I think bagels are boiled, then baked. Cooked twice.

Then we toast them to cook them a third time.

I was making toast once at work.

A particularly baffling coworker saw this and went “oh you like toast do you? I had an uncle who liked toast”

I’m not sure if he just didn’t like to leave good silence alone, or if he had a bizarre family where nobody else liked toast except for Mad Uncle Toast Eater, who presumably died from his crippling toast addiction.