Bean on toast, do you have cheese on top of or under the beans?

Cheese under, to melt it a bit. Fried egg on top for an extra treat, perhaps dashed with some worcester or brown sauce. Sliced & fried brown mushrooms on top of all that, if I can be arsed.

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SlickPillock@reddit

Cheese on top. I live in a civilised country.

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Euphoric_Rough_5245@reddit

Toast, butter, cheese with a dash of Worcester, beans with a dash of brown sauce then more cheese.

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TurbulentEffect99@reddit

Cheese first would be cheese on toast with beans. So, by definition, it would be beans first, and then cheese on top.

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OscarsWhiskers@reddit

On top, but you also need marmite as well

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I-Spot-Dalmatians@reddit (OP)

How is the marmite applied? I assume (and somewhat hope) it’s spread on the toast and not just drizzled/ dolloped on top??

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OscarsWhiskers@reddit

Butter, marmite, beans, grated cheese.

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Noctemme@reddit

On top.

If it’s underneath, that’s cheese on toast with beans.

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clfhw@reddit

Cheese on the beans. I add seasoning to the beans, so there would just be too many flavours going on in the bean sauce otherwise.

I however have ‘beans and toast’ not ‘beans on toast’, since I don’t like soggy bread.

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jungleddd@reddit

If you put the cheese on the toast and beans on top, you don’t get soggy bread. The cheese forms a barrier which prevents the bean juice soaking in.

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jungleddd@reddit

I’ve always done:

Make normal cheese on toast - 2 slices, toast one side, turn, add cheese in slices, grill until melted.

Meanwhile, cook beans in a saucepan, grate cheese into beans and melt it all right in together until desired thickness/cheesyness is achieved.

Put cheese on toast on a plate, pour cheesy beans over.

Variations include: onion salt on the cheese on toast part.

Grated Parmesan to serve.

Worcester sauce added to beans.

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60percentsexpanther@reddit

Cheesy beans on toast is much better with a tin of tuna involved.

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60percentsexpanther@reddit

Don't knock it until you've tried. tuna goes equally well in salads, sandwiches and beans on toast

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JarJarBinksSucks@reddit

The triple whammy of mix the cheese in the beans, underneath and on top

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Arsewhistle@reddit

Are none of you grilling your cheese?

Cheese on top, then chucked under the grill is the best option, often with some Worcestershire sauce.

If you're bread is going too soggy, then you're using bread that's too thinly sliced

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Dannypan@reddit

Plate, cheese, toast, butter, cheese, butter, toast, cheese, beans, cheese, more beans, more cheese.

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

If I'm having beans on toast the cheese is best left in the fridge.

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popsy13@reddit

I’ve always just made cheese on toast with beans on top. Toast gets soggy otherwise, I do beans with toast, a bowl of beans, toast on the side

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Me and my 3 teens had beans on toast for lunch an hour ago-I have beans in a bowl with cheese on top and toast on the side to dip. My eldest has toast-cheese-beans, and my youngest two have the cheese stirred through the beans first

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I-Spot-Dalmatians@reddit (OP)

A true British family

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Mammoth_Spend_5590@reddit

Cheese always under the beans

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Drwynyllo@reddit

Why not both? :-)

Cheese
Beans
Cheese
Toast

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oldie349@reddit

Neither. One of those new fangled ideas

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Optimal_Tension9657@reddit

I always put the grated cheese into the pan with the beans and cook them together . Sometimes with a little chopped up onion too

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VanishingPint@reddit

Toast under beans

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Neddlings55@reddit

Both.

Warm melty cheese, and cold tasty cheese.

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

Toast, butter, cheese, beans (with cheese mixed in), and cheese to top.

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Sackyhap@reddit

I make a cheese toastie with beans on top.
Bread - cheese - bread, fried and squished till it’s nice and crispy. Then beans on top, and if I’m extra extravagant I’ll put cheese on top of the beans too.

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I-Spot-Dalmatians@reddit (OP)

See i have added beans into a cheese toastie before, never thought to have one with beans on top!

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Key_Seaworthiness827@reddit

In the beans

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intangible-tangerine@reddit

Cook the beans gently on the hob and stir in grated medium cheddar at the last minute so the bean juice is thick and cheesy

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Crittsy@reddit

Toast- butter- cheese - egg - beans- black pepper

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palf74@reddit

No cheese. Reggae Reggae Sauce works really well with baked beans.

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paradeoxy1@reddit

Grate the cheese into the sauce, been making beans that way for ten year and never looked back

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N0em1s@reddit

If it was just one bean i'd probably just put it on a bit of cheese and eat it in one go.

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Certain_Let3399@reddit

Thanks for the laugh 😁

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

Cheese in the beans for the last 30 seconds or so of cooking so...both?

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Aeouk@reddit

In the beans for me, along with anything else I can find to add.

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Difficult_System1264@reddit

Mixed into the beans while heating them.

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ADHDJ86@reddit

I do the same with baked spud abd my gf thinks im.mad lol

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Cheese on beans on toast is amazing.

Beans on cheese on toast is repulsive.

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Chris_Willman@reddit

Under. Under. Always, always under. Cheese is structural, not decorative

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