[Closed] Sandwich cutting

Horizontal 3 - 9 if going in the backpack.

10 - 4 just to be different if at home. 'cos it upsets the Mrs 😈

sandwiches forbidden on iDave diet

Diagonal is Mrs P's preference but is much more difficult to wrap in clingfilm so we both go for the 9-3 straight horizontal for the working lunch. TBH I prefer a horizontal cut as the diagonal to me gives the impression of more crust to middle. I do dabble with the diagonal at the weekends though as it looks better on the plate with a kettle crisp/salad garnish in a pub style.

NEVER more than 1 cut though

10-4 here too. wholemeal.

I only thought people cut sandwiches diagonally in BBC period drama's, or at Wimbledon? 😉

And what is this 'wholemeal' of which you speak?

Horizontal 12-6 here, hate it when they're cut 3-9. Nice to have a bit of top on each sandwich, rather than one inferior bottom sandwich

That's true, the 9-3 is better for taking with. I've read lots of mentions of the iDave diet, what's the gist of it?

Horizontal.

Very much liking Vogel bread Soya & Linseed - very dense and tasty. Good for toasting with Bovril on.

Use their Toastarizer !!! - http://www.vogelsbread.co.uk/vogels/toastarizer.ashx

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what's the gist of it?

no sandwiches

Binners - If you can get past all the sandal wearing, beard sporting singlespeeders in the specialty bread section you might find it.

Always diagonal, always, no exceptions.

The wife cuts hers 9-3 and baby-g's 12-6 & 9-3 but shes only 2 she doesnt know any better (baby-g, not the wife)

Always square cut. 12 to 6

Has my job got interesting today or something??

I'm afraid Tim that the above-mentioned,sandal wearing, beard sporting singlespeeders in the specialty bread section - being of a generally left leaning - may view my bread choice as racist

When it comes to owt with a crust, I'm afraid I'm a white supremacist 😉

Uncut - so the crust can be nibbled away first leaving all the nice bread and meat in the middle.

Diagonal for me*

*If I will be sharing lunch with builders, then straight across and the Guardian stays in the van 😀

Always an orthogonal cut through the longest edge of the slice - so, for instance, that's horizontal on a tin and vertical on a bloomer.

White or granary (except for a few things which need one or t'other - eg paté needs white bread). It's all good.

Lol @ darcy of the undercover middle class 🙂

I'm picturing DD smuggling his Guardian out of the newsagents hidden in a copy of Razzle 😀

wholemeal. Bareback. Why cut it? Do your teeth not work properly? Do you also remove the crust?

wholemeal cut 9 - 3, holds the filling better this way.

Do you also remove the crust?

See my above post.

binners has it spot on, except sometimes it's Fiesta.

Cut a sandwich in half?

Do you people have small hands or something?

Darcy - have you considered taking the first page of a copy of The Sun and putting your Guardian inside that?

Not small hands, in fact quite big, and they look even bigger when holding my lunchbox, which is on the small side 😕

isn't it heartbreaking when someone offers you a sandwich and for some perverted reason they only bring you half a sandwich... a sandwich is 2 WHOLE damn slices of bread with filling... 2 slices with filling cut in half does not make 2 sandwiches... it makes 2 halves dammit!!!

I'm a 3-9 cutter too, BUT...

...when wrapping for lunchbox do you place one half on top of the other, or do you wrap them next to one another along the cut edge (or some other ungodly combination)?

and they look even bigger when holding my lunchbox, which is on the small side

S**** 🙂

Fold rather than cut, stops the filling from splurging out.

Diagonal makes it taste better, fact. Same goes for toast.

[s]Diagonal[/s] [b]Primula[/b] makes it taste better, fact. Same goes for toast.

FTFY 🙂

Right......

Wholemeal bread is better for you hence I eat it and not white but crusty white tastes nicer.

I like triangles makes your sandwich feel daintier and stops you shoving too much in when you're hungry.

Primula is [b]only[/b] in my fridge due to the existence of Binners well that and forty other varieties of cheese

[i]Fold rather than cut, stops the filling from splurging out. [/i]

Dear God!

If you can fold it, you haven't got anywhere near enough in it!

[i]Cut a sandwich in half? Do you people have small hands or something?[/i]

No, just very well-filled sandwiches. The only reason not to keep a sandwich whole is if it's got a still-runny fried egg and/or baked beans (or chilli con carne or similar) in it, because if you cut those you end up with most of it failing to stay within the bread.

Triangular food tastes better, hence usually a diagonal cut for me. Gives you only 2 "corners" of crust instead of 4, making it seem less crusty overall.

I have also been known to dabble with the freeform 10-4 cut, or occasionally the "lightning bolt". Try it. I dare you.

If you can fold it, you haven't got anywhere near enough in it!

You raise a good point, but it depends entirely on the filling.

double post

I think I'm going to disagree with Cougar here. You could never fold a proper butty containing either
a)fish fingers
b) Sausage

Chilli con carne on a butty? Dear God! Were you raised by wolves or something?

steve-g and his mrs feed her watch?

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I like watches...but not that much.

FTR - 10-4 seeded batch.

People need to correlate this with which way they hang the toilet roll otherwise it's meaningless.

Crust is the best bit, if the bread is any good.

Chili con carne / left over curry is awesome in a sarnie.

All depends on the sarnie

Mostly cut diagonal (tastes best :fact: 😉 )

However Fishfinger sarnies (on council bread with Ketchup) 9-3 and Sausage sarnies (on thick white with HP sauce of course) also 9-3

Houns - you are indeed a sarnie master. About the most sense yet posted on this thread. Just one question: Cheese single to go with the council bread and ketchup surely?

However Fishfinger sarnies (on council bread with Ketchup) 9-3 and Sausage sarnies (on thick white with HP sauce of course) also 9-3

I'm having a problem with your co-ordinate system - are you advocating cutting parallel to the sausage axis (wrong) or perpendicular to it (correct)?

Old

Flatmate of mine used to insist on a controversial 7-4 cut. She would eat the smaller lower section first knowing that the bigger and better slice was still to come. Is that an eating disorder??

I'm having a problem with your co-ordinate system

Possibly best you get someone else to cut your sarnies then 😉

IVe been known to stick a slice of thin pizza in a nicely buttered piece of bread!!!!

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That is the way to do it binners. Good lad. What kind of muppet would try to cut that in half?

10-2 cut, so that the 'half' of the sandwich with the square crust is bigger than the other

I've never done the pie on a muffin thing but it looks fattastic. Maybe one night as a beer-munchies solution.

I've never done the pie on a muffin thing but it looks fattastic. Maybe one night as a beer-munchies solution.

Anyway, that looks gross, it needs to be fried!

Muffin?? That's a cob?? Or bap at a push!

Single slice folded seems to be missing from the list.

For me, usually no cutting, just eat it.

If the daughter is around, both diagonals, she is only one and half a sandwich is hard for her to hold. It does actually seem rather nice having lots of teeny weeny sandwiches too.

Isnt that a 'Wigan kebab' rather than a sandwich Binners?

Horizontal for me, across the vertical sausages. Triangular for the laydeez.

I cant believe that i've read all the replies and no ones mentioned the bestest most fantastic sarnie cutting ever.......

The Sailboat!!!!

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Can also be done with regular 'square' bread but you have to cut the bottom off to make it square and use it as the flag

Oh smart! im doing all mine like that from now on.

Triangular for the laydeez.

Fact.

My mother (if i go for tea) still insits on cutting mine diagonal, i haven't the heart to tell her they taste rubbish like that.

I'm 42...

Personally I'd love to be able to go with the simplicity of the straight across 9-3 cut. However, to ignore the knowledge of the ancient egyptians risks a mouldy lunch, as they proved that the shape of a pyramid preserves whatever is onside (you will all be familiar of the story of French explorer Bovis finding the preserved cat in the Great Pyramid).

For that reason I'd argue that triangles in the exact proportion of the pyramids is the only way to go. An equilateral triangle with a base of 440 units and sides of 418 (see diagram below) is the usual proportion chosen by sandwich makers with an eye on the longevity of their filling, such that the vertical is therefore 356 units.

You'll be pleased to know that use of the Egyptian cubit as a measure is not required, as that would make for an unwieldy sandwich. It's just the ratio that matters.

You need to adjust the bread by trimming unless you make a custom tin for home made loaves.

I've attached a diagram below.

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[i]Chilli con carne on a butty? Dear God! Were you raised by wolves or something? [/i]

Show me any savoury food and I'll show you a valid sandwich filling (maybe not soup, though).

I hope we all understand the mechanics of adjusting for moist fillings through intelligent use of slice thickness, light toasting and appropriate butter application, yes?

Isnt that a 'Wigan kebab' rather than a sandwich Binners?

That's exactly what it is. Spud pie on't bap. (Of course, in more civilised areas it's a barm or tea cake. My preference would be a butter pie and an oven bottom).

OAP mentions the monoslicefold, or "sport sandwich". I associate these with a hasty peanut butter munch. There's just something not quite the same about 2 sport sarnies vs the equivalent chopped to your liking. Time enriches a sandwich, much like the sportf*ck (see fight club) the sport sandwich or sportwich lacks a certain...something. It does however have it's place when conditions are right.

The sailboat blew my mind. That's some next level sh*t.

Petrieboy, I had never fathomed purposefully choosing unequal sandwiches. The 7-4 is ground I feel unlikely to tread.

Bez:

Show me any savoury food and I'll show you a valid sandwich filling (maybe not soup, though).

Aha! You sir, should convey your noble posterior to the Americas, where you will discover an infernal contraption they call "[i]the bread bowl[/i]".

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(Don't think you can slice that one 9-3 OR 12-6 without consequences)

No cut, as its intended else would be half a sarnie.

Bread bowl is good for goulash - had it a few times in Switzerland. Sport sandwich good for leftovers - infact any form of american or european meat or veg in sauce food. Also banana or jam sandwiches. Anything except curry that requires some form of flow control on the filling.

Where are we on sandwiches without crusts. My view is, its just far to confusing to know which side you start on when eating with the posh people.

What the brian is a 'sport sandwich'? I can think of few things less sporty.

I'm not proud I'll use anyones terminology. Never heard of it called a sport sandwich before but it'll do. Its just a one slice fold and hold sandwich.

cutting sandwiches is for girls. end.

Cougar:

So you've just done a (insert physically demand act/event/procedure) and immediately need to eat a sandwich. The time taken to make a one slice wonder is barely anything; one hand gets the bread, the other a filling and knife, the two meld and are folded. Thus the sportwich is created. They also suit the late individual who has no time for anything before leaving the house.

These can't be made on plates, crockery has no place in athletic eating.

[i]Aha! You sir, should convey your noble posterior to the Americas, where you will discover an infernal contraption they call "the bread bowl".[/i]

Ah - I am aware of said item.

But it's no sandwich 🙂

Has to be one of the ultimate food fight weapons, though.