For many, nothing tops off a comforting tea of cheese on toast quite like a sprinkle of Worcestershire sauce.
But the iconic manufacturer Lea & Perrins has now revealed that if you’re garnishing the melted cheese with their condiment, you’re using it wrong.
According to the sauce experts, the tangy condiment must be applied to the bread before the cheese is added in order to caramelize the toast.
‘For 190 years we’ve known where the sauce belongs – directly on the toast,’ Thiago Rapp, the firm’s ‘director of taste elevation’ explained.
To remind those daring to top off their toast with the sauce, a new limited edition label will prompt them to stop.
Mr Rapp added: ‘Our new label is a reminder of toast, then sauce, then cheese.
‘This isn’t a new trick. It’s the original one. We just forgot to mention it.’
Celebrity chef Gizzi Erskine agreed, saying: ‘I’ve loved Lea & Perrins on cheese on toast for years, but flipping the order really does unleash so much more flavour.
File image: Iconic manufacturer Lea & Perrins has now revealed that if you’re garnishing the melted cheese with their condiment, you’re using it wrong
File image: According to the sauce experts, the tangy condiment must be applied to the bread before the cheese is added to caramelize the toast
‘I can’t believe I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Putting the sauce on top means it just slides off, but under the cheese is where the magic happens.
‘The Lea & Perrins soaks in and transforms the toast into pure umami heaven.’
Lea & Perrins’ research found 85 per cent of Brits love tucking into cheese on toast.
And 58 per cent of those who put the sauce on last said it often spills off the sides.
Meanwhile four in 10 preferred it with Worcestershire sauce.
