How to Make Toast in the Oven

Here's how to easily make toast in the oven - it's effortless and a great way to feed a crowd. It takes less time than toasting multiple slices in a toaster and is largely hands-off.

If you are making several sandwiches with toasted bread or a big breakfast for several people, toasting in the oven is the way to go.

You don't even need a baking sheet for this recipe! It's super low effort, and you can make a big batch of toast. Try it with our favorite grated egg avocado toast or ricotta toast with berries.

I love this oven method for making the perfect toast - it's exactly like making toast in my toaster oven, but it cooks a bunch of slices of bread much faster!

There's no need to coat the bread in olive oil or melted butter, and it's the best way to get a nice crispy exterior without adding fat.

Oven Toast Ingredients

All you need to make this recipe is bread! You can use any type of bread you'd like to toast. We used regular white bread, but any other type, like wheat bread, sourdough, country, etc, will work.

The cooking time may vary if you use a sugary bread like brioche or cinnamon raisin. Sweeter bread tends to toast much more quickly as the sugar burns fast! If you use bread with a high sugar content, take at least one to two minutes off the bake time.

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Oven Toast Recipe

Here's to easily toast bread in the oven when you need to make toast for a crowd!

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Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes

Total Time: 8 minutes minutes

Author: Emily Wilson

Ingredients

• Bread of your choice

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Move one rack to the lower middle portion of the oven.
• When the oven has reached 350, place your slices of bread directly onto the lower rack in a single layer.
  
• Allow the bread slices to cook for 4 minutes. Flip the bread and cook for an additional 3 to 4 minutes.
  
• Remove the slices of toast from the oven when they are golden brown and toasted to your liking.
  

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Notes

Cooking Tips - You don't need to cook your toast on a sheet pan. But if you don't want to bake it directly on your oven rack, you can use a sheet pan with a wire rack to still allow for air movement.

Convection Cooking - If you use a convection oven instead of a conventional oven, your toast will cook about 25% faster. Keep a close eye on your toast, as your total bake time will be closer to 6 minutes (flip it after 3 minutes).

Storage - Toasted bread can go stale fairly quickly after you make it. If you plan to use your toast for croutons, bread pudding, or French toast, you can save it for up to 5 days at room temperature. Store it in an airtight container or wrapped in aluminum foil.

If you want to eat your toasted bread as regular toast, I would not plan to save it for more than a day. Do not store it in the refrigerator.