On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:51:25 -0700, Mark Thorson
wrote:

Scientology can help you with that.

Even when I was eight, jumping up and down on a sofa...made my stomach
not feel good. The bunk bed made my stomach AND HEAD hurt.

blAndy wrote:
I just enjoyed a luncheon consisting of a BLT sandwich and it occurred
to me, what is the optimal configuration for the strips of bacon on a BLT?

There are a few possibilities, from what I can tell... one would be in
parallel, all the strips lined up next to each other. Another would be a
sort of cross-hatch pattern. A third possibility would involve abstract
expressionist randomness... possibly requiring the decomposition of
strips into smaller pieces.

This might be a good survey question for the r.f.c site.



Oh, yes. That's a skill right up there with spreading butter on bread....

gloria p
:-(

Sheldon wrote:

blAndy wrote:
I just enjoyed a luncheon consisting of a BLT sandwich and it occurred
to me, what is the optimal configuration for the strips of bacon on a BLT?


Who give's a rat's b-hind how the bacon is arranged, so long as
there's a lot. Gotta be cheap white bread, gotta be toasted, gotta
have mayo on both halves, lettuce gotta be iceberg.

Sheldon


Nope. Mayo on one slice, butter on the other, both thinly spread.
Toasted white bread or other mildly flavored bread. Actually I've even
had it on sourdough and it was good. I've always used iceberg till
recently when all I had home was redleaf lettuce. It was surprisingly
good, but not crunchy like iceberg.

gloria p

Puester wrote:

Oh, yes. That's a skill right up there with spreading butter on bread....

Which almost no members of the public know
how to do competently. For one thing,
you want all of the butter molecules
lined up in the same direction . . .

Becca wrote:
Dave Smith wrote:

Why would you make a good sandwich on cheap bread? Really good bread
can be the best part of a sandwich because it is so good that
anything else is just a bonus. It seems a shame to waste good bacon
and good tomatoes on crappy bread.


My favorite bread, is a 7-Grain bread that is made locally. It is full
of sunflower seeds and it has oatmeal on the top of the bread. But, I
agree with Sheldon, when I eat a BLT, I want cheap, white bread, iceberg
lettuce and slices of plump, juicy tomato. I also like cheap, white
bread for tuna salad. Maybe this is because that is what I ate when I
was a child.

Becca



Tuna, crab, or lobster salad is very nice on lightly toasted hotdog
rolls, New England style.

gloria p

"Mark Thorson" sonic wrote
Puester wrote:

Oh, yes. That's a skill right up there with spreading butter on
bread....

Which almost no members of the public know
how to do competently. For one thing,
you want all of the butter molecules
lined up in the same direction . . .

That's easy. You use a magnet. Food grade, of course.
;-)

BOB

In article , says...
Subject: question regarding bacon arrangement on BLT
From: Mark Thorson
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

blAndy wrote:

I just enjoyed a luncheon consisting of a BLT sandwich and it occurred
to me, what is the optimal configuration for the strips of bacon on a BLT?

There are a few possibilities, from what I can tell... one would be in
parallel, all the strips lined up next to each other.


If there was ever an obvious troll, this is it.
--
Peter Aitken

lid writes:
Scott wrote

I'll be more concern as to how to arrange the lettuce and rather or
not to place the tomatoes upside down.

I'm curious as to whether one adds cauces or other dressings to a BLT.
Is it the norm?

just mayo

writes:
blAndy wrote:

I just enjoyed a luncheon consisting of a BLT sandwich and it occurred
to me, what is the optimal configuration for the strips of bacon on a BLT?

There are a few possibilities, from what I can tell... one would be in
parallel, all the strips lined up next to each other.

No, wrong. That configuration would allow a fracture
occurring on one slice to propagate to the adjacent
slices. One of the best parts about a BLT is the
fracture of really crispy bacon as you bite into it.
You want to savor that experience, not squander it
in a few bites.

The ideal layout is to have each slice oriented
15 degrees off-axis to its neighbors. That helps
to prevent strip-to-strip fracture propagation.

Even better (although this is a nuance one seldom
sees done, except by an expert) is to take a hole
punch or a cork borer and make several holes in the
raw bacon. After frying, these holes will tend to
stop a fracture from propagating within a strip.
When the developing crack meets the hole, it usually
won't jump to the other side. Each hole should be
centered over a border between the red and white
parts, because that's where most fractures occur.

Hmm. I never thought of it that way.

BOB wrote:
"Mark Thorson" sonic wrote
Puester wrote:

Oh, yes. That's a skill right up there with spreading butter on
bread....

Which almost no members of the public know
how to do competently. For one thing,
you want all of the butter molecules
lined up in the same direction . . .

That's easy. You use a magnet. Food grade, of course.
;-)

BOB

LOL, BOB. :~)

kili

On Jun 7, 4:39?pm, Dave Smith wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Who give's a rat's b-hind how the bacon is arranged, so long as
there's a lot. Gotta be cheap white bread, gotta be toasted, gotta
have mayo on both halves, lettuce gotta be iceberg.

Why would you make a good sandwich on cheap bread? Really good bread can be
the best part of a sandwich because it is so good that anything else is
just a bonus. It seems a shame to waste good bacon and good tomatoes on
crappy bread.

No one said crappy but you (cheap is not synonymous with crap)... a
proper BLT is made with innocuous white bread... the bread shouldn't
even be noticable... the BLT is the main event, not the bread... with
a BLT any fancy bread simply detracts from the filling. When I bite
into a BLT I don't want to be introduced to any bread. Like a really
good hotdog the same, just something to hold the dog, mustard, and
kraut in close proximity... most folks that eat quality dogs never eat
any more of the roll then is necessary... I usually throw away half
the roll, how else am I gonna scoff down a half dozen.

Sheldon

On Jun 7, 6:30?pm, Puester wrote:
Sheldon wrote:
blAndy wrote:
I just enjoyed a luncheon consisting of a BLT sandwich and it occurred
to me, what is the optimal configuration for the strips of bacon on a BLT?

Who give's a rat's b-hind how the bacon is arranged, so long as
there's a lot. Gotta be cheap white bread, gotta be toasted, gotta
have mayo on both halves, lettuce gotta be iceberg.

Sheldon

Nope. Mayo on one slice, butter on the other,

Butter on a BLT, you're nutz... that ain't kosher.

Sheldon

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:46:20 -0700, Mark Thorson
wrote:

For one thing,
you want all of the butter molecules
lined up in the same direction . . .

FOOL!! are you PLAYING with us!! Butter molecules MUST be going
in opposite directions if you want your butter to fueng shway....

Sheldon wrote in
ups.com:

On Jun 7, 4:39?pm, Dave Smith wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Who give's a rat's b-hind how the bacon is arranged, so long as
there's a lot. Gotta be cheap white bread, gotta be toasted, gotta
have mayo on both halves, lettuce gotta be iceberg.

Why would you make a good sandwich on cheap bread? Really good bread
can be the best part of a sandwich because it is so good that
anything else is just a bonus. It seems a shame to waste good bacon
and good tomatoes on crappy bread.

No one said crappy but you (cheap is not synonymous with crap)... a
proper BLT is made with innocuous white bread... the bread shouldn't
even be noticable... the BLT is the main event, not the bread... with
a BLT any fancy bread simply detracts from the filling. When I bite
into a BLT I don't want to be introduced to any bread. Like a really
good hotdog the same, just something to hold the dog, mustard, and
kraut in close proximity... most folks that eat quality dogs never eat
any more of the roll then is necessary... I usually throw away half
the roll, how else am I gonna scoff down a half dozen.

Sheldon



the burning question is: Is the mayo on the lettuce side of the sandwich
or the tomato side?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

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Sheldon wrote in
ups.com:

On Jun 7, 4:39?pm, Dave Smith wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Who give's a rat's b-hind how the bacon is arranged, so long as
there's a lot. Gotta be cheap white bread, gotta be toasted,
gotta have mayo on ***both halves,*** lettuce gotta be iceberg.

Why would you make a good sandwich on cheap bread? Really good
bread can be the best part of a sandwich because it is so good
that anything else is just a bonus. It seems a shame to waste
good bacon and good tomatoes on crappy bread.

No one said crappy but you (cheap is not synonymous with crap)... a
proper BLT is made with innocuous white bread... the bread shouldn't
even be noticable... the BLT is the main event, not the bread...
with a BLT any fancy bread simply detracts from the filling. When
I bite into a BLT I don't want to be introduced to any bread. Like
a really good hotdog the same, just something to hold the dog,
mustard, and kraut in close proximity... most folks that eat
quality dogs never eat any more of the roll then is necessary... I
usually throw away half the roll, how else am I gonna scoff down a
half dozen.

Sheldon



the burning question is: Is the mayo on the lettuce side of the
sandwich or the tomato side?


Read Sheldon's first response above. I hi-lighted the answer between "***
***"s.

BOB