told that melting half a stick of butter in a barely-big-enough frying pan on low heat, and tossing in room-temp pop-tarts to be heated and buttered all in one step, is considered the superior method of achieving this particular junk food Nirvana, but I have not tested it. If I ate pop-tarts more than two or three times per decade, I might try it.
Heating them with a weed-killing propane torch and cooling them with Reddi-Whip is gross. Don’t do it, no matter what the YouTube video guy said.
Frying Pop-Tarts in butter makes them much better. I grabbed a package of the “Peach Cobbler flavor” version recently, and tried frying them in butter this morning. Plain, they were sub-meh, whether heated or not. “Forgettable” was the nicest thing I could say about them. But fried in butter, they were actually pretty good.
So there it is. Forget the toaster or the nuke, these things belong in a skillet on the stove, with a pat of butter underneath.
I’ve always done buttered pop-tarts…I’m not a Canadian either, lolol! Although, it did start as a child when we lived in Alaska…so, it could’ve had a bit of canuck influence there.
I’m surprised to see this isn’t the absolute norm amongst most.
And…microwaved pop-tarts?!? That’s just wrong on so many levels!
/giphy who are you people
Do NOT confuse real butter with margarine in this process. They cannot be substituted willy-nilly…
@chienfou Hey, are you okay down in Alabama? I just saw a story about some bad floods happening there.
@Kyeh
Wow… I really should keep up with the news better!
All OK here. Flooding was outside of Birmingham in Pelham (about 100 miles from here)
@chienfou I’m glad you weren’t affected!
@Kyeh
Likewise! We got about 3 inches of rain over a few days, nothing like the 6-10 Pelham got in a short time.
@chienfou That sounds like an ideal amount of rain; I hope we get something like that here too!
@Kyeh
Maybe I can shove a cloud or two in my suitcase. I am headed to Durango next week…
@chienfou Yeah, I saw that! I hope you have a great time, and don’t run into significant snow. You’ll post photos, I assume?
Butter on Pop Tarts? Gross to the max.
@lordbowen never heard of it but maybe someone treated it like bread coming out of the toaster and put butter on it.
@katbyter @lordbowen Maybe it’s a French-Canadian thing, but that’s how we ate them during my childhood in 70s/80s New England. It really complements the brown sugar cinnamon flavor. Butter (and bacon) makes everything better, just ask my cardiologist! Anyway, chacun à son goût, as they say.
Unfrosted pop tarts are significantly enhanced with butter. Especially good butter like Kerrygold. Frosted pop tarts are a mixed bag WRT buttering, but it can still be ok.
I’m not a fan of Pop Tarts, but now I’m craving one fixed this way.
The original question is taken directly from that Family Guy song in the link above.
Seeing it in that episode is the first time I’d ever heard of putting butter on a pop tart, by the way. I tried it after watching that, and it was…fine, kind of not really worth the effort. Most of the butter melted off the hot pop tart, so I didn’t feel it did much. vOv
@Atomizer Melted off? You’re definitely doing something wrong!
Maybe u should consult Irk the Butter Perv…?
@Atomizer
Steps to a properly buttered pop-tart, assuming that you use a toaster rather than nuking them like most people under 55 would do:
– When the toaster pops them up, allow the Pop-Tarts to cool frosting-side-up until the frosting is safe to touch. (If you put them on the plate frosting-side down as soon as they pop up, you risk incurring the wrath of The One Who Does The Dishes.)
– Flip the pop-tart over, and butter the unfrosted side. Wait a short time for the butter to be absorbed. If it all vanishes immediately, you probably could add more butter.
– Eat.
If you nuke the pop-tart, it is usually possible (with a little practice) to find that perfect combination of time, power level, delay before retrieval when the microwave stops, and amount of butter applied to the unfrosted side that allows a perfectly anointed pastry to be immediately consumable upon extraction from the nuke. Experimentation may require several boxes of pop-tarts and a couple of sticks of butter, so keep a couple of teenagers close by if you decide to do this all in one session.
I have been told that melting half a stick of butter in a barely-big-enough frying pan on low heat, and tossing in room-temp pop-tarts to be heated and buttered all in one step, is considered the superior method of achieving this particular junk food Nirvana, but I have not tested it. If I ate pop-tarts more than two or three times per decade, I might try it.
Heating them with a weed-killing propane torch and cooling them with Reddi-Whip is gross. Don’t do it, no matter what the YouTube video guy said.
@Atomizer @werehatrack
So you’ve met my ex-girlfriend.
Confirmed:
Frying Pop-Tarts in butter makes them much better. I grabbed a package of the “Peach Cobbler flavor” version recently, and tried frying them in butter this morning. Plain, they were sub-meh, whether heated or not. “Forgettable” was the nicest thing I could say about them. But fried in butter, they were actually pretty good.
So there it is. Forget the toaster or the nuke, these things belong in a skillet on the stove, with a pat of butter underneath.
How did I miss this the first time? So many fundamental truths in one video. Now I need to think of something to butter. Mmmmm.
Butter on Pop Tarts? That actually sounds as bad as butter on pancakes.
@yakkoTDI Butter is a necessary component of proper pancakes.
Ewwwww!