Simple Rules for Better Sandwiches | Techniquely with Lan Lam

Even a great sandwich can be improved with smart technique. Lan shows you how to elevate any sandwich with these game-changing tips.

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This is brilliant. For 50 years, my family has made fun of the seriousness with which I construct a sandwich. Lan Lam has laid out in clear and absorbing detail why it all matters.

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Triangles; something very satisfying about that first bite of the point, no agonizing over where to bit first, no cheek smear of filling, the perfect balance of crust, spongy bread, and fixings. Always gotta be triangles.

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I have been a home cook for sixty years, and a cafe cook for ten of them. I use some of these tricks myself, but I never assembled them into anything resembling a plan or a lexicon of techniques aomed at the whole genre of sandwiches. Thanks!

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I really want to thank you for this. This simple, constructive approach is so refreshing. As a result of your teaching, I switched up my technique with my favourite summer sandwich - fresh sliced tomato on homemade whole wheat toast - and not a SINGLE slice of tomato fell out of the sandwich. The flavour and texture descriptions for contrast are genius!

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I especially like the idea for the pickled avocado and sumac onions.

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Love Lan and her wonderful informative videos! Will be making the sumac onions today!

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11:24 A triangle is well-known to be the most structurally sound shape. A diagonally-cut sandwich, therefore, is the most powerful sandwich.

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Sandwiches are only limited by the imagination. Thats why I love them.

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Another tip for sliced bread: if your toaster has a bagel setting, use that so only one side of your bread gets toasted. That way you have the toast texture on the outside, but it still is relatively soft on the inside. This especially works with bakery rather than mass produced loaves of bread. I've found that a fully toasted bakery bread can be a little too toasty/crunchy/roof of mouth scrape-y in sandwiches and is more apt to fall apart. Works really good for tomato sandwiches and BLTs. Also don't put too much bacon on a BLT even though you may want to put more.