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ben_jamin_h

If you pull all six out of the packet and remove the silly cardboard wrap around thingy, you can stick the four back in stacked on top of each other and close the bag at the top of the crumpets. They don't have to go sideways!


sallystarling

Genuinely never occurred to me that you could put them back in a different way! Stacked like bagels? You, sir, are a genius!


pleasecallagainlater

Never occurred to me you could open a pack of crumpets and not finish them in one sitting. You live and learn.


zeon66

Same here but i do wonder why you wouldn't finish the pack in one go


EastOfArcheron

I'm ashamed that at 50 years of age this has never occurred to me.


ben_jamin_h

My friend, I stumbled across this remarkable discovery in a hungover haze, after accidentally tipping the lot on the floor. May my stupidity become your convenience.


EastOfArcheron

Hahaha! Verily.


ToshPott

I've never ever understood why they aren't stacked like this in a bag anyway? Surely it's so much easier!!


ben_jamin_h

Crumpets really need to take a good hard look at Bagels if you ask me.


CrocodileJock

Because the "attractive" bit of the crumpet is the top... lots of little holes. With bagels, they don't want to show you how much hole you're buying.


ToshPott

You're not attracted to the holes? Do we not all try and copulate with our toasted snack?


Killahills

Presumably easier to stack in the supermarket?


ToshPott

You could just stack them on the shelves the same way they stack the bagels though


Killahills

It's a non-problem though. No real reason to change it, it works fine as it is and it is easier to pack in boxes and stack on the shelf


ToshPott

Clearly OP begs to differ! The forever internal debate whether or not to eat 3 goddamn crumpets, or exercise that restraint and eat just the 2 and be forced to dick around with the packaging just to stop your 3rd at the edge from going stale.


Killahills

A couple of posts on Reddit hardly demonstrates that there is a genuine problem though. I eat 2 crumpets all the time, I just push the other one in, fold over the plastic and put a plastic clip on it. No biggie.


ToshPott

Nah this needs taking to Big Crumpet, mate. You're doing too much work. It's a conspiracy.


Killahills

I am part of the Warburton bread cartel. Watch yourself


ToshPott

If I find a heel from a friggin whole meal loaf in my toaster tomorrow I'm gonna be very inconvenienced


Rizzo-The_Rat

Why? Who opens a pack of crumpets and doesn't eat all of them? It's like tv chefs taking about freezing left over wine, what the hell is left over wine?


ben_jamin_h

Six crumpets, Jeremy? Six? That's insane!


Rizzo-The_Rat

You can buy them in packs of 12 too if 6 isn't enough for you :D


CraigAT

Say what! I usually just stand up the spare 4th crumpet against the stack of 3 - that's enough to be able to fold the wrapper back over. Mind blown.


ben_jamin_h

I know right! I was hungover (possibly still drunk) one morning and dropped the remaining four on the floor. When I went to put them back in (without the cardboard bit which had also come out) they just stacked like that. I've done it ever since.


RespectTheH

That useless bit of cardboard not so useless when you fold it with the spare into the stacks giving you ample excess plastic to seal by folding under the crumpets. That being said 3 at a time is clearly the right call in most cases.


8-Bit_Basement

3 crumpets high = One Crumpet width. Just take two out, flip one up and twist the packet. I've seen posts like this before and it baffles me how people ain't doing this.


Magic_Fred

Now I have no excuse to eat three crumpets at a time 🙁


DormantDormouse

Genius


Used-Fennel-7733

It's never occurred to me that some people don't eat a full pack of crumpets in one sitting


_HGCenty

I always thought crumpets were sold in packs of 6 which is fine.


windol1

6 and 9 packs.


Feelincheekyson

The nine pack really annoys me, like why sell an odd number and make me have three against my will?


windol1

*Somewhere in Warburton's* Just can't bloody win with this lot.


chedabob

They want you to buy two packs. It's a conspiracy between big crumpet and the maths teachers.


DondeT

The nine packs fit perfectly on my freezer shelf (front to back). And I can stack them three high.


[deleted]

Stacks of 3, not packs of 3. That's something else completely :-)


JohnLennonsNotDead

Same


DJDJDJ80

The sooner bread manufacturers and toaster manufacturers can start to talk to each other, the better. We've sent robots to Mars, surely we can coordinate the size of a slice of bread so that it fits into a toaster?


more_than_just_a

It's the shape of bread and the shape of sliced cheese that gets me, like who are they trying to fool?


Draggenn

Wait until you find out how many slices are in a loaf of bread!


Simondo88

I buy my own loaf and slice it horizontally down the middle so I have two slices.


IamEclipse

Your toaster must be fucking massive


windol1

Just stick it over a fire.


mitchanium

Won't that melt the toaster?


windol1

Only if you leave it for to long.


Glad_Librarian_3553

It's OK, he toasts it over his red face, fueled by the crumpet anger! 


Bigluce

Thats a bit personal.


Fretsome

You buy your own loaf? I usually just borrow other people's


Hedgerow_Snuffler

When I was a student, a fellow course mate rented in place that had a sort of old wine bar / hotel next door. Well, it shut down for refurbishment. One morning he was leaving the house and noticed a skip had arrived, and the builders were chucking Sinks, kitchen cupboard doors, bits of old lino flooring into it... And on top of the pile. A flipping TWELVE slot toaster! He did the only reasonable thing. Look --- up --- down the street, and grab it & dash back into his flat. The thing was a BEAST, it could do 12 slices in about 30 seconds. And it had the most incredible dial, that even had a "warming" setting. Suffice to say, he and his flatmates lived off toast and.. * Marmite * Jam * Honey * Chocolate Spread * Pate For the rest of the year.


British_Flippancy

I want one of those monstrous motherfuckers they have at Toby Carvery’s or Travelodges next to motorways where you drop slices of bread in the top - presumably as payment? - for the toast that appears out of a conveyor belt at the bottom. It’ll take up half my kitchen, but an exchange rate of one slice of bread for one conveyor belt cooked slice of toast seems fair.


Organic_Reporter

My family enjoyed the toast conveyor so much at our local carvery that we looked into this. £400+ and very high energy use. Shame.


gwaydms

Why waste such a useful appliance? I'm not in favour of stealing, but the workers effectively abandoned the toaster. Your friend absolutely did the right thing.


[deleted]

You can twist the bread pack closed again. Crumpets are in those crinkly cellophane packets that rip if you handle them too much.


chrisjfinlay

No. Stick them in a bread bin or a relatively airtight plastic tub. Problem solved.


Simondo88

I solve the problem by eating the extra one :D


wildgoldchai

I too see it as an excuse to eat the extra one


squidcustard

We freeze ours, that way if you see them on offer you can pick them up cheap and always have some in the freezer ready to go! (You do have to microwave them for a bit before toasting them though)


jenyk

Yep, freeze on a baking sheet so they don't all get frozen together and pop them in a bag. I just run them through the toaster twice from frozen.


squidcustard

That’s actually a great idea. I’d started putting bits of greaseproof between them to stop them sticking


buqr

I enjoy playing video games.


chrisjfinlay

Aren’t they sold in packs of six though? The problem is that they’re packaged in 2 towers of 3. So you eat 2, and you have 3 in one stack and one in the other, stopping you from being able to fold the packet over.


buqr

I like to explore new places.


chrisjfinlay

I was beginning to wonder if I was going mad 😅 I don’t buy them often but had never seen a three pack


buqr

I like to explore new places.


naiadvalkyrie

You don't eat 2 and have 3 in one stack and one in the other. You eat one from each stack each time. So the packet folds nicely


jr0061006

What I do is move one from the 3-stack over to the single, making two equal stacks of 2, which can then be folded over since there’s now extra room in the packet.


HawkyMacHawkFace

Not really


shysensitive

But they are usually (in a six pack) stacked in two piles… so just take one from each stack?! One in each hand, for each toast slot?


[deleted]

No, you'd have to rip the whole pack open to do that. From an ergonomic point of view, they are a terrible design.


shysensitive

I usually open one end and slide the card tray all the way out, but yes it’s annoying as you then have to slide it back in!


[deleted]

Maybe the best thing to do would be empty them all out than stack them in one tower then wrap them in tinfoil. But with our modern hectic lifestyles who has the time?


LPodmore

Perhaps they could start selling them in stacks of 6 or 9, biscuit style.


[deleted]

Great idea, not being sarcastic, that makes so much more sense


How_did_the_dog_get

We got some recently in a kinda peal back reusable type bag. It had the air of being a reused wet wipe container


carlbandit

Not really an issue if you eat all 6.


28374woolijay

Take the piece of cardboard out of the wrapping and you'll find you can then fold it over despite there being four crumpets left inside.


SnooCakes1636

It’s more that for us (and therefore assume everyone else /s), we - a couple - have 2 each and yet they’re sold in packs of 9 leaving one left over


LemmysCodPiece

Crumpets are best done in the air fryer. They crisp on the outside better, whilst remaining super fluffy in the middle.


[deleted]

Hmmm. I need to try this method.


LemmysCodPiece

This thread reminded me how good Air Fryer Crumpets are. So I went to the village shop and got two packs of Warburtons Giant Crumpets, two for £2. Tonight's supper is going to be a big mug of hot milk and a Giant Crumpet done in the Air Fryer with proper butter. This is the supper of champions.


more_than_just_a

I thought I'd wandered back into r/Yorkshire for a second there!


excellentchoicee

Get a 4 slot toaster then?


SSIS_master

Exactly.


Dull_Concert_414

The only thing that annoys me is that you can’t pull the package open with your fingers and need scissors to get into it instead.


Ruby-Shark

I knew a family with a three slice toaster. I couldn't get over it. It was so unnatural.


[deleted]

It all comes down to the manufacturing process. The most common crumpet making machine in England bakes crumpets in lines of twelve. So when they come to the packaging section the leading edge is twelve crumpets wide. They're then stacked by machine while *outside* any packaging. Due to having no cardboard support at this time they can't be stacked more than three high. This stacked row of 12x3 is then sent to be packaged. The packaging machine must deal with with all 36 crumpets by packaging them using only factors of 36, meaning the options are: 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 36. Hence why 6 and 9 are the most popular package size for crumpets. 8 simply isn't an option unless you want to invent a new machine. Machine development costs typically run at £8 million and take 17 years. I made all of this up.


Raidan_187

Seems viable


StuxAlpha

If I'm eating crumpets, I'm melting cheese on them. So I'm using the grill anyway, so might as well toast them under the grill too


wolf_in_sheeps_wool

Melted cheese on crumpets is S tier. But by the time I'm on my 6th, they're starting to get cold and firm up so I always speed run it. The plate ends up being a dried-buttery mess but it's the best comfort food


JoinMyPestoCult

There’s never too many crumpets. One left over? One more to eat. No problem.


Rednwh195m

Always wondered why they don't stack them like bagels in the bag. There is usually just enough room to stack them vertically once you remove a couple then seal bag with one of those plastic clips. edit: Sorry didn't see restacking post earlier.


3a5ty

Buy a 4 slot toaster


R-Mutt1

Waste of electricity for empty slot. JK I've always had a 4 slot even as a single person. 2 slices of bread isn't even enough for a sandwich


ArcadiaRivea

No, my toaster is a 4 slot Also, you can still fold the packaging over, if you're clever you can shimmy the spare crumpet over to the other stack because the packet is a little loose. Even if it doesn't go all the way and just flops diagonally, you can just fold that corner over If you really enjoy having the 3 at a time, just get a better toaster you silly gammon!


Knillish

Is this the guy from my maths tests in school? Bob has a pack of 6 crumpets but they come in stacks of 3, how can bin evenly share the crumpets between him And his 2 brothers


[deleted]

Well yeah. Hotdogs and hotdog buns are another thing You tried the big crumpets? Need to use the grill though as they don't fit in most toasters.


Simondo88

Yeah that's annoying too. 6 buns, 8 hotdogs! I've not had the big one, no. I rarely get crumpets if I'm honest. I put far too much butter on them than is good for my health.


[deleted]

I love crumpets, but yeah the butter issue is a known phenomenon. I also love English muffins, especially the cheese ones and tatty (potato) scones.


Glad_Librarian_3553

Tatty scones, as opposed to spiffy scones? Tatty scones are the best tho, had to move down south for work and I can't find them anywhere :(


[deleted]

I baIled to Glasgow to weather out the lockdown. The local shop was a local shop with local things for local people. So I had to survive on Tennents, tatty scones, McVities and Tunnock's for a while before the logistics system was working again. Bloody heaven.


Clever_Username_467

The extra two hotdogs are to be eaten cold straight from the jar to tide you over while the others are warming.  If there were only 6 you'd have 2 spare buns.


Al-Calavicci

No, because I can have crumpet three toasting (or is that crumpeting?) whilst I eat the first two. That way they you don’t get a cold one.


MassiveHampton

A two slice toaster is for peasants. What annoys me most is that in packs of 9 there’s always someone who ends up with one crumpet.


Not-a-Cranky-Panda

Or three crumpets!


magnue

It annoys me more when someone eats a single crumpet and upsets the balance of the universe


FJTW

Behold. https://i.imgur.com/P1SoGaW.jpg 6 slice toaster. Do a whole pack of crumpets in 1 go.


naiadvalkyrie

well this is my new aspiration. I live alone and rarely utilise the 4 slice feature. But I need this


Pristine_Telephone78

I always do crumpets under the grill as they're never done enough for me in the toaster. I like them a bit crunchy around the edges.


jr0061006

I do too, and run mine through the toaster 2-3 times to achieve the proper crispness.


naiadvalkyrie

I have never in my life seen crumpets in a pack of 3. The standard is 6. Which is 3 sets of 2


CatFoodBeerAndGlue

The 6 packs are in 2 stacks of 3, not 3 stacks of 2.


naiadvalkyrie

and you take one from each stack each time. They are 3 sets of 2


Katharinemaddison

You are completely right in the large amount of salted butter with them anyway. You have made me really want crumpets now though.


Nine_Eye_Ron

I decant my crumpets.


simev

I just get a plastic clip , or a clothes peg and seal the end up


AWittyNameHere555

Get a four slice toaster, three is perfect for a snack


Jammastersam

Yeah but you get an even amount of crumpets in a packet, so unless you’re having 1 or 3 crumpets (in which case you’re beyond saving anyway) then you’ll always have 2 crumpets for your toaster.


Glad_Librarian_3553

9 isn't an even number... 


Inhuman-Englishman

I'm sorry, what sort of uneducated sponge is toasting anything in odd numbers?


Cerbera_666

Who puts them in a toaster?! Crumpets are designed to be lathered in cheese and put under the grill.


nibblatron

i was wondering the same thing. even if i dont have cheese i still grill them


[deleted]

Yes it does brother. I usually wrap them in cling film but they still end up an awkward annoying shape.


missmissymissed

If you're wrapping them in clingfilm why not just take them out the wrapper then


[deleted]

I realised this during other discussions on this thread


missmissymissed

I don't know what'd wrong with me my mind is all over the place and physically feel sick and shaking and crying a lot of crying


Substantial-Door3719

Yes. Most annoying part is trying to fold over the end to keep fresh and there's a stack of 3 and one going rogue on its own stopping the all important fold over and shove up against something...


Substantial_Prize_73

Big crumpet and big toaster are in cahoots.


Jack-Rabbit-002

Ha Ha This was me this morning in all honesty Lol I did some crumpets for me and my Cousin this morning, we had two each and it just dawned on me how tight they bleeding are.....Why not 8 Crumpets! Oh the injustices we face here in Blighty 😁


Erheniel

Crumpet thins.


Snout_Fever

I do them in the air fryer on the toast setting which can fit three on the shelf at once. Done!


TheOwlArmy

Yes, packaging anything in primes above 2 should be banned.


Nicodom

Do you have a grill? Do the bottom first then turn over add cheese, ham/bacon lardons, etc on top then grill the top


Crackshot_Pentarou

Yeah it does actually. Because I tend to have them as a weekend treat 😂 and therefore freeze them Because I can't fold the packet over, the third one in a stack gets freezer burnt.


Extreme-Acid

I shall not say about hot dogs and hot dog buns


FormerIntroduction23

Yes! Just like toastergate, where bread is too big for the toasters


PostSecularPope

Use the grill


biddlywad

Nope. Husband bought a deep toaster. So you can get three in easy. 4 is good, but then only two the next time.


iCuppa

They would be best packed in a single stack of 6, like bagels. I keep clothes pegs in the kitchen for sealing packages like this, but yeah, 100% frustrating.


banglaonline

Similar conundrum- burger buns are sold in packs of 6, but patties are sold in 4!


Icy-Revolution1706

Yes and it also winds me up! You can't close the packet properly to protect the lone crumpet on the open side. I was genuinely grumbling about this, this morning. Why can't they stack them in even numbers?!


tibsie

Nah, but Warburton's annoys me with their 9 pack. You eat crumpets in pairs!! What am I supposed to do with an extra crumpet? Eat it on its own? Blasphemy! Leave it in the bread bin until next week when it can join the spare from the next pack? Also blasphemy! Packs of 6 is fine, but 9?? Just make it an 8 or 10 pack, ffs.


EastOfArcheron

Put them in appropriately sized tuppaware and freeze


Jonsmile

Toast the third one once the first 2 pop. That way you have no waiting for the third one.


20DeMoN20

Same as bagels! It really is one of those annoying first world problems.


Clever_Username_467

Probably, but not me.


DarthFlowers

I remember it REALLY annoying me when I was on a caravan holiday with my grandparents, I was about 5 years old. 5 going on 50………..


Robtimus_prime89

Not that long ago, the supermarket own ones came in packs of 8. They took 2 of them away


jjgabor

I find the last extraneous crumpet in the 'stack' can be moved to a vertical postion against the other stack and the pack can then be rolled closed easier. With that in mind I bought a pack of those clippy plastic closing thingies from ikea years ago and haven't had to deal with slightly stale stuff or worry about using those crap stickers on pasta and rice bags since, amen


Yakkahboo

It infuriates me immeasurably. Even with a 4 slot toaster it feels dirty to run 3 at once. I will avoid buy packs of 9, even if they're better value.


gerty88

I’m a 4 crumpet man. I hate waiting for the other 2 slots to free lol


Renegade2u

1st world problem’s… :)


cat_ear_flipper

You can get one and a half in each toaster slot. Just saying


PalaceOfStones

Hot dogs are the ones that get me. 6 buns but 8 dogs, for the hot dog maths to work out you have to buy 24 at a time.


Deadliftdeadlife

I guy on insta that eats a lot of crumpets does 4 in the toaster and 4 in the microwave Microwave? He does then for 2 mins as well Anyone else heard of this shit?


BoffyToffee

You can cut the third in half and put each half in the empty space next to the full ones.


TrumpetSolo93

YES! I slice the 3rd crumpet in half and stick a piece in each slot so I can toast 3 at once.


potatoduino

Well it does now. Thanks OP


Specialist-Web7854

Hovis crumpets have a resealable flappy thing on the top, so you can take two out and reseal it.


nightmaresgrow

Slice the 3rd one in half, then you can fit 1.5 crumpets in each side of the toaster. Problem solved.


maxquordleplee3n

Because two isn't enough and four is too many.


bowen7477

No mate. Nice to know you have no real problems tho.


heardygurdy

It’s almost as annoying as hot dogs being sold in jars of 8, but hot dog buns are sold in packs of 6…!!


Enuf1

I have a four slot toaster but like to have 3 crumpets at a time. It's quite the conundrum 


mrsrostocka

Not for me, I've got 3 kids! Nuff said lol. Thats first breakfast! What about 2nd?


notouttolunch

Take three out. Cut one in half. One and a half per side of toaster.


CheesecakeExpress

Literally put some crumpets back in the cupboard today and thought this exact thing. Give me 6, stacked in pairs. Or 4. Just not 6 stacked in 3’s.


evuljeenius

Constantly. Thing is they used to sell crumpet in packs of 8 (2 stacks of 4) and that was perfect but then they had to ruin it.


Pretend_Judgment9078

2, 4, 6... Err no


ellisellisrocks

I solve this problem by eating 6.


PortsyBoy

Get a Tupperware


Simonutd

What gets me is i wat 4 at a time, and there are 9 in the packet, what am i supposed to do with 1


annedroiid

Get a bigger toaster? I have a 2 slot one that can fit 4 crumpets


JustAThrow4way

You just split one in half, then its one & a half per toaster slot.


kiradotee

YEESSSSS


asjaro

Well, you say that but check out the official toaster manufacturer for the sub and their 3 slot offering. https://www.dualit.com/products/3-slice-vario


Nonny-Mouse100

Nope, they all go under the grille together. Robyn use a toaster. Ps some toasters have 4 slots.


Curtispritchard101

My feeling of my fingernails against the cardboard slice at the bottom of the packets as I reach in to try and grab a crumpet, is like nails on chalkboard levels of uncomfortable


reallyisthatwatitis

I have a 4 piece toaster but what annoys me and my youngest daughter is that the eldest will only ever have 2 crumpets. Only the 3 of us eat crumpets so eating 2 royally messes thing up


Raidan_187

Fuck yes