On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:19:21 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> The Five Guys thread included a discussion of what, if anything, goes
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> between the patty and the bottom of the bun. And suddenly I worried --
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> not that I ever put anything between the patty and the bottom of
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> the hamburger bun -- but that when making BLTs I had been spreading
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> the mayonnaise on the bottom slice of toast. Could this have been a
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> fatal error all along?
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> So is it: toast, lettuce, mayo, bacon, tomato? Or toast, tomato, bacon,
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> lettuce, mayo? Is mayo needed to seal in the juices from the tomato?
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> What about the problem of non-uniform mayo adherence to the lettuce?
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> These sorts of questions wake me up in the middle of the night. But
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> then there is no answer, so I lie awake until I collapse from
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> exhaustion.

I mayo the inner side of both slices of bread. Then layer on the greenery, then the tomato, bacon last. Mayo on both sides 'glues' the filling to avoid slippage. It really doesn't matter tho the order of the filling. If you really want to glue them all in place, put some mayo on top the the middle filling.

I like the bread slightly toasted, so as not to bark the mouth-roof, but keep the bread from collapsing too soon. Ideally, I use a home baked bun to avoid bread collapse.

My bacon slices are placed parallel.