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What makes a perfect Cheese Salad Sarnie?
I need tips to avoid a soggy sarnie.
TIA
warburtons toastie bread. spread with lurpak,
thick mature cheddar or wenslydale slices.
sliced onion.
keep the salad.
Large cob/bap/batch/barm/teacake/breadcake/stottie/scuffler/what ever it's called where you live.
Strong mature cheddar, cucumber, tomato, red onion, lettuce and salad cream.
I sell around a thousand a year...
Large cob (white or granary), butter, three thick slices of medium mature cheese, ground pepper from a mill, sliced cucumber, sliced tomato and iceberg lettuce.....
£3 👍
Thick freshly cut white bread; salted butter; extra mature cheddar; tomato (with salt & pepper).
2 x sandwiches, ready salted crisps as a garnish.
Take out the salad...
...replace with tomato ketchup!
HTH! 🙂
I need tips to avoid a soggy sarnie
Toast the bread then allow to cool before use.
Thank me later.
You need to protect the bread from the moisture in the salad - butter both slices to the edges, a layer of cheese on both slices, salad in the middle.
Same principle applies to ham and pickle etc.
Right, step aside people. If I had to eat the same thing for every meal for the rest of my life it would be a cheese salad sandwich, so I know of what I speak.
- Thick slices of granary bread, or a good sized granary muffin/bab/cob/barm/whatever
- the bread/bap has salad cream on both pieces
- lettuce on the bottom
- decent amount of decent cheddar
- slices of tomato and cucumber
- a little bit of finely sliced onion
- (optional) some sliced beetroot
Serve with salt and vinegar crisps or mini cheddars.
There are other ways, but they are all inferior
@IHN I'll give this a go tomorrow, wasn't sure if lettuce made up the base or cheese...
Granary or a good wholemeal bread. If you make it in a batch or bap or roll it's not a "sandwich".
Forget butter, use mayo.
Decent cheese - cheddar is a good choice
Decent salad especially tomatoes, which should not be silly cherry things
Jalapenos if you're weirdly addicted to them like me
Forget butter, use mayo
You monster.
Now I'm hungry.
@IHN absolutely nails it. Particularly the salad cream, beetroot and onion combo. 3 things that cheese could have been invented to go with
He’s even got the mini cheddar accompaniment bang on. I’d get even more specific and say it has to be Red Leicester mini cheddars
dry the lettuce well, put the tomatoes between the cheese and the lettuce, season the top slice.
"Salad" is just Latin for salt. Ditch the lettuce, cucumber, etc. and replace them with salt for a traditional treat. Preferably fried salt, delivered via crispy bacon. Failing that, ham. Thick slice of bread, slice of cheese, tomato with salt and black pepper, bacon and/or ham.
dry the lettuce well, put the tomatoes between the cheese and the lettuce, season the top slice.
This....
the bread/bap has salad cream on both pieces
I'm out, vile stuff. There aren't many foods I really hate but salad cream is one of them, all it brings is nasty, harsh acidity.
well, put the tomatoes between the cheese and the lettuce
The trouble with this I find is the lack of grip between a tomato and cheese, if the cheese is sliced that is.
This issue is exacerbated by the use of cherry tomatoes or the addition of mayonnaise or salad cream and can lead at best to unwanted slippage and at worst, ejection.
Grating the cheese improves the friction coefficient markedly, if grating isn't a bit overly laboursome.
Positioning the tomatoes outermost, the texture of the bread naturally provides the necessary traction needed to keep things in place, and a smear of butter will give a short-term IP68-rated coating to the bread.
I used to love it when I was working in Australia back in 1998, fruit picking in Queensland or labouring on site in Sydney. I used to to make cheese and tomato sandwiches for my lunch, cheap shit white bread, pretty basic orange cheese. By lunch time because of the heat, the tomato had sunk into the cheese and cheese was all soft and oily.
Should be disgusting but it was heaven!! 🤤 Probably more nostalgia though....
Whatever they did here
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Mmm, Liver Sosage!
I need tips to avoid a soggy sarnie
1) Avoid adding sauce/pickle/chutney, of your choice, until directly before eating
2) Keep damp salad (tomatoes/cucumber) away from the bread as much as possible by positioning between the cheese and lettuce
Whatever they did here
Bargain prices though! 🙂
Keep damp salad (tomatoes/cucumber) away from the bread as much as possible by positioning between the cheese and lettuce
This is exactly why the hearty application of a damp proof course of liberally spread butter is vital, IMHO.
“Salad” is just Latin for salt.
😆
My contribution: grated carrot.
Here's Ann Widdicombe's take on the cheese sandwich
Nobody mentioned Marmite? Absolutely shocking. Lettuce and Marmite sandwich is high ranking as one of the best.
The trouble with this I find is the lack of grip between a tomato and cheese, if the cheese is sliced that is.
grip can be an issue. i made the assumption that the unwanted sogginess was as a result of the sandwich being part of a packed lunch. it’s all about compromise in this situation. you need extra vigilance while eating because of the actions taken to keep the bread dry.
perhaps more development is needed. a round or butter lettuce lettuce could be grippier options.
This issue is exacerbated by the use of cherry tomatoes…
i’m sorry, but cherry tomatoes do not belong in a sandwich. ”sliced” or whole!
warburtons toastie bread
Yak 😮💨
The bread needs to have a taste and consistency that clearly differentiates it from the cheese. Warburton fails on at least one of those factors.
warburtons toastie bread
Yak 😮💨
Warbies Toastie is absolutely essential for most decent butties, particularly any ones containing hot things. Bacon, sausage or fish fingers are a match made in heaven for Warbies Toastie
The bread needs to have a taste and consistency that clearly differentiates it from the cheese.
Funny how we all differ, isn't it? I think the opposite of that to be the case
Forget butter, use mayo
WRONG
Butter on the bread, then mayo on the butter. Mmmmm,,,,
i’m sorry, but cherry tomatoes do not belong in a sandwich. ”sliced” or whole!
They're really good if you're a little bite-lazy.
With large tomatoes, if you don't get a full, clean chomp, you can end up with a sort of failed tablecloth puller trick, where the incompletely severed tomato pulls everything out with it as you withdraw.
With cherry tomatoes, this isn't an issue. You can take a leisurely bite and you should get an almost complete portion despite this with very little pullage.
I'm just going to put this out there... I can't be the only one partial to this filth...
Today I had multiseed bread, Emmenthal, chorizo, mayo, lurpak, watercress, cucumber and tomato. I kept telling myself it was great but what I really wanted was a bacon butty
Woe is me.
WRONG
Butter on the bread, then mayo on the butter. Mmmmm,,,,
I can see why you might but for me it's just too much yellow dairy for one sarnie imo and detracts from the cheese.
My wife would, however, also opt for butter and mayo so I have no issue with your objection.
Now if one was to leave the salad out and just have some cheese with thin sliced raw onion then I'm back to butter.
I’m just going to put this out there… I can’t be the only one partial to this filth…
Great idea but often disappoints due to nasty mild cheese. Spring onion for the win if blended up with mayo.
Can't let this go. No cheese & salad sandwich is complete without Marmite. Absolutely no wet stuff like salad cream or that other stuff with shredded vegetables in it. None of that torpid mayo stuff either. Sandwich must be eaten fresh if cucumber or tomatoes to be included - so generally never included plus these things must be sliced. Cheese should be mature chedder or extra mature as the mature stuff isn't as mature as it used to be or my tastes have become more mature (yeah sure but you like Marmite -ed). If Onion is to be included then all the salad should be, such as watercress and raddish (the little red skinned ones sliced up). Onion should be Spring. No beetroot. No pepper (and no chillis even as a lover of chopped chillis). Bread these days can't be fussy!
Marmite in a cheese sandwich!
I think we should call social services for an intervention
Marmite in a cheese sandwich!
Not so sure, can understand it with Dairylea, or any soft cheese.
Marmite in a cheese sandwich!
This.
It's also insanely good as a part of your cheese on toast.
The correct answer is chutney in the sandwich with the cheese and salad on the side. Always butter the bread. Mayo is for meat sarnies not cheese.
Trust me I have this for lunch most days as thinking or original lunch ideas doesn't happen early morning or late at night when making them. Always does the job well at lunchtime.
Bread variety is whatever you have but fresh as possible and change types whenever.
The correct answer is chutney in the sandwich with the cheese and salad on the side
Page 2 and this is the first mention of chutney or pickle as far as I'm aware! A hard cheese sandwich without some sort of chutney, pickle or relish just isn't complete, most other things like salad are ok by me but optional. As for beetroot though - GITFS.
The correct answer is chutney in the sandwich with the cheese and salad on the side
Isn't that getting into ploughman's Territory?
The op asked about a cheese salad sarnie.
Therefore, the cheese and the salad must by definition, be within the sandwich.
The essence of the op's sandwich is becoming deconstructed somewhat I feel, which just isn't right.
Nothing wrong with Pickle or chutney on the sandwich, as mentioned on page 1 @johnners.
Bread from your local bakery, none of that processed* shite, warburtons FFS... thankfully it seems I'm not alone
* unless it for a fish finger sarnie, which requires rubbish breads & processed cheese.. but that's another thread.
medium mature cheese
Never seen the point of using anything but extra mature cheese. Anything else just tastes of nothing, even at room temperature