Saints Sa­vor: Mug French Toast

As an avid foodie and col­lege stu­dent con­stantly look­ing for sim­ple food hacks, I want to share some of my fast and suc­cess­ful mi­crowave meals that work. You’ll want to try these seam­less recipes in your dorm be­cause it will not only save time, but you can have fun while do­ing it. The first recipe that I de­cided to tackle was french toast in a mug, and I fol­lowed this recipe from Pretty Pru­dent!

The Mug French Toast:

This recipe was for quick french toast in a mug, or should I call it a 2-in-1 omelet and bread? I thought this french toast looked easy to make and fairly ap­pe­tiz­ing as well, mak­ing it my top choice for this week’s recipe. I mean, who does­n’t love a quick and tasty meal on your way to class or dur­ing a long study break? 

When I asked fel­low stu­dents what they thought about this, Emma Mcguire, a sec­ond-year stu­dent at Maryville told me, “I do not usu­ally have time to make break­fast, such as french toast, in the morn­ing, but this recipe would make that pos­si­ble.” Al­though putting it to­gether was quick and easy like the recipe said, I’d be ly­ing if I said it went as planned. So, let’s break down how it goes:

If you are go­ing to at­tempt this recipe in your dorm, I would rec­om­mend that you mix the egg and bread pieces in a sep­a­rate bowl to make sure the bread is thor­oughly coated, and then trans­fer it back to the mug for cook­ing. When I tried to do this, the egg mix­ture did not get soaked into all the bread pieces and in­stead set­tled at the bot­tom to make a lit­tle omelet. 

When eval­u­at­ing whether your french toast is com­plete, shake the mug a lit­tle bit to en­sure that there is no egg that sloshes around. If there is still a sus­pi­cious amount of runny egg, place your mug back in the mi­crowave for 15 sec­onds at a time un­til the egg is cooked through. 

Once the french toast was done, I added some syrup for ad­di­tional flare. If you want to make the mug french toast a lit­tle more ex­cit­ing, you could also add french fruit or whipped cream!

Other than the un­for­tu­nate amount of egg at the bot­tom of the mug, I think this recipe could be a great start to one’s morn­ing in a dorm room! It only re­quires a mi­crowave and a cou­ple of mix­ing con­tain­ers, mean­ing fewer dishes to clean and more time to sleep.

The in­gre­di­ent list is short and in­cludes items that most peo­ple would have in their dorm fridge other than maybe an egg. Kelsey Christ­man, an­other sec­ond-year stu­dent, said, “I would try this recipe with the mod­i­fi­ca­tions due to the fact that french toast is not some­thing of­fered every morn­ing in the din­ing hall.” It’s also im­por­tant to note that recipe prep time showed 5 min­utes with a cook time of 2 min­utes. How­ever, this recipe took around 10 min­utes to­tal, as prep time was longer and cook time was ex­tended to en­sure the egg was cooked through. 

If I were to in­cor­po­rate the sug­ges­tions I made from my ex­pe­ri­ence with this recipe I would def­i­nitely try it again, as I have high hopes this would turn out bet­ter the sec­ond time even though it did not taste as good as ex­pected. 

Over­all, I give this mug french toast a solid 5 out of 10. I fol­lowed the recipe ex­actly and the re­sult was un­ex­pected. My search for ad­e­quate mi­crowave meals will con­tinue in the up­com­ing weeks, so keep an eye out! Not every recipe is go­ing to work, es­pe­cially on the first try.