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French toast

Name: French toast
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 8 thick slices white bread, day-old is better; 4 eggs egg; 1 cup whole milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; a pinch salt; 2 tbsp butter, for the pan; 8 berries strawberries, sliced; 2 1/2 tbsp maple syrup

Bread soaked in egg and milk and fried in butter — the sixth most-searched recipe in America, and quietly the better-scoring of the two big weekend breakfasts, because the custard is mostly egg.

Time: 25 min (10 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 446 kcal
Protein: 16 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

8 thick slices white bread, day-old is better320 g
4 eggs egg200 g
1 cup whole milk250 g
1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon3 g
a pinch salt1 g
2 tbsp butter, for the pan30 g

To serve

8 berries strawberries, sliced150 g
2 1/2 tbsp maple syrup45 g

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Steps

Whisk the eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and salt in a wide dish.
Soak each slice about 20 seconds a side. Day-old bread drinks properly; fresh bread turns to mush, which is the whole reason recipes ask for stale.
Fry in butter over medium heat, 2–3 minutes a side, until deep gold and set in the middle. Medium, not high — too hot and the custard is raw inside a burnt crust.
Serve with the strawberries and syrup.

Alternative

Protein French toastthe rebuilt version46

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

14% of kcal

47% water

8 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

13%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1783 kcal goes into the pot, 1004 g of ingredients comes out as ~700 g of food → 255 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 255
Protein: (14%); 9 g
Fat: (33%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (53%); 33 g
of which sugar: 10 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 380 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.